Trump Denies Carroll Sexual Assault Accusation By Claiming ‘She’s Not My Type’

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 12: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a meeting with the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda, in the Oval Office the White House on June 12,... WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 12: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a meeting with the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda, in the Oval Office the White House on June 12, 2019 in Washington, DC. The two leaders are scheduled to attends meetings at the White House before speaking at a Rose Garden news conference. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump denied writer E. Jean Carroll’s allegation of sexual assault by stating that “she’s not my type” on Monday.

“I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened,” Trump told the Hill. “It never happened, OK?”

In a book excerpt published last week, Carroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman’s dressing room. She doubled down on her allegation during a CNN interview on Monday, saying that the encounter was “100 percent” against her will.

Meanwhile, Trump has repeatedly insisted that he has “no idea who she is,” despite an old photograph of the two of them talking to each other.

This isn’t the first time Trump has claimed that a woman who accused him of sexual misconduct was too unattractive for him to hit on.

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  1. I’m pretty sure a sexual predator doesn’t really have much of a ‘type’

  2. “I’ll say it with great respect:“

    Why start now?

  3. She’s a complainer! Don’t like that type.

  4. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    Assuming (just for the moment) Trump is telling the truth about her not being his “type,” had E. Jean Carroll actually been his type, would he feel justified in raping her?

    Of course, coming back to reality, I have little doubt that Ms. Carroll was raped as she describes. Trump is never to be trusted.

  5. “Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened,”

    Which raises the question, “what type does he usually rape?”

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