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Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations

February 16, 2024

Donald Trump, the president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, has been accused of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, including non-consensual kissing or groping, by at least 25 women since the 1970s.[1][2]

In October 2016, Trump publicly vowed to sue all the women who have made allegations of sexual misconduct against him, as well as The New York Times for publishing the allegations.[3][4]

Litigation includes his then-wife Ivana's rape claim during their 1990 divorce (she later recanted);[5] businesswoman Jill Harth's 1997 lawsuit alleging breach of contract and sexual harassment (she settled the former claim and forfeited the latter); and former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos's claim of sexual misconduct followed by a 2017 defamation lawsuit after Trump accused her of lying[6] (she withdrew her defamation case in 2021).[7]

In June 2019, writer E. Jean Carroll alleged in New York magazine that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in 1995 or 1996. The magazine said two friends of Carroll confirmed that Carroll had previously confided in them in regard to the incident. Trump called the allegation fiction and denied ever meeting Carroll, although New York had published a photo of Trump and Carroll together in 1987.[8][9][10] On May 9, 2023, a New York jury in civil case found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against Carroll, but found him not liable for rape. They awarded Carroll $5 million in damages.[11] A September 2023 partial summary judgment again found Trump liable for defaming Carroll. On January 26, 2024, Trump was ordered to pay Carroll an additional $83.3 million in damages.[12]

Two of the allegations (by Ivana Trump and Jill Harth) became public before Trump's candidacy for president, but the rest arose after a 2005 audio recording was leaked during the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump was recorded bragging that a celebrity like himself "can do anything" to women, including "just start kissing them ... I don't even wait" and "grab 'em by the pussy". Trump subsequently characterized those comments as "locker room talk" and denied actually behaving that way toward women, and he also apologized for the crude language. Many of his accusers stated that Trump's denials provoked them into going public with their allegations. Another type of accusation was made, primarily after the audio recording surfaced, by several former Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contestants, who accused Trump of entering the dressing rooms of beauty pageant contestants. Trump, who owned the Miss Universe franchise, which includes both pageants, was accused of going into dressing rooms in 1997, 2000, 2001, and 2006, while contestants were in various stages of undress. Trump had already referred to this practice during a 2005 interview on The Howard Stern Show, saying he could "get away with things like that" because he owned the beauty pageants in which the women and girls were competing. In October 2019, the book All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator[a] by Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy was published, containing 43 additional allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump.[13][14]

Trump has denied all the allegations against him, saying he has been the victim of media bias, conspiracies, and a political smear campaign.[15][16][17][18]

Accusations filed in court against Trump

Main articles: Legal affairs of Donald Trump and List of lawsuits involving Donald Trump

Ivana Trump (1989)

 
Ivana and Donald Trump in 1985

Ivana Trump and Donald Trump married in 1977.[5] Ivana stated in a deposition taken in 1990, during their divorce proceedings, that Donald had visited her plastic surgeon following which he had expressed anger and ripped out hair from her scalp.[5] Donald said the allegation was "obviously false".[19] The book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald Trump (1993), by Harry Hurt III, described the alleged attack as a "violent assault" during which Donald attacked Ivana sexually.[19] According to the book, Ivana later confided to some of her friends that Donald had raped her.[19] In a statement given just before the publication of Hurt's book, and included in the book, Ivana said:

[O]n one occasion during 1989, Mr. Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our marriage. As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent. I referred to this as a "rape", but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.[19]

The Trumps' divorce was granted in December 1990[20] on grounds that Donald's treatment of Ivana, including his affair with Marla Maples, was "cruel and inhuman".[21] According to Donald Trump's lawyer, Jay Goldberg, this was based on Trump's having been seen in public with Marla Maples in 1990.[20] Their settlement[b] had a confidentiality clause preventing Ivana from discussing the marriage or the divorce.[5][24] In 1992, Trump sued Ivana for not honoring a gag clause in their divorce agreement by disclosing facts about him in her best-selling book, and Trump won a gag order.[25][26][27]

Years later, Ivana said she and Donald "are the best of friends".[5] In a July 2015 campaign endorsement, Ivana said: "I have recently read some comments attributed to me from nearly 30 years ago at a time of very high tension during my divorce from Donald. The story is totally without merit."[28][29]

Jill Harth (1992)

Jill Harth alleged that Trump assaulted her several times. Harth has stated that in December 1992, while dining with Trump and her then-boyfriend George Houraney, Trump attempted to put his hands between her legs.[5] Harth and Houraney visited Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in January 1993 for a contract-signing celebration. Trump, according to Harth, offered her a tour before pulling her into the empty bedroom of his daughter Ivanka. "I was admiring the decoration, and next thing I know he's pushing me against a wall and has his hands all over me. He was trying to kiss me. I was freaking out." Harth says she desperately protested against Trump's advances and eventually managed to run out of the room. She and her boyfriend left rather than stay the night, as they had intended.[5] After she became engaged, Harth alleges, Trump began to stalk her.[19]

Harth filed a lawsuit in 1997 in which she accused Trump of non-consensual groping of her body, among them her "intimate private parts",[30][31] and "relentless" sexual harassment.[32] The suit was withdrawn after Houraney settled with Trump for an undisclosed amount in a lawsuit that claimed Trump had backed out of a business deal.[5][33] She still claims to have been sexually assaulted[5] and although he was never violent with her, she says his actions were "unwanted and aggressive, very sexually aggressive".[19]

Following the incident, Harth said she received "a couple years of therapy". In 2015, she contacted Trump's campaign to get a job as a makeup artist and sell her men's cosmetic product line. She later said, "Yes, I had moved on but had not forgotten the pain [Trump] brought into my life. I was older, wiser. Trump was married to Melania and I had hoped he was a changed man."[34] She worked at one of Trump's rallies as a makeup artist. Of the experience, she said: "I'm a makeup artist. The guy is a mess, OK? He really needed my services, and I'm a makeup artist that needs a job. Why would, if I was on friendly terms, why wouldn't I try to get that job?"[19]

Harth's lawsuit was first published in February 2016 by LawNewz.com.[35] Her case was first published in May 2016[19] in The New York Times article "Crossing the Line".[36] Trump characterized her story in the Times as "false, malicious and libelous" and he "strongly denies the claims".[19] Harth stood by her charges in a July 2016 interview with The Guardian.[33] In October 2016, she said that, if sued by Trump, she intends to counter-sue.[37]

Jane Doe (1994)

A lawsuit filed in California in April 2016 accused Trump and Epstein of forcibly raping three 12 and 13-year-old girls at underage sex parties at Epstein's Manhattan residence in 1994.[38] The case was dismissed the following month. A second version of the lawsuit was filed in New York in June by a Jane Doe claiming to have been raped by the pair at four 1994 parties when she was 13 years old.[39] It was withdrawn in October as the plaintiff said she had received death threats.[40][41][42] A July investigation by The Guardian said that the lawsuits appeared to be organized by Norm Lubow, "who has been associated in the past with a range of disputed claims involving celebrities including OJ Simpson and Kurt Cobain."[43] Doe said in an interview with The Daily Mail that she along with others were recruited to the sex parties by Epstein's recruiter, who corroborates her story, and that Doe identified Trump from his TV show The Apprentice years after the attacks.[44]

E. Jean Carroll (1996)

Main article: E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump

On November 4, 2019, writer E. Jean Carroll filed a lawsuit against Trump, accusing him of defamation by claiming she lied about him raping her in 1995 or 1996. Carroll had first publicly disclosed the alleged sexual assault by Trump in June and said Trump's reaction had directly harmed her career and reputation.[45] Carroll said she was filing this lawsuit on behalf of each woman who has faced harassment, assault, or belittlement.[46] Trump stated that her allegation was a promotion strategy for her book titled What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, where she discloses details about the alleged assault. The White House Press Secretary responded to the lawsuit claiming it was "frivolous" and that the story was fake, "just like the author".[47]

In September 2020, the Justice Department argued that Trump had acted "within the scope" of the presidency when he called Carroll a liar, moved the case from a state court (which had recently denied Trump's motion to delay the case) to federal court, and sought to take over his defense. During the discovery phase, Trump could have been required to testify and to provide a DNA sample. Attorney general Bill Barr cited the Westfall Act as allowing the Justice Department to defend federal employees against civil liability for acts conducted in the normal course of their duties. Barr stated the White House had requested the Justice Department action and noted that taxpayers would pay any judgment should Carroll win the case.[48][49][50][51][52] Since government employees largely enjoy immunity from defamation suits, the Justice Department argued that Trump had spoken in his official capacity as president.[53] On October 27, federal judge Lewis Kaplan rejected that argument and allowed the suit to proceed considering Trump's actions as a private citizen[54]—not an officer of a federal agency (as the Justice Department claimed) but a constitutional officer.[55] On November 20, Kaplan ordered Trump's prior private attorneys to resume representing him in the case.[56] On November 25, the Department of Justice appealed Judge Kaplan's ruling in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.[57]

In June 2021, the Justice Department argued in a court brief that it should substitute itself as the defendant in the case because Trump had acted as a federal employee.[58]

Carroll filed a second lawsuit against Trump in November 2022 that renewed her claim of defamation due to additional statements Trump made and expanded her claim to battery under the Adult Survivors Act, a New York law that allows sexual-assault victims to file civil suits beyond expired statutes of limitations.[59] The trial for E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump began on April 25, 2023, in federal court at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.[60][61] On May 9, after deliberating for less than three hours, a jury of six men and three women in Manhattan federal court unanimously found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her by calling her a liar, rejecting his denial of the allegations, though they also did not find Trump liable for rape. The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages.[62]

A September 2023 partial summary judgment found Trump liable for defaming Carroll through his statements he made in 2019. A trial held January 16–26, 2024 awarded an additional $83.3 million in damages to Carroll.[63]

Summer Zervos (2007)

Summer Zervos was a contestant on the fifth season of The Apprentice, which filmed in 2005 and aired in 2006.[64][c] Subsequently, she contacted Trump in 2007, about a job after the show's completion, and he invited her to meet him at The Beverly Hills Hotel. Zervos has said that Trump was sexually suggestive during their meeting, kissing her open-mouthed, groping her breasts,[64] and thrusting his genitals on her.[66] She also has said that his behavior was aggressive and not consensual.[65] Zervos was represented by attorney Gloria Allred,[67] and later by Beth Wilkinson and Moira Penza, with whom she chose to end the case in 2021.[68]

John Barry, her cousin and a Trump supporter, has said Zervos talked to her family and friends about Trump, promoting his candidacy and stating how Trump had helped her out in her life. Barry said that during the presidential primary campaign, Zervos invited Trump to her restaurant, and he declined.[67][69] In October 2016, the Trump presidential campaign released an email by Zervos, sent to Trump's secretary in April 2016, in which she stated: "I would greatly appreciate reconnecting at this time. He will know my intentions are genuine." Zervos said she had intended to confront Trump and give him the "opportunity to clear the air". On April 21, she sent another email to Trump's assistant which she asked to be forwarded to Trump, in which she stated: "I have been incredibly hurt by our previous interaction."[69]

On January 17, 2017, Zervos filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump, arising from his statement that she had lied about the allegations.[70][71] Marc Kasowitz is defending Trump in the case.[72] Zervos has filed a subpoena for "all documents concerning any woman who asserted that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately".[73] On March 21, 2018, a New York Supreme Court judge decided to allow a defamation lawsuit against the President to go forward.[74][75][76] On June 4, 2018, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Schecter ruled that Trump must be deposed by January 31, 2019.[77]

As of September 9, 2018, Trump was to provide written answers under oath in the defamation lawsuit.[78]

On March 14, 2019, a New York appeals court rejected President Trump's argument that the Constitution makes him immune from state lawsuits, clearing the way for a defamation suit.[79][80] On November 2, 2019, Trump agreed to submit to questioning under oath by January 31, 2020.[81]

In January 2020, a New York intermediate appellate court put the defamation lawsuit on hold, until a New York court of appeals could decide the fate of the case. The case hold meant that the January 31, 2020, deadline for Trump to testify was also put on hold.[82]

