Posted on 06/23/2019 10:46:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
When the rape allegations brought against President Trump by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll surfaced on Friday, you could instantly predict that we were going to see a standoff between supporters on both sides. That’s been playing out over the weekend already, but one interview that Carroll did on Friday night caught my attention. She appeared on MSNBC and one of the expected subjects came up. She’s made a very serious charge in her upcoming book, far beyond any sort of harassment or inappropriate touching, so is she going to bring charges?
Apparently not. That’s her call to make, of course, but why? It’s her reason that definitely gave me pause. (Daily Caller)
Bringing the charge would be “disrespectful to the women who are down on the border who are being raped around the clock down there without any protection,” Carroll said in an interview with MSNBC’s “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell.”
“It would just be disrespectful,” Carroll said in the interview Friday. “Mine was three minutes. … I can handle it. I can keep going. My life has gone on. I’m a happy woman, but for the women down there and for the women — actually around the world, and every culture this is going on.”
Carroll has had an advice column in Elle magazine called “Ask E. Jean” since 1993.
You can watch that brief exchange here.
Does that make any sense? If we assume that her various tales of abuse are true, it’s easy to see how she would feel empathetic toward other victims and want to stand in solidarity with them. But why would it be disrespectful of those other women to bring your own charges? If you happen to be financially well off and someone robs your house, you don’t fail to report the crime out of empathy for poorer people who are burglarized.
There’s actually a far better reason she could have given. The statute of limitations for rape in New York was five years when she claims the attack took place. That was expanded greatly around 2006, but it didn’t apply to cases where the original statute had already run out. So one good recent for her not to bring charges might be that it’s probably almost impossible to get a conviction that this point.
We’re hearing from some commentators that elements of Carroll’s story seem to suggest inconsistencies. Perhaps, but the more we see of the woman herself as she makes the media rounds, well… she can be hard to follow at times. And then there’s this.
Aside from the glaring flaws in her rape tale
And zero corroborationThis is not helpful to talking her seriously pic.twitter.com/veUpEFB6tU
— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) June 23, 2019
I have no clue as to what went on in that department store dressing room back in the nineties, assuming Trump was there at all. Could her story be true? It’s certainly possible, and if so I would expect the President to deny it. Of course, it’s been more than a quarter century and Carroll is in her seventies now. Could she be remembering it a bit differently than how it happened? Who’s to say?
The claim that she told two other people about it in the immediate aftermath – assuming their own honesty in reporting it – lends some credibility to the claim. It’s also definitely believable that someone would decide not to report such a thing to the police, particularly when the accused is a wealthy and powerful individual.
On the other side of the ledger, she’s had a very, very long time to make this public. That’s particularly true when you consider the number of women who made similar claims during the 2016 campaign and were taken very seriously by the media. Why not jump on the dogpile then? Again, she was obviously under no obligation to do so, but it seems as if it might have been more comfortable to do it then. There’s also the reality that making such a claim just as you’re releasing and promoting a book doesn’t exactly bolster confidence.
But as I said, none of that proves anything one way or the other and at least for now it’s still her word against his. But the reason given for not pressing charges is certainly curious.
She’s a nut. And if you can’t admit she’s a nut from that video, you are a Democrat.
A still better "recent" would be that this story is a more ludicrous lie than the one cooked up by Christine Ford.
She’s a nut with a very obvious agenda.
I wonder why she didn’t ‘come out’ in 2016.
Because it’s her fantasy, that’s why
She’s nuts, Jim
Bringing the charge would be “disrespectful to the women who are down on the border who are being raped around the clock down there without any protection,” Carroll said in an interview with MSNBC’s “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell.”
Just when ya thought that #metoo and #timesup was *really* making headway...
She wanted to be the “savior” for all of the TDS sufferers in the World by single handedly taking him out. Yes, she is nuts.
What’s the statute of limitations?
The woman is mental.
Oops.. 5 years. Never mind.
:^)
She is an outright loon like most on the left and unfortunately a whole lot of women. Women in general can’t stand up and make logical arguments. Their discussion of anything is full of non-sequeters. They change and shape shift the terms randomly and leave any logical mind gasping for a way to get the debate back on subject. There is not much or no point-counter point of the subject but instead they just don’t answer questions or they fly off to some other universe of topic only obliquely related. They have a maddening ability to ignore and obfuscate any question or subject without the least bit of remorse or even apparent feeling. They are soulless when it comes to honesty and the protection of their wants or opinions.
Women are not fair minded in the main.
That is assuming the two friends come forward and allow their names to be used.
I wonder about the idea that one has instant credibility simply from claiming that one told someone something twenty years ago.
Simply claiming that doesn't increase one's credibility a smidgen if they don't make themselves known and confirm that they were told.
Phew. This guy is all over the place with this piece. She may have been raped, on the other hand...she might have pressed charges, on the other hand, should we believe her...or, on the other hand...
Take a stand, buddy!
Two minutes I won’t get back.
Here we go. Turn a nutty lying woman into all women. How FR.
Call them like I see them. There are always exceptions.
“So one good recent for her not to bring charges might be that it’s probably almost impossible to get a conviction that this point.”
Sloppy writing. If you don’t have an editor, you need to edit yourself.
MSNBC is Comcast
Comcast is providing the forum of hate and lies
Dat gurl gots cray cray flowing right outta her eyes.
Stale claim...
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