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In 2019, author and former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll brought a civil suit against the former and future President Donald Trump. She claimed that at some point in the 1990s, he had raped her in the dressing room of Tony Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. She said they ran into each other, flirted, she agreed to try on lingerie for him, and he attacked her in the dressing room.
Her suit against him claims that the encounter took place "roughly 23 years ago." Trump said he didn't know her and that the incident never happened. Carroll said the incident took place somewhere around 1995 or 1996 but could not say when. Neither apparently could the women she spoke with afterwards about it who she says encouraged her to keep quiet about it. Personally, I find the inability to say when an assault happened a little odd when it comes to determining the veracity of the statement.
There was also some issue about the dress she says she was wearing at the time, a detail about which she was very specific (for the record, I could tell you what dresses I was wearing in the mid-1990s, it was a great time for perfect black dresses.) She said that after it happened, she took the dress she was wearing and hung it in her closet. She posed in that dress for a New York Magazine cover when she brought suit decades later. That dress, it turns out, wasn't made until the 1997 season.
However, Carroll won a verdict in her civil case where a jury found Trump liable for battery. Trump said it never happened and Carroll brought another suit, this time for defamation. She won an excessively large, over $80 million settlement. Trump said he'd appeal and a court ruled that he could hold off on payments so long as he increased the bond, which he agreed to.
Now, the Department of Justice is looking into allegations that Carroll may have perjured herself. She stated in a sworn deposition that there was no one funding her lawsuit, helping her pay lawyers, or backing her case financially. She was asked this outright and she said no, that she was the only one paying her lawyers. That deposed statement stood for six months. Two weeks before the case went before a jury, her lawyers revised that statement to say that anti-Trump Reid Hoffman was backing the suit.
When Trump's attorneys brought this to the judge, the judge said basically "eh, whatever," and moved on with the case. He did not look into it, did not hold Carroll accountable for lying, even though the entire case was a "he said she said" affair where the plaintiff's record as a truth-teller is of paramount importance. She lied outright and the judge let the jury believe she was an honest actor.
Clearly, that was not the case. Now, the DOJ is investigating. Todd Blanche, who now serves as Acting Attorney General, is not involved in the investigation as he was involved in the case in the first place as Trump's personal lawyer at the time. The investigation may have the smack of retribution about it, but so did Carroll's case in the first place with an unspecified alleged rape that was never brought up criminally.
In August 2025, Carroll posted to X "Revenge is best served between covers," as she shared a column from the Toronto Star about how her book was "revenge" on Trump. "One Woman vs. a President," she wrote. Carroll's case has always seemed dodgy to me. Not because bad things don't happen or because anyone is incapable of doing bad things, but because she seemed to be out to shame the president, to sell some books, and to engage in perhaps her favorite thing of all, a big fat scandal.
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