Trump mistook rape accuser E. Jean Carroll for ex-wife Marla Maples in deposition about photo

His lawyer Alina Habba then interjected, “No, that’s Carroll.”

Trump said, “Oh, I see.”

Kaplan then said, “The person you just pointed to was E. Jean Carroll.”

When Habba repeated to Trump, “That’s Carroll,” he replied, “That’s Carroll?”

Elsewhere in the deposition, Trump said of Carroll, “She’s not my type.”

“She is not a woman I would ever be attracted to,” he added later.

The deposition was attached to a court filing last week by Carroll’s lawyers, but became public Wednesday after Trump’s lawyers dropped their opposition to it being made public.

Last week, Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered other portions of the deposition unsealed, ruling that Trump did not have a legitimate reason to keep them out of the public record in the case.

Trump married Maples in 1993, several months after the birth of their daughter, Tiffany. The couple, who began their romantic relationship while Trump was still married to Ivana, divorced six years later.

Trump married his current wife, Melania Trump, in 2005.

Kaplan has set trial in Carroll’s lawsuits to begin in April.

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