In deposition played for jury, Trump told E. Jean Carroll's lawyers he had the 'right to be insulting'
"Historically, that’s true with stars," Trump responded when asked about his comments on the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape.
... “I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy,” (Carroll's lawyer Roberta) Kaplan said on the video, repeating Trump’s own words, before asking him to elaborate.
“Historically, that’s true with stars,” Trump responded during the deposition. “If you look over the last million years, that’s what’s been largely true of the stars — unfortunately or fortunately.”
Kaplan followed up by asking Trump, who has denied all allegations of sexual impropriety made against him by multiple women, if he considered himself a star.
“I think I can say that, yeah,” Trump said.
Carroll alleges that Trump raped her in a changing room at Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s, and Kaplan also asked Trump, who is not expected to testify in his own defense during the trial, about his quip that Carroll was “not my type.”
Trump responded that he had the “right to be insulting” given the accusation of rape, before telling Kaplan, “You wouldn’t be a choice of mine either, if I’m being honest. I hope you’re not offended.”
Kaplan pressed Trump on his assertion that he had no idea who Carroll was and that he had never met her. She showed Trump a photo taken at a charity event that featured Trump; Ivana, his wife at the time; Carroll; and her then husband.
“I don’t know who the woman is,” Trump initially said of Carroll, before adding, “It’s Marla [Maples, his second wife]. That’s Marla, yeah, that’s my wife.”
Later, Kaplan asked Trump, “I take it the women you’ve married are your 'type'?”
“Yeah,” Trump responded....
