The case of E. Jean Carroll’s allegation against President Trump continues to grow more curious. On the one hand, the New York City advice columnist has undermined her quarter-century-old rape allegation against the then-real estate mogul through a series of baffling and disquieting cable news appearances. She’s described rape as “sexy,” leading Anderson Cooper to cut to commercials. She’s declined to entertain suing Trump because it would be “disrespectful to the women who are down on the border who are being raped around the clock.” And when asked what she wishes she had told Trump — again, a man she is accusing of violent and forcible rape — she said she would have asked for his tax returns. Really.

In fact, Carroll has worked pretty hard to undermine her own credibility. Her first-person account accusing not just Trump but multiple other men of sexual assault, part of a magazine book promotion, was surely an inferior vehicle for such an accusation compared to, say, an objective news report.