In February 2021, following Trump's defeat in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Zervos refiled the lawsuit, arguing that Trump can no longer make the legal argument that presidential immunity protects him from litigation, as he is no longer president. On March 30, 2021, the New York state Court of Appeals ruled in her favor.[83] Trump was instructed to provide a deposition by December 23, 2021.[84] On November 12, Zervos withdrew from the case. Her attorneys said that Trump did not pay her to withdraw and that she "has secured the right to speak freely about her experience".[68]

Alva Johnson (2016)

On February 25, 2019, Alva Johnson filed a lawsuit against Trump, alleging he had forcibly kissed her at a rally in Florida in August 2016 while she was working on his 2016 presidential campaign.[85] Johnson said two people—including Pam Bondi, then the attorney general of Florida—saw the kiss, but both denied seeing it.[86] According to an interview with Teen Vogue, Johnson decided to stop working for the Trump campaign after the media started covering the Access Hollywood tape. She declared sick days until she could speak to a lawyer.[87] In addition to the "unwanted sexual attention", the lawsuit also alleges that Johnson was "a victim of race and gender discrimination through unequal pay".[87][88] In response, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called the lawsuit "absurd on its face".[86]

On June 14, 2019, the trial court dismissed the complaint without prejudice to allow Johnson to plead a count for battery without any descriptions of Trump's other alleged acts of sexual battery, and to provide necessary details regarding claims of discrimination.[89][non-primary source needed] On September 4, 2019, Johnson filed a notice that she was not filing an amended complaint, ending the lawsuit.[89] Johnson decided to drop the lawsuit because she was "facing a judge who openly questions whether the kiss is worthy of a federal lawsuit and has determined that Mr. Trump's history of such behavior is not relevant, and I've endured ongoing threats to my safety."[90]

The New York Times May 2016 story

In May 2016, The New York Times published the article "Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved with Women in Private". For the article, Times reporters Michael Barbaro and Megan Twohey conducted 50 interviews with women who had known Trump socially, during their professional career, or while modeling or competing for a beauty pageant title.[36]

Their accounts—many relayed here in their own words—reveal unwelcome romantic advances, unending commentary on the female form, a shrewd reliance on ambitious women, and unsettling workplace conduct, according to the interviews, as well as court records and written recollections. The interactions occurred in his offices at Trump Tower, at his homes, at construction sites and backstage at beauty pageants. They appeared to be fleeting, unimportant moments to him, but they left lasting impressions on the women who experienced them.

Other women interviewed for the story, a few of whom had worked for Trump, stated they had not received unwanted advances and "they had never known Mr. Trump to objectify women or treat them with disrespect." Jill Martin, a vice president and assistant counsel at the company, said Trump was supportive of her and her role as a mother. Laura Kirilova Chukanov, a Bulgarian immigrant and 2009 Miss USA pageant contestant, said Trump helped her make connections for a documentary she was working on about her home country.[36]

Rowanne Brewer Lane, Trump's former girlfriend, was quoted at length in the article and was featured in the opening anecdote. Following the article's publication, Brewer Lane accused The New York Times of taking her quotes out of context and said she was "flattered" and not insulted by Trump. Trump spokesperson Barry Bennett responded to the story by stating: "They talked to 50 women and managed to put seven or eight in the story. Over half of them had great things to say. The one that had great things to say, they twisted it and called her debased which is not how she feels." The New York Times defended the story and said Brewer Lane was "quoted fairly, accurately and at length".[91]

Recording controversy and second 2016 presidential debate

Main article: Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape
 
Billy Bush was recorded having "an extremely lewd conversation about women" with Trump in 2005.

Two days before the second 2016 presidential debate, the 2005 Access Hollywood tape was released, which records Trump's having "an extremely lewd conversation about women" in which he described being able to kiss and grope women because he was "a star": "You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it, you can do anything ... grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."[92] Many attorneys and media commentators have said Trump's statements described sexual assault.[d]

On October 7, Trump released a video statement in which he stated, "I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize." He called the development a distraction and attempted to deflect attention to the Clintons, and in particular sexual assault scandals involving Bill Clinton. Republican critics called on him to withdraw from the presidential race.[92]

During the second debate, Anderson Cooper asked Trump if he understood that he had bragged about sexually assaulting women. Cooper used the Justice Department's sexual assault definition to include "any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient".[102][103] Trump denied having said that he had sexually assaulted women.[103][104] He claimed the comments were merely "locker room talk", then, after being asked three times whether he had ever kissed or groped any person without consent, he said "no I have not".[104] Several of his subsequent accusers said this was the moment at which they were motivated to come forward.[105][106][107]

Public allegations since 2016

Jessica Leeds (1980s)

In the early 1980s, Leeds was a businesswoman at a paper company on a flight from the Midwest, returning to New York. A flight attendant offered her an empty seat in the first-class cabin next to Trump. Leeds alleged that about 45 minutes after takeoff, Trump lifted the armrest and began touching her, grabbing her breasts, and tried to put his hand up her skirt. "He was like an octopus," she said. "His hands were everywhere. It was an assault."[105][108] Leeds said she had sent a letter containing her allegations to the editor of The New York Times.[when?][19][105] Her story was printed by The New York Times in October 2016, along with the account from Rachel Crooks.[105]

Trump spokesman Jason Miller responded to the allegation calling it "fiction". Miller stated the charges were politically motivated "for this to only become public decades later in the final month of a campaign for president should say it all." Trump publicly threatened to sue the Times over the newspaper's publication of the allegation, and demanded a retraction.[109][110] The Times rejected Trump's retraction demand,[110][111] and Trump never followed through on his threat to take legal action against the company.[112] An alleged witness to the case who claimed he saw "nothing untoward" upon the flight was former British Conservative county councillor from Gloucestershire, Anthony Gilberthorpe. Gilberthorpe has previously made false allegations against politicians.[113]

Kristin Anderson (1990s)

On October 14, 2016, The Washington Post reported an allegation by Kristin Anderson.[114] Anderson said that Trump groped her beneath her skirt in a Manhattan nightclub in the early 1990s. An aspiring model at the time of the alleged incident, Anderson told the story to her friends, and decided to come forward after reading accounts of other women who had done so.[114] Anderson believed the alleged assault occurred at the China Club, a Manhattan nightclub that Newsday referred to as "Donald's Monday-night nest" due to his alleged habit of picking up women there.[114]

Lisa Boyne (1996)

On October 13, 2016, The Huffington Post reported an allegation by Lisa Boyne.[115] Boyne said Sonja Morgan (then Sonja Tremont) invited her to a dinner with Trump, modeling agent John Casablancas, and five or six models. Boyne alleged that Trump made the models walk across the table, looked under their skirts, and described if they were wearing underwear. Morgan told The Huffington Post that the dinner took place with those participants, did not recall lewd behaviour by Trump, and said: "But I have been known to dance on tables." Boyne said she called her roommate Karen Beatrice that night to inform her about the incident. The Huffington Post contacted Beatrice, who denied any such call.[115]

Cathy Heller (1997)

On October 15, 2016, The Guardian reported an allegation by Cathy Heller that she was grabbed and kissed by Donald Trump two decades earlier.[116] Heller said that, in 1997, she met Trump when she attended a Mother's Day brunch with her children, her husband, and her husband's parents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Her parents-in-law were members of Mar-a-Lago. Heller was introduced to Trump, who became angry when she avoided a kiss. He then "grabbed" her and, when he tried to kiss her, she turned her head. Trump kissed her on the side of the mouth "for a little too long" and then he left her.[116][117]

Heller's husband and children, who were present during the event, have corroborated her account. In the summer of 2015, the members of Heller's mahjong group heard Heller's account of the 1997 incident; this was not long after Trump announced his candidacy.[118] She decided to go public after seeing the second presidential debate on October 9, 2016. Heller is a registered Democrat, and public supporter of Hillary Clinton.[116]

Trump campaign spokesperson Jason Miller said Heller's account is "false" and "politically motivated".[118]

Temple Taggart McDowell (1997)

In May 2016, The New York Times reported allegations by Temple Taggart McDowell.[119] McDowell, who was Miss Utah USA in 1997, accused Trump of unwanted kisses and embraces that left McDowell and one of her chaperones so uncomfortable, according to McDowell, that she claimed she was instructed not to be left in a room alone with him again. According to McDowell, a chaperone had accompanied her to Trump's office.[119] At the time, McDowell was 21 and was known as Temple Taggart.[19] This incident occurred in Trump's first year of ownership of the Miss USA contest.[19]

McDowell told her story initially to The New York Times in May 2016[119] which was published in the "Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private" article.[36] She had not intended to speak publicly about the incidents again, but she received numerous calls recently due to the "Crossing the Line" article and felt, as a mother, that it is important to share a message about unwanted advances: "You have the right to say no. You have the right to get out of there. You have the right to leave, and you have the right to make them feel uncomfortable if they're making you feel uncomfortable," she said. Trump said he does not know her and denied McDowell's claims.[119] He also told The New York Times he is "reluctant to kiss strangers on the lips".[19]

Taggart McDowell said she is a Republican, and not coming out with the allegation in order to support Hillary Clinton.[120]

Amy Dorris (1997)

Former model Amy Dorris said in September 2020 that she and her boyfriend, Jason Binn, attended the 1997 U.S. Open with Donald Trump, who Binn had described as his best friend. She alleges that Trump groped and kissed her without her consent at the event. The Guardian confirmed that she told her mother and a friend in New York immediately after the incident and that she had told her therapist and several other friends about it over the years; Binn did not reply to The Guardian's request for comment. Trump denied the allegation via his lawyers.[121] Former top model Caron Bernstein stated that her husband was the New York friend and that Dorris had told her about the assault in 2008.[122]

Karena Virginia (1998)

At an October 2016 press conference with attorney Gloria Allred, yoga instructor and life coach Karena Virginia said that in 1998 Trump grabbed her arm and touched her breast. Virginia, who was 27 years old at the time, was waiting for a ride after the US Open in Queens, New York.[123] She said Trump, whom she had not met previously, approached her with a small group of other men, while commenting on her legs, then he grabbed her right arm. Virginia continued, "Then his hand touched the right side of my breast. I was in shock. I flinched. 'Don't you know who I am? Don't you know who I am?'—that's what he said to me. I felt intimidated and I felt powerless."[123]

Trump campaign spokesperson Jessica Ditto responded to the allegation with a statement reading in part, "Discredited political operative Gloria Allred, in another coordinated, publicity seeking attack with the Clinton campaign, will stop at nothing to smear Mr. Trump."[124]

Karen Johnson (early 2000s)

In Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy's book All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator, Karen Johnson alleged that she attended a New Year's Eve party at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, where Trump grabbed her by her genitals, pulled her behind a tapestry, and forcibly kissed her. Johnson also alleged that days after the incident, Trump repeatedly called her (without her giving him the phone number), offering to fly her to meet him, which she rejected. The book states that Johnson told a friend about the incident years before Trump ran for president.[125][126]

Mindy McGillivray (2003)

In an October 2016 article by The Palm Beach Post, Mindy McGillivray stated that in January 2003, when she was 23 years old, she was groped by Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate.[19][107] She said, "All of a sudden I felt a grab, a little nudge. I think it's [my friend Ken Davidoff's] camera bag, that was my first instinct. I turn around and there's Donald. He sort of looked away quickly."[19] Ken Davidoff, a photographer, corroborated McGillivray's account, saying he remembered her pulling him aside moments after the alleged incident to say "Donald just grabbed my ass!"[107]

McGillivray said she "chose to stay quiet"[104] and never reported the incident to authorities. She had shared details of the incident only with close family and friends until she heard Trump deny such behavior during the second presidential debate on October 9, 2016.[107] Hope Hicks, Trump's press secretary, said McGillivray's allegations lacked "any merit or veracity" and were untruthful.[104]

