In an interview with The New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast released Thursday, the two friends E. Jean Carroll says she told about her alleged assault by Donald Trump in the mid-’90s go on the record for the first time about what she told them shortly after their alleged confrontation in the Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. The interview comes amid growing skepticism about Carroll’s credibility after several strange interviews in which she made eyebrow-raising comments and acted erratically. Trump has adamantly denied the accusation.
In her new book “What Do We Need Men For?” Carroll alleges that in the mid-’90s she encountered Trump at the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman and the two entered the dressing room in what started off as a playful, flirtatious interaction, each asking the other to try on a piece of lingerie, that quickly turned into Trump violently raping her — though Carroll has repeatedly refused to use the word “rape” to describe what happened. Carroll also says in the book that she told two women involved in New York media shortly after the encounter, one urging her to report the alleged assault to the police, the other advising her not to tell anyone because Trump is wealthy and powerful.
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