The media is doing its thing again.
Trump claimed E. Jean Carroll said ‘rape was sexy’ in unsealed deposition – Insider
Trump: Sex assault accuser E. Jean Carroll said rape is ‘sexy’ – Daily News
Trump falsely claimed in deposition that Carroll spoke about enjoying rape – Washington Post
Also Trump called her a nutjob. It’s hard to argue that E. Jean Carroll isn’t. The original CNN interview with Anderson Cooper was pure cringe. Other interviews didn’t get any better like the time she explained that she wouldn’t charge Trump with rape because, “I find it disrespectful to the women who are down on the border who are being raped around the clock.”
And then there’s the original CNN interview which is at the heart of the attacks on Trump.
CARROLL: I was not thrown on the ground and ravished. Which the word “rape” carries so many sexual connotations. This was not — this was not sexual. It just hurt. It just —
COOPER: I think most people think of rape as a — it is a violent assault. It is not —
CARROLL: I think most people think of rape as being sexy.
COOPER: Let’s take a short break —
CARROLL: They think of the fantasies.
COOPER: We’re going to take a quick break. If you can stick around we’ll talk more on the other side.
CARROLL: You’re fascinating to talk to.
The interview, like all of her interviews, are bizarre. Trump may have misstated exactly what she said in the interview, but there was a reason that the media quickly stopped speaking to her.
Like this one.
I want to be sure of what she’s saying to me. A woman can go into a dressing room with a man and then walk out at will, I say. “No. No. I don’t think a woman will ever be able to walk into a small enclosure with a man like that. Ever, ever, ever. I don’t care if they infused every man’s brain with #MeToo, you won’t be safe. It’s like you won’t be safe shooting up heroin, you won’t be safe driving at 120 miles per hour with the lights out.”
But rape is the man’s responsibility. “No. It’s the responsibility of the woman, too. It’s equal. Men can’t control themselves.”
This stuff recurs in her book again, as I noted when I reviewed it. (I was understandably the only conservative reviewer to do it.)
The scene of the supposed assault takes place in a Bergdorf’s department store where, in Carroll’s own words, “no one is present” even though she concedes that makes no sense and the dressing rooms would have been locked if there hadn’t been an attendant. It wouldn’t matter if there were tapes of it, she writes, because “the struggle might simply have read as ‘sexy.’”
Shifting the focus to Trump is convenient because then the media wouldn’t have to talk about Carroll.
She’s obviously nuts. Never believe testimony from whackjobs.
Taxed without representation and even when it’s made clear the GOP is all about that Republicans are full speed ahead. We’ve got an election to win.
Elections don’t matter if your party is AWOL.
I wonder how Mr. Greenfield could drag himself through that awful book. I would rather have major surgery.
Any “judge” that would allow a case like this to proceed is either grossly incompetent or CORRUPT – In this case I’d have to think BOTH!
You’d be thinking of Clinton appointed Lewis Kaplan, who’s also the Judge for the FTX case. It was his decision to keep the two donors who paid Sam Bankman-Fried’s $250 million bail anonymous.