Trump mistook rape accuser E. Jean Carroll - who he said is 'not his type' - for his EX-WIFE Marla Maples when he was shown her photo in his defamation lawsuit deposition, transcripts reveal

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11654299/Trump-mistook-rape-accuser-E-Jean-Carroll-ex-wife-Marla-Maples.html

• 'That's Marla, yeah,' the 76-year-old Trump said during last year's deposition

• But his lawyer Alina Habba stepped in and informed him it was Carroll

• Trump has claimed that Carroll is 'not my type' as he fended off allegations

• Carroll claims Trump assaulted her in Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s

• He claims she lied so she could sell copies of her 2019 memoir

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It was that photo that he was apparently shown in October 2022 when he mistook her for his second ex-wife.

That same month, Trump referenced the picture when he raged at Carroll on his social media platform Truth Social.

'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,' he said.

'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.'

In a memoir written after he became president, veteran writer Carroll accused Trump of raping her in dressing room of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s during a chance encounter.

She sued Trump for defamation in 2019 after he accused her of lying to sell her book.