'Nebulous fear' surrounds Trump enemy over her new book launch: report

As E. Jean Carroll prepares to release a book about her literal trials and tribulations with Donald Trump, writer Jessica Bennett with The Cut wrote of the "nebulous fear of what the president might do" once the tell-all hits store shelves.

"This is Trump. Your guess is as good as mine," said Carroll's publicist, while Carroll herself exclaimed, "Nobody knows!"

Fear of presidential reprisal after Trump won the 2024 election led Carroll and her editor to take precautions. They moved their conversations to an encrypted app, delivered proofs by hand, and required booksellers to sign Non Disclosure Agreements.

Carroll told Bennett, that "when it comes to Donald Trump...“I have not ‘gotten over things.’"

Carroll said she wrote the new book -- "Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President" -- "in part to show others how an 'old woman,' in her words — 'not extraordinarily bright,' 'not really political,' 'not well organized' — could defeat the president. She wanted, she said, to show others 'how it’s done.' Yet she’d also told [Bennett], not long ago, that she would not advise other women to come forward. For many, the price would be too high, she’d said."

The book promises "a minute-by-minute, motion-by-motion retelling of the two court cases, written in the choppy, gonzo style Carroll became known for in the 1980s...and has been kept entirely secret until now — so tightly guarded that Carroll herself did not have a copy until a week before it arrived on store shelves."

As for the $83.3 million plus an additional $5 million in reward money after Trump was found to have sexually assault and defamed her, Carroll made a list of things she wanted to do with the money. "I Am Going to Give It to Things Trump Hates," Carroll scrawled on legal paper, including plans for "The Donald Trump Sexual-Assault Rehabilitation Program.”

The E. Jean Carroll Foundation will receive the majority of her winnings and "will have the goal of making Trump 'even madder' than he was made by his courtroom defeats, Bennett wrote.

On Friday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied Trump's appeal of the defamation case, clearing the way for Carroll to receive her $83.3 million "plus interest".

Carroll's book is set to hit bookshelves June 17.

Read The Cut article here.