Trump calls accuser a ‘nut job’ in recording performed for jury

NEW YORK — Jurors heard former President Donald Trump blast a girl who accused him of rape as a “nut job” and “mentally sick” in a video recording that was proven Thursday in the course of the trial of her federal lawsuit.

A transcript of Trump’s remarks about accuser E. Jean Carroll emerged in court docket filings earlier than the trial. However the deposition performed within the courtroom allowed jurors to listen to Trump communicate in regards to the case in his personal voice. Different sections of the recording had been proven in court docket Wednesday.

Thursday’s parts additionally included Trump standing by his repeated prior remark that Carroll was “not my kind” and his protection — as “locker room speak” — of his infamous boasts in a 2005 “Entry Hollywood” recording about grabbing girls’s genitals.

Carroll, a 79-year-old author, alleges that Trump raped her in an upscale New York division retailer dressing room on an unspecified date in spring 1996.

In response to Carroll, they bumped into one another, bought into lighthearted banter about attempting on lingerie and went jokingly into the becoming room, the place he slammed the door and immediately grew to become violent.

Not till 2019 did she make the accusations public and take authorized motion, however two of her associates have testified that she described the assault to them shortly after Carroll mentioned it occurred.

“I believed it then, and I consider it at present,” a type of associates, former tv information anchor Carol Martin, mentioned Thursday on the witness stand.

Trump, 76, says that Carroll fabricated the whole encounter and that he has by no means met her, apart from a short change of pleasantries at a 1987 social occasion.

“I believe she’s sick, mentally sick,” Trump mentioned calmly in the course of the deposition, which was taken in October. He added: “She mentioned that I did one thing to her that by no means befell. There was no something. I do know nothing about this nut job.”

Trump hasn’t attended the trial, and his attorneys have mentioned he will not testify or name any witnesses on his behalf.

Nevertheless, throughout remarks Thursday to reporters whereas on a golf journey to Eire, Trump steered he would “most likely attend” the trial, which is anticipated to wrap up subsequent week.

His attorneys continued to say there have been no plans for him to take action.

Trump, who irked trial Choose Lewis Kaplan with social media posts criticizing the case on the trial’s outset, additionally repeated his declare that it is a political “rip-off” and knocked Kaplan, a Bill Clinton appointee, as an “extraordinarily hostile” and “tough choose” who “doesn’t like me very a lot.”

The Related Press usually doesn’t identify individuals who say they’ve been sexually assaulted except they arrive ahead publicly, as Carroll has finished.