When writer E. Jean Carroll was asked under oath this week why she was in court, she didn't mince words.
"I am here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn't happen," the former advice columnist said. "He lied and shattered my reputation, and I am here to try to get my life back."
It's that last part that has been rattling around in my brain since I read the transcript of Carroll's first day of testimony. "I am here to get my life back." It's striking because it's a sentence about Carroll, not the former president she testified she encountered at Bergdorf Goodman nearly 30 years ago. The former president she says raped her in the dressing room of Bergdorf's. The former president who she claims held her against the wall with "his whole weight" and put her in a situation where she was "too frightened to think if I was afraid or not." The former president whose actions Carroll says left an indelible negative impact on her career and left her "unable to ever have a romantic life again."
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