Former President Donald Trump was deposed in a civil lawsuit filed by columnist E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of rape in the mid-1990s. Excerpts of the deposition revealed a contentious battle between Trump and Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for Carroll, with Trump angrily denying the allegation and threatening to sue the columnist. Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the excerpt to be made public, setting the stage for a long and contentious legal battle that could set a precedent for how the courts handle claims against a sitting president.
