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Notes from a 1990s Bergdorf shopaholic: The E. Jean Carroll story about Trump doesn't add up
American Thinker ^ | 06/22/2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 06/22/2019 7:43:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is selling a book of her steamy sexual misadventures and sure enough, there's a story about how Donald Trump, circa 1995 or 1996, raped the writer in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York, a pretty extreme charge buried under a big pile of stories about men who supposedly exploited her. The Trump administration has denied the whole thing as "completely false."

I find it hard to believe. Carroll does name a long string of men who abused her one way or another, and some of them are #metoo poster boys, such as Les Moonves. It's easy to believe a story about him groping her in an elevator, because he did this sort of thing to so many others. Charges against Moonves have been substantiated. Trump's a different story, though. He's also been accused of sexual misbehavior, often just bad talk, not acts, but there's never been any substantiation.

Maybe that's why she placed her encounter with him at the bottom of her list, as a writer, she would know that you always put your strongest material first. Her hazy encounter with its serious charges (which are now shifting to look at Twitter) has the look of piling on, riding from other women's unsubstantiated accusations as if to score a political point. And she's not staying steady - she's now alternating between charges of assault and actual rape.

Trump himself points out that he's never met her and she is out to sell a book, which might explain why she never went public until now, even in the heat of the election back when everyone was trying to take Trump down or even moreso in the bitter aftermath.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bergdorf; dressingroom; ejeancarroll; rape; sexualassault; trump
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1 posted on 06/22/2019 7:43:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, she is about a 4 on a scale of 10. I doubt he would be interested


2 posted on 06/22/2019 7:48:07 AM PDT by McGavin999 (Border security without a wall is like having a Ring doorbell without a doorw)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is that CARROLL?


3 posted on 06/22/2019 7:48:37 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Who’s the dude in the black dress?


4 posted on 06/22/2019 7:52:35 AM PDT by mikefive (RLTW/DOL)
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To: SeekAndFind

Did anyone see any news comment such as “Uh, how come something so important was not mentioned during the many months of anti-Trump accusations?”

Maybe like Prof. Ford about Kavanaugh her phony memory only came up at just the right time to hurt someone. Or now to sell books.


5 posted on 06/22/2019 7:54:59 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: mikefive

Ruff Hit...


6 posted on 06/22/2019 7:55:08 AM PDT by mplc51
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To: mikefive

Yep, I saw the picture she was peddling, claiming this is the outfit she was wearing when Trump allegedly attacked her.

That picture and these claims, are like a parody of the left. That mannish stern appearing woman in the picture, claims that this is what she looked like as Trump took advantage of her. Somehow this is supposed to engender sympathy for her?


7 posted on 06/22/2019 7:56:50 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SeekAndFind

Wasn’t she a Crack Smokin Prostitute in the mid 90’s???


8 posted on 06/22/2019 7:57:49 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: SeekAndFind
At this advanced stage of our cultural evolution these allegations, especially when applied to Donald Trump of all people, are a reputation enhancer.

Even among white, educated, suburban women who deserted us in 2018, this has long been baked into the cake.


9 posted on 06/22/2019 7:57:57 AM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: SeekAndFind

My immediate thought was why would Trump tell her he recognized her as the “advice woman” from a women’s magazine. Trump was not then, nor now, a guy who would be reading or even looking at a women’s magazine, much less reading the women’s advice column enough to notice the picture of the writer of the column. That alone did not hold water for me.


10 posted on 06/22/2019 7:59:44 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Local talk show had a caller who worked at Bergdorf at the time.

Said they had the best security in the world of retail and this would never have gone undetected.

11 posted on 06/22/2019 8:01:11 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: McGavin999

Blonde, very made up with a very high slit, shall we say. I don’t think he was super picky back in the day. And he has admitted that women were his weakness.

But I don’t believe her story.


12 posted on 06/22/2019 8:02:56 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

Why didn’t Carroll scream?


13 posted on 06/22/2019 8:07:47 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: SeekAndFind
I looked over the article but didn't read it closely. Too much fashion talk.

But I know this about men who physically take advantage of women. They do it serially, and they have a string of accusations that follow them.

Women who know Trump say that he always acted like a gentleman. And because of Trump's money and being around women--a lot of women--if he were the pawing, "all hands, everywhere" type, there would be a long history of accusations.

14 posted on 06/22/2019 8:08:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: SeekAndFind

I can’t imagine a dressing room being a “safe” place for a rapist to attack. Wouldn’t they have an attendant? Or did security stop at the upper-middle class? Were the wealthy places too afraid of looking like they cared about money? Trump was also very media conscious and concerned about his public image; as small-potatoes as she was, she was somewhat influential in society; she wasn’t the sort of enemy who could bring him down, perhaps, but she was enough to be a nuissance and hurt a deal or two. She claim Trump knew her, so he would know this.


15 posted on 06/22/2019 8:09:48 AM PDT by dangus
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To: SeekAndFind

No blue dress. For two decades the standard has been a blue dress. Never happened.


16 posted on 06/22/2019 8:10:10 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: 9YearLurker
I have a weakness for donuts, particularly Krispy Kreme donuts.

But I've never stolen one.

Just because Trump has a weakness for women doesn't mean that he would get "fresh."

17 posted on 06/22/2019 8:10:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: SeekAndFind
She's young and attractive in this photo.

But you want to see how she turned out?

Pelosi's Loony-Bin Lefty Sister on MSNBC

18 posted on 06/22/2019 8:11:44 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: skr

You don’t scream in fantasies like this.


19 posted on 06/22/2019 8:14:05 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: SeekAndFind

Book pimping. She would have been .009 percent more credible if it weren’t a sales scam.
As a woman, I find it unlikely that I could be raped in a dressing room. The upscales have attendants? Even Walmart does.
Back then a man in a women’s dressing room.. not likely.
Roday, it’s encouraged.


20 posted on 06/22/2019 8:14:08 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Do you know anyone who isnÂ’t a socialist after 65? Freedom exchanged for cash and control.)
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