Thursday 13 October 2016

Four women accuse Donald Trump of groping or kissing them without consent

 
It appears Donald Trump's love for women may just be the nail in the coffin, killing his chances of becoming America's president. 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.
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.