CNN —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.”The edited deposition runs for nearly an hour.
In the video, Trump confirms that he made the allegedly defamatory statements denying knowing Carroll, calling her allegations that he raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman’s dressing room in the mid-1990s a “hoax,” and saying she 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.”Trump also mistakes Carroll in a black-and-white photo for his second wife, Marla Maples.
In addition, Trump reacts to allegations from two other women – Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff.
And, Trump rattles off a list of what he deems as hoaxes, including, “Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.”