Video of Trump confusing E Jean Carroll with ex-wife in deposition is released

Former president shown pointing to photograph of writer who accuses him of rape and saying ‘That’s my wife’

Video of Donald Trump’s deposition in his civil rape trial in New York City was released to the public on Friday.

The footage, from last October, included a previously reported but never publicly seen exchange in which the former president mistook a picture of his accuser, the writer E Jean Carroll, for a picture of his second wife, Marla Maples.