NYT says no libel, no retraction, no apology for Trump story
“You know I’m automatically attracted to handsome…” He has denied the accusations.
Multiple women came forward from across the U.S. Wednesday saying Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had groped them, according to reports. Why didn’t they? If Trump had behaved so egregiously, one would expect them to do their best to nip his candidacy in the bud. “She now writes that “.Trump shut the door behind us. She says Trump grabbed her buttocks backstage after the concert had ended.
High-ranking sources within the Trump campaign had told CNNMoney that they were “drafting” lawsuits against both the Times and The Palm Beach Post, which published a separate story in which another women claimed Trump had groped her. Crooks told the Times that she met Trump in an elevator and introduced himself.
Coming forward for the first time in the New York Times on Wednesday, Leeds remembered sitting down next to Trump on a trip to New York.
One of the women, 74-year-old Jessica Leeds, claims Trump groped her in the early 1980s by grabbing her breasts and putting his hand up her skirt.
Crooks of OH, said Trump kissed her without invitation in 2006 when she was a 22-year-old receptionist for a real estate firm located at Trump Tower.
The new controversy comes just a day after Trump’s campaign said it was planning to ramp up its attacks on Bill Clinton as a way to attack Hillary.
Mindy McGillivray was cited in an article published in The Palm Beach Post on October 12 that while she was a 23-year-old photographer’s assistant at a January 24, 2003, event at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Trump had grabbed her buttocks.
Trump is also threatening to sue The Palm Beach Post over the publication of another incident of alleged groping.
But actress Arianne Zucker said she wasn’t shocked by it, given “that type of personality”. Zervos claims that Trump kissed her twice on the lips during the meeting.
On his Twitter account, Trump said that the Times story is “phony” and a “total fabrication”, adding that it is “written by same people as last discredited story on women”. In a piece published last night, Stoynoff alleges she was assaulted by Trump in December 2005 - the same year Trump made the “just kiss” comments caught on tape - while working on a profile of Trump and his wife Melania pegged to their first anniversary. “He did touch my vagina through my underwear, absolutely”, Anderson said in the video interview.
“I don’t think it happened”, he said on “CNN Tonight”.
She wrote that he told her later, “You know we’re going to have an affair, don’t you?”
“And when you’re a star they let you do it”, Trump said.
The New York Times reported that Trump, in an angry phone call, denied the incidents and threatened to sue the newspaper.
“It was so inappropriate”, Crooks told The Times of the incident.
She did not report the encounter to authorities at the time, but shared the story with close friends and family, she said.
Cassandra Searles, a Miss Washington, wrote in Facebook that Trump, who owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants then, “continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room”. Leeds says she finally made a decision to contact the media after watching Sunday’s debate and hearing Trump deny that he had ever actually groped a woman as discussed in a video clip.