Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, a former Reagan White House speechwriter, said she believes the women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct.
In her column published Thursday night, Noonan said she is inclined to believe most or all women who claim they’ve been sexually abused.
“In a lifetime of fairly wide acquaintance, I’ve not known a woman to lie about sexual misbehavior or assault,” she wrote. “I believe [Bill Clinton accusers] Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey, and I believe the women making the charges against Mr. Trump in the New York Times.”
On Wednesday, the Times identified two women and reported their accounts of having been, they said, sexually assaulted by Trump decades ago.
Trump denied the accusations and has said he is suing the Times for defamation. He also said he will soon make public evidence that will prove the allegations wrong.
In her column, Noonan said Trump’s attack against the Times seems out of place in this case.
“The mainstream media of the United States is in the tank for the Democratic nominee, to its great and destructive shame: They add further ruin to the half-ruined reputation of a great American institution,” she said. “That will make the country’s future harder and more torn up. But this story, at least as to the testimony of its central figures, does not appear to be an example of that.”
