One story after another popped up yesterday, confirming the truth of two things Trump has been boasting about. There are now so many women out there with charges of criminal sexual assault that Trump denying those claims will ring untrue.
The boast on the bus video that Trump routinely gets away with committing sexual assault on unsuspecting women
Trump:
“I grab them by the pu$$y”, “I kiss them on the mouth” “you can do anything”.
The boast Trump made on the Howard Stern show about him ogling and leering at (what he calls “inspecting”) Miss USA pageant contestants, some as young as 15 years of age.
Trump:
"I'll go backstage before a show, and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else,"
"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... Is everyone OK? 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.”
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The stories are out there, but I think it is important to put them all together. As, TOGETHER, all of these stories truly show how much of a scumbag Trump is. And, seriously, all of these women coming forward shows that the allegations against Trump are true, that the denials ring hollow. I mean, does ANYONE REALLY believe that Trump bragged to Billy Bush about sexual predator behavior he never actually committed? Seriously...
Ok, what we have so far, and there is probably more to come today:
1. Jill Harth speaks out about alleged groping by Donald Trump
The Guardian:
Jill Harth speaks out about alleged groping by Donald Trump
Harth stands by claims of incident described in 1997 lawsuit as ‘attempted rape’ and wants apology from Donald Trump: ‘Don’t call me a liar’
Jill Harth, a makeup artist, has stayed quiet for almost 20 years about the way Trump pursued her, and – according to a lawsuit she instigated – cornered her and groped her in his daughter’s bedroom.
After Trump mounted his campaign for the White House, details emerged of the 1997 complaint, in which Harth accused him of “attempted ‘rape’”.
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Harth: “He groped me. He absolutely groped me. And, just slipped his hand there, touching my private parts.”
There was the initial leering in that first December meeting in Trump Tower, and the inappropriate questions after her relationship status. It continued the next night over dinner at the Plaza Hotel’s Oak Room, where at a dinner with beauty pageant contestants she alleges he groped her under the table.
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After business concluded, Harth and Houraney were on tour of Mar-a-Lago along with a group of young pageant contestants – Trump wanted to “see the quality of the girls he was sponsoring”, Harth recalled – when he pulled her aside into one of the children’s bedrooms.
“He pushed me up against the wall, and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my dress again,” Harth said, “and I had to physically say: ‘What are you doing? Stop it.’ It was a shocking thing to have him do this because he knew I was with George, he knew they were in the next room. And how could he be doing this when I’m there for business?”
2. Jessica Leeds and Rachel Crooks charge Trump with sexual assault
New York Times:
Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately
Jessica Leeds:
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.
According to Ms. Leeds, Mr. Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt.
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“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.
Ms. Leeds has told the story to at least four people close to her, who also spoke with The New York Times.
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Rachel Crooks:
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Heavy:
Rachel Crooks: Trump kissed her directly on the mouth
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The Times says that Crooks was a 22-year-old receptionist in 2005 working for The Bayrock Group, “a real estate investment and development company in Trump Tower” when the alleged incident occurred. The Times alleges that Crooks says she introduced herself to Trump outside an elevator, and Trump kissed her “directly on the mouth,” which she considers “so inappropriate.”
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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.
“It was so inappropriate,” Ms. Crooks recalled in an interview. “I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that.”
3. Physically Attacked by Donald Trump – a PEOPLE Writer’s Own Harrowing Story
People:
Physically Attacked by Donald Trump – a PEOPLE Writer’s Own Harrowing Story
BY NATASHA STOYNOFF
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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.
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.
I was still in shock and remained speechless as we both followed him to an outdoor patio overlooking the grounds. In those few minutes alone with Trump, my self-esteem crashed to zero.
4. Palm Beach woman says Trump groped her
Palm Beach Post:
Palm Beach Post exclusive: Local woman says Trump groped her
“No, I have not,’’ Trump replied.
Watching at home in Palm Springs, McGillivray said she rose from her couch and yelled at the TV screen: “‘You liar!’’’
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!”
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Huffington Post:
More women come forward
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.’’
McGillivray said she remembers saying to herself, ‘’‘OK, am I going to say something now and make a scene or be quiet?’ I chose to stay quiet.’’
Davidoff said he did not witness the alleged groping but he said he has never had any reason to doubt McGillivray.
Asked about the possibility that what she felt was Trump or someone accidentally bumping into her, McGillivray said no. “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.’’
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5. Erin Burnett’s friend was kissed by Trump without consent
HuffingtonPost:
CNN’s Erin Burnett Reports Donald Trump Kissed Her Friend Without Consent.
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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.
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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.”
6. Ivana Trump charged Donald Trump with rape
Vox:
The sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump, explained
In a deposition in their 1992 divorce, Ivana Trump, Trump’s first wife, described a horrific scene in which Trump violently forced her to have sex with him.
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What followed was a “violent assault,” according to Lost Tycoon. Donald held back Ivana’s arms and began to pull out fistfuls of hair from her scalp, as if to mirror the pain he felt from his own operation. He tore off her clothes and unzipped his pants.
“Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified… It is a violent assault,” Hurt writes. “According to versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, ‘he raped me.’”
Following the incident, Ivana ran upstairs, hid behind a locked door, and remained there “crying for the rest of night.” When she returned to the master bedroom in the morning, he was there.
“As she looks in horror at the ripped-out hair scattered all over the bed, he glares at her and asks with menacing casualness: ‘Does it hurt?’” Hurt writes.
7. 1997 Miss USA pageant — Trump kissed beauty pageant contestant Temple Taggart on mouth without consent
New York Times:
Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump behaved with women in private
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.”
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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.’ ”
8. 2013 Miss USA pageant — Trump allegedly groped Cassandra Searles
Hollywood Life:
‘Cassandra Searles’: Former Miss USA Contestant Claims Donald Trump ‘Grabbed Her Ass’
Cassandra Searles was once Miss Washington, a contestant in Donald’s Miss USA pageant. In a Facebook post in early 2016 she wrote that during the competition in 2013, he “continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room.” She was 28 at the time, resisting unwanted advances from an executive 39 years older than her. Gross.
So far 9 women have come out to charge Donald Trump with sexual assault. There are sure more to come.
There is also a lot of leering and ogling behavior on Donald Trump’s part, which gave pageant participants the creeps as he “inspected” the naked and half-naked bodies of beauty pageant contestants. As the owner of the pageants he would routinely get away with it.
Donald Trump stated in a Howard Stern interview:
"I would go backstage and everyone's getting dressed, and everything else, 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."
"You know, the dresses. 'Is everyone OK?' You know, they're standing there with no clothes. 'Is everybody okay?' And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that. But no, I've been very good," Trump added.
You see, Trump inserted himself into the dressing rooms of beauty pageant contestants to “inspect” the girls, as he calls it. Here are some of the accusations leveled at Trump by beauty contestants.
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9. 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant (contestants may be as old as 19 and as young as 15):
Buzzfeed:
Teen Beauty Queens Say Trump Walked In On Them Changing
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Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant said Donald Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants — some as young as 15 — were changing.
“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.”
Three other women, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of getting engulfed in a media firestorm, also remembered Trump entering the dressing room while girls were changing. Two of them said the girls rushed to cover their bodies, with one calling it “shocking” and “creepy.” The third said she was clothed and introduced herself to Trump.
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“I don’t support either” Trump or Clinton, said Billado, the former Miss Vermont. Of the other three who remember Trump coming into the dressing room, one said she was also undecided but would not vote for Trump, and another said she’s a Democrat. A third said she was not voting for Trump and wouldn’t say more because “this is not about politics.” But, she added, “When he started running for president, that is one of the first things I thought about: Oh, gross, this guy walked in on us in the pageant.” Girls were “just scrambling to grab stuff,” she said, “whatever garments they had.”
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She added, “We were all very young, but even at the time, it caught us funny.” Now, “as an adult and as a mother,” she said she finds it “absolutely inappropriate.”
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10. 2000 Miss USA pageant
Buzzfeed:
“We Were All Naked” When Donald Trump Walked Through Beauty Queen Dressing Room
Trump: “I sort of get away with things like that.”
A former Miss New Hampshire told BuzzFeed News last spring that Donald Trump strolled through the dressing rooms backstage at the 2000 Miss USA pageant and stared at the naked contestants.
In May, his campaign issued a blanket denial, calling Bridget Sullivan’s story and those of several other beauty queens “totally false.”
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“The time that he walked through the dressing rooms was really shocking. We were all naked,” she said. Sullivan compared Trump to a “creepy uncle.” “He’d hug you just a little low on your back,” she said.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
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Creepy uncle. Trump is such a scumbag.
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11. 2001 Miss USA pageant
CBS:
Former Beauty Queen: Contestants Were Forced To Greet Trump Even When Not Fully Dressed
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As Miss Arizona, Tasha Dixon, then 18, competed in the Miss USA pageant, which was owned by Donald Trump for 19 years, along with the Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA pageants.
“Our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half naked changing into our bikinis,” Dixon recalled. “He just came strolling right in. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless. Other girls were naked.”
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Inspecting again. And getting away with it.
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As Miss Arizona, Tasha Dixon, then 18, competed in the Miss USA pageant, which was owned by Donald Trump for 19 years, along with the Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA pageants.
“Our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half naked changing into our bikinis,” Dixon recalled. “He just came strolling right in. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless. Other girls were naked.”
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“I’m telling you Donald Trump owned the pageant for the reasons to utilize his power to get around beautiful women,” she added. “Who do you complain to? He owns the pageant. There’s no one to complain to. Everyone there works for him.”
The ultimate irony.
A chauvinistic, sexist, misogynistic creep will be defeated by the first woman President in our history, and he’ll be done in by the beautiful women he likes to surround himself with, because they are revolting at Trump’s pride and joy: Unwanted and criminal sexual predator behavior.