Carroll Alleged That Trump Assaulted Her In The 1990s. According to Vox, “E. Jean Carroll[.] The noted columnist describes being violently assaulted by Donald Trump in a department store dressing room in the 1990s in a new memoir.” [Vox, 6/21/19]
Carroll Described In Detail How Trump Violated Her Until She Was Able To Push Him Off And Escape. According to E. Jean Carroll in the Cut, “The next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I’m not certain — inside me. It turns into a colossal struggle. I am wearing a pair of sturdy black patent-leather four-inch Barneys high heels, which puts my height around six-one, and I try to stomp his foot. I try to push him off with my one free hand — for some reason, I keep holding my purse with the other — and I finally get a knee up high enough to push him out and off and I turn, open the door, and run out of the dressing room.” [Cut – E. Jean Carroll, 6/21/19]
Carroll Shared Her Account Of What Happened To Close Friends Shortly After The Incident. According to E. Jean Carroll in the Cut, “I told two close friends. The first, a journalist, magazine writer, correspondent on the TV morning shows, author of many books, etc., begged me to go to the police. ‘He raped you,’ she kept repeating when I called her. ‘He raped you. Go to the police! I’ll go with you. We’ll go together.’ My second friend is also a journalist, a New York anchorwoman. She grew very quiet when I told her, then she grasped both my hands in her own and said, ‘Tell no one. Forget it! He has 200 lawyers. He’ll bury you.’ (Two decades later, both still remember the incident clearly and confirmed their accounts to New York.)” [Cut – E. Jean Carroll, 6/21/19]
Carroll Said The Access Hollywood Tape Reminded Her Of The Incident With Trump In The 1990s. According to CNN, “A woman who recently accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s said Monday that Trump's boasts on the infamous 2005 ‘Access Hollywood’ video about being able to grope women recalled her own alleged experience with the future president. ‘It knocked me back. I felt relief and I -- that's right. That's right,’ magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll told CNN's Alisyn Camerota, nodding her head affirmatively when asked if the recording gave her ‘confirmation.’” [CNN, 6/24/19]
March 9, 2023: A Manhattan Jury Found Trump Liable For The Sexual Abuse Of E. Jean Carroll. According to the New York Times, “A Manhattan jury on Tuesday has found former President Donald J. Trump liable for the sexual abuse of the magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in a widely watched civil trial that sought to apply the accountability of the #MeToo era to a dominant political figure.” [New York Times, 5/9/23]
The Jury Found Trump Liable For Defaming Carroll. According to the New York Times, “The federal jury of six men and three women also held Mr. Trump, 76, liable for defaming Ms. Carroll when he posted a statement on his Truth Social website in October, calling her case ‘a complete con job’ and ‘a Hoax and a lie.’” [New York Times, 5/9/23]
The Jury Awarded Carroll $5 Million In Damages. According to the New York Times, “The jury awarded Ms. Carroll, 79, a total of $5 million in damages.” [New York Times, 5/9/23]
Jury’s Verdicts Were Unanimous. According to the New York Times, “The jury’s unanimous verdicts came after three hours of deliberation in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Its findings are civil, not criminal, meaning Mr. Trump has not been convicted of any crime and faces no prison time.” [New York Times, 5/9/23]
Trump’s Countersuit Against Carroll Was Dismissed. According to the New York Times, “A federal judge on Monday dismissed a countersuit by former President Donald J. Trump against E. Jean Carroll, the writer whom he was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming after a civil trial in Manhattan this year.” [New York Times, 8/7/23]
Judge Kaplan Wrote That “It Accordingly Is The ‘Truth,’ As Relevant Here, That Mr. Trump Digitally Raped Ms. Carroll.” According to Bloomberg, “In dismissing the claim Monday, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said the jury’s finding that Trump penetrated Carroll with his finger was close enough to rape to justify her use of the word. ‘Indeed, the finding of digital rape is essential to support the size of jury’s damages award on the battery claim — over $2 million,’ Kaplan wrote. ‘It accordingly is the ‘truth,’ as relevant here, that Mr. Trump digitally raped Ms. Carroll.’” [Bloomberg, 8/7/23]
A Manhattan Jury Ordered Trump To Pay Carroll An Additional $83.3 Million In Damages For Defamation. According to the New York Times, “Former President Donald J. Trump was ordered by a Manhattan jury on Friday to pay $83.3 million to the writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her in 2019 after she accused him of a decades-old rape, attacks he continued in social media posts, at news conferences and even in the midst of the trial itself. Ms. Carroll’s lawyers had argued that a large award was necessary to stop Mr. Trump from continuing to attack her. After less than three hours of deliberation, the jury responded by awarding Ms. Carroll $65 million in punitive damages, finding that Mr. Trump had acted with malice. On one recent day, he made more than 40 derisive posts about Ms. Carroll on his Truth Social website.” [New York Times, 1/26/24]
Trump Was Formally Ordered To Pay Carroll $83.3 Million. According to CNN, “A federal judge formally ordered Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll, endorsing the jury’s verdict from the defamation trial last month. The judgment was made in a one-page order on Thursday. The issuance of the judgment takes Carroll one step closer to obtaining her award, but it is only the beginning of a process that can take months or longer to play out, in part depending on how long the appeals process lasts.” [CNN, 2/8/24]
Trump Posted A $91.6 Million Bond As He Appealed The Second Carroll Decision. According to CNN, “Former President Donald Trump has posted a $91.6 million bond as he appeals the judgment against him in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case. The notice of Trump’s bond and appeal was made with the federal court in New York on Friday.” [CNN, 3/8/24]
