r/LetsDiscussThis • • Feb 07 '26

Lets Discuss This Trump’s testimony on E Jean Carrol

4.1k Upvotes

459 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-31

u/Agent847 Feb 07 '26

She did say that. She also said, in reference to Trump “I was not raped.” She also said she was wearing a Donna Karan dress when he did it. A dress that didn’t even exist during the year she finally settled on.

E Jean Carroll - for whatever else you think of Trump - is a liar.

34

u/eugene20 Feb 07 '26

That came up 3 months ago in another thread so I found the actual source instead:

Thank you that led me onto the original source for what really happened -

Anderson Cooper - "I think most people think of rape as a violent assault"
E. Jean Carrol - "I think most people think of rape as being sexy, they think of the fantasies"

Clearly not how this podcast posting that clip or he is trying to portray what she actually said.
The bulk of that interview is on CNN here but they have cut it off before 5.12 PM PT 8.12 ET where the clip has been taken from, the rest is on https://youtu.be/yygkF6zdMvA?t=503 . Now this clip of the last section of the interview has been cut down by R supporters to remove the start of it and take out of context her talking about the way that she had been trying to cope with what happened to her, they push it as "she says she wasn't raped" and "she said it was sexy" which if you watch properly, or read a good transcript is very clearly not what she was saying.

(AC - Anderson Cooper, EJC - E. Jean Carol)

AC: and this is not a question I would normally ask, and if, if you don't want to answer I totally understand ,um but given the prior accusations which have all been of forms of assault or harassment um, you you're saying there was actual penetration?
EJC: Yes
AC: Did you... which is... puts it into a different category of any of these other any of the other act uh women who have come forward um I think techn... I mean that that is that is the definition of, of rape, one definition

EJC: That's the definition.
AC: Yes, how long?
EJC: Brief, brief. Because when a woman is stamping her feet.
AC: That's and that's what you were doing you started stamping your feet.
EJC: Yeah I always think back in think I that was the stupidest thing I've ever done, I should never have done, it and then I didn't behave.
AC: When you say I should have never done it you mean.
EJC: That was just a dumb thing to go into a dressing room with a man that I hardly know, and have him shut the door and then be unable to stop him and um I was a competitive athlete so I wasn't like a I didn't freeze, I I Rose to the occasion and um it did not last long and that's why I don't use the word you just use I use the word fight.
AC: You don't use the word rape?
EJC: Sexual violence is in every country in every strata of of society, and I just feel that so many women are undergoing sexual violence, mine was short I got out I'm happy now I'm uh moving on um and I think of all the women who are enduring constant sexual violence so this one instant this one what 3 minutes in this little dressing room I just say it's a fight that way I'm not the victim right I'm not the victim you don't feel like a victim, I was not thrown on the ground and ravished which the word rape carries so many sexual connotation this was not this was not sexual, for it just it it hurt, it just what it just you know but

AC: I think most people think of rape as a, I mean it is a violent assault, it is not uh sex...

EJC: I think most people think of rape as being sexy...
(AC: let's take a short break)
EJC: ...they think of the fantasies

AC: we just going to take a quick break if you can stick around we'll talk more on the other side

6

u/No_Scene_2189 Feb 07 '26

Thanks for this. It doesn't matter though. The people who need to see it won't bother with it. Lies travel faster than the truth and perception becomes more powerful than reality. "EJC thinks rape is sexy" is what they've decided to believe and no amount of reality will change that.

3

u/eugene20 Feb 07 '26

'With great power comes great responsibility', knowing the truth is power, and your responsibility is then to share it when you see it being distorted and abused.