'Watch out': E. Jean Carroll says women are rising up to fight back against oppression and abuse
Fresh off her legal victory against Donald Trump in her civil rape and defamation trial, and with plans to bring another lawsuit over his subsequent repetition of his claims about her, writer E. Jean Carroll told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Friday that she and her attorney are working on a new project to empower women to speak up and take back the country from abusers.
Carroll's promise came amid a discussion about the romance novel on which she is collaborating with Mary Trump, the former president's niece.
"The only person to lay a glove on [Trump] in the legal arena is you," said Wallace. "Again, I know from your attorney, there's nothing you can talk about in that arena. I wonder what you have heard from other victims of sexual abuse or defamation that fuels you to sort of continue to reach and work toward the light and these creative projects and whether there's any full circle experience in hearing from other victims of sexual abuse who watched your trial and watched how it was covered and watched how it ended."
"You would be amazed," said Carroll. "Not only me but Robbie Kaplan, my brilliant attorney. We have received an avalanche of letters from across the country. Robbie and I are right now talking about creating a new platform and making it possible for women to come forward. The very act of women coming forward brings power to other women. It's the very act of speaking up. Robbie and I are in serious talks about giving women a platform and giving them legal help."
Carroll added she wasn't at liberty to reveal more details than that right now — but that "there is help on the way. By some of the smartest minds in America. It's going to be brilliant."
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It is stunning when you see women speaking up, how much power it gives to other women," Carroll continued. "Just because I spoke up this little bit. Now hundreds of women are writing to us and saying, what can they do and how can they speak up? We have seen the repercussions already. The woman in California sued Cosby. It's happening all across the country. I would say that this is not a downer, this is an upper. We are rising up. The voices, the stories are breathtaking. They are just breathtaking. Women across the country are gathering courage. I have to say, watch out."
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