Natasha Stoynoff, the subject of this first installment, likens herself and her fellow accusers to the proverbial canaries in the coal mine: among the first to warn the world about the essential nature of the 45th president of the United States. Who are the people who came forward to say that Trump treated them exactly as he described: as fungible collections of body parts to paw at whenever it suited his purposes? Why did the women decide to tell their stories, and what has life been like since? Carroll’s lawsuit remains in progress the president has denied all of the women’s allegations, and the White House declined to comment for this story. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. “I’m automatically attracted to beautiful-I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet.
So in the run-up to the November 3 election, Carroll is interviewing other women who alleged that Trump suddenly and without consent “moved on” them, to cite his locution in the Access Hollywood tape. Which might seem surprising, until you remember Trump’s modus operandi: He escapes the consequences of one outrage by turning our focus to another, in perpetuity. Carroll was not, of course, the first woman to say that Trump had sexually harassed or assaulted her, but unlike so many other powerful men, the president has remained unscathed by the #MeToo reckoning. After the president denied ever meeting her and dismissed her story as a Democratic plot, she sued him for defamation. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of rape, in a Bergdorf’s dressing room in the mid-1990s. In her 2019 memoir, What Do We Need Men For?, E.
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