President Donald Trump has replied the advice columnist who accused him of rape. He deployed half a dozen tactics in a press release on Friday that any abuser would recognize.
According to a book excerpt that appeared in New York magazine, Carroll bumped into then-real estate mogul Trump at Bergdorf Goodman in New York. The two recognized each other and they had a friendly back-and-forth. But then Trump became violent, Carroll wrote, going on to describe her rape in a dressing room.
Carroll preempts her critics with some explicit concessions: She did not go to the police. She did not see any sales attendants around. There was no video footage.
Trump has denied these accusations and turned on the women who made them. Carroll feared attack from Trump.
Her fears came true within hours when Trump released a statement in response to the piece that attempted in several ways to gaslight anyone who read Carroll’s account and threaten any other woman who might want to speak out.
In his response, Trump said:
“I’ve never met this person in my life.
Shame on those who make up false stories of assault to try to get publicity for themselves, or sell a book, or carry out a political agenda—like Julie Swetnick who falsely accused Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Ms. Carroll & New York Magazine: No pictures? No surveillance? No video? No reports? No sales attendants around??
False accusations diminish the severity of real assault. All should condemn false accusations and any actual assault in the strongest possible terms.
The world should know what’s really going on. It is a disgrace and people should pay dearly for such false accusations.”
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