If you are not up to scratch with this farce, in June this year, the eccentric journalist and author accused Donald Trump of raping her. And this rape happened...? late 1995 or early 1996 in the lingerie department of Bergdorf Goodman, a New York department store comparable with London’s Harrods.
Carroll is not simply eccentric, she is a fruitcake, and at 75 quite likely half-senile. If she is half-senile, the talking heads and hacks who endorsed her are the full monty. Anderson Cooper was given the task of interviewing her for his network, and the interview went very well until she told him most people think of rape as “sexy”, at which point Cooper realised he’d been had, but some people never realise, or don’t want to realise, out of ideology, sheer stupidity, or both. One of these in this instance was the odious Jessica Valenti who felt compelled to pen Our Rapist President. Noting that Trump has been accused of all manner of sexual improprieties by so many women, she considers all of them plus any further allegations credible and true. One is tempted to ask if she also believes in the Clinton Death List. After all, Hillary Clinton has been accused by numerous people of serial murder. Heck, she has even been accused of rape, not assisting a rape, but actual rape. In this age of social and at times not-so-social media, it is difficult to find any famous, powerful or wealthy individual who has not been accused of some dastardly crime.
A while back, Stefan Molyneax produced an excellent recording in which he debunked every single claim made against Trump by numerous women. This was before the E. Jean Carroll episode, but that was also debunked when it was revealed that Carroll had plagiarised this phantom rape from a 2012 episode of an American crime drama. Leaving that aside, the Bergdorg Goodman claim was ludicrous. In the first instance there would have been CCTV in the store, even in 1995. In the second instance, it is highly unlikely that the lingerie department would have been unstaffed; a shoplifter might have got away with it, but a rapist? In the third instance, we will have to wait and see if Trump can account for his movements every relevant day of that period. For a billionaire, this is a real possibilty.
Carroll claims to have corroboration for this nonsense; she told people at the time. Yeah, sure she did. Doubtless O.J. Simpson could have supplied an alibi two decades and more on from that notorious double murder had he been convicted.
Today, it was reported that Carroll has taken a leaf out of Gloria Allred’s book and is to sue Trump for defamation, hence the aforementioned Guardian headline. Said story was written by Moira Donegan, who describes herself as an angry feminist. Aren’t they all angry?
Donegan begins her rant with “The columnist’s defamation case defies the history of a legal system being used to silence women”.
Were women ever silent? Helen Keller, maybe.
“Trump did what he usually does: he went after her character. He denied the rape and also made assertions
that were easily disproven, including that he had never met Carroll.”
And she isn’t going after his character? Trump did indeed claim he had never met Carroll when in fact he had. What he should have said was he had no recollection of ever meeting her, which is undoubtedly true. She was one of several hundred people he met at an event he had probably forgotten. In 1987!
Moira Donegan really is thick as pigshit, just like Jessica Valenti, but here it is in plain English. A rape is not like a grope, an unwanted caress, an unwelcome touch, it is a felony, a crime that is so serious it needs to be reported at once or at least reasonably promptly. It is also a crime that leaves physical evidence, and perhaps even witnesses. A rape committed in a private dwelling may generate witnesses, as would the scream resulting from one committed in a department store.
In short, a stranger rape is not she said/he said, it is a crime that leaves physical evidence. If reported at the time. A rape reported 3 months or 24 years after it allegedly occurred is indeed she said/he said. And why would a woman lie? If Moira Donegan doesn’t know this, E Jean Carroll certainly does, away with the fairies or not.
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