Donald Trump is still a big focus for the American public, but one writer finds comfort in the idea that Trump is losing sleep over being confronted by a group of 'nasty women.'
The New York Times columnist Jessica Bennett highlighted Letitia James, Fani Willis, E. Jean Carroll, and her lawyer Roberta Kaplan, as well as Stormy Daniels, as the five women who are currently on Trump’s mind. New York Times columnist Jessica Bennett
James, the Attorney General of New York, has filed a civil fraud case against Trump. put forth a civil fraud case against Trump. Willis, the District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, brought 13 criminal charges against Trump related to an alleged conspiracy to tamper with Georgia’s 2020 election and steal the state’s electoral votes. filed 13 criminal charges against Trump for his alleged involvement in falsifying Georgia’s 2020 election results and stealing the state’s electoral votes.
Carroll, who was sexually assaulted by Trump in 1995, recently won an $83.3 million lawsuit with the help of Kaplan, accusing the former president of repeatedly defaming her. This ruling followed a previous jury decision that found him guilty of sexual assault and ordered him to pay her $5 million.
Daniels is the adult film star involved in Trump’s ongoing hush money trial. This trial marks the first criminal trial of a former president in history. Trump and the Trump Organization are accused of concealing hush money payments, made in 2016 and 2017, to suppress potentially damaging stories about Trump’s alleged affair with Daniels during the 2016 election. Trump and his organization allegedly misrepresented these payments to conceal their violation of federal campaign finance laws.
Bennett proclaimed in her column, “Women,” she declared, “I suspect he never thought they would be the ones to corner him, making the case about his craven and possibly criminal behavior.”
“Mr. Trump has long treated women as objects, targets, supplicants; everyone knows the ‘Access Hollywood’ recording, but he has demeaned and degraded them for years… He seems to mostly associate women with sex… or with spite… He will woo them, he will grab them, he will scorn them, he will mix them up, he will call them names. But he never took them as much of a threat, until now.”
The way women with “bravery and moxie” challenge Trump really gets to him, she continued. “Imagine being called to account by people — by a gender, I’d argue — that you consider beneath you.”
She also noted that the women currently circling Trump “loom even larger now that the women who used to surround him [namely, Melania and Ivanka Trump] are nowhere to be found.”
Bennett stressed that the “level of vitriol he spews” at these women indicates that they are deeply on his mind.
“There is a particular kind of woman that Mr. Trump can stomach,” she explained, “and it typically doesn’t include an aging spinster, Black women who challenge him, a Jewish New York lesbian or a sex worker who has nicknamed him ‘Tiny.’ If his by-the-minute posts on Truth Social shouting ‘ELECTION INTERFERENCE!’ and ‘WITCH HUNT’ are any indication, these women get to him.”
Bennett also acknowledged the “karmic justice” in the situation.
“After Mr. Trump discussed grabbing women in the 'Access Hollywood' recording, women discussed grabbing him back by voting against him in 2016. That didn't happen. Perhaps what is happening now is the moment of retaliation, although it's more of a gradual and persistent response. After criticizing women who stand up to him for years, he is facing consequences from them now.”
