The former president of the United States Donald Trump has rejected this Wednesday the sentence for sexual abuse of the writer E. Jean Caroll who received yesterday and has claimed never to have seen the woman in his life.

The Republican has once again mocked the complainant, who accused him of having abused her in the fitting room of a New York department store chain, and has assured that the trial was bought, during a meeting with citizens organized by the CNN network.

“I swear on my children that I have no idea who this woman is.. It is a false, invented story,” said the Republican, who was sentenced to pay Caroll $5 million in compensation for the “damages” caused to her and her reputation.

He has taken the opportunity to call her “crazy”, amid applause and laughter from the audience called by the American television network.

On the show, Trump has fielded questions from journalist Kailtan Collins and voters in the audience on a variety of topics, including the storming of the Capitol, the 2020 election where he was defeated by current President Joe Biden, the war in Ukraine, and abortion. .

At various times, the interactions between Trump and the journalist have become heated, with the former president even going so far as to insult Collins, calling her an “unpleasant person”, which was received with applause from the public.

The former president has echoed his false accusations of electoral fraud in the presidential elections that gave Biden victory, pointing out that they were “rigged” elections.

A pardon for the assault on the Capitol

In turn, he has defended his actions during the assault on the Capitol, which are being investigated by a special prosecutor from the Department of Justice.

On January 6, the day that hundreds of his followers violently stormed the Congress building and where five people died, “it was a beautiful and incredible day,” the former president highlighted.

“It was the biggest crowd I've ever spoken to…they were proud and they had love in their hearts,” Trump said.

The ex-president went a step further in his defense on January 6 and assured that, if he were elected president, he would offer a presidential pardon to a large part of the people who have been convicted by Justice for their actions during the assault.

“I'm inclined to pardon many of them,” Trump said, referring to the more than 300 people who have been convicted of various crimes committed on January 6, including assault, destruction of government property or sedition.

Trump, in turn, rejected the other pending judicial investigations, including the case for handling classified documents and his attempted interference in the vote count in Georgia.

The Republican maintained a tense relationship with CNN and its reporters during his tenure and has repeatedly described the television channel as a disseminator of “false news.”

CNN's decision to air such a show with Trump has been heavily criticized by some Democratic politicians and political analysts.

“I think it was a deeply irresponsible decision (…) that put a victim of sexual abuse at risk and it was shameful,” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with MSNBC.

For his part, legislator Daniel Goldman wrote on his Twitter account: “Why did CNN organize a Trump rally?”