Jurors in the New York rape trial heard this week of how Trump’s alleged attack led to pain behind the public self
The worlds of Carroll and the nine jurors who are being asked to reach the unprecedented conclusion that a former, and possibly future, president is a rapist are unlikely to have collided. The six men and three women mostly hold blue-collar jobs. Four are Black, including a west African immigrant.
For 20 years, Carroll did not speak of the alleged attack to anyone but a couple of close friends and, even then, only once and never again. Carroll described her friends noticing a lack of men in her life, and fixing her up with what she described as the “perfect” date. She said she could not help herself from destroying it by treating him badly.“I am a happy person, basically. But I’m aware that I have lost out on one of the glorious experiences of any human being. Being in love with somebody else, making dinner with them, walking the dog together. I don’t have that,” she said.
Carroll was frank about her desire for the company of men – “Oh, I like ’em” she told the jury at one point, to laughter – even if she wrote a book documenting how some, including Trump, mistreated her, and satirically proposing that all males should be shipped to Montana for retraining. “Just when I had managed to get my Substack up and running, and get my career back,” she testified. “I really felt I was gaining back a bit of ground. And then, boom, he knocks me back down again.”
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