2005: Trump Was Caught With A Hot Mic, Suggesting He Tried To Have Sex With A Married Woman. According to Time, “In the audio, published by the Washington Post, Trump tells TV host Billy Bush how he unsuccessfully tried to have sex with a married woman and how ‘you can do anything’ to women ‘when you’re a star.’ The conversation caught on a hot mic took place shortly after Trump married his third wife, Melania, according to the newspaper.” [Time, 10/7/16]
Trump Said He Tried To F—K Nancy O’Dell While She Was Married And Took Her Furniture Shopping. According to Time, “‘I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it,’ Trump can be heard saying. ‘I did try and f–k her. She was married. And I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said, ‘I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture.’’” [Time, 10/7/16]
Trump Suggested He Could Do Anything He Wanted To Women Because He Was A Star, Claiming He Does Not Even Wait To Kiss Them. According to Time, “The real estate mogul also told Bush that he’s ‘automatically attracted to beautiful’ women, like a ‘magnet,’ and that sometimes he goes straight for a kiss. ‘I just start kissing them,’ he says. ‘I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.’” [Time, 10/7/16]
Trump Suggested He Can Do Anything He Wants To Women, Including Grabbing Them “By The Pussy.” According to Time, “‘Grab them by the p—y,’ Trump adds. ‘You can do anything.’” [Time, 10/7/16]
Johnson Filed A Lawsuit Alleging That Trump Forcibly Kissed Her While She Worked On His Presidential Campaign In 2016. According to CNN, “A former Trump campaign staffer is suing President Donald Trump and his campaign, alleging that the then-Republican presidential candidate kissed her without her consent during the 2016 race. She's also suing over equal pay -- claiming that she was paid less for her work based on race and gender. Alva Johnson, a former Trump campaign staffer who lives in Alabama, alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday that Trump grabbed her hand and forcibly kissed her without her consent inside an RV in Florida in August 2016.” [CNN, 2/25/19]
Johnson Dropped The Case, Citing Trump’s “Unlimited Resources.” According to CNN, “A former Trump campaign staffer who accused Donald Trump of forcibly kissing her without her consent in 2016 has dropped her lawsuit against the President, saying it's difficult to pursue ‘justice against a person with unlimited resources.’ ‘I have made the difficult decision not to pursue my claims at this time,’” [CNN, 9/5/19]
The Trump Campaign Unsuccessfully Sued Johnson For Violating Her Nondisclosure Agreement. According to the New York Times, “Victor E. Bianchini, a retired federal judge, cited both of those cases in his decision on March 10, when he ruled in favor of Alva Johnson, a former campaign worker who in 2019 unsuccessfully sued Mr. Trump, claiming he kissed her on the mouth against her will during a campaign stop in August 2016. The Trump campaign ‘was invested in silencing other employees that were terminated or had somehow criticized the candidate in other ways,’ Judge Bianchini wrote, adding that the campaign’s ‘demand for arbitration appears to have been principally motivated by upholding its NDA and curtailing any criticism of the candidate.’” [New York Times, 3/18/22]
The Trump Campaign Was Ordered To Pay $300,000 In Legal Fees And Expenses To Johnson. According to the New York Times, “Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign has been ordered to pay more than $300,000 in legal fees and expenses to a former employee who the campaign’s lawyers said had violated the terms of a nondisclosure agreement when she accused Mr. Trump of forcibly kissing her in 2016.” [New York Times, 3/18/22]
Johnson Said That Trump Entered Her RV And Attempted To Kiss Her On The Lips While She Turned Her Head. According to the Atlantic, “Trump is about to exit when he pauses in front of Alva. ‘He grabs me and holds my arms at my sides. People don’t seem to register that this is what is happening to me. I’m as stiff as a board. And he kisses me. He tries to kiss me on the lips, but I turn my head.’ ‘I’m at work! He’s my boss! There are other women there. He doesn’t do this to anyone but me. I don’t show emotion. I just, you know, I just keep trekking through. The story ‘Alva got a kiss from the boss’ travels so fast, it beats me to Sarasota. And I remember when I call my parents that night and tell them what happens, I start crying. I remember pulling over in a Trader Joe’s parking lot and crying.’” [Atlantic, 9/25/20]
E. Jean Carroll Interviewed Johnson And Described The Video Of Trump Attempting To Kiss Johnson. According to E. Jean Carroll the Atlantic, “You are looking at slightly out-of-focus 2016 images taken from a 15-second video of the then–Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, and a campaign staffer, Alva Johnson. Before people see the tape, Trump attorneys say that their client does not kiss Alva. After the tape is released, the lawyers say that what Trump is doing to Alva is an ‘interaction,’ a word they will employ in pleadings before the judge presiding over the federal suit in which Alva claims that Trump ‘kisses her without her consent.’” [Atlantic - E. Jean Carroll, 9/25/20]
Summer Zervos, A Former Apprentice Contestant, Alleged That Trump Kissed Her On The Lips During A Meeting In Which She Sought Professional Advice From Him. According to Time, “A woman who was a contestant on Donald Trump’s show The Apprentice said in a press conference Friday that Trump kissed her on the mouth, stripped naked and attempted to seduce her when she met with him for professional advice. Speaking at a press conference Friday arranged by attorney Gloria Allred, Summer Zervos described two encounters with the Republican presidential nominee. After she was fired from The Apprentice, Zervos said she reached out to Trump for professional advice in 2007 and met him at his office. When she arrived, she says he kissed her on the lips and complimented her for her ‘balls’ on seeking a meeting with him. She said they had a productive professional meeting and she ‘felt as thought I was reaching for the brass ring.’ As she was leaving, she says Trump again kissed her on the lips.” [Time, 10/14/16]
