TRUMP DEPOSITION Decoded

The video deposition of Donald Trump played before the jury in the E. Jean Carroll civil battery and defamation trial was made public Friday, showing the former president discussing the accusations against him, the “Access Hollywood” tape and the Russia “hoax.” In the video, Trump confirms that he made the allegedly defamatory statements denying knowing Carroll, calling her allegations that he committed a criminal act on her in a Bergdorf Goodman’s dressing room in the mid-1990s a “hoax,” and saying she is not his type. He also tells Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, that she, too, is not his type. And many times during the deposition, he calls Carroll a series of names, including “nut job,” a “whack job” and “mentally sick.”