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Gee, I wonder why they held their tongues? Could it be because they know that any woman who speaks out about Trump’s sexism will inevitably a face a vicious new torrent of sexism from his supporters? Could it be because they know that “naked sexism” has never damaged Trump – rather it seems to have turbocharged his career?
“There still are quite a few female leaders from the Trump administration who have held their tongues about the unequal treatment they faced in the administration at best, and the absolute naked sexism they experienced with the hands of Donald Trump at worst,” Taylor told Newsweek. While a lot of Trump’s misogyny is in the public domain, Taylor claims there are plenty of sexist episodes that haven’t made the news yet. Ivanka Trump obviously isn’t the only woman that Trump has said a lot of crude things about. Remember when he told Howard Stern, in 2003, that Ivanka Trump has “got the best body”? Remember when he said that, if Ivanka Trump weren’t his daughter, “perhaps be dating her”? There is, after all, plenty of evidence, going back decades, of Trump being creepy about Ivanka Trump in public. (John Kelly hadn’t publicly commented on the allegations at the time of writing.) But the idea that the former president was creepy about his daughter in private isn’t hard to believe. There is, I should note, no incontrovertible proof that Trump said all these things. His remarks, Taylor writes, were so gross that John Kelly, who was White House chief of staff from 2017 to 2019, once had “to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter”. “Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her,” Taylor writes in an excerpt from his new book, Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump, obtained by Newsweek.
His latest allegations? That Trump was lewd about his own daughter. Still he’s been eking out his 15 minutes of fame ever since, issuing warnings about democracy and dropping scandalous anecdotes about how unhinged Trump is. Some of that excitement died down when it transpired Taylor, who was the chief of staff of the Department for Homeland Security, wasn’t in Trump’s inner circle and wasn’t really doing any meaningful “resisting”. People were beside themselves with excitement for a while thinking that Anonymous might be someone high-profile like Melania Trump. In June, Judge Kaplan let her amend her lawsuit to add Trump’s comments from a CNN town hall following the jury verdict, in which he called her account “fake” and labelled her a “whack job”.Taylor, you might remember, first made headlines back in 2018 when he wrote an anonymous op-ed for the New York Times called “ I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration”. She is seeking at least US$10 million in damages.
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Ms Carroll’s original lawsuit is scheduled for a Jan 15 trial in 2024. On Tuesday, he countersued Ms Carroll, claiming that she defamed him in a CNN interview one day after the May 9 verdict by saying “oh yes he did, oh yes he did”, when asked about the jury finding that he did not commit rape. Trump, the front runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is appealing the US$5 million jury verdict. “Mr Trump does not identify any connection between the allegedly defamatory content of his statements – that Ms Carroll fabricated her sexual assault accusation and did so for financial and personal gain – and any official responsibility of the president,” Judge Kaplan wrote. The judge also said Trump’s criticism of Ms Carroll went beyond “the outer perimeter of his official duties” as president.
In his 46-page decision, Judge Kaplan said Trump waited too long to raise the absolute immunity defence, and that it would be unfair to Ms Carroll to let him do so now and further delay the 3½-year-old case. That prompted Trump, 77, to say he had not known Ms Carroll, that she was not his “type”, and that she lied to drum up book sales.
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