Donald Trump is using his iconic defense tactic to dismiss the claims of his latest sexual assault accuser: shooting down the woman’s looks.
In a new interview with The Hill, the President said that New York-based advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of raping her in a New York City department store in the mid-1990s, is not his “type.”
POTUS told the paper on Monday:
“I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened.”
Funny how he felt the need to prioritize shooting down her looks over denying that the alleged encounter ever happened…
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Trump’s response comes days after Carroll claimed that a friendly encounter with the businessman at Bergdorf Goodman in 1995 or 1996 turned violent when he pushed her up against a dressing room wall, unzipped his pants, and forced himself on her.
After a “colossal struggle,” Carroll said that she pushed him off and ran from the store.
Trump told The Hill that the writer is “totally lying” about the encounter, which he vehemently denied earlier, saying:
“I know nothing about this woman. I know nothing about her. She is — it’s just a terrible thing that people can make statements like that.”
The allegation is detailed further in the Elle magazine columnist’s upcoming book, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, which chronicles the “hideous men” she’s encountered over the years.
In a New York Magazine excerpt from her book, Carroll recounted running into Trump at the NYC department store and striking up a conversation with him, as the two recognized each other. He allegedly asked Carroll to help him buy a gift for a woman he was dating, which eventually led her following him into a dressing room where she thought he was going to jokingly try on a bodysuit for her.
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Instead, she claims the future-president raped her. She wrote:
“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. 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 next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I’m not certain — inside me.”
Carroll said there were no attendants in the dressing room area at the time and she did not file a report with the NYPD. She explained to Anderson Cooper on Monday:
“I wanted to forget it. I thought A, my fault. B, I was stupid. C, I didn’t think of it … as rape. I thought of it as a violent incident. I thought of it as a fight.”
As for Trump’s claims that she’s not his type, a remark he’s previously used to rebuff the claims of several other accusers, the columnist quipped to Coop:
“I love that. I’m so glad I am not his type.”
It’s the best compliment he can give a woman, TBH.
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