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To say Donald Trump<\/strong> is a misogynist isn\u2019t exactly accurate. He likes women, but only a very specific type of woman. He likes the kind of woman who is malleable, who is compliant. He is absolutely allergic to outspoken women. Which is why women like E. Jean Carroll<\/strong> (and Nikki Haley<\/strong>) have really gotten under his skin by standing up to him.<\/p>\n When Carroll first came public with her sexual assault allegations against Trump back in 2019\u2014for which we was found liable last year\u2014the former president subjected her to a smear campaign just as he did with his others who have spoken out about him (like Stormy Daniels<\/strong>) and with his political rivals (like Hillary Clinton<\/strong>). Trump accused Carroll of fabricating everything: He claimed that she was a \u201cwack job<\/a>\u201d orchestrating a \u201ccon job<\/a>\u201d\u2014and even insisted, as a quasi-defense, that she was \u201cnot my type.\u201d Carroll then filed a subsequent defamation lawsuit alleging that Trump tore<\/a> her reputation \u201cto shreds.\u201d In the end, a jury agreed: Last week, in an incredible culmination of the multiyear ordeal, Trump was ordered to pay her $83.3 million in damages. And yet, even after the dust had settled, Trump had the gall\u2014or foolishness\u2014to spew yet more<\/em> invective<\/a> at Carroll, calling her case a \u201choax\u201d and claiming it was a miscarriage of justice.<\/p>\n I have a connection to this case: I introduced her to attorney George Conway,<\/strong> who eventually helped her find legal representation.<\/p>\n If Carroll\u2019s trial revealed anything, it was that women\u2014and particularly outspoken women<\/a>\u2014trigger Trump. From Megyn Kelly<\/strong><\/a> and Rosie O\u2019Donnell<\/strong> to Kamala Harris<\/strong><\/a> and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> women of all stripes have felt the wrath of the ex-president\u2019s sexism. As Sophie Gilbert<\/strong> wrote last month in The Atlantic,<\/em> \u201cThe misogyny that Trump embodies and champions is less about loathing than enforcement: underscoring his requirement that women look and behave a certain way, that we comply with his desires and submit to our required social function.\u201d You can, in other words, be a woman in Trump\u2019s world\u2014but only if you\u2019re the kind of woman Trump likes.<\/p>\n Which is why former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, who is continuing a long shot presidential bid against Trump, is fast becoming his new b\u00eate noire. Trump has openly critiqued one of her dresses; has mocked her given name, Nimrata, and has taken to calling her a \u201cbirdbrain.\u201d Trump even attacks Haley when he doesn\u2019t mean to: Last week, during a speech in New Hampshire, Trump confused her with Nancy Pelosi<\/strong> while repeating a baseless conspiracy theory about the January 6 attack. \u201cNikki Haley\u2026do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it?\u201d he said, suggesting that Democrats deliberately turned down security at the Capitol. \u201cAll of it, because of lots of things, like Nikki Haley is in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guard, whatever they want. They turned it down.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite his incessant insistence<\/a> on being mentally sharper than ever, Trump has, in fact, conflated Pelosi and Haley seven\u2014yes, seven<\/em><\/a>\u2014times. And Haley, for her part, has jumped on the opportunity to highlight this point of confusion. \u201cLast night, Trump is at a rally and he\u2019s going on and on, mentioning me several times as to why I didn\u2019t take security during the Capitol riots,\u201d as she told<\/a> a crowd in New Hampshire earlier this month. \u201cWhy I didn\u2019t handle January 6 better. I wasn\u2019t even in DC on January 6. I wasn\u2019t in office then.\u201d<\/p>\n Though they might sit on different sides of the aisle, Pelosi and Haley do have one commonality: They are both women who have successfully gotten under Trump\u2019s skin. They have weathered the costs of being chief Trump antagonists, and they are not alone. Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis,<\/strong> who is bringing a RICO case against Trump for attempting to interfere in Georgia\u2019s 2020 election, has been subjected to death threats and racist slurs from Trump\u2019s supporters. The same can be said for New York attorney general Letitia James,<\/strong> who is bringing an enormous civil fraud case against Trump. (James, like Carroll, has actually gotten Trump to appear in court\u2014which may speak to how much he prizes his family real estate business, no doubt a cornerstone of his billionaire mythos.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n