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Showing Original Post only (View all)E. Jean Carroll: "Trump attacked me in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman." [View all]
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/president-donald-trump-faces-new-rape-accusation.htmlE. Jean Carroll: Trump attacked me in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman.
By Sarah Jones
The cover story New York published today details an encounter the writer E. Jean Carroll had over two decades ago with Donald J. Trump, in which the thenreal-estate mogul allegedly assaulted her in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in midtown Manhattan.
The episode is one of six incidents Carroll details in the article of attacks on her by men over the course of her life. Another episode involves the disgraced former CEO of CBS, Les Moonves. The cover story is an excerpt from her newest book, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, which will be published on July 2 by St. Martins Press.
When Carroll meets Donald Trump in Bergdorf Goodman, the encounter starts as a friendly one. Trump recognizes her as that advice lady; Carroll recognizes him as that real-estate tycoon. Trump tells Carroll that hes there to buy a gift for a girl, and though we dont learn the identity of this mystery woman, Carroll places the ensuing incident in late 1995 or early 1996, during which time Trump was married to Marla Maples. When Trump asks Carroll to advise him on what to buy, she agrees, and the two eventually make their way to the lingerie section. Trump suggests a lace bodysuit and encourages Carroll to try it on; she, deflecting, jokingly suggests that he try it on instead. After they reach the dressing rooms, events turn violent. In Carrolls account, Trump shoves her against a wall inside a dressing room, pulls down her tights, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway or completely, Im not certain inside me.
Carroll, 75, is a venerated Elle advice columnist. At the time of the attack, she was well known in her own right. A frequent feature writer for magazines like Playboy and Esquire, she had her own television show on Americas Talking, the precursor to MSNBC. Trump had his own record. By the time of his alleged assault on Carroll, Trumps ex-wife, Ivana, had already claimed that Trump violated her during their marriage. (Ivana recanted the claim after Trump launched his campaign for the presidency.) Further news reports, published in 2016, place at least four other alleged sexual-assault claims, made by Kristin Anderson, Jill Harth, Cathy Heller, and Temple Taggart McDowell, in the years before and during the time period of Carrolls account.
Carroll is now at least the 16th woman to accuse Donald Trump of sexual misconduct and the 14th to accuse Moonves of similar offenses. The incidents, which date from the 1990s, are highly specific and related with dark humor. Moonves is compared by Carroll to an octopus, and Trump, she writes, yammers about himself like hes Alexander the Great ready to loot Babylon. But she is clear, sometimes clinical, about the violence she experienced. Moonves frantically kisses and gropes her in a hotel elevator moments after she finished interviewing him for an article. The Trump story is even darker.
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E. Jean Carroll: "Trump attacked me in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman." [View all]
dalton99a
Jun 2019
OP
Watch it. He'll attack her claims by saying she was too old for his taste.
Tommy_Carcetti
Jun 2019
#1
i don't think that's right. She was in the midst of describing a traumatic experience...
CTyankee
Jun 2019
#140
Rump is so horrible so often he has numbed people's sense of outrage, he has induced collective
Celerity
Jun 2019
#11
it is going to take decades, if ever, to stuff Magats back in the poison bottle that Rump uncorked.
Celerity
Jun 2019
#19
Let us all hope some new RW white nationalist-coddling demagogue doesn't rise up from swamp
Celerity
Jun 2019
#22
Been saying it for years, but in terms of already major Rethugs, Cotton from Arkansas is a fucking
Celerity
Jun 2019
#36
he was credibly accused of multiple rapes before the election; it was determinedly ignored
anarch
Jun 2019
#37
No, I'd say Christian, without the quotes. Sadly. No offense intended.
Still In Wisconsin
Jun 2019
#89
knowing his base, they soon will be carring signs saying "Rape me Donald" at his rallies, like
lunamagica
Jun 2019
#61
Gonna have to agree here, jumping on the bandwagon on these kind of allegations hurts us
ansible
Jun 2019
#66