But Trump is a rapist. He hates women.
The 26 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct
Eliza Relman and Azmi Haroun
Updated
May 9, 2023, 4:09 PM EDT
Rachel Crooks, left, Jessica Leeds, center, and Samantha Holvey attend a
news conference, Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, in New York to discuss their
accusations of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump.
Rachel Crooks, left, Jessica Leeds, center, and Samantha Holvey attend a
news conference, Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, in New York to discuss their
accusations of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump. Mark Lennihan/AP
Images
At least 26 women have accused President Donald Trump of sexual
misconduct since the 1970s.
Renewed attention was brought to the allegations amid the #MeToo
movement and a national conversation concerning sexual misconduct.
On Tuesday, a Manhattan jury found Trump liable for the sexual abuse of
columnist E. Jean Carroll.
At least 26 women accused President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct,
including assault, since the 1970s.
A deluge of women made their accusations public following the October 2016
publication of the "Access Hollywood" tape, in which Trump was heard
boasting about grabbing women's genitals in 2005. Some of Trump's accusers
made their stories public months before the tape's release, and still
others came forward in the months following.
Trump has broadly dismissed the allegations, which include harassment,
groping, and rape, as "fabricated" and politically motivated accounts
pushed by the media and his political opponents. In 2016, he promised to
sue all of his accusers. In some cases, Trump and his lawyers have
suggested he couldn't have engaged in the alleged behavior with certain
women because he wasn't physically attracted to them.
"Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign," the
Republican presidential nominee said during a 2016 rally. "Total
fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be
sued after the election is over."
The president said these "false allegations" against him were made by
"women who got paid a lot of money to make up stories about me." And then
alleged that the "mainstream media" refused to report evidence that the
accusations were made up.
Trump has not yet made good on his promise to sue any of the women
although two women have sued him and the White House says that Trump's
election proves the American people don't consider the allegations
disqualifying.
"The people of this country, at a decisive election, supported President
Trump, and we feel like these allegations have been answered through that
process," then-White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told
reporters in December 2017, after several of the president's accusers
appeared on national television to rehash their allegations.
But despite Trump's denials, 50% of voters 59% of women and 41% of men
surveyed in a December 2017 Quinnipiac poll think the president should
resign as a result of the sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Several Democratic lawmakers have previously called on Trump to resign over
the accusations.
One accuser, Samantha Holvey, who spoke out in 2016 about her experience
with Trump as a Miss USA pageant contestant, said in 2017 that while
Trump's election was painful, she and others see the #MeToo movement as an
opportunity to "try round two."
"We're private citizens, and for us to put ourselves out there to try and
show America who this man is and especially how he views women, and for
them to say 'meh, we don't care' it hurts," Holvey said on NBC News'
"Megyn Kelly Today" in December 2017. "And so now it's just like, all
right, let's try round two. The environment's different. Let's try again."
In May 2023, a Manhattan jury found Trump liable for the sexual abuse of E.
Jean Caroll in 1996, in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room, and found that he
defamed her when he denied it. The jury did not find that Trump had raped
Carroll, as detailed in her testimony.
Here are all of the allegations in chronological order made by 26 named
women:
Jessica Leeds
Jessica Leeds
NBC News
Allegations:
Jessica Leeds told the New York Times in October 2016 that Trump reached
his hand up her skirt and groped her while seated next to her on a flight
in the late 1970s.
"He was like an octopus. His hands were everywhere," Leeds said, adding
that she fled to the back of the plane.
During an interview on NBC News' "Megyn Kelly Today" in December, Leeds
added that she was at a gala in New York three years after the incident on
the plane when she ran into Trump, who recognized her and called her a
c---.
"He called me the worst name ever," she said. "It was shocking. It was like
a bucket of cold water being thrown over me."
Trump's response:
Trump denied the allegations and during a rally in October 2016, suggested
that Leeds wasn't attractive enough for him to assault.
"People that are willing to say, 'Oh, I was with Donald Trump in 1980, I
was sitting with him on an airplane, and he went after me,'" Trump said.
"Believe me, she would not be my first choice."
