US President Donald Trump on Monday once again vigorously denied allegations by a magazine advice columnist that he s-e-xually assaulted her in the 1990s in a New York department store dressing room, adding: “She’s not my type.”
Trump made the comment in an interview with The Hill, a political news outlet, that touched on the allegations from E. Jean Carroll, who says in her new book that the alleged rape occurred in the mid-1990s.
“I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened. It never happened, OK?” Trump said in the interview, which was conducted in the Oval Office.
The president added that Carroll was “totally lying” when she made her claims.
“I know nothing about this woman. I know nothing about her,” he said.
Carroll’s account, revealed last week in an excerpt of her new book that was published by New York magazine, makes her at least the 16th woman to have accused Trump of sexual misconduct before he became president.
She said that in a chance encounter at the Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan, Trump – then a real estate developer – asked her for advice on buying lingerie for an unnamed woman.
Then jokingly, they each suggested that the other should try it on.
“The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips,” wrote Carroll, who works for Elle magazine.
Pinning her against the wall, Carroll says, Trump proceeded to pull down her tights, unzip his pants and penetrate her — all while himself fully dressed — until she finally managed to push him out and run from the dressing room. On Monday, Carroll told CNN that he “just went at it” after he cornered her.
You might also like…Julius Malema has threatened to impeach president Ramaphosa
EFF leader Julius Malema has warned Cyril Ramaphosa that he must come clean regarding the payment he received from Bosasa. Malema threatened to impeach the president if he did not comply – Mmusi Maimane also slammed Ramaphosa over the issue.
EFF leader Julius Malema has warned Cyril Ramaphosa that, unless the president comes clean, his links to Bosasa may cost him his presidency. Malema was one of several opposition parties who slammed Ramaphosa over Bosasa in Parliament. DA leader Mmusi Maimane also called for a parliamentary committee to investigate the matter…Read more here
Source: IOL
