Trump responds to E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit after judge denies delay: 'A hoax and a lie'

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Former President Trump responded after a federal judge ordered him to sit for a deposition in the defamation lawsuit filed by writer E.

Jean Carroll, who alleges Trump raped her in the 1990s and harmed her reputation when he denied the allegation. "E. Jean Carroll is not telling the truth, is a woman who I had nothing to do with, didn’t know, and would have no interest in knowing her if I ever had the chance," Trump said Wednesday in an email to his supporters.

In his statement, Trump called the lawsuit a "complete con job" and denied ever knowing who Carroll was, despite her producing a photo of them having met at an event.

Former President Donald Trump makes his entrance at a rally at the Minden Tahoe Airport in Minden, Nev., Oct. 8, 2022.  (AP Photo/José Luis Villegas, Pool) "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," the former president wrote. "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." Carroll, a former columnist for Elle Magazine, alleges Trump raped her at a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, a department store in New York City. "It is a Hoax and a lie, just like all the other Hoaxes that have been played on me for the past seven years," he added.