E. Jean Carroll is following the Jussie Smollett business model: Claim victimhood by Trump
by Eddie Scarry
| June 25, 2019 12:35 PM
Anyone with something to sell should by now have caught on to the new business model: claim to have been victimized by President Trump, and then ... profit!
Don’t think for one second that E. Jean Carroll is doing anything more than hocking her new book. The rollout for it this week followed the standard marketing procedure for the book publishing industry (in which I worked for a year): Take a newsworthy portion of the work and place it in a reputable news outlet. And in the Trump era, “newsworthy†is now defined as does it reinforce the media’s narrative that Trump is a racist pig?
There is not a shred of reliable evidence to suggest that Carroll is telling the truth about having been raped by Trump in the mid-1990s in the fitting room of a New York clothing store. New York magazine ran an excerpt from her book wherein she recounts the allegation, graphically describing Trump as having pulled down her tights and penetrated her with his penis. The violent and turbulent episode took place, she writes, after she laughed and teased Trump throughout the entire Bergdorf Goodman department store, even after the two were in the fitting room.
The spread in New York magazine came with glamour shots of Carroll looking undeterred in to the camera. The story and her book have been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, USA Today, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.
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