Opinion | Trumps Female Accusers Are Begging You Not to Forget

In Natasha Stoynoff’s fantasy, the women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct finally get to confront him.The details of the scenario change a bit, depending on how she tells it, but a few things remain consistent.E.

Jean Carroll, the former gonzo journalist who won millions of dollars in court after Mr.Trump denied assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room, leads the questioning.

Ms.Stoynoff, a sturdy Slavic blonde and trained boxer, who in real life is far too Canadian to intimidate anyone, makes sure his attention does not stray.

Maybe Jill Harth, a makeup artist who sued Mr.Trump for sexual harassment and attempted rape, is there, too, shaking her head over the too-orange foundation she used to chide him about.The women are not looking for revenge, exactly.

They simply want an acknowledgment and an apology.An admission, from the man himself, that they aren’t crazy or hysterical or gold diggers or liars, that he really did what they say he did to them, even as he told the world they were too old, too ugly, too haggard to possibly be his type.In the fantasy, which Ms.

Stoynoff is narrating to me as she nervously paces, Mr.Trump admits that he sexually abused each of the women and agrees never to run for elected office again.“If only,” Ms.

Stoynoff says.We are sitting on the porch of an old Victorian home in a suburb of Chicago, just a few miles from the Democratic National Convention.Ms.

Stoynoff is preparing to record a video that is probably the closest thing to a confrontation she’s going to get.In it, she will recount the day in 2005 when she says Donald Trump assaulted her.She was on assignment from People magazine to write about his wedding anniversary.

She says a seven-months-pregnant Melania Trump was upstairs changing.“You know my one regret,” she tells me, somewhat tentatively, feigning a punch with her right arm, “is that I didn’t deck him.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please en...