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May 5 (UPI) -- Video of former President Donald Trump's deposition in a civil rape trial was released on Friday after several media organizations asked the judge to make it public. The deposition was taken in October at Mar-a-Lago as part of writer E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit alleging Trump raped her in a New York City department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Jurors in the trial watched the video Wednesday and Thursday.
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According to CBS News, Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan showed Trump a late-1980s photo of him with his then-wife Ivana, Carroll and her then-husband John Johnson. Trump apparently mistook Carroll for his second wife, Marla Maples.
After being told about the mistake, Trump said Carroll wasn't his "type."
Trump later told Carroll's attorney that he would not "have any interest" in her, either.
"You wouldn't be a choice of mine, either, to be honest with you. I hope you're not insulted," Trump said.
Trump also told Kaplan about an expectation that celebrities can do as they want.
Kaplan asked if they can "grab women."
Trump replied, "Well, that's what -- if you look over the last million years, I guess that's been largely true. Not always, but largely true. Unfortunately or fortunately."
CNBC reported that two of Carroll's friends testified at the trial that she told them Trump raped her shortly after it allegedly happened. Two other women have testified about incidents in which they said Trump groped or kissed them against their will.
The trial may be wrapping up soon as both sides rested their cases on Thursday. Trump's attorney, Joe Tacopina, said he wouldn't call any witnesses and that Trump wouldn't testify in the case.
The judge has given the former president until 5 p.m. Sunday to motion to appear.
