Corroborating E. Jean Carroll

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🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Note: This episode contains detailed descriptions of an alleged sexual assault. The writer E. Jean Carroll came forward last week with explosive accusations that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. Today, the two women she privately confided in after the alleged attack go on the record for the first time with our colleague. Guests: Megan Twohey, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, spoke with Ms. Carroll, Lisa Birnbach and Carol Martin. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: Read more about why Ms. Carroll, Ms. Birnbach and Ms. Martin went public with the allegations against the president.Ms. Carroll alleges in a forthcoming book that Mr. Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s.The president denied the accusations by resorting to a familiar insult: “She’s not my type.”The Times’s top editor, Dean Baquet, acknowledged “we were overly cautious” in our initial coverage of Ms. Carroll’s accusations.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavar. This is Dale.
0:10.0	Last week, E. Jean Carroll came forward with the most serious allegation yet of sexual assault by the President.
0:19.0	Today, the two women in whom she privately confided after the alleged attack
0:26.0	go on the record for the first time with my colleague Megan Tudor.
0:32.0	It's Thursday, June 27.
0:38.0	Can I ask you a second? Are all your various phones silent mode? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:42.0	One.
0:44.0	It's so good to have you. Oh my goodness.
0:47.0	It's been almost a least a year. Yeah, I think I don't think I've been on since the wine
0:52.7	history broke. I think I was actually wearing the same outfit.
0:57.7	I think you were. I think you were going to take a photograph of it. Oh my God.
1:02.7	I've been in like, yeah, the like book leave, like living in sweatpants mode.
1:07.7	Doesn't look good. Yeah. Okay. Megan, can you take us back to last Friday when New York
1:13.7	magazine published an article about E. Jean Carroll? So E. Jean Carroll is a long time
1:18.7	columnist for L magazine. And last Friday, there is more breaking news tonight in
1:23.7	interview published in the latest edition of New York magazine, a woman claims
1:27.7	that President Trump assaulted her 23 years ago at an upscale New York City
1:32.7	department store. She published what amounted to a rape allegation against
1:38.7	Donald Trump. Today, the president of the United States was accused of rape.
1:44.7	She has a book that's coming out on Tuesday, July 2nd. And this was sort of a
1:49.7	condensed excerpt of a chapter in the book in which she describes an encounter with
1:54.7	Donald Trump at Bergdorf's here in New York. The idea for this book came to her, like
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