By Dustin Rowles | Politics | October 13, 2016 |
By Dustin Rowles | Politics | October 13, 2016 |
The following stories all broke within the last 24 hours:
— Jessica Leeds, on a plane, 35 years ago, according to the NYTimes:
About 45 minutes after takeoff, she recalled, Mr. Trump lifted the armrest and began to touch her.According to Ms. Leeds, Mr. Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt.
“He was like an octopus,” she said. “His hands were everywhere.”
She fled to the back of the plane. “It was an assault,” she said.
— Donald Trump, to a group of 10-year-old girls in 1992 on an Entertainment Tonight Christmas feature:
Trump asks one of the girls if she’s “going up the escalator.” When the girl replies, “yeah,” Trump turns to the camera and says: “I am going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?”
— Rachel Crooks, a 22-year-old in 1995, encountered Trump outside an elevator building:
Aware that her company did business with Mr. Trump, she turned and introduced herself. They shook hands, but Mr. Trump would not let go, she said. Instead, he began kissing her cheeks. Then, she said, he “kissed me directly on the mouth.”It didn’t feel like an accident, she said. It felt like a violation.
“It was so inappropriate,” Ms. Crooks recalled in an interview. “I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that.”
— Natasha Stoynoff, a People magazine reporter with 20 years of experience, who went to Mar-a-Lago in 2005 to interview Trump for a piece on Trump’s first anniversary with Melania Trump, who was in the house at the time.
We walked into that room alone, and Trump shut the door behind us. I turned around, and within seconds he was pushing me against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat.Now, I’m a tall, strapping girl who grew up wrestling two giant brothers. I even once sparred with Mike Tyson. It takes a lot to push me. But Trump is much bigger — a looming figure — and he was fast, taking me by surprise and throwing me off balance. I was stunned. And I was grateful when Trump’s longtime butler burst into the room a minute later, as I tried to unpin myself.
The butler informed us that Melania would be down momentarily, and it was time to resume the interview.
— “Donald Trump deliberately walked in on two young Miss USA 2001 contestants while they were naked and getting dressed for a rehearsal, one of the former beauty contestants has claimed in an interview with the Guardian.”