Former President Donald Trump insisted Friday he is not only innocent of allegations that he sexually assaulted magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll almost 30 years ago, but he also blamed the matter on a “whole rigged election system.”
Trump spoke at a news conference in New York after asking a federal appeals court to overturn the $5 million jury verdict that found him liable for sexually assaulting Carroll and defaming her after she sued him.
“It’s an appeal of a ridiculous verdict of a woman I have never met,” Trump told reporters at Trump Tower in Manhattan for a lengthy news conference after the hearing. “I don’t know, I have no idea who she is. She wrote a book and she made a ridiculous story up. She put it in her book and we’re now appealing the decision.”
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