Trump is a man who enjoys being treated as smart even when he is ignorant, who is trusted by many even when he’s outright lying, whose inflated opinion of himself is rewarded with jobs he isn’t qualified for and power he cannot be trusted with. He’s the embodiment of male privilege things are made unreasonably easy for him that for women are made unjustly hard. These women matter in their particularity – their humiliation and anger at what he did to them, their certainty, often carried for years, that there was nothing they could do about it.īut Donald Trump has also long served, in the imagination of American women, as a symbol. Two of those other accusers testified at the Carroll trial, describing how Trump allegedly cornered them, like he did Carroll, in tight, semi-public places, after brief conversations, and besieged them by kissing, groping, and yes, grabbing their genitals. A total of 26 women have publicly accused him of misconduct.
When the verdict came down, it felt like letting out a breath you didn’t know you were holding.ĭonald Trump is, we can now say, legally affirmed as a sexual abuser. But it took a New York jury less than three hours to unanimously agree that Donald Trump sexually abused the writer E Jean Carroll in a dressing room at a Manhattan department store in the mid-90s, and then defamed her when he said she was lying about it.
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