In terms of moral injury, it was by no means the worst Donald Trump has perpetrated.
It was not even the worst such harm he has done to women, either personally (in 2023 a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and forcible touching against writer E. Jean Carroll in 1996; he has otherwise been accused of misconduct, including sexual assault, by about 18 women – all accusations Trump has denied), or generally: “When you’re a star they let you do it … grab them by the pussy, you can do anything,” he told Access Hollywood in 2016.
E. Jean Carroll exits the New York court where her case against Donald Trump was heard. Credit: AP
And that’s not even getting into the ways in which the Trump administration has harmed American women in a material sense, through policy and funding cuts.
They include restriction of access and funding to safe abortion care, and eliminating the White House Gender Policy Council – something considered so important Trump did it in his first week of office.
[SRC] https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/trump-doesn-t-shock-us-any-more-and-that-s-shocking-20250926-p5my6b.html
