6/21/19: The New Yorker publishes an
account by a writer named E. Jean Carroll, who claims to have been raped by
Citizen Donald J. Trump in 1996. She says she feared to come forward earlier
because she knew “she’d be attacked, threatened, and
smeared by Trump and his supporters [emphasis added].”
Within days, after making this accusation, she gets death threats.
____________________
“I
took her out furniture shopping…I moved on her like a bitch.”
Donald J. Trump
____________________
Depending on how you count, Ms. Carroll would bring to 16 or
22 (the count varies based on how media outlets assess claims), the number of
women who have accused President Pussy Grabber of criminal sexual behavior
and/or sexual harassment. That would include Ivana Trump. She once described a
violent sexual assault during the period when the couple was in process of a
divorce. (The first Mrs. Trump later said her story was “without merit,” took a
healthy divorce settlement, and signed a non-disclosure agreement.)
So, let’s leave Ivana out and revisit the list of accusers. Vox
and other news outlets
have put together tallies similar to the one which follows. We have added
detail for context:
E.
Jean Carroll: She claims she was raped in a
department store dressing room. Trump tells reporters he has no idea who she is
or was and wouldn’t have attacked her since “she’s not my type.”
Did Trump just say he would attack a woman if she was
his type?
He kind of did.
Two of Carroll’s friends confirm that she described the rape
at the time the alleged crime occurred. Initially, they told The New York
Times they wanted to remain anonymous.
In a
series of denials, Trump insisted that Carroll was “totally lying.” “She is – it’s just a terrible thing that
people can make statements like that,” he whined. She was “trying to sell a new
book.”
And…wait for it…Trump said Carroll’s
story was “Fake News.”
“I moved on her like a bitch.”
For context, consider the
Hollywood Access tape, recorded in 2005, kept secret for a decade. Trump
talks about hitting on a woman other than his wife, Melania, who, in 2005, he
had recently married:
“I did try and f**k her. She was married,”
Trump tells Billy Bush and several others, to general mirth. “And I moved on
her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get
some furniture. I said, ‘I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture.’”
(Ha, ha: In his pants!)
“I moved on her like a bitch, but I
couldn’t get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s
now got the big phony tits and everything. She’s totally changed her look.”
No longer his type?
So: The word of three women, E. Jean
Carroll and friends, vs. Trump, 3-1 (and Trump’s words seem to validate their
case.)
BLOGGER’S NOTE (5/9/23): During
his first run for president, during his time in office, and after, Trump calls
Ms. Carroll a liar. He continues to do so, after leaving the White House,
hopefully for good. Carroll sues the former president for defamation. In a
civil trial she easily prevails. The jury votes, 9-0, taking only three
hours to decide, that the former president did sexually assault Ms. Carroll
thirty years ago. She is awarded $5 million in damages and assorted costs.
Nevertheless, Trump apologists call it a win, after the jury decides it can’t be sure Ms. Carroll
was raped, but is sure sexual assault occurred.
Donald, of course, handles defeat with typical
maturity. On Truth Social he explodes, “I
HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A
CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!”
This blogger would respond:
9-0,
DUDE.
AND
YOU PAID A LOT FOR THE “BEST” LAWYERS.
*
How does Trump treat women –
what is he willing to try when he thinks he can get away with it? We know he
has cheated on all three wives. That’s what detectives might call corroborating
evidence. Here’s more:
Kristen Anderson: She says Trump reached up her skirt at
a nightclub.
4-1.
*
Mariah Billado: Miss Vermont Teen USA, 1997, said Trump walked
into a dressing room while she and other teen beauty contestants were
undressing. Three other young women anonymously supported her claim.
She says she remembers putting on her dress as quickly as possible and
thinking, “Oh my god, there’s a man in here.”
This claim was later disputed, but Trump did brag, during a radio interview with Howard
Stern, that he walked in on naked contestants in dressing rooms during the Miss
USA and Miss Universe pageants.
Those
contestants were adults.
Trump
told Stern:
Well, I'll tell
you the funniest is that I’ll go backstage before a show, and everyone's
getting dressed and ready and everything else, and you know, no men are
anywhere. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and
therefore I'm inspecting it. You know, I'm inspecting, I want to make sure that
everything is good.
