She’s not my type -Trump denies raping writer E.Jean Carroll

US President, Donald Trump has denied raping the author E Jean Carroll, the latest woman to accuse him of sexual assault, partly on the basis that “she’s not my type”.

Carroll appeared on CNN on Monday to provide further details of the alleged mid-1990s incident in which she says Mr Trump cornered her in a dressing room, forced her up against a wall and raped her.

“He pulled down my tights, and it was a fight,” she told the broadcaster. “I fought. It was over very quickly, and it was against my will, 100 per cent. I fought and then I ran away.”

Speaking to The Hill in the Oval Office, the US president said Carroll was “totally lying”.

He said: “I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened. It never happened, OK? “I don’t know anything about her,” he said, referring to Carroll.

In previous interviews he has suggested he never met the author, until it emerged the pair have been pictured together.

“I know nothing about this woman. I know nothing about her. She is — it’s just a terrible thing that people can make statements like that.”

Carroll’s allegation against Mr Trump is included in her upcoming book about the "hideous men" the Elle magazine columnist says she has encountered throughout her life.

She says what started as a friendly encounter with the future president at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan, in 1995 or 1996, ended with him entering her “halfway — or completely, I’m not certain… it turns into a colossal struggle”.

Carroll told CNN's Anderson Cooper later on Monday that she was glad Mr Trump does not consider her his type. "I love that," she said. "I'm so glad I am not his type."

Carroll said there were no attendants in the dressing room area at the time of the alleged assault and she did not file a report with the New York Police Department.