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Trumpcast: An Interview With E. Jean Carroll

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Dahlia Lithwick joins Trumpcast as a special guest co-host for an intimate conversation with journalist E. Jean Carroll, author of "What Do We Need Men For."

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0:00.0

It's a totally false accusation. I have absolutely no idea who she is. There's some picture

0:06.6

where we're shaking hands. It looks like at some kind of that I have my coat on. I have my wife

0:13.2

standing next to me. And I didn't know her husband, but he was a newscaster. But I have no

0:19.6

idea who she is, none whatsoever.

0:23.9

The president of the United States was accused of sexual assault again.

0:31.4

Trump is really repeating his 2016 strategy.

0:36.2

This is the way that Donald Trump has spoken, has talked about women, the things that he admitted

0:42.8

that he believes how to treat women.

0:49.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

0:50.8

I'm Virginia Heffernan.

0:52.2

My guest today is E. Jean Carroll. E. Gene is a long-time

0:55.7

journalist who started writing for Esquire in 1980 and went on to prominence at Rolling Stone, New York,

1:01.3

glamour, playboy, and outside magazine. For ages, she was a columnist at Elle, known for both

1:07.3

profound incisiveness and extreme generosity. She's the author of several books,

1:12.2

including a biography of Hunter S. Thompson, and most recently, What Do We Need Men for a Modest

1:17.9

Proposal? The book is out next week from St. Martin's. E. Jean Carroll was also raped by Donald

1:24.6

Trump. I'm saying that as her friend, and it's my word. She says that Trump

1:29.5

forced his penis into her body, and I couldn't doubt her if I tried. I believe her every bit as

1:34.6

much as you'd believe a friend who said they just bought a sandwich or gotten stuck in the rain

1:38.1

or seen the Avengers. She's describing what she saw and experienced. So let's just say it again,

1:47.0

E. Jean Carroll was raped by Donald Trump.

2:00.8

E. Jean has given a detailed chronicle of her physical fight with Trump, whom she escaped, as well as her assault on TV and in her book, an excerpt of which is the cover story for New York Magazine right now. Her story has been fact-checked and corroborated.

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