Byron York: E. Jean Carroll, Donald Trump, and a rape accusation from an earlier era
by Byron York
| June 25, 2019 08:11 PM
E. Jean Carroll, the longtime Elle magazine advice columnist who on Friday accused President Trump of raping her 23 or 24 years ago, has a new book coming out next week. What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal will "shock men and delight women," according to the book's promotional materials. Whatever the book's precise theme — it's still under wraps — it seems likely to represent a significant evolution from Carroll's 2004 Man Catching Made Easy: Mr. Right, Right Now!, a how-to guide that promised to reveal "How to land a guy in 6 days!"
As part of the promotional campaign for the new book, Carroll is on the cover of New York magazine with the allegation that Trump raped her in a dressing room in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in either 1995 or 1996. Her article is entitled "Hideous Men" and covers not only Trump but disgraced former CBS chief Les Moonves. Carroll, in characteristically colorful style, said Moonves once set upon her in an elevator, "his pants bursting with demands ... his arms squirming and poking and goosing and scooping and pricking and prodding and jabbing [and] looking for fissures I don't even know I own." She also described ugly scenes with young men she says mistreated or abused her growing up.
Carroll has appeared in lengthy interviews on CNN and MSNBC to discuss her allegation. She also conducts something she calls "The Most Hideous Men in NYC Walking Tour," in which she leads a tour group on a 90-minute walk around some of New York's #MeToo landmarks. The tour includes Trump Tower and begins where Carroll says Trump raped her. "We will meet in front of Bergdorf's 58th Street entrance," an ad for the tour says.
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