Ronan Farrow Dismisses Schneiderman’s ‘Role-Playing’ Defense

RUSH EXCERPT:

FARROW: "Multiple women doing an incredibly difficult thing, coming forward with really horrific, brutal stories of violence that turned out to be very, very well corroborated, Wolf. And independently, these women described uncannily similar patterns of behavior. Slaps, hitting, choking. Very intense verbal abuse with misogynistic epithets. And I want to make one important point. Because a large part of Eric Schneiderman’s rebuttal is devoted to his claim that this is consensual sexual role-playing. These women, one after another, went to pains to say that that was not what they were alleging. And indeed, that they wouldn’t have come forward if it was simply that. What they are claiming is that this was nonconsensual, very often in an entirely nonsexual context. And in one woman’s case, not even in the context of a relationship. She alleges that he approached her and came on to her at an event, this is a prominent lawyer he had worked with, and when she rebuffed him, he began hurling slurs and then slapped her hard enough to leave a mark."