Is anyone listening? This Trump accuser keeps asking herself that.

[DonViejo]

Is anyone listening?

This Trump accuser keeps asking herself that. But she plans to keep talking about that day in 2006.

TIFFIN, Ohio

She believed her best chance to be heard was through sheer repetition, so Rachel Crooks took her seat at the dining table and prepared to tell the story again. She was used to difficult audiences, to skeptics and Internet trolls who flooded her Facebook page with threats, but this was a generous crowd: a dozen women, all friends of her aunt, gathered for a casual dinner party on a Friday night. The hostess turned off the music, clanked a fork against her wineglass and gestured to Crooks. “Would you mind telling us about the famous incident?” she asked. “Not the sound-bite version, but the real version.”

“The real version,” Crooks said, nodding back. She took a sip of water and folded a napkin onto her lap. “It all happened at Trump Tower,” she said. “I had just moved to New York, and I was working as a secretary for another company in the building. That’s where he forced himself on me.”

Crooks, 35, had been publicly reliving this story for much of the past two years, ever since she first described it in an email to the New York Times several months before the 2016 election. “I don’t know if people will really care about this or if this will matter at all,” she had written then, and after Donald Trump’s election she had repeated her story at the Women’s March, on the “Today” show and at a news conference organized by women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred. Crooks had spoken to people dressed in #MeToo sweatshirts and to her rural neighbors whose yards were decorated with Trump signs. In early February, she launched a campaign to become a Democratic state representative in Ohio, in part so she could share her story more widely with voters across the state. And yet, after dozens of retellings, she still wasn’t sure: Did people really care? Did it matter at all?

Despite her story, and the similar stories of more than a dozen other women, nothing had changed. Trump, who had denied all of the accusations, was still president of the United States, and Crooks was still circling back to the same moments on Jan. 11, 2006, that had come to define so much about her life.

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[BigmanPigman]

1. I am almost as frustrated as she is!

Everyone gets into trouble and punished except for him.

[Funtatlaguy]

2. His backers are thrilled he gets so much action

Whether consensual or not.
Think think he’s a stud.
They are deplorable.

[Bradshaw3]

3. These women need our total support

I don't know exactly what we can do but we cannot let this be forgotten. I admire Rachel and all the women who have had the courage to stand up to this piece of shit and his patriarchal backers. Can you imagine having something like this happen and your own family members attack you?

Just now I see the pos is tweeting about her. What he and his supporters are doing to our country is just disgusting and cancerous.

[smirkymonkey]

4. K&R

It makes me so angry that this sickening pig has gotten away with it all so far. I hope Karma takes a huge bite out of that fat ass of his.

[kcr]

5. She isn't a porn star or Playboy bunny willing to sell her story, so no one cares

The Republicans will never hold their own accountable. Dems are only interested if one of their own are accused. She doesn't have a chance.

[bluestarone]

6. Repubs are just the DEVILS KEEPER these days