Trump Lawyers Granted Deposition of Rape Accuser Amid Claims of Ties to Democrat Funding, Questionable Credibility

The Epoch Times ^ | 04/15/2023 | Gary Bai

[thegagline]

A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday allowed attorneys of former President Donald Trump to depose, for questions related to witness credibility, E. Jean Carroll, a writer who accused Trump of sexual assault and defamation.

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, ordered that Trump’s attorneys, Joseph Tacopina and Alina Habba, can question Carroll on an apparent inconsistency in her sworn testimony in pre-trial depositions about how she funded her defamation lawsuit against Trump.

It came after Trump’s attorneys learned days ago that—contrary to Carroll’s sworn statements in an Oct. 14, 2022, deposition that no one else is paying her legal fees—prominent Democrat donor, LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman is funding at least some of her legal fees.

This apparent inconsistency “might prove relevant to the question of plaintiffs credibility, in view of the deposition testimony” of Carroll, the judge wrote in his Thursday order.

The lawsuit dated to 2019, when Carroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s.

After the then-president denied her allegations in 2019, Carroll filed a defamation lawsuit against him in the same year, which bounced around state, federal, and appellate courts in New York and Washington, D.C.

Trump has denied all of Carroll’s allegations. ***

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah, I thought the same thing. A rape is a traumatic event, and the person committing the rape is not doing it for the sex. The rapist is doing it to exert control over a woman. He almost always has major issues with women.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

She doesn’t even what year the non-reported attack took place. How do you forget that kind of event? Why didn’t she report it to the store, police, Mad Magazine?

Doesn’t smell right!

[Candor7]

She will have to obtain a ....court order to allow for evidence via hypnotic regression therapy. like they did on the Senate Judiciary Committee for Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.

The power pf suggestion will allow her to remember everything!(sarc.)

[Candor7]

Agreed Maris.

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[Engedi]

wow just read her article of all the men she met and attacked her. Yet she has never filed a lawsuit against many of the famous men, just Trump. She never reported any of the attacks, never kept any clothing from the attacks, yet she still has her dress from Trumps attack.

She was 52 when it happened, and all the years she was attacked, fondled, raped, she was still naive enough to go into dressing room with Trump truly believing he was going to try on some lingerie for her.

Yeah, she is being paid to bring Trump down.

[ConjunctionJunction]

What evidence does E. Jean Carroll have to support that she was raped by Trump some 40 years ago?