This snippet from Trump's deposition in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case is very interesting: he mistakes Caroll for Marla Maples, his second wife, in a photograph. It's pretty funny to me that he confused a woman that he insists is "not his type" with a woman he actually married. She's a tall, slender blonde. That seems to be his type. And he also doesn't want to render his DNA. But then again, he tried to pretend he didn't know her at all.
Trump called Carroll “sick, mentally sick”. And he mischaracterized an interview Carroll had given on CNN, falsely claiming she had talked about enjoying being sexually assaulted. “She actually indicated that she loved it. OK? She loved it until commercial break,” Trump said. “In fact, I think she said it was sexy, didn’t she? She said it was very sexy to be raped. Didn’t she say that?”
Kaplan then tried to elicit from Trump that he had raped her client.
“So, sir, I just want to confirm: it’s your testimony that E Jean Carroll said that she loved being sexually assaulted by you?”
Trump answered: “Well, based on her interview with [CNN’s] Anderson Cooper, I believe that’s what took place. And we can define that … I think she said that rape was sexy – which it’s not, by the way.”
What Carroll had described is that she prefers to use the word fight, not rape because some other people “think rape is sexy”.
It doesn't escape me that rapists often tell themselves that their victims really wanted it, and that a narcissist might have a hard time understanding that if he was feeling it, that his victim wasn't also feeling the same way. And the way his response is constructed disturbs me, because it can be interpreted that he acknowledges something happened.
I am here for the inclusion of Elizabeth Blackburn, first woman president of the Salk Institute, whose work on telomere study is exceptionally interesting to people interested in human life span research She's basically up there with Barbara McClintock, as a scientist who entirely turned me all the way on about genetics and new ways of looking at DNA to crack who we are and what we might be. I might wish that TIME Firsts had been around years ago to pick up a great name a little bit lost like Rosalind Franklin a little earlier on. But there are so many good profiles here, like Mae Jemison and Maya Lin.
We've come a long way, baby. I think it is almost weird to concentrate on women of excellence in various fields, as if it should be just assumed. But I enjoyed seeing great talents being given their due.
