Author Who Says Trump Raped Her: 'I Am Sick Of It'
CNN's New Day featured a lengthy interview with Alysin Camerota and E. Jean Carroll, the author who describes being raped by Donald Trump in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room years ago.
"This is beyond sexual -- legally, he raped you." Camerota told the author.
"I don't use the word. I have difficulty with the word," she said.
"Because you think that -- "
"I think it was a fight. You know?"
"I understand. But you see it as a fight and you don't want to be seen as a victim and I totally get that."
"I don't want to be seen as a victim because I quickly went past it. It was a very, very brief episode of my life. Very brief. I am not faced with sexual violence every single day like many women around the world. and so, yes, I'm very careful with that word."
"I understand."
"You will use it."
"Here's the situation. I understand that you don't want this to define you, of course. who would? But I'm saying legally, it was rape. It's unambiguous. What you describe in the book, it was rape. and that actually goes further than the 15 women who came forward during the campaign who say -- they described situations very similar to what you experienced. Him getting them into a room, him pinning them against a wall, him forcing a kiss on them," Camerota said.
"But yours actually goes further in terms of being legally raped. That's what it was. So when you heard Donald Trump in the infamous Access Hollywood tape foreshadow this or at least explain himself to Billy Bush. Let's remind people. Listen to this."