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<p>A sixteenth woman has come forward and <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/list-trumps-accusers-allegations-sexual-misconduct/story?id=51956410">accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault.</a> In this case, it is rape.</p><p>Iconic advice columnis<a href="http://www.thecut.com/2019/06/donald-trump-assault-e-jean-carroll-other-hideous-men.html?utm_source=tw&amp;utm_medium=s1&amp;utm_campaign=thecut">t E. Jean Carroll is on the cover of <em>New York Magazine, </em></a>in a piece detailing her interactions with &quot;hideous men,&quot; many of them abusive, and one of them, the president.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="New York Magazine" height="1200" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/d9mrjuawsaaxmeu-HFYEXh.jpg" width="900" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution">New York Magazine</div></figure><p>&quot;Do I attract hideous men? Possibly. But I&rsquo;ve also encountered many creeps, villains, dickwads,and chumps simply because I&rsquo;ve been around a long time,&quot; Carroll explained. &quot;I was mostly single, free of encumbrances, and working in the &rsquo;60s, &rsquo;70s, &rsquo;80s, and &rsquo;90s, when a woman could scarcely walk down the street without getting hit on or take a job without being underpaid.&quot;</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The world she describes sadly does not sound much different from the one we&#39;re currently living in.</p><p>Exhibit A: Donald Trump is president, and that same Donald Trump allegedly once shoved Carroll into a department store changing room.</p><p> </p><p>Carroll doesn&#39;t mention his name, but she <em>does </em>mention the names of the other 15 women who have made similar claims, and cites the White House&#39;s official denials.</p><p>&quot;I run the risk of making him more popular by revealing what he did,&quot; she mentions, heartbreakingly.</p><p>Carroll had a TV show in the mid-nineties called <em>Ask E. Jean, </em>and Trump recognized her on her way into Bergdorf Goodman&#39;s:</p><blockquote> <p data-editable="text" data-uri="www.thecut.com/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjx68qpcu003t3a65dyce98k1@published" data-word-count="51">Early one evening, as I am about to go out Bergdorf&rsquo;s revolving door on 58th Street, and one of New York&rsquo;s most famous men comes in the revolving door, or it could have been a regular door at that time, I can&rsquo;t recall, and he says: &ldquo;Hey, you&rsquo;re that advice lady!&rdquo;</p> <p data-editable="text" data-uri="www.thecut.com/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjx68qqx5005m3a65imngh2ul@published" data-word-count="20">And I say to No. 20 on the Most Hideous Men of My Life List: &ldquo;Hey, you&rsquo;re that real-estate tycoon!&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>She was &quot;surprised at how good-looking he [was],&quot; and places the encounter in &quot;the fall of 1995 or the spring of 1996 because he&rsquo;s garbed in a faultless topcoat and I&rsquo;m wearing my black wool Donna Karan coatdress and high heels but not a coat.&quot;</p><p><span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Trump said, &quot;come advise me, I gotta buy a present,&quot; as they headed into the department store.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Carroll describes their back-and-forth in great detail, as Trump was working to pick out a gift and Carroll advised, &quot;no woman would wear a dead animal on her head!&quot;</span></p><p>He asked her how old she was, and when she revealed that she was 52, Trump said, &quot;You&#39;re so old!&quot; He was in his fifties at the time as well.</p><p>They stumbled into the lingerie section, and Trump insisted she try on a bodysuit that &quot;goes with her eyes.&quot; She tossed him a bodysuit as well, challenging him to do the same, thinking it would be hilarious. It wasn&#39;t.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>What she describes is rape.</p><p>This is rape:</p><blockquote> <p>The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips. I am so shocked I shove him back and start laughing again. He seizes both my arms and pushes me up against the wall a second time, and, as I become aware of how large he is, he holds me against the wall with his shoulder and jams his hand under my coat dress and pulls down my tights.</p> </blockquote><p>She continues:</p><blockquote> <p data-editable="text" data-uri="www.thecut.com/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjx68qpeo004h3a65xjbiwchn@published" data-word-count="137">I am astonished by what I&rsquo;m about to write: I keep laughing. The next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway &mdash; or completely, I&rsquo;m not certain &mdash; inside me. It turns into a colossal struggle. I am wearing a pair of sturdy black patent-leather four-inch Barneys high heels, which puts my height around six-one, and I try to stomp his foot. I try to push him off with my one free hand &mdash; for some reason, I keep holding my purse with the other &mdash; and I finally get a knee up high enough to push him out and off and I turn, open the door, and run out of the dressing room.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p data-editable="text" data-uri="www.thecut.com/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjx68qpeo004h3a65xjbiwchn@published" data-word-count="137">She told two friends at the time, who confirmed her account. One told her to go to the police. The other said, &quot;tell no one. Forget it! He has 200 lawyers. He&rsquo;ll bury you.&quot;</p><p data-editable="text" data-uri="www.thecut.com/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjx68qpeo004h3a65xjbiwchn@published" data-word-count="137">Read Carroll&#39;s whole piece, an excerpt from her upcoming book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J4NRMJ7/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1"><em>What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal</em></a>, over at <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/donald-trump-assault-e-jean-carroll-other-hideous-men.html?utm_source=tw&amp;utm_medium=s1&amp;utm_campaign=thecut"><em>New York Magazine. </em></a></p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accuses Trump of assault. The details are damning and I want to die.

