In the six years since she first wrote that real estate scion Donald Trump slammed her against a wall in the mid-'90s and fingered her in a department store dressing room, E. Jean Carroll has been reduced, as every woman stepping up to charge rape is, to a caricature of sexual essence. Is she pretty? Hot? Rape-able?

"Not my type," said the president when asked about her story in 2019, even though, in a deposition, shown a photograph of her, he risibly confused her with another ethereal blonde, his own second wife. But reductio ad T&A has always been Trump's favorite deflection strategy with women, as well as being his old commercial stock in trade: One of the promises he made--and kept--before entering politics was mandating "higher heels and smaller bikinis" for women in his beauty pageants.

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