Ivana Trump
Donald Ivana Trump
Donald Trump and his former wife, Ivana, pose outside the Federal
Courthouse after she was sworn in as a United States citizen in May 1988.
Reuters
Allegations:
In a 1990 divorce deposition, Trump's first wife and the mother of his
three eldest children Ivana Trump accused her then-husband of raping her in
a fit of rage in 1989.
Ivana said Trump attacked her after he underwent a painful "scalp
reduction" procedure done by a doctor she had recommended, tearing her
clothes and yanking out a chunk of her hair.
"Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than 16
months. Ivana is terrified
It is a violent assault," Harry Hurt III, who
obtained a copy of the deposition, wrote in a 1993 book about Trump.
"According to versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, 'he
raped me.'"
Ivana later slightly altered her allegation, saying that while she felt
"violated" on that occasion, she hadn't accused Trump of raping her "in a
literal or criminal sense."
"[O]n one occasion during 1989, Mr. Trump and I had marital relations in
which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our
marriage," Ivana wrote in a 1993 statement. "As a woman, I felt violated,
as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was
absent. I referred to this as a 'rape,' but I do not want my words to be
interpreted in a literal or criminal sense."
Ivana is mother to Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka Trump.
Trump's response:
Trump called Hurt's description of Ivana's allegation "obviously false" in
1993, according to Newsday. Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, argued in 2015
that his client could not have raped Ivana because "you cannot rape your
spouse."
"There's very clear case law," he said.
Cohen later recanted, saying his comment was "inarticulate."
Kristin Anderson
Kristin Anderson
Screenshot/Washington Post
Allegations:
Kristin Anderson, a photographer and former model said Trump reached under
her skirt and touched her vagina through her underwear at a New York City
nightclub in the early 1990s.
Anderson, then in her early 20s, said she wasn't talking with Trump at the
time and didn't realize he was sitting next to her when he groped her
without her consent.
"So, the person on my right who, unbeknownst to me at that time was Donald
Trump, put their hand up my skirt. He did touch my vagina through my
underwear, absolutely. And as I pushed the hand away and I got up and I
turned around and I see these eyebrows, very distinct eyebrows, of Donald
Trump," she told The Washington Post in October 2016.
Anderson said she and her friends, who were talking together around a table
at the time of the incident, were "very grossed out and weirded out," but
thought "Okay, Donald is gross. We all know he's gross. Let's just move
on."
Trump's response:
"Mr. Trump strongly denies this phony allegation by someone looking to get
some free publicity," Hope Hicks, the president's then-spokeswoman and
current White House communications director, told the Post in October 2016.
"It is totally ridiculous."
Jill Harth
Jill Harth
Screenshot/Inside Edition
Allegations:
Jill Harth, a businesswoman who worked with Trump in the 1990s, told the
Guardian in July 2016 that Trump pushed her against a wall, put his hand up
her skirt, and tried to kiss her at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort in
the early 1990s.
"He was relentless," she told the New York Times. "I didn't know how to
handle it. I would go away from him and say I have to go to the restroom.
It was the escape route."
Harth sued Trump in 1997 both for sexual harassment and for failing to
uphold his end of a business deal with Harth and her then-partner.
Trump's response:
Hicks responded to the Times' reporting, denying Harth's allegations
wholesale.
"Mr. Trump denies each and every statement made by Ms. Harth," she said.
Lisa Boyne
Lisa Boyne
Screenshot/Bustle
Allegations:
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.
Boyne joined Jessica Leeds, Samantha Holvey, Rachel Crooks three others
who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct in calling on Congress to
investigate Trump in December.
Trump's response:
Hicks denied Boyne's allegations. "Mr. Trump never heard of this woman and
would never do that," she told HuffPost.
Mariah Billado and Victoria Hughes
Allegations:
Two Miss Teen USA contestants told BuzzFeed News in October 2016 that Trump
walked in on them while they were changing in their dressing rooms during
the 1997 pageant.
"I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, 'Oh my
god, there's a man in here,'" Mariah Billado, who represented Vermont in
1997, told BuzzFeed. Billado added that Trump said something along the
lines of, "Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before."
