by Sheri Urban
Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll said Friday that she would not press charges against President Donald Trump for allegedly raping her in the mid-1990s because that would be “disrespectful” to immigrant women who are victimized by rape, noting that her alleged rape only lasted “three minutes.”
As we reported on Friday, Carroll’s upcoming book, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, “details” the decades-old rape accusation against Trump, which the president has since vehemently denied.
“I would find it disrespectful to the women who are down on the border who are being raped around the clock down there without any protection,” Carroll told MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell when asked why she wouldn’t press charges.
“They’re young women, they tried to come into the county. As you know, they’re here by the thousands.”
“Mine was three minutes,” the advice columnist claimed of the alleged encounter. “I’m a mature woman, I can handle it, I can keep going, my life has gone on, I’m a happy woman.”
“But for the women down there, around the world … it just seems disrespectful,” she stammered, “it doesn’t make sense to me.”
“Um, What?” Yep, sounds legit, right ladies?
In her book, Carroll claims Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in midtown Manhattan when she was 52 years old. Trump allegedly recognized Carroll and asked her to help him pick out lingerie for another woman; the duo then headed to the dressing room.
“As we head to the dressing rooms, I’m laughing aloud and saying in my mind: I’m gonna make him put this thing on over his pants!” she claims, adding that “[t]he 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,” the accusation continues. “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.”
Carroll then explains that she kept “laughing,” which she says “astonished” her.
“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. It turns into a colossal struggle,” she alleges. “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. 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.”
Trump responded to the news of the accusation in a statement released on Friday. “I’ve never met this person in my life,” he said of Carroll. “She is trying to sell a new book — that should indicate her motivation. It should be sold in the fiction section.”
“False accusations diminish the severity of real assault,” the president added. “All should condemn false accusations and any actual assault in the strongest possible terms.”
So she diminishes a “rape” by saying it “only” lasted 3 minutes, and makes a small penis joke? Does this seem like how a legitimate sexual assault victim would speak of her attack?
Judge for yourselves, and let me know in the comments below.
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