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After the verdict in the E. Jean Carroll case, former President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he had “no idea who this woman is.” It’s a familiar tactic for Trump when confronted with accusations or to distance himself from people he knows.

that included new statements from Trump, and added a battery claim under New York’s Adult Survivor’s Act, which gave sexual assault survivors more time to file civil lawsuits, The New York Times reported.

Former President Donald Trump, E. Jean Carroll, John Johnson and Ivana Trump met at a party in 1987, Carroll said. that a black-and-white photo showing her next to Trump, along with her then-husband, John Johnson, and Trump’s then-wife Ivana Trump, was taken in 1987 at an NBC or ABC party. Carroll said in an Oct. 22 deposition that the four of them spoke for about five or six minutes. She also said then that she and Trump exchanged waves on a New York street in 1995 or 1996, but didn’t speak.was asked whether a statement he made June 19, 2019, that he had never met Carroll was true. He said it was true at the time but he has since seen a photo of him and Carroll, which he said was taken in a receiving line at a charity or celebrity event.

"I think I was either shaking her hand or her husband’s hand on a receiving line," he said in the exchange which began at theWhen shown the photo in a deposition, Trump pointed at Carroll and said,"It’s Marla," confusing Carroll with Marla Maples, his second wife, before being corrected by his attorney. He then said the photo was"very blurry.

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