You
know, the dresses. ‘Is everyone okay?’ You know, they're standing there with no
clothes. ‘Is everybody okay?’ And you see these incredible looking women, and
so, I sort of get away with things like that.
8-1; Trump’s words seen to validate Billado’s case.
*
Samantha Holvey,
a former Miss USA contestant, further bolstered the case for Trump being creepy around the young women.
Holvey, Miss North Carolina 2006, said the future president personally
inspected each woman prior to the contest to the point where it was “the
dirtiest I felt in my entire life.”
“He would step
in front of each girl and look you over from head to toe like we were just
meat, we were just sexual objects, that we were not people,” she explained.
“You know when
a gross guy at the bar is checking you out? It’s that feeling.”
(Not exactly an accusation; just an assertion.)
And, when it
comes to assessing the veracity of Trump’s statements, we might also note that his “spokesman,”
John Miller, once told reporters that Trump’s marriage to Marla Maples was
ended by Trump’s dalliance with supermodel Carla Bruni. Bruni promptly
announced that she would never.
Ever!
Sleep with or date Donald.
And Trump later
admitted
that John Miller was actually him.
*
Rachel Crooks: She worked as a receptionist at Trump Tower in 2005. When introduced
to Trump, he kissed Crooks, 22, on the cheek and then the lips. Not long after
he asked for her number. He claimed it was to give to a modeling agency.
Also, did she need any furniture?
Okay, that last part is a joke. Trump had just married
Melania, his third wife, on January 22, 2005.
9-1.
*
Tasha Dixon: She says, when the Miss USA 2001 contestants were changing into bikinis, Trump “just
came strolling right on in” to their dressing room.
“There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless. Others girls were naked,” she told Rolling Stone magazine. Our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half-naked changing into our bikinis.”
10-1.
*
Jessica Drake: Drake an adult film star, met Trump at a golf tournament at Lake Tahoe
in 2006. She says he “hugged her tightly and kissed her on the lips.” Later, he
invited her to his suite. Drake says she was offered $10,000 to have sex. Drake was friends with Stormy Daniels – the adult film star who claimed she had consensual sex with
Trump around the same time. We do know Daniels was paid $130,000 to sign a
non-disclosure agreement in the fall of 2016.
11-1.
*
Again, around that time, Playboy Bunny Karen McDougal had a
lengthy affair with Trump. She says after she and the future president first
had sex, he offered to pay.
On one occasion Trump invited her back to his penthouse and they had sex. During their tryst, Donald pointed out a room which
he described as “Melania’s room,” saying “she likes to have her alone
time” there.
McDougal
says cheating on Melania in her own home creeped her out and she apologizes
now.
12-1.
*
Since we’re on the topic, yet another Playboy Bunny, Barbara
Moore, has claimed to have had a six-month affair with Trump.
Moore, Miss December 1992, said she hooked up with Trump in 1993. Trump was
engaged to Marla Maples at the time and Maples was already pregnant. (See:
4/19/18.)
The “good news,” in this case, is that Moore was not accusing
the future president of sexual abuse.
The bad news, proven again, is that where women are involved,
Trump has always been a serial liar.
BLOGGER’S NOTE (9/17/21): In revisiting this
post, I realized I shouldn’t have counted Moore as an accuser, since her affair
was consensual. We’ll just go with the fact it’s more evidence that Trump is a
liar. The following examples have been renumbered.
*
Jill Harth: She says Trump made repeated
sexual advances, including trying to put his hand up between her legs
during a business meeting. In an incident at Mar-a-Lago, she says he
“pushed me up against the wall, and had his hands all over me and tried to get
up my dress again.”
Harth sued Trump in 1997, accusing him of sexual harassment.
The suit was dropped after Trump settled a breach of contract suit.
13-1.
*
Cathy Heller: Heller says Trump tried to grab her
twice and kiss her, while she was celebrating Mothers’ Day (irony,
there) at Mar-a-Lago in 2005 and working on a story about Donald’s and
Melania’s first anniversary. She says Trump pushed her against a
wall, kissed her, stuck his tongue into her mouth, and said, “We’re going to
have an affair.”
