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On Monday, President Donald Trump again dismissed allegations of sexual assault from an advice columnist, saying that the woman is "not his type."
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"I'll say it with great respect: Number one, she's not my type. Number two, it never happened. It never happened, OK?" the president told The Hill during an Oval Office interview.
Journalist E. Jean Carroll is the 15th woman to have accused the president of sexual assault, her account being published by New York magazine last week. The account alleges that Trump met Carroll at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City in the 1990s and that the then-real estate tycoon assaulted her in a dressing room inside the store.
The account is included in Carroll's new book, of which New York published excerpts from.
Carroll stated in the essay that she still has the coat dress she was wearing at the time of the alleged assault and that it has not been laundered because she had no desire to ever wear the dress again.
Shortly after The Hill published the interview with Trump, Carroll reacted to the president's statement during an interview on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, saying, "I love that. I am SO glad I'm not his type. I'm so glad."
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Speaking to The Hill, the president again asserted that Carroll is lying, saying that he doesn't know anything about her. "She is — it's just a terrible thing that people can make statements like that."
Trump previously issued a statement saying he has never met Carroll, though a photograph of Carroll, Trump and their then-spouses attending an NBC party in 1987 was included in the New York article.
"If anyone has information that the Democratic Party is working with Ms. Carroll or New York Magazine, please notify us as soon as possible. The world should know what's really going on. It is a disgrace and people should pay dearly for such false accusations," Trump's statement, released Friday to the White House press pool, said.
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