President Donald Trump on Friday rejected an allegation by journalist E. Jean Carroll that he sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s.
Trump said he had never met Carroll and accused her of making up the allegations to sell books, according to a statement distributed through the White House press pool.
“Shame on those who make up false stories of assault to try to get publicity for themselves, or sell a book, or carry out a political agenda—like Julie Swetnick who falsely accused Justice Brett Kavanaugh,” Trump said in the statement, referring to his nominee to the Supreme Court. “It’s just as bad for people to believe it, particularly when there is zero evidence.”
Carroll published her account of the alleged assault in New York Magazine, which Trump decried as a “dying publication trying to prop itself up by peddling fake news.”
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