Ken Davidoff's brother, Darryl Davidoff, said he was also present at the time at Mar-a-Lago and that in his opinion McGillivray is lying.[127][128] According to Darryl: "I do not believe it really happened. Nobody saw it happen and she just wanted to be in the limelight."[127][e]

Rachel Crooks (2005)

In 2005, Rachel Crooks was a 22-year-old receptionist at Bayrock Group, a real estate investment and development company in Trump Tower in Manhattan. She says she encountered Trump in an elevator in the building one morning and turned to introduce herself. They shook hands, but Trump would not let go. Instead, he began kissing her cheeks, then directly on the mouth.[105][108] "It was so inappropriate," Crooks recalled in an interview. "I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that."[108] Her story was printed by The New York Times in October 2016, along with that of Jessica Leeds.[105] Trump has disputed Crooks' claims,[19] writing on Twitter, "Who would do this in a public space with live security cameras running?"[129] Crooks is a public supporter and donor to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.[108]

Natasha Stoynoff (2005)

Canadian author and journalist Natasha Stoynoff, who wrote for People magazine and, previously, the Toronto Star and Toronto Sun, went to Trump's Florida estate in December 2005 to interview him and his wife, Melania. While there, Trump gave Stoynoff a tour of the Mar-a-Lago estate. She says that during this tour, he pushed her against a wall and forced his tongue into her mouth.[19][104]

Stoynoff described the alleged episode, "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 ... 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."[106] Stoynoff composed herself and conducted the interview,[19] after which she said Trump repeatedly told her, "We're going to have an affair, I'm telling you."[104][106] Melania was also interviewed for that article.[106]

Trump sent out a tweet on October 13, 2016, in which he said it had not happened and wondered why she had not mentioned the event in her People article of 2005.[19] Stoynoff responded that she had become angry when Trump denied assaulting women during the presidential debate and was triggered by the release of the Access Hollywood recording in early October. Until that point, she said, she had conflicting emotions common among victims of assault, combined with embarrassment and confusion. J.D. Heyman, People's deputy editor, said: "It was disorienting for her. She felt a great deal of worry and distress about it. Then she felt angry."[130]

That same day, Melania's lawyer demanded an apology from People magazine, stating that Melania did not say some or all of what was quoted in the People article by Stoynoff published on October 12, 2016; Melania specifically denied Stoynoff's claim that she'd run into her on Fifth Avenue following the article's publication.[131] In an interview with Anderson Cooper that aired October 17 on CNN, Melania again denied having crossed paths with Stoynoff on Fifth Avenue, as stated in Stoynoff's article. The following day, People published the account of Liza Herz. Herz said she witnessed the sidewalk encounter between Stoynoff and Melania Trump; Herz' account corroborated that of Stoynoff.[132]

On October 18, People produced six corroborating witnesses who said Stoynoff had recounted the incident to them around the time it occurred.[132] The six witnesses were: "two editors from People, Mary Green and Liz McNeil; a professor of journalism, Paul McLaughlin; a co-worker; and two personal friends of Ms. Stoynoff".[133]

Trump's former butler at Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Anthony Senecal, was asked about the 2005 incident in which Stoynoff alleged that the butler had "burst in" on Trump while she was pinned down by him; Senecal denied it ever happened, stating that as a butler "I don't burst in. I knock, then I go in, usually after someone says 'come in'," further alleging "And when I went in, there was nothing strange about where she was standing."[134][135] According to Senecal, the alleged incident took place in an old massage room with windows all around which made it unsuitable to grope anyone since there was no privacy.[134]

Juliet Huddy (2005 or 2006)

In early December 2017, the reporter Juliet Huddy said Trump kissed her on the lips while they were on an elevator in Trump Tower with Trump's security guard in 2005 or 2006. Regarding this incident, Huddy said "I was surprised that he went for the lips. But I didn't feel threatened ... Whatever, everything was fine. It was a weird moment. He never tried anything after that, and I was never alone with him."[136][137]

Jessica Drake (2006)

On October 22, 2016, Jessica Drake and attorney Gloria Allred held a news conference in which Drake accused Trump of having sexually assaulted her by grabbing tightly in a hug and kissed her and two acquaintances nearly ten years prior. Drake, an adult film actress and sex education advocate, said she met Trump at her company's booth during a charity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe in 2006. Drake claims she was invited to meet with Trump, who was married at the time, at his hotel suite; she was "uncomfortable going alone" and brought two friends. Describing the meeting with Trump, Drake recounted that "He grabbed each of us tightly, in a hug and kissed each one of us without asking permission."[138] Drake said she and her friends left the suite after 30–45 minutes. Shortly thereafter, Drake claims she received phone calls from Trump or his associate, requesting that she join him in his suite for $10,000, and offering to fly her on his jet back to Los Angeles. She said she declined his offers.[138]

During the news conference, Drake said, "I am not looking for monetary compensation. I do not need additional fame ... I understand that I may be called a liar or an opportunist but I will risk that in order to stand in solidarity with women who share similar accounts."[138][139] During the news conference, Gloria Allred held up a picture showing Trump and Drake standing together at the time.[138]

In response to Drake's allegations, the Trump campaign stated that her story is "false and ridiculous", that "[t]he picture is one of thousands taken out of respect for people asking to have their picture taken with Mr. Trump" but Trump did not know Drake and "would have no interest in ever knowing her", and that the story was "just another attempt by the Clinton campaign to defame a candidate".[140] Donald Trump appeared to dismiss the significance of the accusation because of Drake's line of work, saying, "Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before."[141][142]

Ninni Laaksonen (2006)

On October 27, 2016, a local Finnish tabloid, Ilta-Sanomat, reported an allegation by Ninni Laaksonen, Miss Finland 2006.[143] Laaksonen appeared with Trump on the Late Show with David Letterman on July 26, 2006.[144] Laaksonen claims that before they went on the air, Trump grabbed her buttocks. As Laaksonen describes the interaction: "He really grabbed my butt. I don't think anybody saw it but I flinched and thought: "What is happening?"[144] Someone later told Laaksonen that Trump liked her because she looked like his wife, Melania, when she was younger.[145][146][147]

Laaksonen revealed her account to a local Finnish tabloid, Ilta-Sanomat, which had contacted her regarding the level of professionalism involved in Donald Trump's handling of his employees within the Miss Universe pageant. The story was published on October 27, 2016.[143]

Cassandra Searles (2013)

In October 2016, Rolling Stone and NPR reported Trump fondled Cassandra Searles, Miss Washington USA of 2013, without her consent during the Miss USA pageant of that year.[19][148] In June 2016, Searles wrote that Trump invited her to his hotel room.[19] Yahoo! News published an article in June 2016[19] stating that Searles had made Facebook postings that accused Trump of making unwanted advances. She said he was "continually" groping her buttocks and had asked her to go "to his hotel room".[19][148][149] Searles also asserted that Trump had "treated us like cattle".[149] Trump and his campaign have not specifically responded to Searles' allegations.[19]

Allegations of underage sex parties

On October 25, 2016, allegations were made by two men stating that Trump had attended and partaken in sex parties filled with underage minor females as young as 15 years old who were induced with promises of career advancement.[150] Illegal drugs were also alleged to have been provided to the minors.[151]

One man was identified as model and actor Andy Lucchesi, while the other was identified as a fashion photographer who spoke on condition of anonymity. Both men claim to have been acquaintances of Trump during that decade, which one described as his "Trump days".[150]

The anonymous witness said Trump had sex with the girls, going from room to room, saying "[Trump would] wander off with a couple girls. I saw him. He was getting laid like crazy. Trump was at the heart of it. He loved the attention and in private, he was a total f*cking beast." He claimed the parties were attended by minors as young as 15 years of age, adding "I was there [only] to party myself. It was [other] guys with younger girls, sex, a lot of sex, a lot of cocaine, top-shelf liquor."[152]

Lucchesi, for his part, claimed that he saw Trump engage in sexual activity with the girls but did not witness him taking illicit drugs. In regards to the age of the girls, Lucchesi said he himself never specifically asked about their ages, only remarking of the attendees "a lot of girls, [aged] 14, look 24."[153]

Pageant dressing room visits

Trump owned the Miss Universe franchise, which includes Miss USA and Miss Teen USA, from 1996 to 2015.[119][148] In a Howard Stern interview in 2005, he said he made a practice of walking into the contestants' dressing rooms unannounced while the women were undressed:

I'll go backstage before a show, and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else. ...You know, no men are anywhere. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant. And therefore I'm inspecting it. ... Is everyone OK? You know, they're standing there with no clothes. And you see these incredible-looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that. But no, I've been very good.[148][154]

In that interview, Trump declined to say whether he had slept with any contestants, saying, "It could be a conflict of interest". Stern then imitated a foreign contestant ("Mr. Trump, in my country, we say hello with vagina"), and Trump jokingly responded, "Well, you could also say, as the owner of the pageant, it's your obligation to do that."[155][148]

Miss Teen USA contestants (1997)

Mariah Billado, Miss Vermont Teen USA, is one of five women to mention such a dressing room visit incident in 1997.[156][157] Billado said of the visit: "I remember putting on my dress really quick, because I was like, 'Oh my god, there's a man in here.' Trump, she recalled, said something like, 'Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before.'"[19] Billado recalled talking to Ivanka, Trump's daughter, who responded "Yeah, he does that."[19] Victoria Hughes, Miss New Mexico Teen USA, also said Trump did conduct a dressing room visit, and that the youngest contestant there was 15.[157] The dressing room had 51 contestants, each with their own stations. Eleven girls said they did not see Trump enter the dressing room, though some said it was possible that he had entered while they were somewhere else, or that they didn't notice.[108][148][158] Of the 15 former contestants who were interviewed by BuzzFeed News, none alleged Trump said anything sexually explicit or made physical contact in the dressing room, and reportedly "Most of the former contestants were doubtful or dismissed the possibility that Trump violated their changing room privacy."[156]

Allison Bowman, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA, expressed skepticism: "these were teenage girls. If anything inappropriate had gone on, the gossip would have flown."[156] Trump's campaign stated the allegations of his entering the dressing room "have no merit and have already been disproven by many other individuals who were present".[159]

Bridget Sullivan (2000)

In 2000, Bridget Sullivan was Miss New Hampshire USA. As she prepared for a television broadcast, Trump allegedly walked into the dressing room. She told BuzzFeed he was coming to wish the contestants good luck, but they "were all naked". Some contestants that night do not remember his entering while the ladies prepared and other contestants mentioned that they had no negative experiences with Trump. A spokesman for Trump said Sullivan's claims were "totally false".[19]

Tasha Dixon (2001)

Tasha Dixon, Miss Arizona USA 2001, told a CBS affiliate in Los Angeles that in 2001, "[Trump] just came strolling right in. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless, other girls were naked." She said that having been walked in on when the women had little or no clothes put them in a "very physically vulnerable position, and then to have the pressure of the people that work for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him ..." Another contestant, Miss California USA 2009 Carrie Prejean Boller, told the same CBS affiliate it was wrong to paint Trump that way.[160] Trump's response, provided through spokeswoman Jessica Ditto, is that: "These accusations have no merit and have already been disproven by many other individuals who were present," and Ditto adds that she believes there is a political motivation behind the accusation.[19]

Unnamed contestants (2001)

An unnamed Miss USA contestant said that in 2001 Trump walked into her dressing room unannounced while she and another contestant were undressed. She told The Guardian Trump "just barged right in, didn't say anything, stood there and stared at us. ... He didn't walk in and say, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, I was looking for someone.' He walked in, he stood and he stared. He was doing it because he knew that he could." Another contestant told The Guardian the contestant had spoken to others of this event at the time.[19]

Samantha Holvey (2006)

On October 14, 2016, Samantha Carol Holvey, Miss North Carolina USA 2006, related that "Trump's conduct was 'creepy' around the women participating but he never made an advance toward her." She also said that before pageant events, Trump had "moved into areas where she and other contestants were getting ready", and that she had "never been around men that were like that".[161]

