Remember E. Jean Carroll- Trump’s latest accuser of sexual assault?
You know, she’s the one with the rather bizarre interview style.
The one that CNN had to cut off for saying “rape is sexy.”
The one that people – even those to the far left of the political spectrum – have a hard time believing is at all credible.
Well, guess what?
Even the mainstream media has admitted that Carroll’s allegation “landed with a thud,” as the Associated Press put it.
For reference, here’s that previously mentioned clip of Anderson Cooper stumbling, then cutting to commercial break after what Carroll said in an interview with him:
Strange choice of words, to say the least.
Now, here's a few tweets mentioning what Associated Press is saying about Carroll's allegation:
Here's an excerpt from the Associated Press article about the accusation:
Nearly a week after the latest sexual misconduct accusation against President Donald Trump, the story has largely landed with a thud.
Some see the muted response to author E. Jean Carroll’s allegation of Trump assaulting her in a department store dressing room more than two decades ago as yet another example of the divisive Politics of Trump: Those who support him dismiss it as fake news. Those against him see it as confirmation of what they knew all along.
“Essentially, you’re either for him or against him, and if you’re for him, it doesn’t matter what he’s done,” said Larry Sabato, who directs the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “It really is remarkable. He simply is exempt from the rules everyone else must obey.”
It’s a cycle that’s been repeated before. After more than a dozen women came forward during Trump’s 2016 campaign with allegations of sexual misconduct years earlier, Trump called them “liars” who sought to harm his campaign with “100-percent fabricated” stories. When the “Access Hollywood” tape emerged weeks before the election of him bragging about grabbing women by the genitals, he dismissed it as “locker room talk.”
In the case of Carroll, a feature writer and longtime Elle advice columnist, her accusation was revealed in an excerpt to an upcoming book, leading Trump and others to cast her aside as an opportunist. Her book, “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal,” describes what she calls a lifetime of encounters with predatory men, starting with her early years as an Indiana cheerleader and pageant winner.
She said that Trump, in the mid-1990s, followed her into a dressing room after a chance encounter at the high-end New York department store Bergdorf Goodman and proceeded to pull down her tights and sexually assault her. Trump, in denying the account on Monday, said she’s “not my type,” a stunning remark from a U.S. president that briefly breathed life into the story.
But even ranking Democrats such as Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois were resigned to how it would all play out. “I wouldn’t dismiss it,” he told The Washington Post, “but let’s be honest, he’s going to deny it and little is going to come of it.”
Sounds to me like both the left and right are doubtful of her story.
What do you think? Is it believable?
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