Victoria Hughes, a former Miss New Mexico, said Trump first introduced
himself to the teenage contestants when he unexpectedly walked into their
dressing room.
"It was certainly the most inappropriate time to meet us all for the first
time," she told BuzzFeed.
Trump's response:
Trump appeared to admit to this behavior when he boasted in an April 2005
interview with radio host Howard Stern that he regularly walked into
contestants' dressing rooms on the beauty pageants he owned while women
were unclothed.
"I'll go backstage before a show and everyone's getting dressed and ready
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," he said. "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."
In October 2016, the Trump campaign called the allegations politically
motivated lies.
"These accusations have no merit and have already been disproven by many
other individuals who were present," the campaign said in a statement.
"When you see questionable attacks like this magically put out there in the
final month of a presidential campaign, you have to ask yourself what the
political motivations are and why the media is pushing it."
E. Jean Carroll
E. Jean Carroll in 2004.
E. Jean Carroll in 2004. Michael Stuparyk/Getty Images
Allegations:
Former Elle advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accused President Donald Trump
of sexually assaulting her by pinning her against the wall and forcing his
penis inside of her in a department store dressing room the mid-1990s.
"The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me
against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against
my lips," Carroll wrote in an excerpt of her 2019 book,"What Do We Need Men
For?".
She went on, "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."
After bringing a civil defamation and sexual assault lawsuit against Trump
in November 2022, in part through New York's Adult Survivors Act, Carroll's
claims against Trump moved forward at a 2023 trial.
In May 2023, a Manhattan jury found Trump liable for the sexual abuse of
Caroll in 1996, in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room, and found that he
defamed her when he denied it. The jury did not find that Trump had raped
Carroll, as detailed in her testimony.
Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages for the sexual abuse and
defamation claims.
Trump's response:
Under Trump's administration, the White House denied Carroll's allegations
in a statement to New York magazine in June 2019.
"This is a completely false and unrealistic story surfacing 25 years after
allegedly taking place and was created simply to make the President look
bad," the statement read.
After Carroll's 2023 trial, Trump doubled down on a claim that he never
knew Carroll.
"I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS," he wrote on Truth Social.
"THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE - A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF
ALL TIME!"
Temple Taggart
Temple Taggart McDowell
Screenshot/CNN
Allegations:
Temple Taggart, a former Miss Utah, told the New York Times in May 2016
that Trump "kissed me directly on the lips" when she met him at the Miss
USA pageant in 1997. Trump did the same thing when Taggart met with him
again at Trump Tower in Manhattan after he offered to aid her modeling
career, she said.
In November 2017, Taggart spoke out again, telling the Times that the
allegations against Trump were "brushed under the rug."
Trump's response:
Trump "emphatically" denies Taggart's claims.
"I don't even know who she is," Trump told NBC News in October 2016. "She
claims this took place in a public area. I never kissed her. I emphatically
deny this ridiculous claim."
Cathy Heller
Allegations:
Cathy Heller told the Guardian in October 2016 that she was attending a
Mother's Day brunch with her husband, children, and in-laws at Mar-a-Lago
in the 1990s when Trump approached her table, introduced himself to her,
and forcibly kissed her.
"He took my hand, and grabbed me, and went for the lips," she said, and
added that she was "angry and shaken" as a result of the incident.
Trump's response:
A Trump campaign spokesman denied Heller's allegation, arguing that it
couldn't have happened in public.
"There is no way that something like this would have happened in a public
place on Mother's Day at Mr. Trump's resort," Jason Miller said. "It would
have been the talk of Palm Beach for the past two decades."
Amy Dorris
Donald Trump and Ivana Trump watch tennis at the US Open circa September
1997 in New York City.
Donald Trump and Ivana Trump watch tennis at the US Open circa September
1997 in New York City. PL Gould/Getty Images
Allegations:
Amy Dorris told The Guardian in an interview published in September 2020
that Trump forcibly kissed her, groped her all over her body, and gripped
her tightly so she couldn't get away in his US Open VIP box on September 5,
1997.