More than a year after Trump was elected president, and after many high-profile men, such as Harvey Weinstein, had lost their jobs because of sexual harassment allegations, Holvey wrote: "You can't work in Hollywood if you're a sexual predator, but you can become the commander-in-chief?" She then related how Trump made her feel very uncomfortable at the 2006 Miss USA pageant: "He eyed me like a piece of meat. I was shocked and disgusted. I have never felt so objectified. I left the meet-and-greet hoping that this would be my one and only encounter with him." She also described how he had come backstage unannounced, with Melania Trump: "I was shocked—again—by this violation of our personal space. What was he doing, coming backstage when we were still getting dressed?"[162]

Other incidents

In 1992, Trump appeared on NBC News' show A Closer Look, hosted by Faith Daniels. During the show, Daniels said Trump (divorced at the time) agreed to make an appearance because: "You kissed me on the lips in front of the paparazzi, and I said, 'That'll cost you. I'm booking you on the show.'" Trump replied that the kiss was "so open and nice", and that he thought Daniels' husband "had his back turned at the time". Trump had invited NBC News to film a party he threw for himself and Jeffrey Epstein at Mar-a-Lago, where they joined various NFL cheerleaders; the kiss incident occurred there. NBC News revealed footage of the party in July 2019, showing Trump, Epstein and the cheerleaders. At one point during the video, Trump grabbed a woman around her waist, pulled her against his body, and patted her buttocks. At another point, Trump appears to tell Epstein: "Look at her, back there ... She's hot."[163][164][165]

In a 1998 interview with Chris Matthews, two years before his 2000 presidential campaign, Trump said that his history with women could prove to be an issue in the event of a future presidential campaign, saying "Can you imagine how controversial I'd be?...You think about (Bill Clinton) with the women. How about me with the women? Can you imagine?"[166]

A 2002 article in New York magazine quoted Trump talking about Jeffrey Epstein: "I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it, Jeffrey enjoys his social life."[167] In 2008 Epstein pleaded guilty to charges involving child prostitution. In 2019 he was charged with child sex trafficking; he died in his cell before facing trial.[168]

CNN posted a video in 2016 describing various sexually suggestive comments that Trump has made publicly about his daughter Ivanka.[169]

Reactions

Comparisons to other behavior

Shaun R. Harper, executive director of the Penn Graduate Center for Education, has said that "many men talk like Donald Trump"; objectifying women and saying offensive things about them. He puts Trump in a class of men whose behavior sometimes includes sexual assault and degrading women.[170] The Economist drew similar parallels, pointing to research that objectifying women can make sexual assault more likely.[171] NPR reported that Trump has exhibited questionable behavior in his treatment of women for some time, using offensive language to describe women including Megyn Kelly, Rosie O'Donnell, and former Miss Universe Alicia Machado.[172] Arwa Mahdawi of The Guardian called his past remarks a "masterclass in rape culture", pointing to statements such as "26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military—only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men and women together?" and "women, you have to treat 'em like shit."[173][174] On October 13, 2016, a transcript from a 1994 Primetime Live interview was unearthed where Trump states "I tell friends who treat their wives magnificently, get treated like crap in return, 'Be rougher and you'll see a different relationship.'"[175]

Trump's self-assessment

A Voice of America video showing Trump stating, "I have no idea who these women are."

Trump has presented himself as a political martyr in the face of these accusations.[176][f] He declared "this is a conspiracy against you, the American people", saying "the Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself" and that "the Clinton machine is at the center of this power structure."[177] In his next speech, he said The New York Times reporters are "corporate lobbyists" for minority shareholder Carlos Slim and Hillary Clinton, suggesting Slim's motivation is that he "comes from Mexico".[178] Trump also said the accusers may instead have been motivated by fame or money.[178] He went on to wonder why President Barack Obama had not been accused yet, and denied the Jessica Leeds allegation by saying "she would not be my first choice."[178]

In the third 2016 presidential debate, Trump repeated his claims: "I think they want either fame or her campaign did it and I think it's her campaign."[179] At a speech at Gettysburg outlining his vision for his first 100 days, he repeated his denials and stated "all of these liars will be sued after the election is over."[180] By 2017, however, Trump had not filed suit against any of his accusers.[181]

Trump family

Melania Trump has responded to the allegations by charging Trump's accusers with lying. Melania has insisted her husband is a "gentleman" and claimed that he had become a victim of a conspiracy involving the news media and the Clinton campaign.[182][183] Melania also advocates that it is important to check the background of these women before confiding in them, as the accusations can be a strategy of the opposition party to defame the President.[184]

Although Ivanka Trump has claimed to be shocked over Trump's 2005 lewd Access Hollywood tapes, calling them "inappropriate and offensive", she has refused directly to address the issue of her father's alleged sexual assault.[185] In contrast, Donald Trump Jr. described the 2005 comments as "a fact of life",[186] and Eric Trump dismissed all allegations of assault as "dirty tricks" from the Clinton campaign.[187]

Trump campaign

Leeds's and Crooks's allegations, published by The New York Times on October 13, were disputed by Trump's campaign as having "no merit or veracity". The campaign alleged that the Times had a vendetta against Trump.[188] The Los Angeles Times stated that they verified the stories with friends and family members of the accusers to ensure that the stories had been relayed to them earlier.[188] The Trump campaign issued this statement through its spokesman Jason Miller:[19]

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. It is absurd to think that one of the most recognizable business leaders on the planet with a strong record of empowering women in his companies would do the things alleged in this story, and for this to become public only decades later in the final month of a campaign for president should say it all. Further, the Times story buries the pro-Clinton financial and social media activity on behalf of Hillary Clinton's candidacy, reinforcing that this truly is nothing more than a political attack. This is a sad day for the Times.

Trump's campaign staff also stated that the Stoynoff and McGillivray accusations were without merit.[104]

Trump's attorneys

Trump's attorneys demanded a retraction of the Times article and an apology for what they said was a "libelous article"[104]—defamation designed to destroy Trump's run for president.[188] David McCraw, assistant general counsel for the Times, responded on October 13, 2016, to the libel claims from Trump's attorney. He said Trump's reputation is damaged and "could not be further affected" due to his own statements, like those he made on the Howard Stern show. McCraw continues, "it would have been a disservice not just to our readers but to democracy itself to silence [the accusers'] voices."[189] In response to the request to retract the story, McCraw said, "We decline to do so" and that Trump was free to pursue the matter in court.[190]

Trump's attorney, Michael D. Cohen, has defended Trump by saying the accusers are not women Trump would find to be attractive.[g]

The Trump administration

In October 2017, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked if "the official White House position that all of these women are lying", in reference to the sexual harassment claims against Trump by at least 16 women. Sanders replied, "Yeah, we've been clear on that from the beginning, and the president's spoken on it".[192] In November 2017, Trump criticized Senator Al Franken in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against Franken. This resulted in Sanders describing "a very clear distinction" between the allegations against Trump and Franken: "Franken has admitted wrongdoing and the president hasn't".[193]

In December 2017, after several of Trump's accusers called on Trump to resign, Sanders said, "the president has addressed these accusations directly and denied all of these allegations, [which] took place long before he was elected." Since Americans elected Trump to office "at a decisive election", Sanders said, "we feel like these allegations have been answered through that process."[194]

#WhyWomenDontReport

Further information: Post-assault treatment of sexual assault victims

The hashtag #WhyWomenDontReport started trending on Twitter in response to the Trump campaign's statements that the accusers lack credibility.[195] Many commentators disputed the claim that the timing of the allegations during the presidential campaign has a bearing on how likely the events were. The range of reasons given for why women are reluctant to immediately report sexual assault included fear of reprisals, fear that no one will believe them, the low likelihood of obtaining justice against the assailant, and the traumatic experience of having to be reminded of the event.[195] Liz Plank points out that Trump's accusers are now experiencing all these factors since coming forward.[196] Civil rights lawyer Debra Katz and others point out that high-profile cases tend to encourage victims to speak up, even years later.[197][198]

Tom Tremblay, a police specialist in sexual assault, says: "Victims may wait days, weeks, months, years, decades ... When one victim comes forward, it's not at all uncommon to see other victims come forward, who are thinking, 'Well, they came forward; now it's not just my word.'"[199]

Susan Dominus, writing for The New York Times Magazine, hopes this backlash against Trump will lead more people to believe women's stories in the future.[200]

Smear allegations

The Washington Times online opinion editor and Fox News contributor Monica Crowley said in October 2016 that the accusations come across as a "classical political hit job" on Trump.[201] Fox and Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt said the allegations were "definitely coordinated" and questioned why the media had given more coverage to the allegations than the Podesta emails.[202]

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said he was not skeptical of the stories, but "I think it's good to be skeptical when you have stories that are 30 years old that come out days before an election."[203] Fox News Media analyst Howard Kurtz wrote in a column that it was "possible to find the allegations troubling while also questioning their timing and whether it's no accident that the women are breaking their silence a month before the election."[202]

Michelle Obama's speech

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The day after The New York Times reported the allegations, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a widely praised speech on women's experiences of sexism and sexually predatory behavior.[204][205][206] Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post said the speech "will go down as one of the most important of this political cycle, a moment in which she crystallized the feelings of many women in the wake of the Trump tape".[204]

Michelle Obama had planned to deliver her normal campaign speech, but said during her speech it would have been "dishonest and disingenuous" to do so, as she felt compelled to address Trump's remarks on women.[207] The speech was "a message she'd been seeking to deliver for a long time about Donald Trump's cruel language toward women".[208] In her speech Obama denounced the Trump tape and Trump's alleged advances: "This was a powerful individual speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behavior, and actually bragging about kissing and groping women ... And to make matters worse, it now seems very clear that this isn't an isolated incident." Her speech discussed the history of similar behavior, and the obstacles it places in women's lives, her voice occasionally trembling with emotion:[206]

It's that feeling of terror and violation that too many women have felt when someone has grabbed them, or forced himself on them and they've said no but he didn't listen—something that we know happens on college campuses and countless other places every single day. It reminds us of stories we heard from our mothers and grandmothers about how, back in their day, the boss could say and do whatever he pleased to the women in the office, and even though they worked so hard, jumped over every hurdle to prove themselves, it was never enough.

Public response

A survey conducted by YouGov in October 2016 found that 43 percent of respondents found the allegations to be credible. Republicans were least likely to find the allegations credible, and only 19 percent of Republicans thought sexual assault would disqualify Trump from the presidency.[209] A year after the election, and after the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations and subsequent Me Too movement, 86 percent of Clinton voters found the allegations credible, while only 6 percent of Trump voters did.[210]

Other reactions

In June 2020, the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law called for a government inquiry into Trump's sexual misconduct, arguing that existing civil litigation and media accounts had not adequately addressed Trump's sexual misconduct.[211]

In 2021, Andrew Prokop argued in an article for Vox that Trump calculated that his populist appeal and cult of personality would make Republican Party elites afraid to cross him, allowing him to weather the allegations. Prokop also suggested that the Republican Party was less inclined to show that they take sexual misconduct allegations seriously.[212]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The title is a reference to the 1974 book All the President's Men, about former President Richard Nixon's inner circle and their attempts to protect him during the Watergate scandal which led to his impeachment and resignation.
  2. ^ The financial settlement following the Trumps' divorce was made later in 1991.[22][23]
  3. ^ The Associated Press interviewed more than 20 people who had worked on The Apprentice television show for an article. The group included contestants, editors and crew members who described commonly hearing offensive and sexist comments. For instance, Trump talked about what women he wanted to have sex with. The article stated also that he "rated female contestants by the size of their breasts".[65]
  4. ^ Grabbing someone's vulva without consent is considered sexual assault in most jurisdictions in the United States.[93][94][95][96] Trump and some of his supporters claim that Trump was not saying he committed a sexual assault, or asserted that groping is not sexual assault.[97][98][99] Journalist Emily Crockett says this is further evidence of a trend to minimize sexual assaults against women.[100] John Banzhaf, a public interest law professor at George Washington University, stated that "if Trump suddenly and without any warning reached out and grabbed a woman's crotch or breast, it would rather clearly constitute sexual assault," and that Trump's remarks may imply consent, pointing to Trump's statement "and when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."[101]
  5. ^ Ken Davidoff has claimed that Darryl made the statement casting doubt on McGillivray's allegation in order to protect the family photography business.[127]
  6. ^

    I take all of these slings and arrows, gladly, for you. I take them for our movement, so that we can have our country back. Our great civilization here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning ... This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization itself. I didn't need to do this, folks, believe me—believe me. I built a great company and I had a wonderful life. I could have enjoyed the fruits and benefits of years of successful business deals and businesses for myself and my family. Instead of going through this absolute horror show of lies, deceptions, malicious attacks—who would have thought? I'm doing it because this country has given me so much, and I feel so strongly that it's my turn to give back to the country that I love. Many of my friends and many political experts warned me that this campaign would be a journey to hell—said that. But they're wrong. It will be a journey to heaven, because we will help so many people that are so desperately in need of help."

