Video of Trump confusing E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples shown during lawsuit trialJurors in the trial stemming from writer E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against former President Donald Trump watched video Thursday of the moment Trump confused Carroll for his ex-wife, Marla Maples.
During the October deposition, Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan showed Trump a late-1980s photo of him, his then-wife Ivana, Carroll and her ex-husband John Johnson. Referring to Carroll, Trump said, "It's Marla," referring to his second wife, Marla Maples.
"That's Marla, yeah. That's my wife," he said, before being corrected, and told it was Carroll. The writer sued Trump for defamation and battery after he said she "made up" allegations that he raped in her a New York City department store in the mid-1990s. Trump has adamantly denied the allegations and claimed Carroll "is not my type."
Jurors in the federal civil trial watched deposition video Thursday in which he reiterated that claim about Carroll's appearance.
When Trump was told that Carroll was the person he believed was Maples — to whom he was married for six years, and who is the mother of one of Trump's daughters — he replied that the photo was "very blurry."
On Thursday, Carroll's team also called her friend Carol Martin to the stand.
Martin testified that Carroll had told her about the alleged attack soon after it happened, and she advised her not to report Trump to the police because "he would bury her."............
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