Former President Donald Trump continued to deny E. Jean Carroll’s sexual assault allegation in his videotaped deposition that was played Wednesday inside a Manhattan federal courtroom.

Carroll, a noted author and former longtime columnist for Elle Magazine, is suing Donald Trump for rape and defamation and alleges that he raped her in a New York City department store dressing room in the mid-1990s and ruined her reputation when she went public with the accusations several years later, BusinessInsider reports.

“It didn’t happen,” Trump said in the deposition, which was taken last October at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home.

Trump appeared “uncharacteristically dour,” according to BusinessInsider, but he added “If it did happen, it would have been reported in minutes” because Bergdorf Goodman, the aforementioned department store, where Trump said he “rarely” shopped, “is a very busy store.” It is located about a block from Trump Tower.

“It’s the most ridiculous, disgusting story,” Trump said. “It’s just made up.”

Most of the video deposition will be played Thursday morning, and Carroll’s lawyers will likely rest their case later in the day.

But Wednesday is the first time that the jury had heard from Trump. He decided not to attend the trial in person and is focusing his efforts on his campaign events and spending time at his golf club in Scotland.

I’m not an expert on civil court cases, but Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina announced Wednesday that the defense won’t be presenting a case to the jury because their sole witness, a psychiatrist, couldn’t testify due to a health problem. Couldn’t they find additional witnesses beforehand, or do they believe their case is so pat that Trump will win?

Closing arguments will likely be held Monday and the jury will begin deliberations on Tuesday. Carroll requests that Trump retract his statements calling her a liar and that the jury award her unspecified damages.

Prior to Trump’s video deposition, the jury heard emotional testimony from writer Natasha Stoynoff, who has also accused Trump of sexual misconduct. She told the jury that Trump forcibly kissed her while and pinned her against a wall while she was at Mar-a-Lago to visit Trump and his third wife, Melania who was pregnant at the time.

Stoynoff was visibly upset, holding back tears and grabbing tissues as she struggled to answer questions about the incident. At one point a butler walked into a room where the two were alone at Mar-a-Lago and Trump backed away from her. But Trump wasn’t necessarily discouraged and she said that as they walked to another part of the resort to interview Melania, Stoynoff said Trump told her:

“You know we’re going to have an affair, don’t you? Don’t forget what Marla Maples (his second wife) said — best sex of her life. We’re going to have steak, we’re going to go to Peter Luger’s.”

How creepy. How vile and repugnant. I’m betting this poor woman could hardly wait to wrap things up and get the hell out of Dodge. She added that after the incident, she was on “auto-pilot” and she interviewed the couple together, then traveled back to New York the next day. She told the jury that she talked to several people about what happened but didn’t go public with the story until the so-called Access Hollywood tape, where Trump bragged about groping women, was revealed during Trump’s 2016 campaign. The controversial tape was also played for the jury on Wednesday.

And for Stoynoff, it was a relief when the Access Hollywood tape came out. It made her feel less alone to find out that he treated other women terribly as well.

But it also made her feel guilty because she’d stayed quiet.

“I worried that because I didn’t say anything at the time, other women were hurt, so I had some regret there,” Stoynoff said, holding back tears.

Shortly after the tape was revealed, Stoynoff was contacted by People Magazine to write an essay about the torment she experienced at Mar-a-Lago, but she held off, waiting to see how he answered questions about the tape at a debate held shortly after. At the debate, Anderson Cooper asked Trump if he’d ever forcibly kissed a woman, and of course, he denied this. She knew then she needed to write the story for People.

“I thought, ‘You liar,'” She remembered thinking at the time. “I was just really upset that he was lying to the American people.”

Trump continued to lie to the American people all during his time as president. As many of us know by now, The Washington Post assiduously kept track and found that he told more than 30,000 whoppers during his time as President. There was that border wall that was never built and shouldn’t have been suggested in the first place. His continual misinformation about Russia and its involvement in the 2016 election. His continual lies about Hunter Biden and the fact that he tried to bribe Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Do I need to go on any further? He lied to innocent women and to a whole country.

He really is that disgusting.