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Trump and accusations of sexual misconduct: The complete list
The Fact Checker first detailed some of the accusations against Trump
during the 2016 campaign. That fact check also detailed the witnesses who backed up claims of sexual accusations against former president Bill
Clinton — who, like Trump, insisted the women accusing him were not
telling the truth.
Here’s a list of 13 women who have publicly come forward with claims that
Trump had physically touched them inappropriately in some way, and the witnesses they provided. We did not include claims that were made only
through Facebook posts or other social media, or in lawsuits that
subsequently were withdrawn.
We also did not include the accounts of former beauty contestants who say
Trump walked in on them when they were half nude because there were no allegations of touching. Trump had bragged on the Howard Stern show of his “inspections” during the pageants: “You know they’re standing there with
no clothes. Is everybody OK? And you see these incredible looking women.
And so I sort of get away with things like that.”
Two or more contemporary corroborators
Natasha Stoynoff
Allegation: While she was interviewing Trump in 2005 for an article for
People magazine about the first anniversary of his third marriage, Trump
lured her into a room at Mar-a-Lago, forced her against a wall and
abruptly kissed her, forcing his tongue into her mouth. He then said they
were going to have an affair.
Corroborators:
Marina Grasic, who has known Stoynoff for more than 25 years. She said she
got a call from her friend the day after the alleged attack, detailing
exactly how Trump pushed Stoynoff against a wall.
Liz McNeil, at the time a reporter for People (she is now an editor). She
said that she heard about the incident the day after Stoynoff returned
from her assignment. “She was very upset and told me how he shoved her
against a wall,” she said.
Mary Green, another People reporter (now editor) who had just returned to
New York. “In an early conversation we had in her office, she told me
about what happened with Donald Trump,” Green said. “She was shaky,
sitting at her desk, relaying that, ‘He took me to this other room, and
when we stepped inside, he pushed me against a wall and stuck his tongue
down my throat. Melania was upstairs and could have walked in at any
time.’ ”
Liza Hamm, part of a “tight-knit’ group of friends. “Natasha has always
been a vivacious person who wants to believe in the best of people, and
this experience definitely messed with that outlook,” she said.
Paul McLaughlin, Stoynoff’s former journalism professor. He said Stoynoff called him at the time of the alleged incident seeking advice on how to
handle it: “She didn’t know what to do, she was very conflicted, she was
angry, she was really confused about how to deal with this.” After a discussion, he said, Stoynoff decided it would be best if she kept the
incident to herself.
Response: Anthony Senecal, Trump’s former butler, denied the incident:
“No, that never happened. Come on, that’s just bull crap.” Trump said:
“Why didn’t she do this 12 years ago? She’s a liar. … It never happened.
It’s a lie.”
Rachel Crooks
Allegation: Trump in 2005 kissed her directly on the lips after she
introduced herself and said she was a receptionist who worked for a
company that did business with Trump.
Corroborators:
Brianne Webb, her sister. She said Crooks called her about the incident as
soon as she returned to her desk. “Being from a town of 1,600 people,
being naive, I was like, ‘Are you sure he didn’t just miss trying to kiss
you on the cheek?’ She said, ‘No, he kissed me on the mouth.’ I was like,
‘That is not normal.’ ”
Clint Hackenburg, her boyfriend at the time. After he asked her that
evening how her day had gone, “she paused for a second, and then started hysterically crying.”
Response: Shouting at the New York Times reporter who called for comment,
Trump said, “None of this ever took place.” He then told the reporter,
“You are a disgusting human being.”
Cathy Heller
Allegation: While having Mother’s Day brunch at Mar-a-Lago in 1997 or
1998, her mother-in-law introduced her to Trump. She extended her hand to
greet him and he grabbed her and kissed her on the mouth. She did turn her
head slightly and so he wasn’t able to “get my whole mouth.”
Corroborators:
Lloyd Heller, her husband. He said that she immediately told him. He said
he told her that “you should have punched him” and he remembers being
“puzzled” by why Trump would do something like that in a public space.
A relative who was there, but wanted to stay unnamed. This person said
Heller was immediately shocked and asked whether he or she had seen what happened. The two then talked about the incident asking, “Who does he
think he is?”
Response: Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller told People Magazine:
“There is no way that something like this would have happened in a public
place on Mother’s Day at Mr. Trump’s resort.”
One contemporary corroborator, one additional witness
Kristin Anderson
Allegation: While she was at a Manhattan nightclub in the early 1990s,
Trump slid his fingers under her miniskirt, moved up her inner thigh and touched her vagina through her underwear.
Corroborators:
Kelly Stedman, a friend. She said she was told about the incident at a
women’s brunch a few days later. The women found themselves “laughing at
how pathetic it was” on Trump’s part.
Brad Trent, a New York photographer. He says he heard the story from
Anderson at a dinner in 2007. “It was just girls saying stories about how
they got hit on by creepy old guys,” Trent said of the conversation around
the table.
Response: The Trump campaign, in an emailed statement, said Anderson had fabricated the story: “Mr. Trump strongly denies this phony allegation by someone looking to get some free publicity. It is totally ridiculous.”
One corroborator
Summer Zervos
Allegation: Trump kissed Zervos on the lips when he met her in his New
York office, which upset Zervos, who had been a contestant on Season 5 of Trump’s “The Apprentice.” She then met Trump at the Beverly Hills Hotel in
2007 for what she thought would be dinner; instead, she was escorted to
his private bungalow. “I stood up and he came to me and started kissing me open-mouthed as he was pulling me toward him,” she said. “He then grabbed
my shoulder and started kissing me again very aggressively and placed his
hand on my breast.” He kept pursuing her, she said, at one point
“thrusting his genitals” against her as he tried to kiss her. She said she again rebuffed him.
