10/27/2017
All women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct/harassment/assault are lying according to the White House.
The various claims about Trump’s inappropriate sexual behavior span three decades and include unwanted groping and kissing, entering backstage dressing areas of Trump-owned beauty pageants (a behavior he confirmed to Howard Stern). Ex-wife Ivana Trump once used the term raped when describing how Donald once treated her while they were married.
On Friday, the White House dismissed all the women who made the accusations as liars. Trump has continually denied all allegations, and has repeatedly called his accusers “liars”. Interestingly, today while facing a defamation lawsuit by one of his accusers, lawyers for Trump claimed that when Trump called his accusers liars it was only political opinion, and he wasn’t actually calling them liars because, well, that would be defamation.
It should be noted that nobody in the Trump camp has offered any other evidence to support that these women are liars. They have not provided any circumstances where these women have lied in the past, or that they have some other motivation to tell anything but the truth. Our president on the other hand, has been documented lying hundreds of times (as documented here by the New York Times: Trump Lies ).
So who are these awful women who are lying about our President? Remember, Trump and his attorneys have said all of these women are liars, except that the term liar is not really being used because it would be defamatory and cause Trump to be subject to litigation. Lets take a look!
- Jill Harth
- When – 1992, 1993.
- Where – Atlantic City, Mar-A-Lago
- What happened – Harth and her then-boyfriend, George Houraney, entered into a business venture with Donald Trump which included holding an event at one of Trump’s Atlantic City casinos. While dining with Trump and her then boyfriend, Trump attempted to put his hands between her legs. Harth and Houraney visited Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida in January 1993 for a contract-signing celebration. Trump, according to Harth, offered her a tour before pulling her into the empty bedroom of his daughter Ivanka. “I was admiring the decoration, and next thing I know he’s pushing me against a wall and has his hands all over me. He was trying to kiss me. I was freaking out.” Harth says she desperately protested against Trump’s advances and eventually managed to run out of the room. She and her boyfriend left rather than stay the night, as they had intended. After she became engaged, Harth alleges, Trump began to stalk her.
- Jessica Leeds
- When – Around 1980
- Where – On a plane
- What happened – Trump inappropriately touched her “like an octopus” during a flight from Connecticut to New York. According to Leeds, a flight attendant upgraded her to first-class, escorting her to an open seat next to Trump. Once they were airborne, Trump raised the seat divider, grabbed her chest, and attempted to move one of his hands up her skirt, she said. “I remember at one point looking over at the guy in the seat across the aisle, and his eyes were like bugging out of his head.”
- Kristin Anderson
- When – 1992
- Where – Manhattan Nightclub
- What happened – At a crowded Manhattan nightspot Kristin was sitting with friends when the person on her right slid his fingers under her miniskirt, moved up her inner thigh and touched her vagina through her underwear. Anderson shoved the hand away, fled the couch and turned to take her first good look at the man who had touched her, she said. She instantly recognized him as Donald Trump. “He was so distinctive looking — with the hair and the eyebrows. I mean, nobody else has those eyebrows.” The episode, as Anderson described it, lasted no more than 30 seconds. Anderson said she and her companions were “very grossed out and weirded out” and thought, “Okay, Donald is gross. We all know he’s gross. Let’s just move on.” At the time of the incident, Trump was a big celebrity whose face was all over the tabloids and a regular presence on the New York club scene.
- Cathy Heller
- When – 1997
- Where – Mar-A-Lago
- What happened – Heller has told many friends and family members this story over the years. Some 20 years ago she met Trump for the first and only time at a Mother’s Day brunch with her children, her husband, and her husband’s parents. Heller claims Trump grabbed her, went for a kiss, and grew angry with her as she twisted away. “Oh, come on,” she alleges that he yelled, before holding her firmly in place and planting his lips on hers. Heller’s husband and children, who were present during the event, have corroborated her account. Her allegation tracks closely what Trump claimed in a 2005 recording with Billy Bush. “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful – I just start kissing them,” Trump said. “It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.” “And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”
- Temple Taggart McDowell
- When – 1997
- Where – Trump Tower
- What happened – Former Miss USA contestant Temple Taggart McDowell told NBC News that Donald Trump kissed her on the lips without her consent when she first met him in 1997 when she was 21 years old, and then again during a visit to New York City. She also told NBC that during the New York City visit her chaperone felt uncomfortable and did not want her alone with Trump. “I spoke to my chaperone after and I remember her saying she had felt uncomfortable to where she didn’t want me back there alone so one of the chaperones went with me back into his office.”