    — Donald Trump[177]
  7. ^ According to Cohen:

    Beauty is in the eye of beholder ... these aren't even women he'd be attracted to. I think what Mr. Trump is really trying to say is that they're not somebody that he would be attracted to, and therefore, the whole thing is nonsense.[191]

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Donald Trump the president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 has been accused of rape sexual assault and sexual harassment including non consensual kissing or groping by at least 25 women since the 1970s 1 2 In October 2016 Trump publicly vowed to sue all the women who have made allegations of sexual misconduct against him as well as The New York Times for publishing the allegations 3 4 Litigation includes his then wife Ivana s rape claim during their 1990 divorce she later recanted 5 businesswoman Jill Harth s 1997 lawsuit alleging breach of contract and sexual harassment she settled the former claim and forfeited the latter and former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos s claim of sexual misconduct followed by a 2017 defamation lawsuit after Trump accused her of lying 6 she withdrew her defamation case in 2021 7 In June 2019 writer E Jean Carroll alleged in New York magazine that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in 1995 or 1996 The magazine said two friends of Carroll confirmed that Carroll had previously confided in them in regard to the incident Trump called the allegation fiction and denied ever meeting Carroll although New York had published a photo of Trump and Carroll together in 1987 8 9 10 On May 9 2023 a New York jury in civil case found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against Carroll but found him not liable for rape They awarded Carroll 5 million in damages 11 A September 2023 partial summary judgment again found Trump liable for defaming Carroll On January 26 2024 Trump was ordered to pay Carroll an additional 83 3 million in damages 12 Two of the allegations by Ivana Trump and Jill Harth became public before Trump s candidacy for president but the rest arose after a 2005 audio recording was leaked during the 2016 presidential campaign Trump was recorded bragging that a celebrity like himself can do anything to women including just start kissing them I don t even wait and grab em by the pussy Trump subsequently characterized those comments as locker room talk and denied actually behaving that way toward women and he also apologized for the crude language Many of his accusers stated that Trump s denials provoked them into going public with their allegations Another type of accusation was made primarily after the audio recording surfaced by several former Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contestants who accused Trump of entering the dressing rooms of beauty pageant contestants Trump who owned the Miss Universe franchise which includes both pageants was accused of going into dressing rooms in 1997 2000 2001 and 2006 while contestants were in various stages of undress Trump had already referred to this practice during a 2005 interview on The Howard Stern Show saying he could get away with things like that because he owned the beauty pageants in which the women and girls were competing In October 2019 the book All the President s Women Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator a by Barry Levine and Monique El Faizy was published containing 43 additional allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump 13 14 Trump has denied all the allegations against him saying he has been the victim of media bias conspiracies and a political smear campaign 15 16 17 18 Contents 1 Accusations filed in court against Trump 1 1 Ivana Trump 1989 1 2 Jill Harth 1992 1 3 Jane Doe 1994 1 4 E Jean Carroll 1996 1 5 Summer Zervos 2007 1 6 Alva Johnson 2016 2 The New York Times May 2016 story 3 Recording controversy and second 2016 presidential debate 4 Public allegations since 2016 4 1 Jessica Leeds 1980s 4 2 Kristin Anderson 1990s 4 3 Lisa Boyne 1996 4 4 Cathy Heller 1997 4 5 Temple Taggart McDowell 1997 4 6 Amy Dorris 1997 4 7 Karena Virginia 1998 4 8 Karen Johnson early 2000s 4 9 Mindy McGillivray 2003 4 10 Rachel Crooks 2005 4 11 Natasha Stoynoff 2005 4 12 Juliet Huddy 2005 or 2006 4 13 Jessica Drake 2006 4 14 Ninni Laaksonen 2006 4 15 Cassandra Searles 2013 5 Allegations of underage sex parties 6 Pageant dressing room visits 6 1 Miss Teen USA contestants 1997 6 2 Bridget Sullivan 2000 6 3 Tasha Dixon 2001 6 4 Unnamed contestants 2001 6 5 Samantha Holvey 2006 7 Other incidents 8 Reactions 8 1 Comparisons to other behavior 8 2 Trump s self assessment 8 3 Trump family 8 4 Trump campaign 8 5 Trump s attorneys 8 6 The Trump administration 8 7 WhyWomenDontReport 8 8 Smear allegations 8 9 Michelle Obama s speech 8 10 Public response 8 11 Other reactions 9 See also 10 Notes 11 ReferencesAccusations filed in court against TrumpMain articles Legal affairs of Donald Trump and List of lawsuits involving Donald Trump Ivana Trump 1989 nbsp Ivana and Donald Trump in 1985Ivana Trump and Donald Trump married in 1977 5 Ivana stated in a deposition taken in 1990 during their divorce proceedings that Donald had visited her plastic surgeon following which he had expressed anger and ripped out hair from her scalp 5 Donald said the allegation was obviously false 19 The book Lost Tycoon The Many Lives of Donald Trump 1993 by Harry Hurt III described the alleged attack as a violent assault during which Donald attacked Ivana sexually 19 According to the book Ivana later confided to some of her friends that Donald had raped her 19 In a statement given just before the publication of Hurt s book and included in the book Ivana said O n one occasion during 1989 Mr Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our marriage As a woman I felt violated as the love and tenderness which he normally exhibited towards me was absent I referred to this as a rape but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense 19 The Trumps divorce was granted in December 1990 20 on grounds that Donald s treatment of Ivana including his affair with Marla Maples was cruel and inhuman 21 According to Donald Trump s lawyer Jay Goldberg this was based on Trump s having been seen in public with Marla Maples in 1990 20 Their settlement b had a confidentiality clause preventing Ivana from discussing the marriage or the divorce 5 24 In 1992 Trump sued Ivana for not honoring a gag clause in their divorce agreement by disclosing facts about him in her best selling book and Trump won a gag order 25 26 27 Years later Ivana said she and Donald are the best of friends 5 In a July 2015 campaign endorsement Ivana said I have recently read some comments attributed to me from nearly 30 years ago at a time of very high tension during my divorce from Donald The story is totally without merit 28 29 Jill Harth 1992 Jill Harth alleged that Trump assaulted her several times Harth has stated that in December 1992 while dining with Trump and her then boyfriend George Houraney Trump attempted to put his hands between her legs 5 Harth and Houraney visited Trump s Mar a Lago estate in Florida in January 1993 for a contract signing celebration Trump according to Harth offered her a tour before pulling her into the empty bedroom of his daughter Ivanka I was admiring the decoration and next thing I know he s pushing me against a wall and has his hands all over me He was trying to kiss me I was freaking out Harth says she desperately protested against Trump s advances and eventually managed to run out of the room She and her boyfriend left rather than stay the night as they had intended 5 After she became engaged Harth alleges Trump began to stalk her 19 Harth filed a lawsuit in 1997 in which she accused Trump of non consensual groping of her body among them her intimate private parts 30 31 and relentless sexual harassment 32 The suit was withdrawn after Houraney settled with Trump for an undisclosed amount in a lawsuit that claimed Trump had backed out of a business deal 5 33 She still claims to have been sexually assaulted 5 and although he was never violent with her she says his actions were unwanted and aggressive very sexually aggressive 19 Following the incident Harth said she received a couple years of therapy In 2015 she contacted Trump s campaign to get a job as a makeup artist and sell her men s cosmetic product line She later said Yes I had moved on but had not forgotten the pain Trump brought into my life I was older wiser Trump was married to Melania and I had hoped he was a changed man 34 She worked at one of Trump s rallies as a makeup artist Of the experience she said I m a makeup artist The guy is a mess OK He really needed my services and I m a makeup artist that needs a job Why would if I was on friendly terms why wouldn t I try to get that job 19 Harth s lawsuit was first published in February 2016 by LawNewz com 35 Her case was first published in May 2016 19 in The New York Times article Crossing the Line 36 Trump characterized her story in the Times as false malicious and libelous and he strongly denies the claims 19 Harth stood by her charges in a July 2016 interview with The Guardian 33 In October 2016 she said that if sued by Trump she intends to counter sue 37 Jane Doe 1994 A lawsuit filed in California in April 2016 accused Trump and Epstein of forcibly raping three 12 and 13 year old girls at underage sex parties at Epstein s Manhattan residence in 1994 38 The case was dismissed the following month A second version of the lawsuit was filed in New York in June by a Jane Doe claiming to have been raped by the pair at four 1994 parties when she was 13 years old 39 It was withdrawn in October as the plaintiff said she had received death threats 40 41 42 A July investigation by The Guardian said that the lawsuits appeared to be organized by Norm Lubow who has been associated in the past with a range of disputed claims involving celebrities including OJ Simpson and Kurt Cobain 43 Doe said in an interview with The Daily Mail that she along with others were recruited to the sex parties by Epstein s recruiter who corroborates her story and that Doe identified Trump from his TV show The Apprentice years after the attacks 44 E Jean Carroll 1996 Main article E Jean Carroll v Donald J Trump On November 4 2019 writer E Jean Carroll filed a lawsuit against Trump accusing him of defamation by claiming she lied about him raping her in 1995 or 1996 Carroll had first publicly disclosed the alleged sexual assault by Trump in June and said Trump s reaction had directly harmed her career and reputation 45 Carroll said she was filing this lawsuit on behalf of each woman who has faced harassment assault or belittlement 46 Trump stated that her allegation was a promotion strategy for her book titled What Do We Need Men For A Modest Proposal where she discloses details about the alleged assault The White House Press Secretary responded to the lawsuit claiming it was frivolous and that the story was fake just like the author 47 In September 2020 the Justice Department argued that Trump had acted within the scope of the presidency when he called Carroll a liar moved the case from a state court which had recently denied Trump s motion to delay the case to federal court and sought to take over his defense During the discovery phase Trump could have been required to testify and to provide a DNA sample Attorney general Bill Barr cited the Westfall Act as allowing the Justice Department to defend federal employees against civil liability for acts conducted in the normal course of their duties Barr stated the White House had requested the Justice Department action and noted that taxpayers would pay any judgment should Carroll win the case 48 49 50 51 52 Since government employees largely enjoy immunity from defamation suits the Justice Department argued that Trump had spoken in his official capacity as president 53 On October 27 federal judge Lewis Kaplan rejected that argument and allowed the suit to proceed considering Trump s actions as a private citizen 54 not an officer of a federal agency as the Justice Department claimed but a constitutional officer 55 On November 20 Kaplan ordered Trump s prior private attorneys to resume representing him in the case 56 On November 25 the Department of Justice appealed Judge Kaplan s ruling in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 57 In June 2021 the Justice Department argued in a court brief that it should substitute itself as the defendant in the case because Trump had acted as a federal employee 58 Carroll filed a second lawsuit against Trump in November 2022 that renewed her claim of defamation due to additional statements Trump made and expanded her claim to battery under the Adult Survivors Act a New York law that allows sexual assault victims to file civil suits beyond expired statutes of limitations 59 The trial for E Jean Carroll v Donald J Trump began on April 25 2023 in federal court at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 60 61 On May 9 after deliberating for less than three hours a jury of six men and three women in Manhattan federal court unanimously found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her by calling her a liar rejecting his denial of the allegations though they also did not find Trump liable for rape The jury awarded Carroll 5 million in compensatory and punitive damages 62 A September 2023 partial summary judgment found Trump liable for defaming Carroll through his statements he made in 2019 A trial held January 16 26 2024 awarded an additional 83 3 million in damages to Carroll 63 Summer Zervos 2007 Summer Zervos was a contestant on the fifth season of The Apprentice which filmed in 2005 and aired in 2006 64 c Subsequently she contacted Trump in 2007 about a job after the show s completion and he invited her to meet him at The Beverly Hills Hotel Zervos has said that Trump was sexually suggestive during their meeting kissing her open mouthed groping her breasts 64 and thrusting his genitals on her 66 She also has said that his behavior was aggressive and not consensual 65 Zervos was represented by attorney Gloria Allred 67 and later by Beth Wilkinson and Moira Penza with whom she chose to end the case in 2021 68 John Barry her cousin and a Trump supporter has said Zervos talked to her family and friends about Trump promoting his candidacy and stating how Trump had helped her out in her life Barry said that during the presidential primary campaign Zervos invited Trump to her restaurant and he declined 67 69 In October 2016 the Trump presidential campaign released an email by Zervos sent to Trump s secretary in April 2016 in which she stated I would greatly appreciate reconnecting at this time He will know my intentions are genuine Zervos said she had intended to confront Trump and give him the opportunity to clear the