During A Second Meeting In Los Angeles, Zervos Was Led To Trump’s Bungalow, Where He Called Out For Her To Join Him In The Bedroom. According to Time, “Shortly afterward, Zervos said that Trump called to tell her he was coming to Los Angeles, and they arranged to meet for dinner. When she arrived at the Beverly Hills Hotel, she said was taken to a bungalow where Trump called out from another room, apparently unclothed.” [Time, 10/14/16]
Zervos Said That Trump Exited The Bedroom And Kissed Her Aggressively While Groping Her Breast. According to Time, “She said he later came out of the bedroom, clothed, and ‘started kissing me open-mouthed as he was pulling me toward him.’ She said he again kissed her ‘very aggressively’ and put his hand on her breast, grabbed her hand and walked her into the bedroom, suggesting they ‘lay down and watch some telly-telly.’ She said she pushed him away told him to ‘get real,’ and he repeated the words back to her and moved his crotch in a way she interpreted as mockingly seductive. Zervos said Trump seemed ‘a bit angry’ that she kept rejecting him.” [Time, 10/14/16]
2017: Zervos Sued Trump For Defamation As A Result Of His Denials Of The Events. According to PBS, “Sexual harassment allegations against President Trump were back in court in New York on Tuesday. Summer Zervos, one of at least 11 women who came forward during the 2016 election campaign to accuse Trump, is now suing the president for defamation.” [PBS, 12/5/17]
2019: The Appeals Court Rejected Trump’s Claim That The President Could Not Be Sued While In Office. According to the New York Times, “The five-judge panel in Manhattan ruled that Summer Zervos, who competed on Mr. Trump’s reality game show, could go forward with her lawsuit, which she filed after Mr. Trump said her claims that he had groped and kissed her against her will were lies. The 3-to-2 ruling upholds a lower-court decision from a year ago that similarly concluded the president could be sued in state court while in office for actions unrelated to his official duties. ‘The current sitting president attempts to shield himself from consequences for his alleged unofficial misconduct by relying upon the constitutional protection of the presidency,’ Justice Dianne T. Renwick wrote for the majority. ‘We reject defendant President Trump’s argument.’” [New York Times, 3/14/19]
2021: Zervos And Trump Settled The Lawsuit Without Compensation With Zervos Standing By Her Claims. According to the New York Times, “On Friday, with little warning, Ms. Zervos’s lawyers announced that their client had decided not to pursue the case any further. ‘After five years, Ms. Zervos no longer wishes to litigate against the defendant and has secured the right to speak freely about her experience,’ the lawyers, Beth Wilkinson and Moira Penza, said in a statement. ‘Ms. Zervos stands by the allegations in her complaint and has accepted no compensation,’ they added. In a document filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Friday, Ms. Penza and a lawyer for Mr. Trump, Alina Habba, acknowledged that both sides had agreed not to continue the case. It was not immediately clear what was behind Ms. Zervos’s decision.” [New York Times, 11/12/21]
Trump Has Faced Accusations Related To Sexual Predation From At Least 26 Named Individuals. According to Business Insider, “Jessica Leeds […] Ivana Trump […] Kristin Anderson […] Jill Harth […] Lisa Boyne […] Mariah Billado […] Victoria Hughes […] E. Jean Carroll […] Temple Taggart […] Cathy Heller […] Amy Dorris […] Karena Virginia […] Karen Johnson […] Tasha Dixon […] Bridget Sullivan […] Mindy McGillivray […] Natasha Stoynoff […] Jennifer Murphy […] Juliet Huddy […] Rachel Crooks […] Samantha Holvey […] Ninni Laaksonen […] Jessica Drake […] Summer Zervos […] Cassandra Searles […] Alva Johnson.” [Business Insider, 5/9/23]
Leeds Claimed 45 Minutes Into A Flight, Trump Lifted The Armrest Between Their Seats And Began Touching Her. According to the New York Times, “More than three decades ago, when she was a traveling businesswoman at a paper company, Ms. Leeds said, she sat beside Mr. Trump in the first-class cabin of a flight to New York. They had never met before. About 45 minutes after takeoff, she recalled, Mr. Trump lifted the armrest and began to touch her.” [New York Times, 10/12/16]
Leeds Called Trump An Octopus, Stating “His Hands Were Everywhere.” According to the New York Times, “According to Ms. Leeds, Mr. Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt. ‘He was like an octopus,’ she said. ‘His hands were everywhere.’ She fled to the back of the plane. ‘It was an assault,’ she said.” [New York Times, 10/12/16]
In A Sworn Deposition, Ivana Alleged That Trump Raped Her In A Fit Of Rage. According to the New Yorker, “Hurt obtained a copy of her sworn divorce deposition, from 1990, in which she stated that, the previous year, her husband had raped her in a fit of rage. In Hurt’s account, Trump was furious that a ‘scalp reduction’ operation he’d undergone to eliminate a bald spot had been unexpectedly painful. Ivana had recommended the plastic surgeon. In retaliation, Hurt wrote, Trump yanked out a handful of his wife’s hair, and then forced himself on her sexually. Afterward, according to the book, she spent the night locked in a bedroom, crying; in the morning, Trump asked her, ‘with menacing casualness, ‘Does it hurt?’’” [New Yorker, 10/24/16]
Ivana’s Account Was Confirmed By Two Friends. According to the New Yorker, “Trump has denied both the rape allegation and the suggestion that he had a scalp-reduction procedure. Hurt said that the incident, which is detailed in Ivana’s deposition, was confirmed by two of her friends.” [New Yorker, 10/24/16]
In A “Non-Denial Denial,” Ivana Retracted The Use Of The Word Rape From Her Deposition, But Nevertheless Reported Having Been “Violated.” According to the New Yorker, “Before Hurt’s book came out, Trump’s lawyers pressured the publisher, W. W. Norton, to paste a clarifying statement from Ivana into the flyleaf of every copy. In it, she confirmed that she had said in a deposition that her husband had ‘raped’ her, but added that she did not want those words to be interpreted in ‘a literal or criminal sense.’ She also said, ‘As a woman, I felt violated.’ Hurt said that he considers the note a non-denial denial, and believes that Ivana agreed to amend her words in order to secure the divorce settlement, in which she reportedly received fourteen million dollars in cash. When the rape story resurfaced last summer, Ivana issued a statement saying that it was ‘without merit.’ ‘She and Donald have raised three kids together. They’re picking their bedrooms in the White House,’ Hurt said. ‘But she’s not saying it’s untrue, or that she didn’t swear to it under oath.’” [New Yorker, 10/24/16]
