October 13, 2022
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‘Hoax and lie’: Trump lashes out after judge orders deposition

The outburst late in the day came hours after US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in Manhattan rejected a request by his lawyers to delay a deposition scheduled for Oct. 19…reports Asian Lite News

Former US President Donald Trump has called the nation’s legal system a “broken disgrace” after a district judge ruled he will have to answer questions under oath next week in a defamation lawsuit lodged by a woman who says he raped her in the mid-1990s, according to media reports.

The former president also labelled the 2019 lawsuit by E. Jean Carroll, a longtime advice columnist for Elle magazine, “a hoax and a lie.”

The outburst late in the day came hours after US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in Manhattan rejected a request by his lawyers to delay a deposition scheduled for Oct. 19, the Associated Press reported.

Carroll accused Trump of raping her in the dressing room of a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman store in the mid-1990s.

Trump, as quoted by AP, said: “I don’t know this woman, have no idea who she is, other than it seems she got a picture of me many years ago, with her husband, shaking my hand on a reception line at a celebrity charity event.”

“She completely made up a story that I met her at the doors of this crowded New York City Department Store and, within minutes, ‘swooned’ her. It is a Hoax and a lie, just like all the other Hoaxes that have been played on me for the past seven years,” he said.

Then he grumbled: “Now all I have to do is go through years more of legal nonsense in order to clear my name of her and her lawyer’s phony attacks on me. This can only happen to ‘Trump’!“

Carroll is scheduled to be deposed on Friday.

After Trump’s statement was released, a spokesperson for Kaplan’s firm, Kaplan Hecker & Fink, said the “latest statement from Donald Trump obviously does not merit a response,” it was reported.

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