It’s been nearly a week since E. Jean Carroll, a longtime writer and media figure, went public with her allegation that Donald Trump attacked her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. The president has denied the claim, arguing, among other things, that his latest accuser isn’t his “type.”
Definitively proving or disproving Caroll’s claim is very difficult: there is no security footage to review and no physical evidence to scrutinize. But the writer explained in her account that she confided in two friends shortly after the alleged incident, telling them at the time what she said occurred.
New York magazine, which originally published Carroll’s story as a book excerpt, reported on Friday that it had “verified that Carroll did disclose the attack to these friends at the time,” but her confidantes remained unnamed.
This morning, that changed: the New York Times spoke to both of Carroll’s friends on the record for its “The Daily” podcast.









