Government - Four Women Accuse Trump Of Forcible Groping (UPDATED)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's presidential campaign is denying allegations made by three woman that he groped and kissed them without their consent in separate incidents. It comes days after a video surfaced showing Trump bragging about groping and getting away with it because he's "a star".
One of the women told the New York Times that Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt when they were seated next to each other in the First Class cabin on a flight more than three decades ago - she referred to trump as "like an octopus". The second woman in the same report accuses Trump of an uninvited mouth kiss mouth outside an elevator in 2005. A third woman told the Palm Beach Post that Trump groped her rear end at a Ray Charles concert at his Mar-a-Lago resort 13 years ago.
And then late Wednesday night, a People magazine reporter said Trump kissed her without her permission when the two were alone in 2005. This was right before an interview she was about to conduct with Trump and his new wife Melania, and was only broken up when Trump's butler announced that the third Mrs. Trump was on her way into the room.
One Trump spokesmen said "this entire article" in the New York Times "is fiction". A Trump spokeswoman claimed to the Palm Beach Post "there is no truth" to the third allegation. A third flack denied the People magazine report. But each of the newspapers, working independently of the other, contacted friends, family, and colleagues of Trump's accusers - and they verified that the women told them their stories about what they say happened months or years ago. And you can bet the People wouldn't have gone ahead with the story about the lawsuit-happy Trump without running it by a phalanx of lawyers.
A Hillary Clinton campaign spokeswoman said, This disturbing story sadly fits everything we know about the way Donald Trump has treated women. These reports suggested that he lied on the debate stage and that the disgusting behavior he bragged about in the tape are more than just words."
Last Friday, damning video emerged showing Trump and frat-boy wingman Billy Bush making disgusting comments about Bush's co-worker TV host Nancy O'Dell and soap opera actress Arianne Zucker, during which Trump says of women, "I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait," and of course, that he likes to "grab them by the p****." He added, "And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."
Maybe you can't, Donny. Your pal Billy Bush - cousin of former President George W. Bush and nephew of President George H.W. Bush - is reportedly getting axed from his gig on NBC's Today Show, because of his role in the damning video.