Trump Waves Away Old Photo With Carroll: ‘Give Me A Break’

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President Donald Trump on Saturday shrugged off a photo of him with E. Jean Carroll, a journalist who recently accused him of sexually assaulting her, and still insisted that he’d never met her before.

“Standing with my coat on in a line. Give me a break, with my back to the camera,” Trump told reporters. “I have no idea who she is.”

“There’s some picture where we’re shaking hands, it looks like at some kind of event. I have my coat on. I have my wife standing next to me,” he also said. “And I didn’t know her husband, but he was a newscaster, but I have no idea who she is, none whatsoever.”

After Carroll alleged on Friday that Trump had sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s, the President denied her accusation and claimed that he’d “never met this person in my life.”

Several hours later, historian Angus Johnston tweeted an old photo of Carroll talking to Trump and his then-wife, Ivana.

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  1. “I’ve never raped this person in my life.”

  2. and Sarah Sanders lived happily ever after.

  3. I’m just waiting on Ivana to chime in.

  4. Avatar for tena tena says:

    You said you had never met her. Give US a break!

  5. As much as I hate to admit it, I kinda have to agree that a 30+year old photo does not disprove Trumps claim that he doesn’t really know who this current accuser is. However, I have no doubt that he knows who she is and what he did…

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