Trump Says He Will Most likely Attend Civil Rape Trial

DOONBEG, Eire (Reuters) – Donald Trump stated on Thursday he’ll “most likely” attend an ongoing civil trial in New York the place he’s accused of rape and defamation, repeating his denials of the allegations throughout a go to to his Irish golf resort.

Author E. Jean Carroll, 79, says Trump, 76, raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman division retailer dressing room within the mid-Nineties, after which tarred her status and profession by mendacity about it on-line.

“I’ll most likely attend (the trial) and I feel it is a shame that it is allowed to occur, false accusations in opposition to a wealthy man, or in my case in opposition to a well-known, wealthy and political particular person,” the previous U.S. president informed reporters whereas he performed golf on the Doonbeg resort in southwest Eire.

“I’ve to return for a girl that made a false accusation about me, and I’ve a choose who’s extraordinarily hostile.”

Trump additionally denied the accusation in a deposition video performed on Wednesday for a Manhattan federal jury, as Trump sought to defend himself with out testifying in particular person.

Trump, front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, won’t be testifying in particular person, and his authorized crew informed U.S. District Decide Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday they won’t be calling any witnesses.

The trial has thus far run for six days and is predicted to increase into subsequent week.

Carroll stated throughout three days of testimony and pointed cross-examination that Trump slammed her in opposition to the wall in both 1995 or 1996, put his fingers into her vagina after which inserted his penis.

Denying the allegations in his deposition video, Trump accused Carroll of creating up the story to drive gross sales of a 2019 memoir during which she made her claims public.

(Reporting by Padraic Halpin in Dublin; Modifying by Sharon Singleton)

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