Elle comments on E. Jean Carroll and leaves a lot unspoken

Spokesperson said firing longtime columnist and Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll was a “business decision”

A spokesperson for Hearst, parent company of Elle Magazine, told the New York Times on Friday that the firing of longtime advice columnist and Donald Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll was “a business decision and had nothing to do with politics.”

“Ask E Jean” ran in Elle almost every month for 26 years

The statement came after days of questions over whether Carroll was let go after publishing an account of her alleged rape by Trump in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

In November, Carroll filed a defamation suit against Trump. In a court filing in early February, it emerged that Elle had cancelled Carroll’s contract in early December.

Writer E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of rape and sued for defamation. Then she was fired.

Carroll confirmed her firing on Twitter last week, saying: “Because Trump ridiculed my reputation, laughed at my looks, & dragged me through the mud, after 26 years, ELLE fired me. I don’t blame Elle. It was the great honor of my life writing ‘Ask E…