GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump disputed claims from a female lawyer
who said he called her "disgusting" when she asked to take a break to breast-pump during a 2011 deposition.
Elizabeth Beck
told CNN's "New Day" on Wednesday that Trump had "an absolute meltdown" when she requested a break to pump breast milk for her 3-month-old child.
"He got up, his face got red, he shook his finger at me and he screamed, 'You're disgusting, you're disgusting,' and he ran out of there," Beck said.
Trump denied the claim to CNN in an interview aired later on "CNN Newsroom," saying that Beck wanted to stay in the room while using the pump.
"She wanted to breast pump in front of me, and I may have said that's disgusting, I may have said something else. I thought it was terrible," Trump told CNN's Dana Bash. "She's a vicious, horrible person."
Beck "made it up," Trump said of her statement. "She's saying, 'Oh, he was so violent and he was so, so wild and she was afraid.' She was afraid of nobody. She's a tough killer in Miami, everyone knows she's a killer. They all hate her."
The story, first posted by
The New York Times Tuesday night, is the second story on Trump's past in recent days. Trump also disputed
a Daily Beast story on Tuesday that said his ex-wife Ivana claimed he had raped her. Ivana Trump issued a statement saying the report was untrue and was a mischaracterization of her testimony during their divorce proceedings in the early 1990s.
Trump said people who don't know him are now appearing on television claiming to be experts on him.
"You know when Michael Jackson died — I knew him very well — and everybody was talking about Michael Jackson. They didn't know him, they knew nothing," Trump said.
"Some of them never even met him."
When Bash asked if his propensity to lash out at critics made him unfit for dealing with world leaders such as Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump responded, "Believe me, I'd do very well with him. I get along with people."
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