Posted on 10/12/2016 4:38:35 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Donald J. Trump was emphatic in the second presidential debate: Yes, he had boasted about kissing women without permission and grabbing their genitals. But he had never actually done those things, he said.
“No,” he declared under questioning on Sunday evening, “I have not.”
At that moment, sitting at home in Manhattan, Jessica Leeds, 74, felt he was lying to her face. “I wanted to punch the screen,” she said in an interview in her apartment.
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.
“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.
Mr. Trump’s claim that his crude words had never turned into actions was similarly infuriating to a woman watching on Sunday night in Ohio: Rachel Crooks.
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.
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.”
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Gloria is only being fair. After all didn’t she do the same thing for all of BC’s sexual assault and rape victims?
Not to the authorities, but the article gets into the who and when.
Hillary laughed in the face of every ‘outraged’ person by appearing on stage the next day with sex-crazed poodle Gore. And we’re supposed to believe this? fat chance.
I don’t know how many times I’ve written here over the years that in my college days, Trump dated many of my friends. For the first time, because I don’t give a good goddam, I will reveal that it was Finch College which hosted students like Tricia Nixon, Isabella Rossolini and Queen Noor. All of these friends revealed that The Donald was boring and talked a lot about himself - in other words, a typical young man. He took them to Maxwell’s Plum, talked about himself, and deposited them on their doorsteps without managing to rape them or accost them.
Hmmmm...given what he said in the bus recording how does anyone know that the accusers did not throw themselves at him and he complied?
I will take your knowledge under advisement. Thanks. Still won’t change my vote.
Darn. I swear the biggest miracle ever will have to happen for him to be elected.
Funny how all this is just coming out now. Completely choreographed.
Oh...the stories I could tell from when I was in my 20s and single...in the mid to late 70s....I’m trying to think if I’d come forward if a guy was running for President. ...maybe if he was a Democrat!!!
If this is all they have, then Trump will continue to surge as he pounds Hillary on her inherent dishonesty and shameless corruption. It is clear that the Saudis and the Gulf states were financing ISIS and while Hillary was Secretary of State they contributed over $100 million to her phony foundation and “speaking fees” to Bill. Obama swore he would “destroy” ISIS after they barbarically murdered Americans. He and Hillary did nothing. Now we know why. Its hard to even look at them or their supporters and enablers. They do not have the moral authority to send brave young Americans into combat. They are disgusting.
Prove it!!!
I happened to see CNN a couple hours or so ago, I don't get cable but I was in a lobby waiting on someone and the TV was on. They started off, "Damning, troubling new allegations via the NYT," and then proceeded to speak about it as if it were proven fact. Disgusting. They had a little panel and some butthead said, "What kind of image does it project to the world, and our children, if we elect an alleged sexual predator?"
What the HELL even happened to innocent until proven guilty?
Much better title
Trump on a public flight?
It never occurred to these ladies to file a complaint or suit before now? It never occurred into them to speak up during primaries?
Yes. Timed perfectly.
According to Ms. Leeds, Mr. Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt. What the NYTtimes ‘failed’ to mention was ‘the rest of what she said’....(I saw that interview) ....she said that she would have been alright with it if he had stayed above her waist!!!!! Telling isn’t it!
After all these wikileaks coming out about the Clinton campaign handing the media (including the New York Times) their talking points, we’re expected to believe these stories?
It’s time that Rush Limbaugh, Mark levin and AM Radio Talkers start moderating the debates.
Yes where are the charges?
Many things make me think YOU are a douchbag. Such a classy expression for someone who is apparently quite prissy and puritanical. Maybe you should start reforming with your own language.
And after you’ve read this, go vote for Hillary or along with your idol Paul Ryan write in John McCain or Mitt Romney.
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