US President Donald Trump on Monday once again denied allegations by a writer that he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, adding: “She’s not my type”.
Mr Trump made the comment in an interview with The Hill, a political news website, that touched on the allegations from E Jean Carroll, who says in her new book that the rape happened in the dressing room of a New York department store.
“I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened. It never happened, OK?” Mr Trump said in the interview, which was conducted in the Oval Office.
The president added that Ms Carroll was “totally lying” when she made her claims.
“I know nothing about this woman. I know nothing about her,” he said.
Ms Carroll's account, revealed last week in an excerpt of her new book that was published by New York magazine, makes her at least the 16th woman to have accused Mr Trump of sexual misconduct before he became president.
She said that in a chance encounter at the Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan, Trump – already a prominent property developer – asked her for advice on buying lingerie for an unnamed woman.
Then, jokingly, they each suggested that the other should try the item on.
"The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips," wrote Ms Carroll, a magazine advice columnist for Elle magazine.
Pinning her against the wall, Ms Carroll says, Trump proceeded to pull down her tights, unzip his trousers and penetrate her – all while himself fully dressed – until she finally managed to push him out and run from the dressing room.
On Monday, Carroll told CNN that he “just went at it” after he cornered her.
“It was a fight,” she said.
“With all the 15 women or 16 who have come forward, it’s the same. He denies it. He turns it around. He attacks. And he threatens.”
Carroll never went to the police because, she said, she was afraid of repercussions.
Five famous companies founded by teens
There are numerous success stories of teen businesses that were created in college dorm rooms and other modest circumstances. Below are some of the most recognisable names in the industry:
- Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg and his friends started Facebook when he was a 19-year-old Harvard undergraduate.
- Dell: When Michael Dell was an undergraduate student at Texas University in 1984, he started upgrading computers for profit. He starting working full-time on his business when he was 19. Eventually, his company became the Dell Computer Corporation and then Dell Inc.
- Subway: Fred DeLuca opened the first Subway restaurant when he was 17. In 1965, Mr DeLuca needed extra money for college, so he decided to open his own business. Peter Buck, a family friend, lent him $1,000 and together, they opened Pete’s Super Submarines. A few years later, the company was rebranded and called Subway.
- Mashable: In 2005, Pete Cashmore created Mashable in Scotland when he was a teenager. The site was then a technology blog. Over the next few decades, Mr Cashmore has turned Mashable into a global media company.
- Oculus VR: Palmer Luckey founded Oculus VR in June 2012, when he was 19. In August that year, Oculus launched its Kickstarter campaign and raised more than $1 million in three days. Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion two years later.
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The rules on fostering in the UAE
A foster couple or family must:
- be Muslim, Emirati and be residing in the UAE
- not be younger than 25 years old
- not have been convicted of offences or crimes involving moral turpitude
- be free of infectious diseases or psychological and mental disorders
- have the ability to support its members and the foster child financially
- undertake to treat and raise the child in a proper manner and take care of his or her health and well-being
- A single, divorced or widowed Muslim Emirati female, residing in the UAE may apply to foster a child if she is at least 30 years old and able to support the child financially
