Trump: Stars Really Can “Grab Women By The Pussy”

The New York Times reports:

Years after a video recording captured Donald J. Trump bragging about grabbing women by their genitals, he said in a deposition for a trial accusing him of rape that he was merely stating a historical truth. “Well, historically, that’s true with stars,” Mr. Trump says. “True with stars that they can grab women by the pussy?” Ms. Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta A. Kaplan, asks. “Well, that’s what — if you look over the last million years, I guess that’s been largely true,” Mr. Trump says. “Not always, but largely true. Unfortunately or fortunately.”

At one point, Ms. Kaplan asks about a statement Mr. Trump made in June 2019, after Ms. Carroll first told her story in a magazine. At the time, Mr. Trump denied that the encounter had even occurred and added that he could not have raped Ms. Carroll because she was not his “type.” Ms. Kaplan, in an excerpt the jury was shown on Thursday, asks him to explain that statement. “You wouldn’t be a choice of mine, either, to be honest,” Mr. Trump tells her. “I wouldn’t under any circumstances have any interest in you.”

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In a video deposition, Trump to E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, when she asked about his saying Carroll wasn’t his type: “You wouldn’t be a choice of mine, either, to be honest. I wouldn’t under any circumstances have any interest in you.” https://t.co/skJFo3jut8

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