Days after he denied ever assaulting women and even parading four women allegedly sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton, four women have accused Trump of groping or kissing them without their consent .
The New York Times reported one of the women alleges that Trump grabbed
her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt during a flight more
than three decades ago. Another says he kissed her on the mouth outside
an elevator in 2005, according to the same report.
A third woman says Trump groped her rear end at his Mar-a-Lago resort 13 years ago, the Palm Beach Post reported. The fourth, then a People magazine reporter, says Trump kissed her without her consent when the two were alone in 2005 right before an interview she was about to conduct with Trump and his wife.
A third woman says Trump groped her rear end at his Mar-a-Lago resort 13 years ago, the Palm Beach Post reported. The fourth, then a People magazine reporter, says Trump kissed her without her consent when the two were alone in 2005 right before an interview she was about to conduct with Trump and his wife.
Former businesswoman Jessica Leeds, 74, who worked for a paper company,
told the Times that Trump groped her on a flight in the early 1980s as
they sat next to each other in first class.
About 45 minutes after takeoff, Trump lifted the armrest and began
grabbing her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt, Leeds said.
"He was like an octopus," she told the NY daily. "His hands were everywhere.""It was an assault," she added.
Rachel Crooks said she was a 22-year-old receptionist at a real estate
company in Trump Tower in 2005 when she encountered Trump outside an
elevator in the building one morning.
She introduced herself and shook his hand, but he would not let go.
Trump began kissing her cheeks and then "kissed me directly on the
mouth," she told the Times.
"It was so inappropriate," Crooks added. "I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that."
Also on Wednesday, the Palm Beach Post published an exclusive on its
website in which Mindy McGillivray, now 36, alleged that Trump grabbed
her at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida in early 2003.
"It was pretty close to the center of my butt," she said of the incident that happened as she was working as a photographer's assistant at an event. "I was startled. I jumped."
None of the women reported the incidents to law enforcement.
"None of this ever took place," Trump angrily told the Times, calling the reporter a "disgusting human being."
The Trump campaign quickly fired back, calling the Times article a political attack.
"This entire article is fiction, and for the New York Times to launch a completely false, coordinated character assassination against Mr. Trump on a topic like this is dangerous,"
"To reach back decades in an attempt to smear Mr. Trump trivializes sexual assault, and it sets a new low for where the media is willing to go in its efforts to determine this election."
In addition, CBS News published footage Wednesday from an "Entertainment
Tonight" Christmas feature in 1992, in which Trump watches a group of
young girls going up the escalator in Trump Tower.
"I am going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?" he is heard saying. Trump was 46 at the time.
And Temple Taggart, a former Miss Utah, told the New York Times in May
how Trump kissed her on the lips when he introduced himself to the
21-year-old contestant at the 1997 Miss USA pageant. She said he kissed
her again at a later meeting at Trump Tower.
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