air On April 21 she sent another email to Trump s assistant which she asked to be forwarded to Trump in which she stated I have been incredibly hurt by our previous interaction 69 On January 17 2017 Zervos filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump arising from his statement that she had lied about the allegations 70 71 Marc Kasowitz is defending Trump in the case 72 Zervos has filed a subpoena for all documents concerning any woman who asserted that Donald J Trump touched her inappropriately 73 On March 21 2018 a New York Supreme Court judge decided to allow a defamation lawsuit against the President to go forward 74 75 76 On June 4 2018 Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Schecter ruled that Trump must be deposed by January 31 2019 77 As of September 9 2018 update Trump was to provide written answers under oath in the defamation lawsuit 78 On March 14 2019 a New York appeals court rejected President Trump s argument that the Constitution makes him immune from state lawsuits clearing the way for a defamation suit 79 80 On November 2 2019 Trump agreed to submit to questioning under oath by January 31 2020 81 In January 2020 a New York intermediate appellate court put the defamation lawsuit on hold until a New York court of appeals could decide the fate of the case The case hold meant that the January 31 2020 deadline for Trump to testify was also put on hold 82 In February 2021 following Trump s defeat in the 2020 U S presidential election Zervos refiled the lawsuit arguing that Trump can no longer make the legal argument that presidential immunity protects him from litigation as he is no longer president On March 30 2021 the New York state Court of Appeals ruled in her favor 83 Trump was instructed to provide a deposition by December 23 2021 84 On November 12 Zervos withdrew from the case Her attorneys said that Trump did not pay her to withdraw and that she has secured the right to speak freely about her experience 68 Alva Johnson 2016 On February 25 2019 Alva Johnson filed a lawsuit against Trump alleging he had forcibly kissed her at a rally in Florida in August 2016 while she was working on his 2016 presidential campaign 85 Johnson said two people including Pam Bondi then the attorney general of Florida saw the kiss but both denied seeing it 86 According to an interview with Teen Vogue Johnson decided to stop working for the Trump campaign after the media started covering the Access Hollywood tape She declared sick days until she could speak to a lawyer 87 In addition to the unwanted sexual attention the lawsuit also alleges that Johnson was a victim of race and gender discrimination through unequal pay 87 88 In response White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called the lawsuit absurd on its face 86 On June 14 2019 the trial court dismissed the complaint without prejudice to allow Johnson to plead a count for battery without any descriptions of Trump s other alleged acts of sexual battery and to provide necessary details regarding claims of discrimination 89 non primary source needed On September 4 2019 Johnson filed a notice that she was not filing an amended complaint ending the lawsuit 89 Johnson decided to drop the lawsuit because she was facing a judge who openly questions whether the kiss is worthy of a federal lawsuit and has determined that Mr Trump s history of such behavior is not relevant and I ve endured ongoing threats to my safety 90 The New York Times May 2016 storyIn May 2016 The New York Times published the article Crossing the Line How Donald Trump Behaved with Women in Private For the article Times reporters Michael Barbaro and Megan Twohey conducted 50 interviews with women who had known Trump socially during their professional career or while modeling or competing for a beauty pageant title 36 Their accounts many relayed here in their own words reveal unwelcome romantic advances unending commentary on the female form a shrewd reliance on ambitious women and unsettling workplace conduct according to the interviews as well as court records and written recollections The interactions occurred in his offices at Trump Tower at his homes at construction sites and backstage at beauty pageants They appeared to be fleeting unimportant moments to him but they left lasting impressions on the women who experienced them Other women interviewed for the story a few of whom had worked for Trump stated they had not received unwanted advances and they had never known Mr Trump to objectify women or treat them with disrespect Jill Martin a vice president and assistant counsel at the company said Trump was supportive of her and her role as a mother Laura Kirilova Chukanov a Bulgarian immigrant and 2009 Miss USA pageant contestant said Trump helped her make connections for a documentary she was working on about her home country 36 Rowanne Brewer Lane Trump s former girlfriend was quoted at length in the article and was featured in the opening anecdote Following the article s publication Brewer Lane accused The New York Times of taking her quotes out of context and said she was flattered and not insulted by Trump Trump spokesperson Barry Bennett responded to the story by stating They talked to 50 women and managed to put seven or eight in the story Over half of them had great things to say The one that had great things to say they twisted it and called her debased which is not how she feels The New York Times defended the story and said Brewer Lane was quoted fairly accurately and at length 91 Recording controversy and second 2016 presidential debateMain article Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape nbsp Billy Bush was recorded having an extremely lewd conversation about women with Trump in 2005 Two days before the second 2016 presidential debate the 2005 Access Hollywood tape was released which records Trump s having an extremely lewd conversation about women in which he described being able to kiss and grope women because he was a star You know I m automatically attracted to beautiful I just start kissing them It s like a magnet Just kiss I don t even wait And when you re a star they let you do it you can do anything grab them by the pussy You can do anything 92 Many attorneys and media commentators have said Trump s statements described sexual assault d On October 7 Trump released a video statement in which he stated I said it I was wrong and I apologize He called the development a distraction and attempted to deflect attention to the Clintons and in particular sexual assault scandals involving Bill Clinton Republican critics called on him to withdraw from the presidential race 92 During the second debate Anderson Cooper asked Trump if he understood that he had bragged about sexually assaulting women Cooper used the Justice Department s sexual assault definition to include any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient 102 103 Trump denied having said that he had sexually assaulted women 103 104 He claimed the comments were merely locker room talk then after being asked three times whether he had ever kissed or groped any person without consent he said no I have not 104 Several of his subsequent accusers said this was the moment at which they were motivated to come forward 105 106 107 Public allegations since 2016Jessica Leeds 1980s In the early 1980s Leeds was a businesswoman at a paper company on a flight from the Midwest returning to New York A flight attendant offered her an empty seat in the first class cabin next to Trump Leeds alleged that about 45 minutes after takeoff Trump lifted the armrest and began touching her grabbing her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt He was like an octopus she said His hands were everywhere It was an assault 105 108 Leeds said she had sent a letter containing her allegations to the editor of The New York Times when 19 105 Her story was printed by The New York Times in October 2016 along with the account from Rachel Crooks 105 Trump spokesman Jason Miller responded to the allegation calling it fiction Miller stated the charges were politically motivated for this to only become public decades later in the final month of a campaign for president should say it all Trump publicly threatened to sue the Times over the newspaper s publication of the allegation and demanded a retraction 109 110 The Times rejected Trump s retraction demand 110 111 and Trump never followed through on his threat to take legal action against the company 112 An alleged witness to the case who claimed he saw nothing untoward upon the flight was former British Conservative county councillor from Gloucestershire Anthony Gilberthorpe Gilberthorpe has previously made false allegations against politicians 113 Kristin Anderson 1990s On October 14 2016 The Washington Post reported an allegation by Kristin Anderson 114 Anderson said that Trump groped her beneath her skirt in a Manhattan nightclub in the early 1990s An aspiring model at the time of the alleged incident Anderson told the story to her friends and decided to come forward after reading accounts of other women who had done so 114 Anderson believed the alleged assault occurred at the China Club a Manhattan nightclub that Newsday referred to as Donald s Monday night nest due to his alleged habit of picking up women there 114 Lisa Boyne 1996 On October 13 2016 The Huffington Post reported an allegation by Lisa Boyne 115 Boyne said Sonja Morgan then Sonja Tremont invited her to a dinner with Trump modeling agent John Casablancas and five or six models Boyne alleged that Trump made the models walk across the table looked under their skirts and described if they were wearing underwear Morgan told The Huffington Post that the dinner took place with those participants did not recall lewd behaviour by Trump and said But I have been known to dance on tables Boyne said she called her roommate Karen Beatrice that night to inform her about the incident The Huffington Post contacted Beatrice who denied any such call 115 Cathy Heller 1997 On October 15 2016 The Guardian reported an allegation by Cathy Heller that she was grabbed and kissed by Donald Trump two decades earlier 116 Heller said that in 1997 she met Trump when she attended a Mother s Day brunch with her children her husband and her husband s parents at his Mar a Lago estate Her parents in law were members of Mar a Lago Heller was introduced to Trump who became angry when she avoided a kiss He then grabbed her and when he tried to kiss her she turned her head Trump kissed her on the side of the mouth for a little too long and then he left her 116 117 Heller s husband and children who were present during the event have corroborated her account In the summer of 2015 the members of Heller s mahjong group heard Heller s account of the 1997 incident this was not long after Trump announced his candidacy 118 She decided to go public after seeing the second presidential debate on October 9 2016 Heller is a registered Democrat and public supporter of Hillary Clinton 116 Trump campaign spokesperson Jason Miller said Heller s account is false and politically motivated 118 Temple Taggart McDowell 1997 In May 2016 The New York Times reported allegations by Temple Taggart McDowell 119 McDowell who was Miss Utah USA in 1997 accused Trump of unwanted kisses and embraces that left McDowell and one of her chaperones so uncomfortable according to McDowell that she claimed she was instructed not to be left in a room alone with him again According to McDowell a chaperone had accompanied her to Trump s office 119 At the time McDowell was 21 and was known as Temple Taggart 19 This incident occurred in Trump s first year of ownership of the Miss USA contest 19 McDowell told her story initially to The New York Times in May 2016 119 which was published in the Crossing the Line How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private article 36 She had not intended to speak publicly about the incidents again but she received numerous calls recently due to the Crossing the Line article and felt as a mother that it is important to share a message about unwanted advances You have the right to say no You have the right to get out of there You have the right to leave and you have the right to make them feel uncomfortable if they re making you feel uncomfortable she said Trump said he does not know her and denied McDowell s claims 119 He also told The New York Times he is reluctant to kiss strangers on the lips 19 Taggart McDowell said she is a Republican and not coming out with the allegation in order to support Hillary Clinton 120 Amy Dorris 1997 Former model Amy Dorris said in September 2020 that she and her boyfriend Jason Binn attended the 1997 U S Open with Donald Trump who Binn had described as his best friend She alleges that Trump groped and kissed her without her consent at the event The Guardian confirmed that she told her mother and a friend in New York immediately after the incident and that she had told her therapist and several other friends about it over the years Binn did not reply to The Guardian s request for comment Trump denied the allegation via his lawyers 121 Former top model Caron Bernstein stated that her husband was the New York friend and that Dorris had told her about the assault in 2008 122 Karena Virginia 1998 At an October 2016 press conference with attorney Gloria Allred yoga instructor and life coach Karena Virginia said that in 1998 Trump grabbed her arm and touched her breast Virginia who was 27 years old at the time was waiting for a ride after the US Open in Queens New York 123 She said Trump whom she had not met previously approached her with a small group of other men while commenting on her legs then he grabbed her right arm Virginia continued Then his hand touched the right side of my breast I was in shock I flinched Don t you know who I am Don t you know who I am that s what he said to me I felt intimidated and I felt powerless 123 Trump campaign spokesperson Jessica Ditto responded to the allegation with a statement reading in part Discredited political operative Gloria Allred in another coordinated publicity seeking attack with the Clinton campaign will stop at nothing to smear Mr Trump 124 Karen Johnson early 2000s In Barry Levine and Monique El Faizy s book All the President s Women Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator Karen Johnson alleged that she attended a New Year s Eve party at Trump s Mar a Lago estate where Trump grabbed her by her genitals pulled her behind a tapestry and forcibly kissed her Johnson also alleged that days after the incident Trump repeatedly called her without her giving him the phone number offering to fly her to meet him which she rejected The book states that Johnson told a friend about the incident years before Trump ran for president 125 126 Mindy McGillivray 2003 In an October 2016 article by The Palm Beach Post Mindy