Trump Says He Wouldnt Have Chosen Woman Who Accused Him Of Sexual Assault

Former president Donald Trump reiterated statements he had made about E. Jean Carroll for which he had been held responsible of defamation after showing up in court on Friday for an appeal hearing.

After briefly attending oral arguments, where his attorneys argued for a new civil trial following a jury’s 2023 verdict that Trump pay $5 million for sexually assaulting Carroll in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s and later defaming her in his denials of her claims after she went public in 2019, the former US president spoke at Trump Tower in New York.

He talked about the three separate women who had made repeated charges against him, frequently disparaging Carroll as well as the other two accusers, Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff.

Approximately twenty women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct; he has refuted all of these allegations. The first battery allegation to be presented to a jury was Carroll’s.

He once asserted that Carroll’s picture with him might have been created by AI.

“I never met her. I have never touched her. I would have no interest in meeting her in any shape or form,” Trump said Friday. He said Carroll’s testimony was “a made-up fabricated story by somebody just looking to promote a book.”

Carroll’s lawyer claimed that they were hearing Trump reiterate some of the same claims that the jury had determined to be disparaging.

“I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: all options are on the table,” Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan told ABC News.

Speaking about his alleged encounter with Leeds, who said Trump touched her on an airplane in the 1970s, something Trump has long denied, Trump once stated that it couldn’t have happened because she “wouldn’t have been the chosen one.”

“And frankly, I know you are going to say it’s a terrible thing. But it couldn’t have happened,” he said. “It didn’t happen. She would not have been the chosen one. She would not have been the chosen one.”

Trump continued by saying Leeds will sue him next, just like Carroll.

“Now, I assume she’ll sue me for defamation like I got sued by E. Jean Carroll, who interestingly said she’s been hurt and damaged,” claiming Carroll made money out of the case.

With his attorneys at his side, Trump vented his annoyance at the way his legal team conducted Friday morning’s session.

“I’m disappointed in my legal talent, I’ll be honest with you,” Trump said as he ticked through arguments he wanted them to bring up that they did not.

“This is a long and complicated web and story, but it all goes back to the DOJ and Kamala and Sleepy Joe and all the rest of them. We have a whole rigged election system,” Trump said.

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