Trump verdict backlash must not result in victim blaming

In the aftermath of the historic jury verdict holding former President Donald Trump responsible for an act of sexual violence against writer E. Jean Carroll and years’ worth of defamatory attacks on her credibility, much of the focus has been on Trump: What this (and trials to come) will do to his aspirations to regain the presidency, controversy over CNN’s decision to offer him a Town Hall platform, and who among his followers might fall away. Getting far less attention, however, is the impact of this $5 million vindication of Carroll’s claims onother, long-silent survivors of sexual trauma. ...