- Karena Virginia
- When – 1998
- Where – US Open, Queens NY
- What happened – Virginia was waiting for a ride after the US Open in Queens when Trump, whom she had not met previously, approached her with a small group of other men. While commenting on her legs, then he grabbed her right arm. Virginia continued, “Then his hand touched the right side of my breast. I was in shock. I flinched. ‘Don’t you know who I am? Don’t you know who I am?’ – that’s what he said to me. I felt intimidated and I felt powerless.”
- Mindy McGillivray
- When – 2003
- Where – Mar-A-Lago
- What happened – McGillivray stated that in January 2003, when she was 23 years old, she was groped by Trump at his Mar-A-Lago estate. She said, “All of a sudden I felt a grab, a little nudge. I think it’s my friend Ken Davidoff’s camera bag. That was my first instinct, when I turned around there’s Donald. He sort of looked away quickly.” Ken Davidoff, corroborated McGillivray’s account, saying he remembered her pulling him aside moments after the alleged incident to say “Donald just grabbed my ass!”
- Rachel Crooks
- When – 2005
- Where – Elevator in Trump Tower
- What happened – n 2005, Rachel Crooks was a 22-year-old receptionist at a real estate investment and development company in Trump Tower. She says she encountered Trump in an elevator in the building one morning and turned to introduce herself. They shook hands, but Mr. Trump would not let go. Instead, he began kissing her cheeks, then directly on the mouth. “It was so inappropriate,” Crooks recalled in an interview. “I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that.”
- Natasha Stoynoff
- When – 2005
- Where – Mar-A-Lago
- What happened – Stoynoff, who wrote for People magazine, went to Trump’s Florida estate in December 2005 to interview him and his wife, Melania. While there, Trump gave Stoynoff a tour of the Mar-A-Lago estate. “We walked into that room alone, and Trump shut the door behind us. I turned around, and within seconds he was pushing me against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat … I was stunned. Stoynoff composed herself and conducted the interview, after which she said Trump repeatedly told her, “We’re going to have an affair, I’m telling you.” On October 18, 2016, People produced six corroborating witnesses who said Stoynoff had recounted the incident to them around the time that it occurred.
- Jessica Drake
- When – 2006
- Where – Lake Tahoe Golf tournament
- What happened – Drake claims that she was invited to meet with Trump, who was married at the time, at his hotel suite. As she was “uncomfortable going alone” she brought two friends. Drake recounted that “He grabbed each of us tightly, in a hug and kissed each one of us without asking permission.” Drake stated that she and her friends left the suite after 30–45 minutes. Shortly thereafter, Drake claims she received a phone call from Trump requesting that she join him for dinner and a party. When she declined, he offered her $10,000 and the use of his jet to fly back to LA if she accepted. She said she declined his offers.
- Ninni Laaksonen
- When – 2006
- Where – David Letterman Show, NY
- What happened – Speaking to a Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat, Laaksonen claimed that Trump groped her before an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman. “Before the show we were photographed outside the building,” Laaksonen told the paper, “Trump stood right next to me and suddenly he squeezed my butt. He really grabbed my butt.” Someone later told Laaksonen that Trump liked her because she looked like his wife, Melania, when she was younger.
- Summer Zervos
- When – 2007
- Where – The Beverly Hills Hotel
- What happened – Summer Zervos was a contestant on the 5th season of The Apprentice. Subsequently, she contacted Trump in 2007, about a job after the show’s completion, and he invited her to meet him at The Beverly Hills Hotel. Zervos has said that Trump was sexually suggestive during their meeting, kissing her open-mouthed, groping her breasts, and thrusting his genitals on her. She also has said that his behavior was aggressive and not consensual. Zervos said she still had dinner with Trump and later called him to inquire about getting a job.
- Casandra Searles
- When – 2013
- Where – Miss USA contest
- What happened – Searles, Miss Washinton State of 2013, claims she was fondled by Trump during the Miss USA pageant of that year. Searles made Facebook postings that accused Trump of making unwanted advances. She said that he was “continually” groping her buttocks and had asked her to go “to his hotel room”. Searles called Trump a “misogynist” who “treated us like cattle” and “lined up so he could get a closer look at his property.” Other contestants from the same year, like Paromita Mitra of Mississippi, bolstered Searles recollection. Mitra commented, “I literally have nightmares about that process.
- Multiple other Miss USA contestants – Mariah Billado, Bridget Sullivan, Tasha Dixon Samatha Holvey and others
- When – Various, mostly during Miss USA contests
- Where -Various
- What happened – Multiple accounts of Trump walking in dressing rooms without notice and unannounced to see and stare at naked contestants changing between events. Uncomfortable line inspections of contestants. People that work for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him.
