The justice department decision to launch a criminal investigation into Carroll is a troubling, dark turn The justice department decision to launch a criminal investigation into Carroll is a troubling, dark turn D onald Trump is accused of raping E Jean Carroll, the magazine writer, in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store sometime in the mid-1990s. Trump denies this , as he denies all the sexual abuse allegations that have been made against him by more than two dozen women , but he