Roseanne Barr shared a video on social media where she made fun of a rape victim, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) – a sitting member of Congress – shared it saying, “Love her!”
Barr was mocking E. Jean Carroll, who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman changing room in 1995. Carroll told several friends about the sexual assault when it happened but didn’t go public with the accusation until 2019. A jury agreed that Trump sexually abused her and ordered him to pay damages last year, both for the assault and for his later defamation of Carroll.
“I just had a horrible flashback, a horrible memory,” Barr – who is now branding herself as a MAGA comedian – said in the video, pretending to be distraught. A voice off-camera mentioned that they were at Bergdorf Goodman. “Right now I just realized that 26 years ago, Joe Biden raped me right here in that dressing room in the shoe department where I went in to change my shoes!”
“He raped me right here, Joe Biden,” she said sarcastically. “He raped me right here in the shoe department at Bergdorf Goodman.”
“I need to sue, I need to sue!”
“Love her!” Greene wrote, sharing the video.
People called out both Greene and Barr for their insensitivity not just to Carroll but to the victims of sexual assault generally.
