Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll makes a stunning allegation against the president of the United States in her new book, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal. An excerpt published in New York Magazine Friday lays out an encounter in which Carroll says Donald Trump assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. She talked about the incident on MSNBC.
.@Lawrence: "Would you consider bringing a rape charge against Donald Trump?"
E. Jean Carroll, who has accused the president of sexual assault: "No." pic.twitter.com/LVqdigtVDt
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 22, 2019
Trump released a statement saying Carroll’s story is fiction, saying he’s never met her.
Trump, in a statement on E. Jean Carroll's rape allegations: "I’ve never met this person in my life."
He is pictured meeting her in E. Jean Carroll's story: https://t.co/E9VgDY7B2L pic.twitter.com/qeOjmfVXDp
— Sarah Mimms (@mimms) June 21, 2019
And Carroll has two people backing up her story, saying she told them about it when it occurred back in the 90s.
“He raped you,” one friend kept repeating when I called her. “He raped you. Go to the police! I’ll go with you. We’ll go together.” Another friend grew very quiet when I told her. “Tell no one. Forget it! He has 200 lawyers. He’ll bury you.” https://t.co/0nYH9XyDWu
— Marisa Carroll (@Marisa_Carroll) June 21, 2019
Vox says Carroll is the “22nd woman to step forward on the record with an account of an unwanted sexual advance or other encounter with Trump.” They document the 22 women here.
Never in American history has a president been accused of so many inappropriate sexual encounters and yet it doesn’t seem to be causing much of a stir.
Call me crazy, but President Accused of Rape By Well Known Writer seems like the very definition of news? It's somewhat odd to me that it is not being covered in many places.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 21, 2019
Big test of media in the age of Trump whether they just move on from this rape allegation. Any other president, it would be an all-consuming firestorm for weeks and longer.
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) June 21, 2019
Hear Carroll’s full story, for yourself, as she told it to Lawrence O’Donnell above.
