An American editorialist said he was raped by Donald Trump in the mid-1990s, in a fitting room of a New York luxury store.

Accused by an editorialist of having raped her in New York in the 1990s, Donald Trump defended Monday in an interview at the American political site The Hill: "It's not my kind of woman." "I'm going to say it with great respect, first of all, it's not my kind of woman, secondly, it never happened, it never happened, OK?" Said the US president.

Today 75-year-old E. Jean Carroll, a well-known editorialist of the US version of Elle magazine, claims to have been raped by the real estate mogul in 1995 or 1996 in a fitting room at a luxury store. New Yorker. "A complete lie," insisted Donald Trump on Monday. "I do not know anything about this woman, it's a terrible thing that people can make such accusations."

At least 16 rape charges

"I have never met this person in my life," he reacted Friday in a written statement after the publication of the testimony of E. Jean Carroll in the magazine New York . The editorialist also mentions his alleged assault in an autobiographical work, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal (Why do we need men? A modest proposal).

"She's trying to sell a new book, which should make you understand what her motives are," the Republican billionaire said. "It should be sold to the fiction department." E. Jean Carroll is at least the sixteenth woman accusing Donald Trump of sexual assault prior to his election to the presidency. Charges he has always denied.