"He just shoved his tongue down my throat and I was pushing him off,"
Dorris told The Guardian. "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."
Dorris, a 24-year-old model who Trump invited to attend the tournament
along with her boyfriend, said she told Trump to "please stop," but "he
didn't care."
Trump's response:
Trump's lawyers vigorously denied Dorris' sexual misconduct allegations.
Karena Virginia
Karena Virginia
Karena Virginia (front) with her lawyer, Gloria Allred. Richard Drew/AP
Allegations:
Karena Virginia, a yoga instructor and life coach, told the Washington Post
in October 2016 that Trump groped her as she waited for her car outside the
US Open in New York in 1998.
Virginia, then 27, said she overheard Trump talking with a group of men
about her legs and that Trump then approached her, grabbed her arm, and
touched her breast before asking, "Don't you know who I am?"
Trump's response:
"Give me a break," Trump representative Jessica Ditto said in response to
Virginia's allegation. "Voters are tired of these circus like antics and
reject these fictional stories and the clear efforts to benefit Hillary
Clinton."
Karen Johnson
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, with their son Barron,
arrive for a New Year's Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach,
Florida in 2017.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, with their son Barron,
arrive for a New Year's Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach,
Florida in 2017. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Karen Johnson, a regular at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, said
Trump pulled her behind a tapestry and kissed and groped her without her
consent during a New Year's Eve party there in the early 2000s.
"I'm a tall girl and I had six-inch heels on, and I still remember looking
up at him. And he's strong, and he just kissed me," Johnson said. "I was so
scared because of who he was ... I don't even know where it came from. I
didn't have a say in the matter."
Johnson said Trump forcibly grabbed her genitals.
"When 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," she said, according to the book excerpt.
Johnson said Trump called her repeatedly after the incident, offering to
fly her to New York to visit him. She said she refused his advances and
never saw him again or visited Mar-a-Lago, where she'd had her wedding
reception years earlier.
Trump's response:
The White House denied the allegation and slammed "All the President's
Women."
"That book is trash and those accusations from 20 years ago have been
addressed many times," the White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham,
told Insider.
Allegations:
Two Miss USA contestants said Trump walked into their dressing rooms, where
female participants were changing, and ogled them.
Tasha Dixon, a former Miss Arizona who competed in the 2001 Miss USA
pageant, told CBS in October 2016 that Trump walked into the contestants'
dressing room while they were changing.
"He just came strolling right in," Dixon said. "There was no second to put
a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless,
other girls were naked."
She added, "To have the owner come waltzing in when we're naked or half
naked in a very physically vulnerable position, and then to have the
pressure of the people that work for him telling us to go fawn all over
him, go walk up to him, talk to him."
Dixon said there was "no one to complain to" because Trump owned the
pageant and everyone employed there reported to him.
Bridget Sullivan, Miss New Hampshire in 2000, told BuzzFeed News in May
2016 that Trump walked into the contestants' dressing room unannounced and
hugged her inappropriately.
"The time that he walked through the dressing rooms was really shocking. We
were all naked," Sullivan said, comparing Trump to a "creepy uncle." "He'd
hug you just a little low on your back."
Trump's response:
In October 2016, the Trump campaign denied Dixon's allegations, calling
them politically motivated fabrications.
"These accusations have no merit and have already been disproven by many
other individuals who were present," the campaign said in a statement.
"When you see questionable attacks like this magically put out there in the
final month of a presidential campaign, you have to ask yourself what the
political motivations are and why the media is pushing it."
Melinda McGillivray
Melinda McGillivray
Wilfredo Lee/AP
Allegations:
Melinda "Mindy" McGillivray told the Palm Beach Post in October 2016 that
Trump grabbed her buttocks while they were backstage during a Ray Charles
concert at Mar-a-Lago in 2003.
Ken Davidoff, a photographer present at the concert, said McGillivray, then
23, approached him soon after the incident and said, "Donald just grabbed
my a--!"
McGillivray spoke out again on "Megyn Kelly Today" in December, calling for
a congressional investigation into the accusations of sexual misconduct
against Trump.
"He has to face the music; he can't get away with this," McGillivray said.