Corroborator:
Ann Russo, friend: She said that Zervos told her in 2010 that Trump had
been “verbally, physically, and sexually aggressive with her” but that she
had rebuffed his advances. “It was apparent she was conflicted with what
Mr. Trump had done to her,” she said, adding that Zervos was torn between
her admiration for Trump and Trump’s behavior.
(In her lawsuit against Trump, Zervos says that in 2007 she “spoke to a
friend and her parents about [the initial kiss], all of whom concluded
that this must just be the way that Mr. Trump greeted people.” She then
told her father about the hotel incident, the lawsuit says.)
Response: Trump issued a statement by John Barry, a cousin of Zervos’s: “I think Summer wishes she could still be on reality TV, and in an effort to
get that back she’s saying all of these negative things about Mr. Trump.
That’s not how she talked about him before. I can only imagine that
Summer’s actions today are nothing more than an attempt to regain the
spotlight at Mr. Trump’s expense, and I don’t think it reflects well.”
Mindy McGillivray
Allegation: McGillivray said she was groped by Trump at Mar-a-Lago in
2003, when she was 23, at a photo shoot during a concert by Ray Charles.
“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 told the Palm Beach Post she was certain it was not an
accident. “This was a pretty good nudge. More of a grab,’’ she said. “It
was pretty close to the center of my butt. I was startled. I jumped.’’
Corroborator:
Ken Davidoff, photographer: He vividly remembers when McGillivray pulled
him aside moments after the alleged incident and told him, “Donald just
grabbed my ass!’’ He did not witness the incident himself.
Jill Harth
Allegation: In the early 1990s, Jill Harth and her boyfriend at the time, George Houraney, worked with Trump on a beauty pageant in Atlantic City,
and later accused Trump of inappropriate behavior toward Harth during
their business dealings. She said that Trump pursued her and groped her;
she alleged attempted rape in a sexual harassment suit that was withdrawn
as a condition for settling a contract dispute. (We are including her
account here because she gave interviews making these charges even after
the lawsuit was withdrawn.) Trump had “his hands all over me,” Harth told
the New York Times. “He was trying to kiss me. I was freaking out.”
Corroborator:
George Houraney, her boyfriend and later husband. The two are divorced but
he confirmed her account in an interview with Nicholas Kristof: “Houraney
and Harth haven’t spoken in years, but they offered almost identical
accounts when I interviewed them separately, and their stories match
Harth’s deposition and her sexual harassment lawsuit from the time.”
Response: Trump said it was Harth who had pursued him, and his office
shared email messages in which Harth thanked Trump for helping her
personally and professionally. The campaign said she was a “pawn” in a
lawsuit created by her ex-husband.
Jessica Leeds
Allegation: Trump attacked her while seated next to her on an airline
flight. More than three decades ago, when she was a traveling business executive at a paper company, Leeds told the New York Times in 2016, she
sat beside Trump in the first-class cabin of a flight to New York. They
had never met before. About 45 minutes after takeoff, Trump lifted the
armrest and began to touch her. Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put
his hand up her skirt. “He was like an octopus,” Leeds said. “His hands
were everywhere.” She fled to the back of the plane. “It was an assault,”
she said.
Corroborator: Leeds told the story to at least four people close to her,
who also spoke with the New York Times. But most appear to have heard
about it more recently. Linda Ross, a neighbor and friend, heard about it
six months before Leeds went public, for instance.
Reaction: The Trump campaign offered the perspective of a British man who claimed to have sat near the two on the plane and three decades later remembered the incident in detail. “She was the one being flirtatious,” he said.
Other accusers
Temple Taggart McDowell: The 1997 Miss Utah USA said Trump kissed her
directly on the lips, at a time he was married to Marla Maples and
McDowell was 21. Later, when she visited Trump Tower to discuss a modeling contract, she says Trump again embraced and kissed her on the lips, this
time in front of two pageant chaperones and a receptionist. The New York encounter made one of the chaperones so “uncomfortable” that she advised McDowell not to go into any rooms with Trump alone, McDowell told NBC
News.
Karena Virginia: A yoga instructor said Trump harassed and groped her
during a chance encounter at the U.S. Open in 1998. Virginia said Trump, a total stranger, then grabbed her arm and touched her breast. “I was in
shock,” Virginia said. “I flinched. He said, ‘Don’t you know who I am?’ I
felt intimidated and powerless. I said ‘yes.’”
Jennifer Murphy: A former Apprentice contestant said Trump in 2004 kissed
her on the lips. “He walked me to the elevator, and I said goodbye. I was thinking ‘oh, he’s going to hug me,’ but … he pulled my face in and gave
me a smooch.”
Ninni Laaksonen: A former Miss Finland said Trump in 2006 grabbed her
bottom shortly after he had married Melania. “Trump stood right next to me
and suddenly he squeezed my butt. He really grabbed my butt.”
Jessica Drake: A porn star and sex educator said that during a 2006 golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Trump “grabbed” her and two other unnamed women tightly and kissed them on the lips “without asking permission.” He then offered Drake $10,000 and the use of his private plane, she said, if she
would agree to come back to his room and accompany him to a party.
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