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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Doesn't Have a 'Type.' All he sees is prey.
By Sarah Jones
In her new book, E. Jean Carroll predicted that Donald Trump would deny sexually assaulting her, and she was right. Ill say it with great respect, Trump told The Hill on Monday. No. 1, shes not my type. No. 2, it never happened. It never happened, O.K.? This is not the first time the president has denied a credible assault story by saying very very respectfully! that the woman in question is simply too ugly for him to rape (Believe me, she would not be my first choice, he once said of Jessica Leeds who accused him of groping her on the plane in the 80s). On a Monday night appearance on Anderson Coopers CNN show, Carroll said shes glad shes not Trumps type, and noted that Trumps insults tend to be repetitive: Hes denied all 15 women whove come forward. He denies, he turns it around, he threatens and he attacks.
The question of Carrolls looks is a distraction, of course. Trump does not stand accused of finding her attractive but of assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodmans dressing room, which is something hed rather we all forget. The strongman image Trump wants to project can only persist as long as the public believes that he embodies some grotesque masculine ideal that he is someone who easily woos beautiful women, someone who can safeguard the nation he loves. Carroll, and the 15 women who came before her, suggest an alternative truth. Stories about rape, or any other form of sexual assault, are stories about power. Sixteen women tell us that when Trump has power, he abuses it and anyone who gets in his way. Trump doesnt have a type. He has prey.
And alas for Trump, Carrolls story is consistent with everything we know about him as a private individual and as a president. Trump has abused the powerless with every step of his shambling path toward wealth and political authority. As a landlord, he abused his tenants. He (reportedly) abused his ex-wife, Ivana. He promised to abuse migrants if he became president and has committed the resources of the American government to fulfilling that promise with gusto. He openly admires world leaders like Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, whose version of the war on drugs killed over 5,000 people by 2018 and who has admitted to sexual assault.
It seems that a person must possess the sort of power Trump is desperate to convey in order to consider them human at all. And Carroll, for all her cultural sway, did not meet that standard. Even in the 1990s, when she says the attack occurred, Trump had more of everything; more money, more attorneys, more authority. Now, with no real check on his cruelest impulses, we can all see him for what he is: a common predator.
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Trump Doesn't Have a 'Type.' All he sees is prey. (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jun 2019
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sop
(10,221 posts)1. Any woman who accuses Trump of sexual harassment, abuse or rape is instantly "not my type"
He demands his victims - be they sexual, business or political - keep quiet and remain loyal to him, no matter what. It's why he requires employees sign NDAs (non-disclosure agreements), why he claims executive privilege to keep subordinates from testifying against him, and why he immediately turns against anyone who violates his strict code of Omerta.
trev
(1,480 posts)2. We need to find some way of breaching his walls (pun intended)
and bringing him to justice.