SEX ABUSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Friday [6-21-19] rejected an allegation by journalist E. Jean Carroll that he sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s. Carroll, a high-profile advice columnist, said she met Trump at Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s when the then-real estate mogul was still married to Marla Maples. She alleged that after Trump asked her for advice in selecting a gift and they got talking, he sexually assaulted her in the dressing rooms of the store’s lingerie section. Trump said he had never met Carroll and accused her of making up the allegations to sell books, according to a statement distributed through the White House press pool…Carroll published her account of the alleged assault in New York Magazine, which Trump decried as a ‘dying publication trying to prop itself up by peddling fake news.’ The account was an excerpt of her book, ‘What Do We Need Men For?’ in which Carroll alleges she sustained a number of assaults, including by Trump and former CBS executive Les Moonves. More than a dozen women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct before Carroll’s account was published Friday as a preview to her upcoming book release. Trump has denied every allegation of assault.”
–Matthew Choi, “Trump dismisses new sexual assault allegation,” Politico, June 21, 2019 5:45 pm