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Rachel Crooks is one of the 19 women who’ve come forward to tell their stories of being groped, forcibly kissed, or sexually harassed by Donald Trump. A new Washington Post story details how, even though it feels like no one is listening, Crooks keeps speaking out about how, when she was a young receptionist at the Bayrock Group, Trump kissed her without her permission. Crooks didn’t hide the incident at the time:
Maybe the proof was the email she had sent to her mother, from the Bayrock office in New York, at 1:27 that afternoon in 2006: “Hey Ma, my day started off rough…had a weird incident with Mr. Trump.”
Or the email she sent a few hours later to her sister at 3:05 p.m.: “I must just appear to be some dumb girl that he can take advantage of…ugh!”
Or the email she sent a few days after that to another relative: “Ah yes, the Donald kiss…very creepy man, let me tell you!”
And it’s consistent with many other women's stories: Donald Trump is a creepy groper. But Trump is again attacking a woman he assaulted back in 2006, calling her a liar in 2018. In two tweets, Trump wrote:
A woman I don’t know and, to the best of my knowledge, never met, is on the FRONT PAGE of the Fake News Washington Post saying I kissed her (for two minutes yet) in the lobby of Trump Tower 12 years ago. Never happened! Who would do this in a public space with live security...…
....cameras running. Another False Accusation. Why doesn’t @washingtonpost report the story of the women taking money to make up stories about me? One had her home mortgage paid off. Only @FoxNews so reported...doesn’t fit the Mainstream Media narrative.
Reading is fundamental: she says it happened outside the elevators on the 24th floor, not in the lobby. But perhaps Trump has Crooks confused with some other woman he kissed without her consent in the lobby.
And who would kiss a woman against her will in a public space with live security cameras running? Maybe the same man who would say, with cameras running, “You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women. I just start kissing them. 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. Grab ‘em by the pussy.”