Trump Sexually Assaulted Me in a Bergdorf’s Dressing Room
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Renowned writer and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll alleges in a bombshell New York magazine cover story out Friday that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her inside a dressing room of a Manhattan department store two decades ago.
“The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips. I am so shocked I shove him back and start laughing again,” Carroll writes in the first-person essay. “He seizes both my arms and pushes me up against the wall a second time, and, as I become aware of how large he is, he holds me against the wall with his shoulder and jams his hand under my coat dress and pulls down my tights.”
The White House vehemently denied any misconduct in a statement to New York magazine. “This is a completely false and unrealistic story surfacing 25 years after allegedly taking place and was created simply to make the President look bad,” the statement said.
Carroll’s claim is one of six alleged sexual-assault incidents the former “Ask E. Jean” Elle columnist details in the story, which is an excerpt from her newest book, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal . In the book, Carroll, 75, also alleges she was sexually assaulted by disgraced former CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves.
According to Carroll, “in fall of 1995 or the spring of 1996,” she met Donald Trump inside Bergdorf Goodman, an upscale Manhattan department store. She says the encounter was initially friendly. The then-real-estate mogul recognized her as “that advice lady” and told her he was buying a gift for “a girl” and needed help, Carroll says.
While they were in the lingerie section, Carroll says Trump suggested a lace bodysuit, and encouraged her to try it on.
“You try it on,” Carroll says she replied. “It’s your color.”
“Try it on, come on,” he allegedly responded before “throwing” the undergarment at her.
The friendly encounter turned violent once the pair reached the dressing rooms, Carroll alleges. That’s where she says he shoved her against a wall, pulled down her tights, and “forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway—or completely, I’m not certain—inside me,” she writes.
“It turns into a colossal struggle. I am wearing a pair of sturdy black patent-leather four-inch Barneys high heels, which puts my height around six-one, and I try to stomp his foot,” Carroll writes. “I try to push him off with my one free hand—for some reason, I keep holding my purse with the other—and I finally get a knee up high enough to push him out and off and I turn, open the door, and run out of the dressing room.”
After the “three-minute incident,” Carroll says she immediately told two journalist friends. One friend encouraged her to file a police report, and the other told her to just forget it, she says.
“Tell no one. Forget it! He has 200 lawyers. He’ll bury you,” the friend allegedly said.
This isn’t the first time Trump has been accused of sexual assault.
In sworn testimony during their 1990s divorce, the president’s ex-wife, Ivana, claimed Trump had raped her during their 15-year marriage. Ivana later took back that statement, claiming she had not meant rape “in a literal or criminal sense.”
During the 2016 presidential election, at least 13 women came forward to accuse the former New York real-estate tycoon of sexual misconduct. Trump has repeatedly denied all allegations of wrongdoing.
Carroll adds that it took her over 20 years to come forward with the allegation, after following her second friend’s advice, because she “dreaded the public humiliation.” Under New York law, even if the alleged incident was reported to police now, it’s too late to prosecute. While the statute of limitations on first-degree rape was eliminated in 2006, that change only applies to incidents that occurred in 2001 or later.
The 75-year-old writer revealed the Donna Karan coat-dress she wore that day “still hangs on the back of my closet door.” She said she took it out for the first time since the attack for the New York magazine cover.
“Receiving death threats, being driven from my home, being dismissed, being dragged through the mud,” she writes in the Friday piece, “and joining the 15 women who’ve come forward with credible stories about how the man grabbed, badgered, belittled, mauled, molested, and assaulted them, only to see the man turn it around, deny, threaten, and attack them, never sounded like much fun.”
Ahead of the publication of her book, Carroll has been leading a “ Hideous-Men of New York Walking Tour ,” during which the 75-year-old shows guests the “hallowed spots where women have stood up, spoken out, and begun to put an end to sexual harassment.” The next tour, which lasts about 90 minutes, begins at Bergdorf Goodman this Sunday
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What goes around comes around.
Why would an upstanding man be accused of sexually molesting 20 women?
Lets not forget that he also bragged about walking in and out of teenage girls dressing rooms. That's creepy as hell.
The thing that causes me to maybe doubt this story is that the woman was 52 at the time of then alleged rape. Unless she looked a lot younger and was super hot, it doesnt sound like Trump's age range.
[delete] That's a defense straight out of the Trump handbook.
Amen, Sister !!!
I know, thats why I said it would be Trump's defense.
Me too!!!
Dog-do. You were giving your own personal opinion based on her age.
I think it's the opinion of most men. Fifty years old is the cut off point for us!
I think you are imagining things . I'll overlook it this one time.
How Trumpian of you.
The truth will set you free!
I don't think trump has a, "range", he will molest anything that will stand still long enough.
"Ahead of the publication of her book
Got it
Trump has been accused of sexual molestation by 20 women. What are the chances all of them are lying?
So does that mean you wont be voting for him 28 years ago?
And for the record, it was 11, not 20...you are thinking of trump.
*effervescent giggle-snort followed by a hearty guffaw*
Trump has done a great job as President.
What are the chances all of them are lying?
What are the chances that the American people are going to re-elect him?
Too late - Post # 2.3 he's mentioned as well as other posts. You can't allow it for awhile then disallow it. What would any seed of yours be without it?
Lol and he's the subject of your seed!!!!
Sorry Frosty - it was four who came out.
Trump ran for president 20 years ago?
Ok, fair enough.
And on the subject of this woman? The more reading and research I do, the less I believe her story.
I believe most Tessy.... But on this one? I have my doubts...
Ms. Carroll is a day late and a dollar short.
Kavanaugh is on the bench. the Trump is invincible to anything of a sexual nature.
Follow the money. It is dirty and illegal. Trump is a money launderer.
How shocking. /yawn
She is pushing book sales and the TDS crowd eat up this shit.....shocking.
Think the democrat who debates Trump should bring all his female accusers to sit in the front row? Ah, shucks, Trump himself supports it, he proved it already.
Lol, that would be quite the shit show. But Biden has only been super creepy, Trump is essentially an accused serial rapist.
Not like this is the first time Trump has been accused of being a rapist, or admitted it himself. You know, the whole pussy grabbing deal.
Pretty sure it won't be the last either, everyone likes to cash in and the most advantageous moment.
At this point I am just going to label Trump a rapist. The number of accusations and his own comments pretty much make it a certainty.