Kristin Anderson Alleged That Trump Slid His Fingers Under Miniskirt, Moved Up Her Inner Thigh And Touched Her Vagina Through Her Underwear As She Was Talking With Other People At A Manhattan Nightclub. According to the Washington Post, “Kristin Anderson was deep in conversation with acquaintances at a crowded Manhattan nightspot and did not notice the figure to her right on a red velvet couch — until, she recalls, his fingers slid 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 recognized him as Donald Trump: ‘He was so distinctive looking — with the hair and the eyebrows. I mean, nobody else has those eyebrows.’ At the time of the incident, which Anderson said took place in the early 1990s, she was in her early 20s, trying to make it as a model. She was paying the bills by working as a makeup artist and restaurant hostess. Trump was a big celebrity whose face was all over the tabloids and a regular presence on the New York club scene. 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.’” [Washington Post, 10/14/16]
Anderson On Trump’s Assault: “It Wasn’t A Sexual Come-On. […] It Was Like Just To Prove That He Could Do It And Nothing Would Happen. There Was Zero Conversation.” According to the Washington Post, “What Anderson described, however, is consistent with the behavior Trump described on the video. ‘It wasn’t a sexual come-on. I don’t know why he did it. It was like just to prove that he could do it and nothing would happen,’ Anderson said. ‘There was zero conversation. We didn’t even really look at each other. It was very random, very nonchalant on his part.’” [Washington Post, 10/14/16]
Cathy Heller Accused Trump Of Forcibly Kissing Her In The 1990s. According to People, “When Cathy Heller saw the video of Donald Trump telling Billy Bush how he just starts kissing beautiful women without their permission, Heller thought, ‘That’s him, that’s exactly how he acted, it happened to me,’ she tells PEOPLE. […] ‘It drove me crazy,’ the New York woman says. ‘It’s not just locker room talk. That’s who he is. He is a guy who grabs women.’” [People, 10/16/16]
Heller Claimed Trump Grabbed Her At Mar-A-Lago, Where He Began Forcibly Kissing Her Despite Saying No. According to People, “In the late ‘90s, Heller says she was at a brunch at Mar-a-Lago — which she believes was on Mother’s Day — with her in-laws and children when her mother-in-law, a club member, introduced her to Trump. Heller says she extended her hand to shake Trump’s, but he took it and pulled her towards him to kiss her on the mouth. She pulled away and said no, she alleges. ‘He said ‘Oh, come on’ and he was angry,’ Heller says. ‘He really grabbed me and he was holding me very tight to kiss me on the mouth.” [People, 10/16/16]
A Relative Of Heller’s Witnessed The Interaction, Claiming It Looked Like Trump Was Falling Forward Onto Heller As He Tried To Kiss Her. According to People, “A relative who was behind Heller when it happened tells PEOPLE: ‘I saw her moving back, trying to escape his grasp and he kept moving forward and it was almost like he was falling forward. ‘And she turned around and said, ‘Oh my gosh, did you see what happened?’ and she was upset about it and it was in plain view,’ recalls the relative, who wishes to remain anonymous due to a fear of retaliation. ‘It was like, ‘This gross guy, who does he think he is, he was falling on top of her to kiss her and in front of everyone,’ says the relative. ‘How entitled does this guy think he is?’” [People, 10/16/16]
Jill Harth, Vice President Of American Dream Calendar Girls, Accused Trump Of Making “Aggressive, Unwanted Sexual Advances” Towards Her. According to the Boston Globe, “More explosively, they said he continually made aggressive, unwanted sexual advances toward Harth, who was vice president of American Dream Harth alleged in court documents that Trump repeatedly came on to her and groped her under the table during the Oak Room dinner before the party piled into his limousine.” [Boston Globe, 4/17/16]
January 1993: Harth Said That Trump Forcibly “Kissed, Fondled, And Restrained” Her In An Empty Bedroom After A Dinner With American Dream Executives And Models. According to the Boston Globe, “Trump invited the American Dream executive team, along with at least nine past and present calendar models, to a party at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach in January 1993. During dinner, Harth alleged, Trump demanded that she sit next to him. ‘When we got to the dinner table, Donald started right in on the groping under the table, to tell you the truth,’ Harth said in her deposition. Some of the salacious charges about what happened later that night, based on Harth’s assertions, were reported in 1997 in New York tabloids and the National Enquirer. Trump took her into an empty bedroom — the one normally used by daughter Ivanka, who at the time was 11. Trump forcibly ‘kissed, fondled, and restrained’ her from leaving, according to Harth’s suit.” [Boston Globe, 4/17/16]
22-Year-Old Model Lauren Petrella Reported That She “Found Trump, Unannounced And Uninvited, In Her Bed,” And He Said: “You Said You Don’t Sleep With Men On The First Date. Now It’s The Second Date, And Here I Am.” According to the Boston Globe, “In the early hours of the morning, Harth and Houraney left. But most of the calendar models spent the night at Trump’s estate. In the predawn hours, a contestant named Lauren Petrella — who, at age 22, was 24 years younger than the 46-year-old Trump — allegedly found Trump, unannounced and uninvited, in her bed. ‘You said you don’t sleep with men on the first date,’ he told her, according to the lawsuit filed by Harth. ‘Now it’s the second date, and here I am.’” [Boston Globe, 4/17/16]
Boyne Recalled A 1996 Dinner With Trump Where He Looked Up Women Attendee’s Skirts And Commented On Their Underwear And Genitals. According to Business Insider, “Lisa Boyne, a health food business entrepreneur, told HuffPost in October 2016 that she attended a 1996 dinner with Trump and modeling agent John Casablancas during which several other women in attendance were forced to walk across a table in order to leave. As the women walked on the table, Boyne says that Trump looked up their skirts and commented on their underwear and genitals. Trump allegedly asked Boyne for her opinion on which of the women he should sleep with.” [Business Insider, 5/9/23]
