WASHINGTON Former President Donald Trump held a press conference on Friday that was supposed to be about him appealing a $5 million verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s.

Instead, for nearly 45 minutes, Trump stood in front of a microphone ranting about Carroll and another woman who accused him of sexual assault, and then left without taking any questions.

I never touched her, Trump said of Carroll, during the New York City event. I would have had no interest in meeting her. ... She made up a story, fabricated 100%, that I attacked her.

Without any evidence, he accused Carroll of stealing her story from an episode of a popular legal drama TV series.

Her favorite show is Law & Order, Trump claimed. Theres an almost exact story as her story in Law & Order about being attacked in the dressing room of a department store.

Thats her favorite show, Law & Order, he repeated. She said that.