MSNBC’s Joy Reid Rips Media For Burying Latest Trump Sexual Assault Allegation

‘The story was relatively buried in this week’s news cycle’

REID: "The columnist became the 16th woman to accuse Donald Trump of either inappropriate contact or sexual assault. In any other universe, in any other presidency, any other news cycle, E. Jean Carroll’s bombshell revelations against a sitting president of the United States would have been the lead story all week long, as soon as they dropped. Instead, after the Carroll allegations ran as the cover story in 'New York' magazine, including specific details about alleged assault which she says happened in a dressing room of a New York City department store more than two decades ago, and with Carroll actually posing for the cover photo wearing the same dress that she says Trump assaulted her in. Despite all of that, the story was relatively buried in this week's news cycle. Even 'The New York Times' tucked the story away in their books section, despite running a headline that could not be anymore explicit: 'E. Jean Carroll accuses Trump of sexual assault in her memoir.' Carroll says she told two friends about the assault at the time, and NBC has talked to one of the friends and confirmed that. Meanwhile, Trump denied not just the assault; he also denied ever having met E. Jean Carroll, which you will not be surprised was quickly contradicted by this picture taken in 1987 where you can clearly see Carroll, her former husband John Johnson, Donald Trump and his first wife Ivana at the event together in a photograph."

(Via Mediaite)

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