A sixteenth woman has come forward and accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault. In this case, it is rape.Iconic advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is on the cover of New York Magazine, in a piece detailing her interactions with &quot;hideous men,&quot; many of them abusive, and one of them, the president.  New York Magazine&quot;Do I attract hideous men? Possibly. But I&rsquo;ve also encountered many creeps, villains, dickwads,and chumps simply because I&rsquo;ve been around a long time,&quot; Carroll explained. &quot;I was mostly single, free of encumbrances, and working in the &rsquo;60s, &rsquo;70s, &rsquo;80s, and &rsquo;90s, when a woman could scarcely walk down the street without getting hit on or take a job without being underpaid.&quot;The world she describes sadly does not sound much different from the one we&#39;re currently living in.Exhibit A: Donald Trump is president, and that same Donald Trump allegedly once shoved Carroll into a department store changing room. Carroll doesn&#39;t mention his name, but she does mention the names of the other 15 women who have made similar claims, and cites the White House&#39;s official denials.&quot;I run the risk of making him more popular by revealing what he did,&quot; she mentions, heartbreakingly.Carroll had a TV show in the mid-nineties called Ask E. Jean, and Trump recognized her on her way into Bergdorf Goodman&#39;s: Early one evening, as I am about to go out Bergdorf&rsquo;s revolving door on 58th Street, and one of New York&rsquo;s most famous men comes in the revolving door, or it could have been a regular door at that time, I can&rsquo;t recall, and he says: &ldquo;Hey, you&rsquo;re that advice lady!&rdquo; And I say to No. 20 on the Most Hideous Men of My Life List: &ldquo;Hey, you&rsquo;re that real-estate tycoon!&rdquo; She was &quot;surprised at how good-looking he [was],&quot; and places the encounter in &quot;the fall of 1995 or the spring of 1996 because he&rsquo;s garbed in a faultless topcoat and I&rsquo;m wearing my black wool Donna Karan coatdress and high heels but not a coat.&quot;Trump said, &quot;come advise me, I gotta buy a present,&quot; as they headed into the department store.Carroll describes their back-and-forth in great detail, as Trump was working to pick out a gift and Carroll advised, &quot;no woman would wear a dead animal on her head!&quot;He asked her how old she was, and when she revealed that she was 52, Trump said, &quot;You&#39;re so old!&quot; He was in his fifties at the time as well.They stumbled into the lingerie section, and Trump insisted she try on a bodysuit that &quot;goes with her eyes.&quot; She tossed him a bodysuit as well, challenging him to do the same, thinking it would be hilarious. It wasn&#39;t.What she describes is rape.This is rape: The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips. I am so shocked I shove him back and start laughing again. He seizes both my arms and pushes me up against the wall a second time, and, as I become aware of how large he is, he holds me against the wall with his shoulder and jams his hand under my coat dress and pulls down my tights. She continues: I am astonished by what I&rsquo;m about to write: I keep laughing. The next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway &mdash; or completely, I&rsquo;m not certain &mdash; inside me. It turns into a colossal struggle. I am wearing a pair of sturdy black patent-leather four-inch Barneys high heels, which puts my height around six-one, and I try to stomp his foot. I try to push him off with my one free hand &mdash; for some reason, I keep holding my purse with the other &mdash; and I finally get a knee up high enough to push him out and off and I turn, open the door, and run out of the dressing room. She told two friends at the time, who confirmed her account. One told her to go to the police. The other said, &quot;tell no one. Forget it! He has 200 lawyers. He&rsquo;ll bury you.&quot;Read Carroll&#39;s whole piece, an excerpt from her upcoming book, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, over at New York Magazine. 

A sixteenth woman has come forward and accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault. In this case, it is rape.  Iconic advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is on the cover of New York Magazine, in a piece detailing her interactions with...