"I want justice."
Trump's response:
The Post reported that Trump did not respond to requests for comment
concerning McGillivray's accusation, but the president has broadly denied
all of the sexual misconduct accusations made against him.
"The timing and absurdity of these false claims speaks volumes and the
publicity tour that has begun only further confirms the political motives
behind them," White House press secretary Sanders said after the TV
appearance in December.
Natasha Stoynoff
Natasha Stoynoff
Screenshot/ABC News
Allegations:
People magazine reporter Natasha Stoynoff wrote in an October 2016 column
that Trump sexually assaulted her in 2005 at Mar-a-Lago. Stoynoff was
visiting Trump and his new wife, Melania, at their Florida estate to report
on a story about the couple's first year of marriage.
While a pregnant Melania was changing clothes for a photoshoot, Trump
offered to show Stoynoff a "tremendous" room at the resort.
"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," Stoynoff wrote.
She added that Trump told her they would have a sexual affair. "Have you
ever been to Peter Luger's for steaks? I'll take you. We're going to have
an affair, I'm telling you," he allegedly said.
Trump's response:
Trump denied the allegations, tweeting last year, "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!"
Jennifer Murphy and Juliet Huddy
Jennifer Murphy
Jennifer Murphy. Mario Anzuoni/AP
Allegations:
Juliet Huddy, a former Fox News anchor, said on the "Mornin!!! With Bill
Schulz" podcast in December 2017 that Trump kissed her on the lips without
her consent after a meeting in Trump Tower in Manhattan in 2005 or 2006.
"He went to say goodbye and he, rather than kiss me on the cheek, he leaned
in on the lips," she said. Huddy added that she was surprised by the kiss,
but "didn't feel threatened" or "offended" at the time.
"Now that I've matured, I would've said, 'Nope.' At that time, I was making
excuses," she said in December.
Jennifer Murphy, a former contestant both in Miss USA and Trump's reality
TV show "The Apprentice," told Grazia magazine in December 2016 that Trump
kissed her unexpectedly following a job interview in Trump Tower in 2005.
Although Murphy said she was "very taken aback at the time," she later told
CNN that she "wasn't offended" by the kiss. She said she voted for him for
president, and even created a Katy Perry parody video in which she sang, "I
was kissed by Trump and I liked it."
Jennifer Murphy, former Apprentice star, just did @CNN FOR Trump and
admits he kissed her...OOPSIE. #NeverTrump https://t.co/d8ZKZc5ofB
Girls Really Rule. (@girlsreallyrule) October 15, 2016
Trump's response:
The White House denied Huddy's account, according to the New York Daily
News.
Rachel Crooks
Rachel Crooks
Monica Schipper/Getty Images
Allegations:
Rachel Crooks told the New York Times in October 2016 that Trump kissed her
on the mouth without her consent when she introduced herself him in 2005
Trump Tower in Manhattan, where she worked as a receptionist.
She told the Times that she and Trump shook hands and then he kissed her
"directly on the mouth."
Crooks told her sister, who confirmed her account to the Times, but said
she thought she would lose her job if she told her company anything about
the interaction.
"I was shocked, devastated," she said during a December 2017 interview on
"Megyn Kelly Today," adding: "I remember hiding in our boss' office because
no one else was there, it was early in the morning, and I called my sister
... I felt horrible."
Crooks joined calls for a congressional investigation into Trump's alleged
misconduct.
Trump's response:
Trump denied Crooks' account in an interview with the New York Times in
October 2016. "None of this ever took place," he said, threatening to sue
the Times if it reported on the allegations.
Samantha Holvey
Samantha Holvey
Monica Schipper/Getty Images
Allegations:
Samantha Holvey, a contestant in the 2006 Miss USA pageant, which Trump
owned, told CNN in October 2016 that Trump personally inspected each of the
pageant contestants individually.
"He would step in front of each girl and look you over from head to toe
like we were just meat, we were just sexual objects, that we were not
people," Holvey said, adding that it made her feel "the dirtiest I felt in
my entire life."