Boyne Alleged That Trump Insisted That The Women At The Dinner Walk Across The Table, Allowing Him To Look Up Their Skirts. “According to Boyne, the group was seated at a semi-circular table, with the women in the middle and Trump and Casablancas flanking either end. The women couldn’t get out of their seats without one of the men getting up ― which they refused to do. Instead, Boyne said, Trump insisted that the women walk across the table, allowing him to peer up their skirts while they did so. Trump ‘stuck his head right underneath their skirts,’ Boyne said, and commented on whether they were wearing underwear and what their genitalia looked like.” [HuffPost, 10/13/16]
Dorris Said Trump “Shoved His Tongue Down My Throat” And Was “Very Gropey.” According to the Guardian, “In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Amy Dorris alleged that Trump accosted her outside the bathroom in his VIP box at the tournament in New York on 5 September 1997. Dorris, who was 24 at the time, accuses Trump of forcing his tongue down her throat, assaulting her all over her body and holding her in a grip she was unable to escape from. ‘He just shoved his tongue down my throat and I was pushing him off. And then that’s when his grip became tighter and his hands were very gropey and all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything.’ ‘I was in his grip, and I couldn’t get out of it,’ she said, adding: ‘I don’t know what you call that when you’re sticking your tongue just down someone’s throat. But I pushed it out with my teeth. I was pushing it. And I think I might have hurt his tongue.’ [Guardian, 9/17/20]
Dorris’ Account Of The Incident Was Corroborated By Her Mother, Friends, And Therapist Who She Confided In. According to the Guardian, “Her account was also corroborated by several people she confided in about the incident. They include a friend in New York and Dorris’s mother, both of whom she called immediately after the alleged incident, as well as a therapist and friends she spoke to in the years since. All said Dorris had shared with them details of the alleged incident that matched what she later told the Guardian.” [Guardian, 9/17/20]
Virginia Alleged That Trump Then Approached Her, Grabbed Her Arm, Then Touched The Right Inside Of Her Breast. According to NBC News, “She said she first encountered Donald Trump in 1998, as she was waiting for a car service to pick her up after the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens, New York. […] ‘I knew who he was, but I had never met him. He was with a few other men,’ she said at a press conference in New York Thursday. ‘I was quite surprised when I overheard him talking to the other men about me. He said, ‘Hey, look at this one, we haven’t seen her before. Look at those legs.’ As though I was an object, rather than a person.’ ‘He then walked up to me and reached his right arm and grabbed my right arm, then his hand touched the right inside of my breast. I was in shock. I flinched,’ she continued. Trump then asked her, ‘Don’t you know who I am? Don’t you know who I am?’ she said.” [NBC News, 10/21/16]
Johnson Described Being Assaulted By Trump At A Party At Mar-A-Lago. According to Vox, “A book excerpt published by Esquire on Wednesday contains a new accusation of sexual assault against President Donald Trump. The excerpt, part of Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy’s forthcoming book All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator, contains an account from a woman named Karen Johnson who says Trump groped her and forcibly kissed her at a Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party in the early 2000s. Johnson says she was at Mar-a-Lago with her husband and another relative when Trump grabbed her, pulled her behind a tapestry, and assaulted her.” [Vox, 10/9/19]
Johnson Alluded To Similarities Between What Happened To Her And Trump’s Admitted Predation From The “Hollywood Access” Tape. According to Vox, “Johnson is at least the 23rd woman to come forward with an on-record account of sexual misconduct allegedly committed by Trump. Many of those women came forward following the October 2016 release of the Access Hollywood hot mic tape in which Trump was recorded bragging about groping women and kissing them without their consent. Referring to that tape, Johnson told Levine and El-Faizy that ‘[w]hen he says that thing, ‘Grab them in the pussy,’ that hits me hard because when he grabbed me and pulled me into the tapestry, that’s where he grabbed me.’” [Vox, 10/9/19]
Mindy McGillivray Claimed Trump “Grabbed Her Ass” At Mar-A-Lago Years Ago While There With Her Photographer Friend. According to Palm Beach Post, “McGillivray, 36, said she was groped by Trump at Mar-a-Lago 13 years ago. She said she never reported it to authorities. But her companion that day, photographer Ken Davidoff, vividly remembers when McGillivray pulled him aside moments after the alleged incident and told him, ‘Donald just grabbed my ass!’” [Palm Beach Post, 10/12/16]
McGillivray: “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.” According to Palm Beach Post, “After the show, Davidoff and McGillivray were standing in a pavilion behind the main house in the middle of a group of people. To their left was Regis Philbin and his wife, Joy, according to Davidoff. To McGillivray’s immediate right was Trump and his fiancée, Melania. ‘Ray already performed. He’s ready to leave. He’s saying his goodbyes to everyone,’ McGillivray recalled. ‘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.’” [Palm Beach Post, 10/12/16]