14-1.
*
Ninni Laaksonen: The former Miss Finland,
says Trump groped her behind in 2006. “He really grabbed my butt.”
15-1.
*
Jessica Leeds: She says Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to reach up her skirt
when they were riding in business class on a flight back in the 1970s. Trump
was “like an octopus,” she added. Trump denied having octopus hands.
He said Leeds wasn’t his type. But if she was….
16-1.
*
Mindy
McGillivray: McGillivray,
23, was helping a photographer friend with an event at Mar-a-Lago. She says
Donald Trump groped her behind.
17-1.
*
Jennifer
Murphy: Murphy, a contestant on The
Apprentice, says Trump kissed her on the lips without asking
permission.
18-1.
*
Cassandra Searles: In a Facebook comment,
Searles, Miss Washington 2013, said that Trump “grabbed my ass” and repeatedly
invited her up to his hotel room.
Ladies, the moral of the story: Back out of Trump’s presence,
unless there are witnesses in the room.
She has called Trump a “misogynist,” who “treated us like
cattle.” Paromita Mitra of Mississippi, a
contestant that same year, described his treatment of the women in similar fashion,
saying, “I literally have nightmares
about that process.
20-1.
 |
Searles is at right. |
*
Natasha Stoynoff: Stoynoff, a writer for People, was working on a story about the
Trump’s, including Melania’s pregnancy in 2005. “Donald wanted to show me around the [Mar-a-Lago]
mansion,” she said in 2016. “There was one ‘tremendous’ room in particular, he
said, that I just had to see. We walked into that room alone, and Trump
shut the door behind us. I turned around, and within seconds he was pushing me
against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat.”
Trump
responded – as always – calling Stoynoff’s story “Fake News.” It couldn’t be true, Trump said, because, again, she wasn’t hot enough
for him. “She lies! Look at her,
I don’t think so,” he said during a 2016 campaign rally.
People noted, that Stoynoff had confided in friends and colleagues in 2005, as
soon as the attack occurred. She did not want to hurt a pregnant Melania if the
story got out. Six individuals, including her former journalism
professor, corroborated her story.
That
makes 26 individuals who say Trump acted inappropriately, or who back up a
friend who told them at the time he had.
27-1
*
Bridget Sullivan: Miss New Hampshire, 2000, says Trump
walked through the pageant dressing room while women were naked.
28-1.
*
Temple Taggert: As Miss Utah, in 1997, she was
introduced to Trump, who kissed her directly on the lips. She found it “gross.”
She remembered thinking, “Wow, that’s inappropriate.”
He later promised a modeling contract and grabbed and kissed her on the lips
again.
Trump was, of course, married to Marla Maples, his second
wife, at the time.
29-1.
 |
Trump and Taggert. |
*
Summer Zervos: The former Apprentice contestant says Trump kissed
her on the lips when she visited his office in New York. He invited her to
dinner, “but instead took her to a hotel bungalow, groped her and tried to have
sex with her.” Trump called Zervos out by name during the 2016 campaign. He
referred to her as a liar. She has a pending lawsuit against him for
defamation.
30-1.
As for their word vs. Trump, three of these women won
settlements of some kind or were paid hush money to bury their stories.
And Zervos has had the courage to haul Trump’s ass into
court.
 |
Zervos, left, with her lawyer. |
BLOGGER’S NOTE (7/7/19): News breaks
that Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested again. Epstein got off lightly a decade
ago, thirteen months in jail, with “work release,” so that he only spent nights
behind bars, despite horrific charges of sex-trafficking girls as young as 13.
What prosecutor cut him such a great
deal? Alexander Acosta – currently Secretary of Labor in the Trump
administration.
And who was accused of violently raping a 13-year-old girl in 1994 –
and then threatening her and her family if she talked, reminding her he was a
very powerful person? Yes, Epstein, of course.
And Donald J. Trump.
The girl in that case said she was lured to
Epstein’s mansion by “promises of money and a modeling career.” She had two
witnesses who corroborated parts of her story; but her case was dropped.
If we were still counting accusers’ words against
the current President of the United States, that would bring our tally to 32 to
1.
Or: Trump vs. Womanhood.
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