formerly president and would be the largest story in the political universe if it were about anyone else who has fewer legal problems. that is my factual introduction to the ongoing civil defamation and sexual assault/rape trial for donald trump. e. jean carroll alleges donald trump raped her in the 1990s. today is the sixth day of the trial and we are learning a lot as we are right in the heart of it. the jury also heard in a way from trump himself, but not live. instead, this jury, which is assessing these very serious allegations, heard from trump in a deposition that was taped in okay. now, there s no video of this new deposition available. we do know broadly what it looks like. it s a contrast to past depositions that trump faced. we also can tell you reporting today in what is a small portion of a 45-minute deposition was reported as evidence. this is something off the top i want to explain why it matters before i go any further. donald trump as a legal and political ma
that tape played itself out in american politics. it has been discussed, debated. it has been met with horrified responses as well as extreme gaslighting and minimizization. we re not hear tonight to relitigate that. i bet you as a news viewer are familiar with all that. i m here to tell you that tape is evidence in a case about defamation and sexual assault and rape. it is something that jurors are going to listen to and make an evident area conclusion, not whether it is disgusting but whether it is in the main valid evidence of behavior. is it true? is it something saying something about how they act or something else? if it s something else crude, disgusting horrible but not relevant as evidence, meaning somebody lied, they claimed they were worse than they were. hypothetical, somebody on a movie set, claimed they killed people but they actually didn t however disgusting it