“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert said he finds author E. Jean Carroll’s allegations that President Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s credible because nearly two dozen other women have also accused the president of sexual misconduct.
Carroll wrote in her forthcoming memoir that Trump raped her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman more than two decades ago.
“These accusations are specific, they are credible, and they are terrible,” Colbert said in his Monday night monologue. “And they make Carroll the 22nd woman to step forward. Twenty-two women! That should raise alarms.”
“Let me put it this way,” he said. “If one person in your life accused you of pooping in their kitchen sink, I could be persuaded to believe that that is a lie. But if over the course of the 73 years of your life, 22 separate people came forward with detailed accounts of times you had pooped in their kitchen sinks, I’m going to start to think you’re a sink pooper. There’s no difference here.”
Trump has denied he sexually assaulted Carroll, saying the writer was “totally lying” and “she’s not my type.”