McGillivray stated that in January 2003 when she was 23 years old she was groped by Trump at his Mar a Lago estate 19 107 She said All of a sudden I felt a grab a little nudge I think it s my friend Ken Davidoff s camera bag that was my first instinct I turn around and there s Donald He sort of looked away quickly 19 Ken Davidoff a photographer corroborated McGillivray s account saying he remembered her pulling him aside moments after the alleged incident to say Donald just grabbed my ass 107 McGillivray said she chose to stay quiet 104 and never reported the incident to authorities She had shared details of the incident only with close family and friends until she heard Trump deny such behavior during the second presidential debate on October 9 2016 107 Hope Hicks Trump s press secretary said McGillivray s allegations lacked any merit or veracity and were untruthful 104 Ken Davidoff s brother Darryl Davidoff said he was also present at the time at Mar a Lago and that in his opinion McGillivray is lying 127 128 According to Darryl I do not believe it really happened Nobody saw it happen and she just wanted to be in the limelight 127 e Rachel Crooks 2005 In 2005 Rachel Crooks was a 22 year old receptionist at Bayrock Group a real estate investment and development company in Trump Tower in Manhattan She says she encountered Trump in an elevator in the building one morning and turned to introduce herself They shook hands but Trump would not let go Instead he began kissing her cheeks then directly on the mouth 105 108 It was so inappropriate Crooks recalled in an interview I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that 108 Her story was printed by The New York Times in October 2016 along with that of Jessica Leeds 105 Trump has disputed Crooks claims 19 writing on Twitter Who would do this in a public space with live security cameras running 129 Crooks is a public supporter and donor to Hillary Clinton s presidential campaign 108 Natasha Stoynoff 2005 Canadian author and journalist Natasha Stoynoff who wrote for People magazine and previously the Toronto Star and Toronto Sun went to Trump s Florida estate in December 2005 to interview him and his wife Melania While there Trump gave Stoynoff a tour of the Mar a Lago estate She says that during this tour he pushed her against a wall and forced his tongue into her mouth 19 104 Stoynoff described the alleged episode 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 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 106 Stoynoff composed herself and conducted the interview 19 after which she said Trump repeatedly told her We re going to have an affair I m telling you 104 106 Melania was also interviewed for that article 106 Trump sent out a tweet on October 13 2016 in which he said it had not happened and wondered why she had not mentioned the event in her People article of 2005 19 Stoynoff responded that she had become angry when Trump denied assaulting women during the presidential debate and was triggered by the release of the Access Hollywood recording in early October Until that point she said she had conflicting emotions common among victims of assault combined with embarrassment and confusion J D Heyman People s deputy editor said It was disorienting for her She felt a great deal of worry and distress about it Then she felt angry 130 That same day Melania s lawyer demanded an apology from People magazine stating that Melania did not say some or all of what was quoted in the People article by Stoynoff published on October 12 2016 Melania specifically denied Stoynoff s claim that she d run into her on Fifth Avenue following the article s publication 131 In an interview with Anderson Cooper that aired October 17 on CNN Melania again denied having crossed paths with Stoynoff on Fifth Avenue as stated in Stoynoff s article The following day People published the account of Liza Herz Herz said she witnessed the sidewalk encounter between Stoynoff and Melania Trump Herz account corroborated that of Stoynoff 132 On October 18 People produced six corroborating witnesses who said Stoynoff had recounted the incident to them around the time it occurred 132 The six witnesses were two editors from People Mary Green and Liz McNeil a professor of journalism Paul McLaughlin a co worker and two personal friends of Ms Stoynoff 133 Trump s former butler at Mar a Lago resort in Florida Anthony Senecal was asked about the 2005 incident in which Stoynoff alleged that the butler had burst in on Trump while she was pinned down by him Senecal denied it ever happened stating that as a butler I don t burst in I knock then I go in usually after someone says come in further alleging And when I went in there was nothing strange about where she was standing 134 135 According to Senecal the alleged incident took place in an old massage room with windows all around which made it unsuitable to grope anyone since there was no privacy 134 Juliet Huddy 2005 or 2006 In early December 2017 the reporter Juliet Huddy said Trump kissed her on the lips while they were on an elevator in Trump Tower with Trump s security guard in 2005 or 2006 Regarding this incident Huddy said I was surprised that he went for the lips But I didn t feel threatened Whatever everything was fine It was a weird moment He never tried anything after that and I was never alone with him 136 137 Jessica Drake 2006 On October 22 2016 Jessica Drake and attorney Gloria Allred held a news conference in which Drake accused Trump of having sexually assaulted her by grabbing tightly in a hug and kissed her and two acquaintances nearly ten years prior Drake an adult film actress and sex education advocate said she met Trump at her company s booth during a charity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe in 2006 Drake claims she was invited to meet with Trump who was married at the time at his hotel suite she was uncomfortable going alone and brought two friends Describing the meeting with Trump Drake recounted that He grabbed each of us tightly in a hug and kissed each one of us without asking permission 138 Drake said she and her friends left the suite after 30 45 minutes Shortly thereafter Drake claims she received phone calls from Trump or his associate requesting that she join him in his suite for 10 000 and offering to fly her on his jet back to Los Angeles She said she declined his offers 138 During the news conference Drake said I am not looking for monetary compensation I do not need additional fame I understand that I may be called a liar or an opportunist but I will risk that in order to stand in solidarity with women who share similar accounts 138 139 During the news conference Gloria Allred held up a picture showing Trump and Drake standing together at the time 138 In response to Drake s allegations the Trump campaign stated that her story is false and ridiculous that t he picture is one of thousands taken out of respect for people asking to have their picture taken with Mr Trump but Trump did not know Drake and would have no interest in ever knowing her and that the story was just another attempt by the Clinton campaign to defame a candidate 140 Donald Trump appeared to dismiss the significance of the accusation because of Drake s line of work saying Oh I m sure she s never been grabbed before 141 142 Ninni Laaksonen 2006 On October 27 2016 a local Finnish tabloid Ilta Sanomat reported an allegation by Ninni Laaksonen Miss Finland 2006 143 Laaksonen appeared with Trump on the Late Show with David Letterman on July 26 2006 144 Laaksonen claims that before they went on the air Trump grabbed her buttocks As Laaksonen describes the interaction He really grabbed my butt I don t think anybody saw it but I flinched and thought What is happening 144 Someone later told Laaksonen that Trump liked her because she looked like his wife Melania when she was younger 145 146 147 Laaksonen revealed her account to a local Finnish tabloid Ilta Sanomat which had contacted her regarding the level of professionalism involved in Donald Trump s handling of his employees within the Miss Universe pageant The story was published on October 27 2016 143 Cassandra Searles 2013 In October 2016 Rolling Stone and NPR reported Trump fondled Cassandra Searles Miss Washington USA of 2013 without her consent during the Miss USA pageant of that year 19 148 In June 2016 Searles wrote that Trump invited her to his hotel room 19 Yahoo News published an article in June 2016 19 stating that Searles had made Facebook postings that accused Trump of making unwanted advances She said he was continually groping her buttocks and had asked her to go to his hotel room 19 148 149 Searles also asserted that Trump had treated us like cattle 149 Trump and his campaign have not specifically responded to Searles allegations 19 Allegations of underage sex partiesOn October 25 2016 allegations were made by two men stating that Trump had attended and partaken in sex parties filled with underage minor females as young as 15 years old who were induced with promises of career advancement 150 Illegal drugs were also alleged to have been provided to the minors 151 One man was identified as model and actor Andy Lucchesi while the other was identified as a fashion photographer who spoke on condition of anonymity Both men claim to have been acquaintances of Trump during that decade which one described as his Trump days 150 The anonymous witness said Trump had sex with the girls going from room to room saying Trump would wander off with a couple girls I saw him He was getting laid like crazy Trump was at the heart of it He loved the attention and in private he was a total f cking beast He claimed the parties were attended by minors as young as 15 years of age adding I was there only to party myself It was other guys with younger girls sex a lot of sex a lot of cocaine top shelf liquor 152 Lucchesi for his part claimed that he saw Trump engage in sexual activity with the girls but did not witness him taking illicit drugs In regards to the age of the girls Lucchesi said he himself never specifically asked about their ages only remarking of the attendees a lot of girls aged 14 look 24 153 Pageant dressing room visitsTrump owned the Miss Universe franchise which includes Miss USA and Miss Teen USA from 1996 to 2015 119 148 In a Howard Stern interview in 2005 he said he made a practice of walking into the contestants dressing rooms unannounced while the women were undressed I ll go backstage before a show and everyone s getting dressed and ready and everything else You know no men are anywhere And I m allowed to go in because I m the owner of the pageant And therefore I m inspecting it Is everyone OK You know they re standing there with no clothes And you see these incredible looking women And so I sort of get away with things like that But no I ve been very good 148 154 In that interview Trump declined to say whether he had slept with any contestants saying It could be a conflict of interest Stern then imitated a foreign contestant Mr Trump in my country we say hello with vagina and Trump jokingly responded Well you could also say as the owner of the pageant it s your obligation to do that 155 148 Miss Teen USA contestants 1997 Mariah Billado Miss Vermont Teen USA is one of five women to mention such a dressing room visit incident in 1997 156 157 Billado said of the visit I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like Oh my god there s a man in here Trump she recalled said something like Don t worry ladies I ve seen it all before 19 Billado recalled talking to Ivanka Trump s daughter who responded Yeah he does that 19 Victoria Hughes Miss New Mexico Teen USA also said Trump did conduct a dressing room visit and that the youngest contestant there was 15 157 The dressing room had 51 contestants each with their own stations Eleven girls said they did not see Trump enter the dressing room though some said it was possible that he had entered while they were somewhere else or that they didn t notice 108 148 158 Of the 15 former contestants who were interviewed by BuzzFeed News none alleged Trump said anything sexually explicit or made physical contact in the dressing room and reportedly Most of the former contestants were doubtful or dismissed the possibility that Trump violated their changing room privacy 156 Allison Bowman Miss Wisconsin Teen USA expressed skepticism these were teenage girls If anything inappropriate had gone on the gossip would have flown 156 Trump s campaign stated the allegations of his entering the dressing room have no merit and have already been disproven by many other individuals who were present 159 Bridget Sullivan 2000 In 2000 Bridget Sullivan was Miss New Hampshire USA As she prepared for a television broadcast Trump allegedly walked into the dressing room She told BuzzFeed he was coming to wish the contestants good luck but they were all naked Some contestants that night do not remember his entering while the ladies prepared and other contestants mentioned that they had no negative experiences with Trump A spokesman for Trump said Sullivan s claims were totally false 19 Tasha Dixon 2001 Tasha Dixon Miss Arizona USA 2001 told a CBS affiliate in Los Angeles that in 2001 Trump just came strolling right in There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything Some girls were topless other girls were naked She said that having been walked in on when the women had little or no clothes put them in a very physically vulnerable position and then to have the pressure of the people that work for him telling us to go fawn all over him go walk up to him talk to him Another contestant Miss California USA 2009 Carrie Prejean Boller told the same CBS affiliate it was wrong to paint Trump that way 160 Trump s response provided through spokeswoman Jessica Ditto is that These accusations have no merit and have already been disproven by many other individuals who were present and Ditto adds that she believes there is a political motivation behind the accusation 19 Unnamed contestants 2001 An unnamed Miss USA contestant said that in 2001 Trump walked into her dressing room unannounced while she and another contestant were undressed She told The Guardian Trump just barged right in didn t say anything stood there and stared at us He didn t walk in and say Oh I m so sorry I was looking for someone He walked in he stood and he stared He was doing it because he knew that he could Another contestant told The Guardian the contestant had spoken to others of this event at the time 19 Samantha Holvey 2006 On October 14 2016 Samantha Carol Holvey Miss North Carolina USA 2006 related that Trump s conduct was creepy around the women participating but he never made an advance toward her She also said that before pageant events Trump had moved into areas where she and other contestants were getting ready and that she had never been around men