I don't know enough about her to say, but she may just have been ambushed, asked a question about something she hadn't given much thought to.
And the timeline matters. E. Jean's story looks a lot flimsier now than it may have two or three days ago, when nobody had been able to examine it very closely.
As someone who was raped, Ernst is probably less likely to simply dismiss such stories, so saying they should each tell their story probably came naturally to her.
Clearly, she wasn't in "defend Trump all the time whatever" mode when she made this statement, but I wouldn't assume that she was trying to destroy Trump and wouldn't try to destroy her for it.
I watched the 1995 Charlie Rose interview of her. She basically bragged about how she loves to be “pursued” by men, and commented on the Neanderthal or Primitive thrill of it.
This is not a woman, who’s been “raped” IMO, repeatedly my add, against her will. No this gal, sounds like a nymph in that regard.
In the Cooper interview, she doesn’t once look him in the eye, and then flirts with him.
Can’t believe Trump has to deal with this crap, on a daily basis.