Former Apprentice Contestant Jennifer Murphy Alleged That Trump Kissed Her After A Job Interview. According to Grazia, “Jennifer recalls: ‘He walked me to the elevator, and I said goodbye. I was thinking ‘oh, he’s going to hug me’, but when he pulled my face in and gave me a smooch. I was like ‘oh kay.’ I didn’t know how to act. I was just a little taken aback and probably turned red. And I then I get into the elevator and thought ‘huh, Donald Trump just kissed me on the lips.’’ Jennifer, who plans to vote for Trump, reveals how the man she describes as her ‘mentor’ first singled her out back stage at one of his Miss USA pageants in 2004. While she didn’t win the event, Trump gave her his business card as she expressed an interest in competing in The Apprentice. A couple of months later she flew to San Diego to audition for his show which is when she next encountered him. ‘That’s when he said ‘Jennifer, you’re just so beautiful’ and that made me turn red,’ she said. ‘It made me feel special, that Donald Trump saw things in me.’” [Grazia, 10/12/16]
People Magazine Reporter Natasha Stoynoff, Claimed She Was Physically Assaulted By Trump In The Mid 2000’s At Mar-A-Lago. According to ABC News, “Natasha Stoynoff wrote about an instance when, she alleges, she was physically attacked by Trump while meeting with him and his then-pregnant wife, Melania Trump, at their Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. Trump has denied the report and posted a tweet denouncing the reporter’s claims, writing, ‘Why didn’t the writer of the twelve year old article in People Magazine mention the ‘incident’ in her story. Because it did not happen!’” [ABC News, 10/13/16]
Stoynoff Claimed When Melania Left The Room, Trump Pushed Her Against The Wall And Forced His Tongue Down Her Throat. According to ABC News, “Stoynoff wrote that during a break while interviewing the couple around their first wedding anniversary, Melania Trump left the room and Donald Trump took Stoynoff into another room, where ‘within seconds he was pushing me against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat.’” [ABC News, 10/13/16]
Stoynoff Recounted A Time In Which Trump Walked Her Into An Empty Room, Pushed Her Against A Wall And Forced His Tongue Down Her Throat, As His Pregnant Wife Melania Left To Change Clothes. In a People op-ed Natasha Stoynoff wrote, “Our photo team shot the Trumps on the lush grounds of their Florida estate, and I interviewed them about how happy their first year of marriage had been. When we took a break for the then-very-pregnant Melania to go upstairs and change wardrobe for more photos, Donald wanted to show me around the mansion. There was one ‘tremendous’ room in particular, he said, that I just had to see. ‘I just start kissing them,’ he said to Bush. ‘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.’ 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. Now, I’m a tall, strapping girl who grew up wrestling two giant brothers. I even once sparred with Mike Tyson. It takes a lot to push me. But Trump is much bigger — a looming figure — and he was fast, taking me by surprise and throwing me off balance. I was stunned. And I was grateful when Trump’s longtime butler burst into the room a minute later, as I tried to unpin myself. The butler informed us that Melania would be down momentarily, and it was time to resume the interview.” [People, 10/12/16]
Rachel Crooks Claimed While She Was In An Elevator With Trump, He Forcefully Kissed Her Without Her Consent. According to the New York Times, “Ms. Crooks was a 22-year-old receptionist at Bayrock Group, a real estate investment and development company in Trump Tower in Manhattan, when she encountered Mr. Trump outside an elevator in the building one morning in 2005. Ms. Leeds in 1978. She said unwanted advances from men were routine throughout her time in business in the 1970s and early 1980s. ‘We were taught it was our fault,’ she said. Credit via Jessica Leeds Aware that her company did business with Mr. Trump, she turned and introduced herself. They shook hands, but Mr. Trump would not let go, she said. Instead, he began kissing her cheeks. Then, she said, he ‘kissed me directly on the mouth.’ It didn’t feel like an accident, she said. It felt like a violation.” [New York Times, 10/12/16]
Crooks’ Boyfriend At The Time Claimed Crooks Believed There Was Nothing She Could Do Because She Was 22. According to the New York Times, “‘I think that what was more upsetting than him kissing her was that she felt like she couldn’t do anything to him because of his position,’ he said. ‘She was 22. She was a secretary. It was her first job out of college. I remember her saying, ‘I can’t do anything to this guy, because he’s Donald Trump.’’” [New York Times, 10/12/16]
2006: Jessica Drake Claimed Trump Groped And Kissed Her Without Her Permission And Offered Her $10,000 To Go To His Hotel Room. According to the New York Times, “The comment was a response to the accuser, Jessica Drake, who over the weekend accused Mr. Trump of groping and kissing her without her permission in 2006. He also, she said, offered her $10,000 to go to his hotel room.” [New York Times, 10/24/16]
Erin Burnett Of CNN Claimed Trump Kissed Her Friend Without The Woman’s Consent In 2010. According to the Huffington Post, “CNN’s Erin Burnett reported Friday night that a woman she’s friends with told her that in 2010, Donald Trump kissed her without her consent. Burnett reported that the GOP presidential nominee allegedly invited the woman into his office alone, told her she was special and gave her his cell phone number. ‘I ran the hell out of there,’ the woman told Burnett.” [Huffington Post, 10/7/16]
Burnett’s Friend Claimed Trump Popped Some Tic Tacs And Leaned In To Kiss Her, Catching Her Off Guard. According to the Huffington Post, “Burnett’s friend said she recognized that detail. ‘The Tic Tacs,’ Burnett said, quoting her friend. ‘That’s exactly what Trump did to me. Trump took Tic Tacs, suggested that I take them also. He then leaned in ... catching me off guard and kissed me almost on the lips. I was really freaked out.’” [Huffington Post, 10/7/16]
Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham And Former Advisor To Vice President Mike Pence Oliva Troye Said That Trump “Took A Very Keen Interest In” A Young Female Staffer And Requested That They “Bring Her Back So That They Could Look At Her Ass.” According to Newsweek, “Grisham said Trump, 76, had been particularly fixated on a woman on her team, and described an incident where he had asked a staffer to ‘bring her back so that they could look at her ass.’ ‘With this one staffer, it was really bad to the point that I was extremely uncomfortable,’ Grisham told CNN's Erin Burnett. Troye, 46, was aware ‘there was a younger staffer that he took a very keen interest’ in. ‘That was the one they raised concerns about,’ Troye said.” [Newsweek, 5/11/23]
