What rock are you living under? You are either severely out of touch or in a deep state of denial.
Ninni Laaksonen - Laaksonen, a former Miss Finland,
told Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat that Trump groped her in July 2006 while she was in New York competing in the Miss Universe pageant.
Jessica Drake: Drake, an adult film actor and director, said in a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred that Trump grabbed her, kissed her without her consent and offered her $10,000 to have sex with him at a Lake Tahoe golf tournament.
Karena Virginia: Virginia said in a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred that Trump groped her while she was leaving the US Open in 1998. She said that she was waiting for a car to take her home when Trump approached her with a group of a few other men. According to Virginia he said, “Hey look at this one!” and “Look at those legs.”
Cathy Heller: Heller, now 63
, told The Guardian that the first and only time she interacted with Trump,
“he grabbed her, went for a kiss, and grew angry with her as she twisted away.” This was all while Heller was having Mother’s Day brunch at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, with her husband, in-laws and children.
Summer Zervos: Zervos, a contestant on season five of “The Apprentice” (and a self-described Republican) said in a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred that Trump assaulted her on several occasions. She said the first time, she met with Trump in his office and he kissed her on the mouth, which Zervos rationalized as simply a strange greeting. On a separate occasion, she said she met with Trump at the Beverly Hills Hotel to discuss business opportunities. Instead Trump grabbed her while she sat next to him and began kissing her and touching her breasts, Zervos said in her statement.
Trump later walked her into the bedroom, she told reporters, and “began thrusting his genitals.”
Kristin Anderson: Anderson says she was out at a Manhattan nightclub with friends, sitting on a red velvet couch, when she felt Trump
reach into her skirt and touch her vagina through her underwear, The Washington Post reports. She told the paper that the incident was brief, but that she and her friends were “very grossed out.” Anderson was in her early 20s at the time, and an aspiring model.
Jessica Leeds: More than 30 years ago, Leeds was traveling for work when she sat next to Trump on a flight to New York. Le
eds, who is now 74, told The New York Times that she and Trump spoke for a bit, then about 45 minutes into the flight he lifted the armrest between them and began to grab her breasts and put his hand up her skirt. “He was like an octopus,” she told The New York Times. “His hands were everywhere.”
Rachel Crooks: Crooks says she was assaulted by Trump in an elevator while working as a receptionist for a real estate investment and development company in Trump Tower.
She told The New York Times that upon meeting Trump, she introduced herself and shook his hand, but he would not let go.
Trump began to kiss her on the cheeks, then directly on the mouth. “It was so inappropriate,” she
told [T]he Times. “I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that.” Crooks was 22 at the time.
Mindy McGillivray: McGillivray, 36,
told [T]he Palm Beach Post that Trump groped her while she was attending a concert at Mar-a-Lago, his
estate-slash-private-club in Palm Beach, Florida. She was there to help a friend who was photographing the concert, when she says Trump groped her. “
All of a sudden I felt a grab, a little nudge. I think it’s Ken’s camera bag, that was my first instinct. I turn around and there’s Donald,” McGillivray
told The Palm Beach Post. “This was a pretty good nudge. More of a grab,’’ she continued. “It was pretty close to the center of my butt. I was startled. I jumped.”
Natasha Stoynoff: In a harrowing essay for People, Stoynoff ― a journalist ― described how Trump assaulted her while she was interviewing him and his wife, Melania, at their Palm Beach estate.
She writes that Trump insisted on giving her a private tour of the grounds, at which point he pinned and kissed her: “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 grateful when Trump’s longtime butler burst into the room a minute later, as I tried to unpin myself.”
Jennifer Murphy: Murphy, a contestant on season four of “The Apprentice,”
told Grazia that Trump kissed her on the lips after a job interview. “He walked me to the elevator, and I said goodbye. ... When he pulled my face in and gave me a smooch. I was like ‘OK,’”
she told Grazia. “I didn’t know how to act.” Murphy also told the publication that she still plans to vote for Trump.
Cassandra Searles: Yahoo News reports that over the summer, Cassandra Searles ― Miss Washington 2013 ― posted a photo on Facebook of her fellow contestants and the question: “Do y’all remember that one time we had to do our onstage introductions, but this one guy treated us like cattle and made us do it again because we didn’t look him in the eyes? Do you also remember when he then proceeded to have us lined up so he could get a closer look at his property?” In a follow-up comment on the post,
she reportedly added:
“He probably doesn’t want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room.”
"Jane Doe": In June, 2016, a California woman — “Jane Doe” ― filed
a lawsuit alleging that Trump raped her at a party when she was 13 years old.
Temple Taggart McDowell: The year that Taggart McDowell was crowned Miss Utah, Trump had just taken ownership of the Miss USA pageant. She says that when she was first introduced to him, he kissed her. “
He kissed me directly on the lips,” Taggart McDowell
told The New York Times when she came forward with her story. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, gross.’ He was married to Marla Maples at the time … I was like ‘Wow, that’s inappropriate.’”
Jill Harth: Harth worked with Trump in the 1990s (she and her partner operated a competition called American Dream Calendar Girls), but it ended in a bitter legal battle. In a 1997 lawsuit, Harth alleged in court documents that
Trump repeatedly sexually harassed her, at one point groping her under the table.
Ivana Trump: In a 1992 deposition during their divorce, Trump’s first wife described an incident in which
she says her then-husband forced her to have sex with him. (
Spousal rape is still rape.)
That is
16 accusations of sexual assault, more than George H.W. Bush, Dustin Hoffman, Steven Seagal, and Al Franken combined. But go ahead and excuse him. He's your man!
