Perspective: E. Jean Carroll’s testimony in a New York courtroom this week examined the long tail effects of one woman’s alleged sexual assault.
against the former president is remarkable for many reasons. It’s the first sexual misconduct allegation, out of the dozen-plus that have been levied against Trump, to be weighed in a courtroom. The trial was only made possible by a new law in New York permitting victims of sexual assault to sue their alleged assailants even after the statute of limitations has expired.
The months after the alleged assault became years. Carroll, who had been married twice before, now found herself unable to even engage in mild flirting. Her rationale was that she’d been behaving flirtatiously with Trump at Bergdorf, she said, and “I got in serious trouble.”She couldn’t push the alleged attack down far enough. “Not only did it happen in Bergdorf,” she testified, “but it happened over and over and over in my mind.
Again, Trump says the assault never happened. As recently as this week, shortly before Carroll’s testimony began, Trump posted on social media that her accusations were a “scam.”
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