Troye Said Trump’s Inappropriate Behavior Towards Staffers While President Was Well Known Among Senior Staff. According to Newsweek, “Former president Donald Trump's interest in a younger staffer raised alarm in the White House and he ‘openly’ behaved inappropriately, a former Trump administration official has told Newsweek. Olivia Troye, who was an adviser to former vice president Mike Pence and his lead staffer on the White House coronavirus task force, said Trump's behavior was common knowledge among senior staff. […] ‘I witnessed his behavior first hand,’ Troye told Newsweek. ‘He did it openly and made the comments openly even in meetings.’ Troye added that ‘this behavior was a known thing across many senior staff’ in the White House.” [Newsweek, 5/11/23]
Miles Taylor Said Trump Made Sexual Comments About His Daughter, Ivanka Trump, Including Imagining Sex With Her. According to Raw Story, “Former President Donald Trump made sexual comments about his daughter Ivanka that were so lewd he was rebuked by his Chief of Staff, former Trump official Miles Taylor writes in a new book. The comments are used by Taylor to highlight almost daily instances of sexism in the Trump White House that were so bad one senior female official told the writer, ‘This is not a healthy workplace for women.’ ‘Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump's breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led (former Chief of Staff) John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,’ Taylor writes.” [Raw Story, 6/28/23]
Documents Released In The Jeffrey Epstein Case Included Emails From Sarah Ransome That Claimed Epstein Made Sex Tapes Of Trump At Epstein’s Mansion. According to the Economic Times, “Jeffrey Epstein accuser Sarah Ransome claimed that she had copies of tapes Epstein had made of some of his high-profile friends, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and British business tycoon Richard Branson, allegedly having intimate relations with an unnamed woman. In a series of emails in 2016 to then-New York Post columnist Maureen Callahan, she wrote about one of her friends, ‘She confided in me about her casual ‘friendship’ with Donald. Mr. Trump definitely seemed to have a thing for her and she told me how he kept going on about how he liked her ‘pert nipples.’ She also wrote that she knew she had intimate relations with Trump at Jeffery’s New York mansion on regular occasions.” [Economic Times, 1/8/24]
Ransome Later Retracted All Of Her Claims. According to the Economic Times, “However, according to the court filing, Ransome withdrew the salacious allegations she had made in an email sent to Callahan on October 23, 2016. She wrote, ‘I would like to retract everything I have said to you and walk away from this.’ Explaining the reason, she said that ‘only bad things’ and ‘pain for my family’ would come if she went public.” [Economic Times, 1/8/24]
Former Miss Arizona Tasha Dixon Claimed Trump Would Walk In While The Contestants Were Naked And Changing Into Their Bikinis. According to the Washington Post, “Tasha Dixon, Miss Arizona in 2001, told the TV station that Trump just came ‘waltzing in’ while contestants were nude or half-nude as they changed into bikinis.” [Washington Post, 10/12/16]
Trump Walked In On Naked Contestants In The Miss Teen USA Pageant — Some Women Naked Backstage Were Minors. According to the Washington Post, “Separately, BuzzFeed reported Wednesday that four women in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant said Trump walked into their dressing room while they were changing. Some were as young as 15, BuzzFeed reported.” [Washington Post, 10/12/16]
Trump On Entering His Miss USA Pageant’s Dressing Room: “I’m Allowed To Go In Because I’m The Owner Of The Pageant. And Therefore I’m Inspecting It […] You Know They’re Standing There With No Clothes. And You See These Incredible Looking Women. And So, I Sort Of Get Away With Things Like That.” According to the Tampa Bay Times, “On an April 11, 2005, Howard Stern show, Donald Trump bragged about some of the special perks he enjoyed while owner of the Miss USA pageant. They came not in a locker room but a dressing room. ‘I’ll go backstage before a show and everyone’s getting dressed and ready and everything else,’ he said. ‘And you know, no men are anywhere. And I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant. And therefore I’m inspecting it.’ Said Stern: ‘You’re like a doctor.’ Responded Trump: ‘Is everyone okay? You know they’re standing there with no clothes. And you see these incredible looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that.’” [Tampa Bay Times, 10/12/16]
1997: Temple Taggart McDowell Said Trump Would Greet Miss Universe Contestants By Kissing Them On The Mouth. According to the New York Times, “With his purchase of the Miss Universe Organization, Mr. Trump was now in the business of young, beautiful women. They craved his advice and approval, a fact he seemed to understand well. Temple Taggart, the 21-year-old Miss Utah, was startled by how forward he was with young contestants like her in 1997, his first year as the owner of Miss USA, a branch of the beauty pageant organization. As she recalls it, he introduced himself in an unusually intimate manner. He kissed me directly on the lips. I thought, ‘Oh my God, gross.’ He was married to Marla Maples at the time. I think there were a few other girls that he kissed on the mouth. I was like ‘Wow, that’s inappropriate.’ –Temple Taggart, 1997 Miss Utah USA Mr. Trump disputes this, saying he is reluctant to kiss strangers on the lips. But Ms. Taggart said it was not an isolated incident.” [New York Times, 5/14/16]
New York Times: Trump Invited Taggart To Trump Tower, Where “He Delivered Another Unwelcome Kiss On Her Lips” And Advised Her To Pretend That She Was 17 Instead Of 21. According to the New York Times, “At the gala celebration after the show, she said, Mr. Trump immediately zeroed in on her, telling her how much he liked her style and inviting her to visit him in New York to talk about her future. Soon enough, she said, he delivered another unwelcome kiss on her lips, this time in Trump Tower. After boasting of his connections to elite modeling agencies, he advised her to lie about her age to get ahead in the industry, she said. ‘We’re going to have to tell them you’re 17,’ ‘Ms. Taggart recalled him telling her, ‘because in his mind, 21 is too old. I was like, ‘No, we’re not going to do that.’’” [New York Times, 5/14/16]