that were like that 161 More than a year after Trump was elected president and after many high profile men such as Harvey Weinstein had lost their jobs because of sexual harassment allegations Holvey wrote You can t work in Hollywood if you re a sexual predator but you can become the commander in chief She then related how Trump made her feel very uncomfortable at the 2006 Miss USA pageant He eyed me like a piece of meat I was shocked and disgusted I have never felt so objectified I left the meet and greet hoping that this would be my one and only encounter with him She also described how he had come backstage unannounced with Melania Trump I was shocked again by this violation of our personal space What was he doing coming backstage when we were still getting dressed 162 Other incidentsIn 1992 Trump appeared on NBC News show A Closer Look hosted by Faith Daniels During the show Daniels said Trump divorced at the time agreed to make an appearance because You kissed me on the lips in front of the paparazzi and I said That ll cost you I m booking you on the show Trump replied that the kiss was so open and nice and that he thought Daniels husband had his back turned at the time Trump had invited NBC News to film a party he threw for himself and Jeffrey Epstein at Mar a Lago where they joined various NFL cheerleaders the kiss incident occurred there NBC News revealed footage of the party in July 2019 showing Trump Epstein and the cheerleaders At one point during the video Trump grabbed a woman around her waist pulled her against his body and patted her buttocks At another point Trump appears to tell Epstein Look at her back there She s hot 163 164 165 In a 1998 interview with Chris Matthews two years before his 2000 presidential campaign Trump said that his history with women could prove to be an issue in the event of a future presidential campaign saying Can you imagine how controversial I d be You think about Bill Clinton with the women How about me with the women Can you imagine 166 A 2002 article in New York magazine quoted Trump talking about Jeffrey Epstein I ve known Jeff for fifteen years Terrific guy He s a lot of fun to be with It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do and many of them are on the younger side No doubt about it Jeffrey enjoys his social life 167 In 2008 Epstein pleaded guilty to charges involving child prostitution In 2019 he was charged with child sex trafficking he died in his cell before facing trial 168 CNN posted a video in 2016 describing various sexually suggestive comments that Trump has made publicly about his daughter Ivanka 169 ReactionsComparisons to other behavior Shaun R Harper executive director of the Penn Graduate Center for Education has said that many men talk like Donald Trump objectifying women and saying offensive things about them He puts Trump in a class of men whose behavior sometimes includes sexual assault and degrading women 170 The Economist drew similar parallels pointing to research that objectifying women can make sexual assault more likely 171 NPR reported that Trump has exhibited questionable behavior in his treatment of women for some time using offensive language to describe women including Megyn Kelly Rosie O Donnell and former Miss Universe Alicia Machado 172 Arwa Mahdawi of The Guardian called his past remarks a masterclass in rape culture pointing to statements such as 26 000 unreported sexual assaults in the military only 238 convictions What did these geniuses expect when they put men and women together and women you have to treat em like shit 173 174 On October 13 2016 a transcript from a 1994 Primetime Live interview was unearthed where Trump states I tell friends who treat their wives magnificently get treated like crap in return Be rougher and you ll see a different relationship 175 Trump s self assessment source source source source source source track A Voice of America video showing Trump stating I have no idea who these women are Trump has presented himself as a political martyr in the face of these accusations 176 f He declared this is a conspiracy against you the American people saying the Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason to protect and enrich itself and that the Clinton machine is at the center of this power structure 177 In his next speech he said The New York Times reporters are corporate lobbyists for minority shareholder Carlos Slim and Hillary Clinton suggesting Slim s motivation is that he comes from Mexico 178 Trump also said the accusers may instead have been motivated by fame or money 178 He went on to wonder why President Barack Obama had not been accused yet and denied the Jessica Leeds allegation by saying she would not be my first choice 178 In the third 2016 presidential debate Trump repeated his claims I think they want either fame or her campaign did it and I think it s her campaign 179 At a speech at Gettysburg outlining his vision for his first 100 days he repeated his denials and stated all of these liars will be sued after the election is over 180 By 2017 however Trump had not filed suit against any of his accusers 181 Trump family Melania Trump has responded to the allegations by charging Trump s accusers with lying Melania has insisted her husband is a gentleman and claimed that he had become a victim of a conspiracy involving the news media and the Clinton campaign 182 183 Melania also advocates that it is important to check the background of these women before confiding in them as the accusations can be a strategy of the opposition party to defame the President 184 Although Ivanka Trump has claimed to be shocked over Trump s 2005 lewd Access Hollywood tapes calling them inappropriate and offensive she has refused directly to address the issue of her father s alleged sexual assault 185 In contrast Donald Trump Jr described the 2005 comments as a fact of life 186 and Eric Trump dismissed all allegations of assault as dirty tricks from the Clinton campaign 187 Trump campaign Leeds s and Crooks s allegations published by The New York Times on October 13 were disputed by Trump s campaign as having no merit or veracity The campaign alleged that the Times had a vendetta against Trump 188 The Los Angeles Times stated that they verified the stories with friends and family members of the accusers to ensure that the stories had been relayed to them earlier 188 The Trump campaign issued this statement through its spokesman Jason Miller 19 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 It is absurd to think that one of the most recognizable business leaders on the planet with a strong record of empowering women in his companies would do the things alleged in this story and for this to become public only decades later in the final month of a campaign for president should say it all Further the Times story buries the pro Clinton financial and social media activity on behalf of Hillary Clinton s candidacy reinforcing that this truly is nothing more than a political attack This is a sad day for the Times Trump s campaign staff also stated that the Stoynoff and McGillivray accusations were without merit 104 Trump s attorneys Trump s attorneys demanded a retraction of the Times article and an apology for what they said was a libelous article 104 defamation designed to destroy Trump s run for president 188 David McCraw assistant general counsel for the Times responded on October 13 2016 to the libel claims from Trump s attorney He said Trump s reputation is damaged and could not be further affected due to his own statements like those he made on the Howard Stern show McCraw continues it would have been a disservice not just to our readers but to democracy itself to silence the accusers voices 189 In response to the request to retract the story McCraw said We decline to do so and that Trump was free to pursue the matter in court 190 Trump s attorney Michael D Cohen has defended Trump by saying the accusers are not women Trump would find to be attractive g The Trump administration In October 2017 White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked if the official White House position that all of these women are lying in reference to the sexual harassment claims against Trump by at least 16 women Sanders replied Yeah we ve been clear on that from the beginning and the president s spoken on it 192 In November 2017 Trump criticized Senator Al Franken in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against Franken This resulted in Sanders describing a very clear distinction between the allegations against Trump and Franken Franken has admitted wrongdoing and the president hasn t 193 In December 2017 after several of Trump s accusers called on Trump to resign Sanders said the president has addressed these accusations directly and denied all of these allegations which took place long before he was elected Since Americans elected Trump to office at a decisive election Sanders said we feel like these allegations have been answered through that process 194 WhyWomenDontReport Further information Post assault treatment of sexual assault victims The hashtag WhyWomenDontReport started trending on Twitter in response to the Trump campaign s statements that the accusers lack credibility 195 Many commentators disputed the claim that the timing of the allegations during the presidential campaign has a bearing on how likely the events were The range of reasons given for why women are reluctant to immediately report sexual assault included fear of reprisals fear that no one will believe them the low likelihood of obtaining justice against the assailant and the traumatic experience of having to be reminded of the event 195 Liz Plank points out that Trump s accusers are now experiencing all these factors since coming forward 196 Civil rights lawyer Debra Katz and others point out that high profile cases tend to encourage victims to speak up even years later 197 198 Tom Tremblay a police specialist in sexual assault says Victims may wait days weeks months years decades When one victim comes forward it s not at all uncommon to see other victims come forward who are thinking Well they came forward now it s not just my word 199 Susan Dominus writing for The New York Times Magazine hopes this backlash against Trump will lead more people to believe women s stories in the future 200 Smear allegations The Washington Times online opinion editor and Fox News contributor Monica Crowley said in October 2016 that the accusations come across as a classical political hit job on Trump 201 Fox and Friends co host Ainsley Earhardt said the allegations were definitely coordinated and questioned why the media had given more coverage to the allegations than the Podesta emails 202 MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said he was not skeptical of the stories but I think it s good to be skeptical when you have stories that are 30 years old that come out days before an election 203 Fox News Media analyst Howard Kurtz wrote in a column that it was possible to find the allegations troubling while also questioning their timing and whether it s no accident that the women are breaking their silence a month before the election 202 Michelle Obama s speech External videos nbsp First Lady Michelle Obama live in Manchester New Hampshire Hillary Clinton 28 27 on YouTube speech about Trump sexual predation and women s experiencesThe day after The New York Times reported the allegations First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a widely praised speech on women s experiences of sexism and sexually predatory behavior 204 205 206 Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post said the speech will go down as one of the most important of this political cycle a moment in which she crystallized the feelings of many women in the wake of the Trump tape 204 Michelle Obama had planned to deliver her normal campaign speech but said during her speech it would have been dishonest and disingenuous to do so as she felt compelled to address Trump s remarks on women 207 The speech was a message she d been seeking to deliver for a long time about Donald Trump s cruel language toward women 208 In her speech Obama denounced the Trump tape and Trump s alleged advances This was a powerful individual speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behavior and actually bragging about kissing and groping women And to make matters worse it now seems very clear that this isn t an isolated incident Her speech discussed the history of similar behavior and the obstacles it places in women s lives her voice occasionally trembling with emotion 206 It s that feeling of terror and violation that too many women have felt when someone has grabbed them or forced himself on them and they ve said no but he didn t listen something that we know happens on college campuses and countless other places every single day It reminds us of stories we heard from our mothers and grandmothers about how back in their day the boss could say and do whatever he pleased to the women in the office and even though they worked so hard jumped over every hurdle to prove themselves it was never enough Public response A survey conducted by YouGov in October 2016 found that 43 percent of respondents found the allegations to be credible Republicans were least likely to find the allegations credible and only 19 percent of Republicans thought sexual assault would disqualify Trump from the presidency 209 A year after the election and after the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations and subsequent Me Too movement 86 percent of Clinton voters found the allegations credible while only 6 percent of Trump voters did 210 Other reactions In June 2020 the Michigan Journal of Gender amp Law called for a government inquiry into Trump s sexual 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Apprentice television show for an article The group included contestants editors and crew members who described commonly hearing offensive and sexist comments For instance Trump talked about what women he wanted to have sex with The article stated also that he rated female contestants by the size of their breasts 65 Grabbing someone s vulva without consent is considered sexual assault in most jurisdictions in the United States 93 94 95 96 Trump and some of his supporters claim that Trump was not saying he committed a sexual assault or asserted that groping is not sexual assault 97 98 99 Journalist Emily Crockett says this is further evidence of a trend to minimize sexual assaults against women 100 John Banzhaf a public interest law professor at George Washington University stated that if Trump suddenly and without any warning reached out and grabbed a woman s crotch or breast it would rather clearly constitute sexual assault and that Trump s remarks may imply consent pointing to Trump 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