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Sean Sullivan Washington Post October 12, 2016 Four women accused
Donald Trump of groping or kissing them without their consent in news
reports published Wednesday, just days after the …
Women give accounts of assault by Donald Trump
The news came five days after The Washington Post reported on a 2005 video in which Trump can be heard making vulgar comments on a hot microphone about physically forcing himself on women sexually.
At Sunday’s debate, Trump was asked by a moderator whether he had ever behaved in such a way.
‘‘No, I have not,’’ he responded.
Separately, CBS News on Wednesday reported 1992 footage filmed for ‘‘Entertainment Tonight’’ in which Trump is heard commenting about a young girl, ‘‘I'm going to be dating her in 10 years.’’
Also Wednesday, Rolling Stone published a story that included the allegations of Cassandra Searles, Miss Washington 2013. In a comment she appended to a post she had put on Facebook earlier this year suggesting that Trump treated pageant contestants ‘‘like cattle,’’ Searles wrote, ‘‘He probably doesn’t want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room.’’ Yahoo covered her post and comment in June.
Jessica Leeds, 74, told the Times that she sat beside Trump in the first-class cabin of a flight to New York when she was 38. She didn’t know him. Leeds said Trump groped her and tried to reach up her skirt. ‘‘His hands were everywhere,’’ she said.
‘‘I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that,’’ she said.
Days later, Trump, then recently married to his wife Melania, came to her office and requested her phone number, saying he planned to give it to his modeling agency.
Crooks was skeptical, but agreed. She was never contacted by the agency, the Times reported.
Neither Crooks nor Leeds reported her descriptions to the authorities. But the Times quotes Leeds’s neighbor, Crooks’s boyfriend at the time and her sister, each of whom told of being previously informed about the alleged encounters with Trump.
Both Leeds and Crooks say they support Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president, the Times reported.
Mindy McGillivray, 36, told the Palm Beach Post that Trump groped her rear end at Mar-a-Lago in 2003 when she was there accompanying a photographer friend who was shooting a Ray Charles concert.
‘‘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. He sort of looked away quickly. I quickly turned back, facing Ray Charles, and I'm stunned,’’ she said.
‘‘Ken’’ is Ken Davidoff, the photographer, with whom the paper also spoke. Davidoff said he did not witness the alleged incident but recalled that McGillivray told him about it right after it happened.
Natasha Stoynoff, the reporter who wrote that she went to Mar-a-Lago to interview Trump and Melania Trump for a feature story on their first wedding anniversary, said Trump kissed her without her consent when they were alone in a room.
‘‘I turned around, and within seconds, he was pushing me against the wall, and forcing his tongue down my throat,’’ Stoynoff wrote.
She wrote that he told her later, ‘‘You know we’re going to have an affair, don’t you?’’
In a Tuesday phone interview with the Times, Trump denied the claims made by Leeds and Crooks.
‘‘None of this ever took place,’’ he said. As a reporter questioned him about the women’s claims, he told her: ‘‘You are a disgusting human being,’’ according to the Times.
Miller, in his statement, accused the Times of a ‘‘completely false, coordinated character assassination’’ against Trump. He called it a ‘‘political attack.’’
Jennifer Palmieri, communications director for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign, said the reports show Trump lied on the debate stage on Sunday.
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