Posted on 10/14/2016 2:44:00 PM PDT by justlittleoleme
Donald Trump’s campaign says a British man is countering claims that the GOP presidential nominee groped a woman on a cross-country flight more than three decades ago.
The man says he was sitting across from the accuser and contacted the Trump campaign because he was incensed by her account — which is at odds with what he witnessed.
“I have only met this accuser once and frankly cannot imagine why she is seeking to make out that Trump made sexual advances on her. Not only did he not do so (and I was present at all times) but it was she that was the one being flirtatious,” Anthony Gilberthorpe said in a note provided to The Post by the Trump campaign.
In an exclusive interview arranged by the campaign, Gilberthorpe said he was on the flight — in either 1980 or 1981— where Jessica Leeds claimed Trump groped her.
Gilberthorpe, 54, said he was sitting across the first class aisle from the couple and saw nothing inappropriate. Leeds was wearing a white pantsuit, he said, while Trump was wearing a suit and cuff-links, which he gave to his British flight companion.
Indeed, Gilberthorpe claimed, Leeds was “trying too hard” in her attempt to win Trump over.
“She wanted to marry him,” Gilberthorpe said of Leeds, who apparently made the confession when Trump excused himself and went to the bathroom.
There was no kissing, but the “shrill” Leeds was “very much in your face” with the real estate developer.
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“The guy in the seat across the aisle could see. And I kept thinking, maybe the stewardess is going to come and he’ll stop, but she never came,” Leeds told CNN.
That allegation infuriated Gilberthorpe, a retiree living in northwest England, who said, “That I sat there — eyes bulging — and not intervening is nonsense.”
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I think the most important thing of all is to get an actual fair hearing.
Donald had made it high enough in the echelons of fame that the floozies were falling all over themselves for him, and it had become a running joke.
Here is why I don’t believe any of these fortune hunting bimbo’s. If they wanted to make a case of groping, assault, or any other sexual harassment they wouldn’t have waited decades to do it. This man is a billionaire. If they had a winnable case they would have done it then, not waited until they got old to bring up something that happened decades ago. This is ALL media. The media is paying them to falsely accuse Trump because they (the bimbo’s) know they could not have won a case against Trump on their own with no evidence.
To quote a fellow Freeper, “best election ever!”
Groping (which apparently did NOT happen) is NOT a sexual assault.
Whenever I hear the words “sexual assault,” I think to myself, “rape”.
An orchestrated smear campaign by the media and the Clinton campaign.
“We don’t care if the guy swears… or how many times he’s been married…or who he voted for, or what his income tax return shows. We want the problems fixed. Yes, he’s an egomaniac, but we don’t care. We know he’s not a racist, or bad to women, or all the other things the liberal media is trying to label him with. We know he’s raised a good family, and that says a lot about him.
The country is a mess because politicians suck, the Republican Party is two faced & gutless, and illegals are everywhere and Muslims are openly trying to hurt this country and make the civilized world adjust to them. We want it all fixed!
We don’t care that Trump is crude, we don’t care that he has changed positions, we don’t care that he fights with Megan Kelly, Rosie O’Donnell, and so many of the elected establishment. We don’t care that Rubio, Ryan, the Bush’s, and so many other top old and new Republicans refuse to endorse him for their own selfish reasons, and we know what they are. We don’t care that he doesn’t know the name of some Muslim terrorists, we don’t care that he tried some businesses that didn’t work out.
This country is weak, bankrupt, our enemies are making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegals, we are becoming a nation of victims, where every Tom, Ricardo and Hasid is a special group with special rights to a point where we don’t even recognize the country we were born and raised in, AND WE JUST WANT IT FIXED. And TRUMP is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want.
We’re sick of politicians, sick of the Democratic and Republican Party. We’re angry about the Iran deal, the budget, treatment of Israel, military weakness, lobbyists, special interests, overpaid politicians with their self-serving bills and back room deals, trade deals, loss of jobs, manipulated economic numbers, businesses fleeing, and even the phony pay for play Clinton Foundation.
Americans are no longer going to be fooled, and the movement is out to change the direction we’re taking. Trump may not be a saint, but he doesn’t have lobbyist money holding him, he doesn’t have political correctness restraining him, and all you know is that he has been very successful, a good negotiator, he has built a lot of things, he’s flexible, and he’s also not a politician. And he says he’ll fix it. And we believe him because he is too much of an egotist to be proven wrong or looked at and called a liar.
Public service has become elected greed. This may be our only chance to have a non-politician, despite his flaws, try and correct the mess, at least for 4 years. We must take the shot, because the consequences of putting Hillary Clinton in office are frightening. There is a tidal wave happening!”
Kristan K. Hodges, DVM
Donald just does not seem to add up to the kind of guy who would do that.
Andddd.....if this guy was given the cuff links by The Donald, that would be further physical proof he was there! I hope more and more and more folks come out in defense of this crap.
Gloria Allard —looks like she was run over by the ambulances she’s chased —what a lying hack....
Odds on the lyin’ Clinton media picking this up?
He remembers what people were wearing?
Sounds like BS
This sounds pretty sketchy to me. Her story’s sketchy (he “assaulted” her for 15 minutes in a very crowded place without her doing anything?); this guy’s counter-story’s sketchy (he’s certain he recognizes this woman from a plane ride from three and a half decades ago?). There’s already some info out there dug up online that would have been more reliable to use than this. Why not put out the more credible evidence first? I think this is going to win the Trump camp additional ridicule from the press.
30 years ago?
Hillary must be getting desperate.
The only thing I’m a bit concerned with about this fella is that the Post article says he came to a bit of fame in 2014 with a claim that as a 17 year old he arranged boys to attend sex parties with parliament members.
Regardless, he should be able to produce witnesses that confirm him being in the states during this time period.
A vote for Trump is a vote against political correctness. And I’m not sure the country is ready to reject it yet. As long as there are people programmed to think the white male in any dispute is the evil oppressor, there will be votes for Hillary. Making people think that way has been the goal of the media and educational system for decades now. There has been sign after sign that political correctness has become more and more the dominant way of thinking nationwide during Obama’s term.
There is absolutely no social cost to expressing politically correct beliefs, while there is social cost in attacking those beliefs.
According to the article, Mr Gilberthorpe has prior experience dealing with the media:
Gilberthorpe made headlines in 2014, when he went public with a claim that as a 17-year-old he procured boys (some who “could have been” underage”) for sex parties with high-ranking British politicians.
Let’s have a little honesty... especially I think women will be truthful about this
Not every woman just like not every man is a saint
And a billionaire is going to have a lot of women chasing him... that’s just simply a fact and we all know it.... so billionaire like Donald Trump hardly needs to be chasing women that are not interested..
Now that being said you could say the same thing about a big-time politician
But I think money...and we are taking BIG MONEY in the case of Donald Trump...( who is not some ugly old geezer like a Soros at the time)...attracts a certain type of woman for more than political power.
We need the campaign to be about issues, or about evils done by Hillary. As long as the campaign is about adjudicating a dispute between a straight white male and a PC “protected class,” most of the public will side with the protected class and assume the straight white male is guilty.
Disagree with you a little. He should dismantle and destroy a few of these smears, move on and simply refer to the thoroughly discredited and fabricated smears of CORRUPT Hillary.
Indeed none of these stories has any REAL witnesses. Produce witnesses to totally debunk the claim.
“I was with Donald the whole evening and I can’t remember seeing a woman get within 5 feet of him.” Who can disprove it?
Not that Trump didn’t have the same, of course.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the Donald ended up with the NYTs because of this smear?
Do not know if he would want it. It is a loser.
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