New Sexual Allegations Against Donald Trump from Multiple Women

Two women told The New York Times that Donald Trump inappropriately groped them, but the Republican nominee’s campaign rejected the report.

One woman said that Mr. Trump grabbed her breasts three decades ago on an airplane and attempted to pull his hands under her skirt.

Another woman said that Mr. Trump kissed her against her will in 2005 at Trump Tower in New York.

Mr. Trump’s campaign said that “this entire article is fiction.”

In a statement, the campaign said The New York Times had launched “a completely false and coordinated operation to assassinate the character” of Mr. Trump.

Jessica Leeds, 74, a Manhattan resident, told the newspaper that she was seated next to Mr. Trump in the first-class section of a flight to New York when he raised the armrest and began touching her.

She said: “His hands were everywhere, like an octopus. It was actually assault.”

Rachel Crooks also says that when she was a 22-year-old secretary at a company in Trump Tower, Mr. Trump kissed her against her will outside an elevator in the building.

She told The New York Times: “It was inappropriate behavior. I was very, very upset that he thought I was such an insignificant person that he could do this to me.”

Neither of the two women had previously reported the matter to authorities but said they had discussed it with family and friends.

“Angry and Shocked”

Ms. Leeds said that after the incident she was “angry and shocked” and immediately left the first-class cabin and moved to economy.

She said that she had largely forgotten about the incident until last year when Mr. Trump’s campaign for president began.

She said: “His behavior is rooted in his character. My hope is that people who intend to vote for him will reflect on this matter.”

Ms. Crooks said that after Mr. Trump kissed her, she “involuntarily cried at her boyfriend’s place.”

She said that Mr. Trump later approached her and asked for her phone number to give to a modeling agency, but she never heard back from them.

She said: “People need to know… this behavior is normal and real for him.”

The campaign of Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump’s Democratic rival, said that The New York Times report “unfortunately confirms the image we have of Donald Trump’s behavior toward women… these reports show that he lied during the second debate and the demeaning behavior toward women that he boasts about in the 2005 video is far more than mere words.”

Meanwhile, Mindy McGillivray told the newspaper “Palm Beach Post” that in 2003, when she was 23 years old, Mr. Trump grabbed her buttocks at his club Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

She said that Mr. Trump did this while standing next to Melania Knauss, who was his fiancée at the time.

Mr. Trump’s campaign deemed this allegation “without merit and substance.”

Mr. Trump is trailing his rival Hillary Clinton by several percentage points in the latest national polls.

Last Friday, a 2005 video emerged in which Mr. Trump boasts and uses vulgar language about groping women.

He later apologized for his remarks but said the comments were “locker room talk” for men, suggesting they should not be taken seriously.

Source: BBC Persian