Source: www.mediamatters.org - Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Sarah Wasko / Media Matters After author and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll reported that President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., pushed a conspiracy theory that the claim was "ripped-off a plot" from a 2012 episode of NBC procedural Law & Order .??Before being amplified by Trump Jr., the conspiracy theory was spread by a Twitter account associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory and another account whose content has regularly been shared by ???seemingly-automated accounts.??? It has also been pushed by the Daily Mail 's political editor. On June 21, Carroll wrote in New York magazine???s The Cut that 23 years ago, Trump assaulted her in a department store dressing room. According to Carroll, Trump ???lunge[d] at me, pushe[d] me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and [put] his mouth against my lips.??? She wrote that he then pulled down her tights and assaulted her. Carroll told two close friends at the time, both of whom ???confirmed the allegations to New York and to [ The New York ] Times .??? Even though her friends confirmed that Carroll told them about the incident at the time, social media accounts and message boards have claimed that Carroll ???ripped-off a plot??? from an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit that dealt with a similar sexual assault against an actor. However, the episode aired in 2012, well over a decade after the incident
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Sarah Wasko / Media Matters After author and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll reported that President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., pushed a conspiracy theory that the claim was "ripped-off a plot" from a 2012 episode of NBC procedural Law & Order .??Before being amplified by Trump Jr., the conspiracy theory was spread by a Twitter account associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory and another account whose content has regularly been shared by ???seemingly-automated accounts.??? It has also been pushed by the Daily Mail 's political editor. On June 21, Carroll wrote in New York magazine???s The Cut that 23 years ago, Trump assaulted her in a department store dressing room. According to Carroll, Trump ???lunge[d] at me, pushe[d] me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and [put] his mouth against my lips.??? She wrote that he then pulled down her tights and assaulted her. Carroll told two close friends at the time, both of whom ???confirmed the allegations to New York and to [ The New York ] Times .??? Even though her friends confirmed that Carroll told them about the incident at the time, social media accounts and message boards have claimed that Carroll ???ripped-off a plot??? from an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit that dealt with a similar sexual assault against an actor. However, the episode aired in 2012, well over a decade after the incident
Source: Breaking News
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