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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'I Moved on Her Very Heavily': Part 1 by E. JEAN CARROLL
Fifteen years ago, the writer Natasha Stoynoff went to Mar-a-Lago to interview Donald and Melania Trump on the occasion of their first anniversary.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/i-moved-on-her-very-heavily-trumps-accusers-speak/615664/
In her 2019 memoir, What Do We Need Men For?, E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of rape, in a Bergdorfs dressing room in the mid-1990s. After the president denied ever meeting her and dismissed her story as a Democratic plot, she sued him for defamation. 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. Which might seem surprising, until you remember Trumps modus operandi: He escapes the consequences of one outrage by turning our focus to another, in perpetuity. 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. Im automatically attracted to beautifulI just start kissing them, its like a magnet ... And when youre a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab em by the pussy.
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? Carrolls lawsuit remains in progress; the president has denied all of the womens allegations, and the White House declined to comment for this story. 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.
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'I Moved on Her Very Heavily': Part 1 by E. JEAN CARROLL (Original Post)
Celerity
Aug 2020
OP
Well worth a read ... I will be following this series for sure! Thanks Cel :) nt
mr_lebowski
Aug 2020
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mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)1. Well worth a read ... I will be following this series for sure! Thanks Cel :) nt
littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)2. Excellent post. Thanks dearie! ❤ nt
Alex4Martinez
(2,198 posts)3. Kickity!
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)4. Ugghhh! And this pig is now our President.