Former Miss Washington Cassandra Searles Alleged In A Facebook Post That Trump “Continually Grabbed My Ass And Invited Me To His Hotel Room.” According to Rolling Stone, “Cassandra Searles, Miss Washington 2013, recalls that when she was a contestant, the businessman demanded the women redo their introductions when they failed to look Trump in the eye. In a Facebook post this year, 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. Searles added in a comment on her initial post’s thread, ‘He probably doesn’t want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room.’” [Rolling Stone, 10/13/16]
Former Miss Finland Ninni Laaksonen Reported That Trump Groped Her Before She Appeared On Television With A Group Of Miss Universe Contestants In 2006. According to Reuters, “A former Miss Finland has accused U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump of groping her in 2006 when she was representing the country in the Miss Universe beauty contest. Ninni Laaksonen told the Ilta-Sanomat newspaper that the Republican presidential nominee had grabbed her behind before she appeared on a television show in New York with other contestants. ‘He really grabbed my butt. I don’t think anybody saw it but I flinched and thought: ‘What is happening?’,’ Laaksonen was quoted as saying in the newspaper. The accusation follows a stream of allegations of inappropriate conduct by Trump from other women in the United States which have put pressure on his campaign as he trails in opinion polls ahead of the Nov. 8 election. Trump has denied the accusations. Laaksonen could not be reached for comment on Friday.” [Reuters, 10/28/16]
Former Miss North Carolina Samantha Holvey Claimed Trump Walked In On Contestants While They Got Dressed, Unlike The Pageant Director. According to NBC Think, “I was in my Miss North Carolina robe in the hair and makeup area having my hair done when Donald Trump came waltzing in with Melania beside him. I was shocked — again — by this violation of our personal space. What was he doing, coming backstage when we were still getting dressed? The pageant director in North Carolina hadn’t come into the dressing room area, and she was a woman. It was like he wanted to exert his dominance and power.” [NBC Think, 12/19/17]
Former Miss Vermont Teen USA Mariah Billado Recalled Being Surprised At Trump’s Presence In The Dressing Room. According to BuzzFeed News, “‘I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here,’ said Mariah Billado, the former Miss Vermont Teen USA. Trump, she recalled, said something like, ‘Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.’” [BuzzFeed News, 10/13/16]
Former Miss New Mexico Teen USA Victoria Hughes Described Trump’s Presence Among Minors As Inappropriate. According to BuzzFeed News, “A fifth Miss Teen USA pageant contestant came forward Wednesday night to say that like four others who have spoken to BuzzFeed News, she recalled Donald Trump entering the group dressing room while teenagers were changing their clothes during the 1997 pageant. ‘It was certainly the most inappropriate time to meet us all for the first time,’ said Victoria Hughes, the former Miss New Mexico Teen USA, in an email. ‘The youngest girl was 15, and I was the eldest at 19.’” [BuzzFeed News, 10/13/16]
Text Messages: Trump’s 2020 Campaign Allegedly Settled “Multiple” Lawsuits Concerning “Gender Discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination, Or Sexual Harassment.” According to the Daily Beast, “A thread of bombshell text messages made public Thursday alleged that Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign settled ‘multiple’ seedy lawsuits for a man described only as ‘Boris,’ leading to conjecture it could be a powerful Trumpworld figure. Those messages were revealed by A.J. Delgado—a former staffer on Trump’s 2016 campaign who’s embroiled in a lawsuit against the current campaign, alleging she was taken advantage of and raped by her former superior, Jason Miller. As part of that lawsuit, Delgado, a lawyer who’s representing herself, filed a motion Thursday that included a text thread she claims to be between her and Jenna Ellis, another ex-Trump staffer who is a co-defendant in his election subversion case in Georgia. The alleged texts begin with Delgado asking if Ellis knew of anyone who ‘complained of gender discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, or sexual harassment’ during Trump’s 2020 campaign. She wrote that the messages were to remain between them and pleaded with her to ‘tell me the truth. The second texter, who Delgado claims is Ellis, responded, ‘Yes. Off the record - Boris. The campaign settled multiple suits.’” [Daily Beast, 7/5/24]
September 2024: Habba Settled A Case For An Undisclosed Sum Against Her From Former Bedminster Waitress Alice Bianco. According to Raw Story, “Trump lawyer Alina Habba is paying out an undisclosed sum to settle a claim filed by a former employee of the former president who said Habba tricked her into signing a nondisclosure agreement to cover up sexual harassment. NOTUS reported that Habba has settled the case with Alice Bianco, a former waitress at Trump's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, who claimed that the lawyer deceived her into accepting a hush-money agreement that paid her $15,000 to keep quiet about the alleged harassment she received from another Bedminster employee.” [Raw Story, 9/12/24]
Bianco Claimed She Was Deceived Into Signing A Nondisclosure Agreement To Cover Up Sexual Harassment She Faced At Bedminster. According to Raw Story, “Trump lawyer Alina Habba is paying out an undisclosed sum to settle a claim filed by a former employee of the former president who said Habba tricked her into signing a nondisclosure agreement to cover up sexual harassment. NOTUS reported that Habba has settled the case with Alice Bianco, a former waitress at Trump's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, who claimed that the lawyer deceived her into accepting a hush-money agreement that paid her $15,000 to keep quiet about the alleged harassment she received from another Bedminster employee.” [Raw Story, 9/12/24]