If you think Donald Trump raves about things political, you should hear him rave about things personal. He vehemently denies having anything to do with writer E. Jean Carroll, who alleges she was raped by Trump in a dressing room at Berdorf Goodman in the 1990s. That part is understandable but where this turns into vintage Trump is that he has to totally trash the woman, her work, her looks, her veracity, her very humanity.
Page 133, ln. 6 of Trump’s deposition, “This woman is not my type!” Really. How intriguing that E. Jean Carroll, on the right, could almost be mistaken for Marla Maples on the left. Maybe the 70-something version of Carroll today would not appeal to the 70-something Trump, who knows? But it is indeed a howler that he claims that back in the day Carroll had nothing Trump wanted.
Trump continues about Carroll’s “really crummy book” that she promoted on Anderson Cooper’s show and then trashes her lawyer as a “political operative and Cuomo crony” who is part of the much larger plot to destroy him. It’s all about him, right? The Guardian:
Trump called Carroll “sick, mentally sick”. And he mischaracterized an interview Carroll had given on CNN, falsely claiming she had talked about enjoying being sexually assaulted. “She actually indicated that she loved it. OK? She loved it until commercial break,” Trump said. “In fact, I think she said it was sexy, didn’t she? She said it was very sexy to be raped. Didn’t she say that?”
Kaplan then tried to elicit from Trump that he had raped her client.
“So, sir, I just want to confirm: it’s your testimony that E Jean Carroll said that she loved being sexually assaulted by you?”
Trump answered: “Well, based on her interview with [CNN’s] Anderson Cooper, I believe that’s what took place. And we can define that … I think she said that rape was sexy – which it’s not, by the way.”
What Carroll had described is that she prefers to use the word fight, not rape because some other people “think rape is sexy”.
Also on Friday, Trump’s real estate business empire, the Trump Organization, was hit with the largest allowable fine of $1.6m after being convicted of tax fraud, another in his long string of serious legal troubles, from Georgia to New York.
The trial will continue in April. At this point, with all these trials Trump is the defendant in, you would think that just by the law of averages the judge would throw the book at him for something, right?
This is a link to Trump’s deposition where he says that he was accused of having “swooned” Carroll and when asked what that means he says, “It’s a nicer word than the one that begins with an F.” The lawyer pointed out that a dictionary definition of “swoon” is to “faint with great emotion” and Trump picked up on that and said, “That’s what she said I did to her. She fainted with great emotion. She actually indicated that she loved it. Okay? She loved it until commercial break. She said it was very sexy to be raped. Didn’t she say that?” (bottom of page 138, top of page 139)
Only Trump would recall it that way. Read the deposition transcript if you have a moment. I like the part where Trump goes after the lawyer conducting the deposition and says, “you’re a disgrace” “you’re a political operative, too.”
Then he goes on to reiterate over and over, “There’s no way I could ever be attracted to her. Now some people would be attracted to her perhaps. I would never be attracted to her.”
The “She is too ugly to rape” should henceforth be called “the Trump defense.”
Only when former guy is finally in prison and that phrase is used by Bubba, the ugliest inmate in the entire cell block.
Sorry, the 2nd thumbs down is mine and a mistake.
What the former guys says now is what he wants to be true now. It has no relationship with what he said and did even 10 minutes ago, let alone 20 years ago. (Also, no judge should even entertain a motion that claims his statements about her were official business.)
As a father of two grown daughters, three stepdaughters, and a sweet 6 y/o girl, this pig needs his ass kicked. Given 99% of sexual assaults go unpunished, he is likely to walk…again. Rape is an act of violence, power, and domination. It isn’t about sex. One of these days he’s going to cross the wrong person.
Let’s hope he does. I hope she’s an MMA star 🤩 with a lifelong grudge against men. Dare to dream 😍
Single father of 15 year old girl agrees, completely.
That defense is exactly something a narcissistic, self-serving, spoiled, entitled elitist, rapist who thinks he’s “above the law” would say!
So…on the other hand, if she “was his type” then what; he probably would’ve raped her? Then her claims would be valid? This man is so stupid, & so “full of himself” he doesn’t even realize how illogical, or incomprehensible his “so called” defense is!
BTW, noticed in the Pic of Trump & Marla…they look like twins! Seems Narcissistic Trump likes to marry women, who look like himself!
I was a rape crisis volunteer counselor Gor two years. I have been reading research on rape since 1977. Interviews with rapists have shown that convicted rapists don’t even remember what the victim.was wearing because stranger rape, less common than acquaintance rape, is usually opportunistic.
Acquaintance rape tends to be stalkerish. By “acquaintance” the researchers mean someone who knows or has met the rapist, even tangentially. It includes : family me!bers, co-workers, the guy who sits next to you in class with whom you have had a couple of casual conversations, an ex boyfriend you dumped for some reason, the guy you went out with once or twice but felt no chemistry with, the guy you are dating who wouldn’t take no for an answer, a coworker, the pizza delivery guy, the waiter you always interact with at your favorite cheap.restaurant, the barista you talk to at the coffee shop every day… Apretty wide net IMHO because it basically includes everyone you haven’t actually slapped.
Trump.definitely fits that picture. He assumes Every. Single. Woman. he has ever encountered had the secret hots for him. E. Jean Carroll was very pretty even in a bad photo, and Fat Donnie choosing to ask her to help.him.pick out lingerie. At that point in time, he was a local.rich guy and she likely agreed to it it to avoid him getting her fired from her job or hoped for an exclusive story as a writer trying to climb the career ladder: same reason why women didn’t dare displeased Harvey Weinstein. I put up.with passes as a,research assistant in D.C. in the 70s,,and I didn’t enjoy them.
Does he know he’s lying? Sometimes I think he does and sometimes methinks he doesn’t. I think George Santos is made from the same mould. (sic)
“largest allowable fine” for tax fraud? You know, if you want to have less tax fraud occurring you have to actually punish people for the crime. If these scumbags are not going to be put into prison, real prison BTW, then take away ALL of their fucking money. This is bullshit.
Trump raped a 14 year old with Epstein. Fact. This pig will be in jail eventually.
TRUMP2024! LETS GO!!!! Look at all these p/o Liberal/Democrats, and then on the other hand you have CNN playing a video where Trump supposedly points to Jean Carroll thinking its his Ex-wife, you can find almost any 2 pictures of someone at the right angle and they would look alike and after seeing this picture, they do lookalike. We do not know what picture he was shown in the deposition. But just like usual CNN and these trolling liberal sites continue to gas light everyone.
I think you forgot to ad a snark tag!