Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcasts.

Today is Friday, April 28, 2023. I'm John Poghord, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor, a green walled hype.

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Media commentary columnist in American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Christine Rosenhykrstein.

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And also an AIC your fellow and our Washington commentary columnist, Matthew Kuntnetti. Hi, Matt.

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In New York in a courtroom, a woman, a 59 year old woman, former sex advice columnist and table TV host, E. Jean Carroll said Donald Trump wrecked me.

She was of course under oath in a room and she died of the circumstances under which her encounter with Donald Trump at Bergdorf, Goodman, a

I a luxury department store in midtown Manhattan turned from joky and flirtatious and silly into a violent physical encounter that she apparently did not initially believe was a violent or or anything more than kind of a joke until according to her her friend Lisa Bernbach, the

author of the preppy handbook said to her according to her testimony, E. Jean, you were raped. You need to go to the police. She did not go to police. This was what she does not know the date of the encounter. She does not know the month of the encounter. She's not entirely sure about the time of the encounter.

But the details of the encounter are graphic.

She does not know whether he, according to her, he first used his fingers and then he penetrated her.

She does not know whether he ejaculated. I'm only using all these details to say that we have a person who has gone into a courtroom, not a criminal courtroom, but a, but a civil courtroom said that the former president of the United States raped her.

But is vague on a lot of the details and basically we now far so in a circumstance in which either she is lying and she is consciously and deliberately lying or Trump is a rapist and the man who is leading the Republican party is guilty of rape.

Even if it's not going to be a, a, a, a, adjudicated criminally. I don't think we've really cut.

Reckoned with the fact that is we've gotten to this point. In an event that's supposedly to a place 27 years ago.

But there's no turning back from it.

You know, it's here it is. It's there is now sworn testimony in a proceeding.

Well, in which a jury is going to declare whether or not it believes that she is, he is liable for damages for having committed a foul sexual act against someone.

Well, we should, we should make sure we clarify because she did not file charges at the time that this is not a criminal case.

This is a civil case. She is alleging both, I believe, defamation and battery, which are, which are not.

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