“It’s ridiculous, I never touched this woman,” LawNewz quoted Trump as saying. After its publication, LawNewz reported that Trump subsequently called to deny the allegations. Harth’s lawsuit was reported in New York’s Daily News in 1997, and LawNewz published a post on its website in February 2016 revisiting the suit. Harth filed a lawsuit in 1997 alleging that Trump groped her and sexually harassed her, but she withdrew the suit, she says, as a condition of settling a separate financial dispute with him. She alleged he also tried to kiss her during a tour of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida a month later when she and Houraney were there to celebrate solidifying a business contract. Jill Harth said she had dinner with Trump and her then-boyfriend, George Houraney, in 1992 when Trump allegedly tried to put his hands between her legs. Larry Busacca/Getty Images for New York Weddings The interview with Gilberthorpe had been arranged by the Trump campaign, the New York Post reported. The man, Anthony Gilberthorpe, told the paper he had been on the same flight and saw Leeds being “flirtatious.” Her account, he told the Post, was “wrong, wrong, wrong.” The White House has also pointed to an October 2016 New York Post article in which a British man with a questionable past, including making unsubstantiated claims about British politicians’ behavior in the 1980s, challenged Leeds’ allegations, as an example of how the claims against the president have been refuted by eyewitnesses. He said "none of this ever took place" and threatened to sue the newspaper for reporting the story. Trump denied the allegations made by Leeds and by Rachel Crooks, another woman who spoke to The New York Times in the same 2016 article. Leeds has since reiterated her accusations to ABC News and has repeated it publicly, including at a news conference in December 2017 alongside two other accusers, calling on Congress to investigate the allegations against Trump. The Times article appeared three days after the second presidential debate, during which Trump denied ever kissing or groping women without consent. 12, 2016 – discussing an alleged decades-old interaction with Trump - four days after the release of a 2005 “Access Hollywood” recording in which he described women in vulgar terms. Leeds went public in a New York Times article on Oct. 27, 2018, press conference, Trump brushed off what he called "false accusations" he has faced, saying that he was "accused by four or five women who got paid to make up stories about me." In defending Kavanaugh against allegations of a sexual assault during high school, which Kavanaugh denied, Trump took the opportunity to push back against the various accusations against him that arose during his first presidential run.Īt a Sept. The topic resurfaced in fall 2018 while Trump defended his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
In some cases, he and his team members have specifically denied individual accusations, but they have also repeatedly issued blanket denials against all the allegations, calling the women liars. Trump has vehemently denied all of the various women’s accusations multiple times. Open tennis tournament in 1997, prompting a new denial from the Trump campaign with weeks to go until the 2020 election. The latest accusation comes from Amy Dorris, a former model who told The Guardian this week that Trump forcibly kissed and groped her at the U.S. All but two came forward with their accusations before or during his first bid for the White House. At least 18 women have accused Donald Trump of varying inappropriate behavior, including allegations of sexual harassment or sexual assault.
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