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Trump Denies New Sexual Assault Allegation By Advice Columnist E. Jean Carroll

Trump says Carroll's allegations, published in New York magazine, are simply an attempt to sell copies of her new book. Carroll says Trump attacked her in a New York City department store.
A 2017 file photo of the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman in New York City. Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll has accused now-President Trump of sexually assaulting her inside the store in the mid-1990s.

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll alleges in a soon-to-be-published book that President Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in New York in the mid-1990s.

Trump said in a statement Friday evening that her account was false. "I've never met this person in my life. She is trying to sell a new book—that should indicate her motivation. It should be sold in the fiction section."

Carroll is

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