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Trump again lashes out at E. Jean Carroll in CNN town hall, calling her ‘whack job’

The New York Daily News - 5/11/2023

Former President Donald Trump again denied allegations he’d raped E. Jean Carroll amid a string of personal attacks against her during a CNN town hall on Wednesday night.

He repeated his previous assertions that he’d never met Carroll, a day after a jury in Manhattan found him liable of sexual abuse and defamation against her.

“I have no idea who the hell [she is],” he told “CNN This Morning” anchor Kaitlan Collins. “She’s a whack job.”

He also insinuated an allegation of racism against Carroll, who’d accused him of raping her in a dressing room in Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s.

“I swear on my children, which I never do, I have no idea who this woman [is] — this is a fake story, a made-up story,” said Trump, who was ordered to pay Carroll $5 million.

He included several personal attacks as he asserted his innocence.

“What kind of woman meets somebody and brings them up and within minutes you’re playing hanky-panky in a dressing room?” he said, drawing laughs from the audience of Trump supporters and undecided voters.

“I don’t know if she was married then or not. John Johnson – I feel sorry for you,” Trump said, referring to Carroll’s ex-husband.

Trump, who’s the frontrunner in the contest for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, also accused Judge Lewis Kaplan of bias.

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