Then a 20-year-old student at a private Southern Baptist college, Holvey
said she "had no desire to win when I understood what it was all about."
Holvey also called for a congressional investigation into Trump's alleged
misconduct.
Trump's response:
CNN, who first reported on Holvey's allegations, said Trump did not respond
to requests for comment, but the president has broadly denied all of the
sexual misconduct accusations made against him.
Ninni Laaksonen
Allegations:
Ninni Laaksonen, a model and former Miss Finland, told Finnish newspaper
Ilta-Sanomat in October 2016 that Trump groped her backstage at the "Late
Show with David Letterman" in 2006.
"Trump stood right next to me and suddenly he squeezed my butt," Laaksonen
said. "He really grabbed my butt. I don't think anybody saw it, but I
flinched and thought, 'What is happening?'"
Trump's response:
The newspaper did not include a response from Trump, but the president has
broadly denied all of the sexual misconduct accusations made against him.
Jessica Drake
Jessica Drake
Kevork Djansezian/Reuters
Allegations:
At an October 2016 press conference, adult-film actress Jessica Drake
accused Trump of grabbing and kissing her without permission and offering
her money to accept a private invitation to his penthouse hotel room in
Lake Tahoe in 2006.
"This is not acceptable behavior for anyone, much less a presidential
candidate," Drake said. "I understand that I may be called a liar or an
opportunist, but I will risk that in order to stand in solidarity with
women who share similar accounts that span many, many years."
Trump's response:
Trump called Drake's accusations "total fiction" and implied that Drake was
accustomed to being "grabbed" because she is a porn actress.
"One said, 'He grabbed me on the arm.' And she's a porn star. You know,
this one that came out recently, 'He grabbed me and he grabbed me on the
arm.' Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before," he said on WGIR radio.
Summer Zervos
Summer Zervos
Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images
Allegations:
Summer Zervos, a former contestant on NBC's "The Apprentice," told
reporters at an October 2016 press conference that Trump assaulted her
during a 2007 meeting at The Beverly Hills Hotel.
"He then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me again very aggressively
and placed his hand on my breast," she said. "I pulled back and walked to
another part of the room. He then walked up, grabbed my hand, and pulled me
into the bedroom. I walked out." Zervos added that Trump thrust himself on
her before she left the room.
Zervos sued Trump for defamation after he accused her of lying about the
allegations. Trump's attorneys have moved to dismiss the case, arguing
that, as president, he can't be sued in state court and that his remarks
about his accusers are political speech. The suit is ongoing.
Trump's response:
"I vaguely remember Ms. Zervos as one of the many contestants on 'The
Apprentice' over the years," Trump said in a statement. "To be clear, I
never met her at a hotel or greeted her inappropriately a decade ago. That
is not who I am as a person, and it is not how I've conducted my life. In
fact, Ms. Zervos continued to contact me for help, emailing my office on
April 14 of this year asking that I visit her restaurant in California."
Allegations:
Cassandra Searles, who represented the state of Washington at the 2013 Miss
USA pageant, wrote in a June 2016 Facebook post that Trump treated herself
and other female Miss USA contestants "like cattle" and had them "lined up
so he could get a closer look at his property."
"He probably doesn't want me telling the story about that time he
continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room," she added.
Trump's response:
Trump has not specifically denied Searles' allegations, but he has broadly
denied all of the sexual misconduct accusations made against him.
Alva Johnson
Donald Trump campaign rally
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in
Naples, Florida, U.S. October 23, 2016. Thomson Reuters
Allegations:
Alva Johnson, a former Trump campaign staffer, said that Trump kissed her
without her consent at a Tampa, Florida rally on August 24, 2016.
Johnson, 43, said Trump grabbed her hand and kissed her on the side of her
mouth as he exited an RV outside of the rally, according to details in a
new federal lawsuit and an interview with the Washington Post.
"Oh, my God, I think he's going to kiss me," Johnson said in a February
2019 interview with the Post. "He's coming straight for my lips. So I turn
my head, and he kisses me right on the corner of my mouth, still holding my
hand the entire time. Then he walks on out."
Johnson filed a federal lawsuit against Trump in February.