Trump answers questions under oath in defamation case over alleged rape

Donald Trump's legal team worked for years to delay his deposition in the lawsuit, which was filed when he was still president.

Donald Trump has been forced to answer questions under oath (Jose Luis Villegas/AP)

Former president Donald Trump has answered questions under oath in a lawsuit filed by a magazine columnist who says the Republican raped her in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room.

The deposition gave E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers a chance to interrogate Mr Trump about the assault allegations as well as statements he made in 2019 when she told her story publicly for the first time.