Trump tells Kaitlan Collins the E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse claims were ‘hanky panky’ and tears into judge for refusing to let jury hear she ‘called her husband an ape’ and ‘had a cat named vagina’

  • Trump’s first public appearance since jury found he sexually abused Carroll 
  • He blasted Carroll, the verdict and the judge in the case
  • He came out swinging under aggressive questioning from Collins 

Donald Trump came out swinging under aggressive questioning for CNN‘s Kaitlan Collins‘, slamming writer E. Jean Carroll for her rape accusation, refusing to say he lost the 2020 election and defending his supporters’ actions on January 6th.

Collins asked Trump about Tuesday’s verdict in New York that found he was liable for the sexual assault of Carroll at a department story in the 1990s. Trump has denied the charge. The town hall was his first public appearance since the verdict, where he ws ordered to pay $5 million in damages.

‘What do you say to voters who say it disqualifies you from being president?,’ Collins asked him.

‘There weren’t too many of them because my numbers just – they went up,’ Trump said as the audience cheered and applauded.

The former president repeated his claim he didn’t know Carroll and then proceeded to insult her repeatedly – accusing her of ‘hanky panky,’ claiming she has a cat called ‘Vagina’ and that she called her husband an ‘ape.’ He slammed U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who was appointed to the job by President Bill Clinton.

‘This woman, I don’t know her. I never met her. I have no idea who she is. I had a picture taken years ago with her and her husband, nice guy John Johnson. He was a newscaster, very nice. She called him an ape, happens to be African American. Called him an ape,’ Trump claimed.

‘The judge wouldn’t allow us to put that in. Her dog or her cat was named Vagina, the judge wouldn’t allow to put that in,’ he added.

Trump also said of Carroll: ‘What kind of a woman meet somebody and brings them up and within minutes you’re playing hanky-panky in a dressing room, I don’t know if she was married then or not. John Johnson, I feel sorry for you.’

The crowd at New Hampshire’s St. Anselm College – made up of Republican primary voters and independent voters – cheered and applaused Trump’s signature moves, which included name calling, taking out props, and dashing off quips at Collins.

Outside, small group of anti-Trump protesters gathered. Their signs included messages like ‘Nobody is above the law’ and ‘Elections not insurrection.’