Former model Amy Dorris says Donald Trump sexually assaulted her
Former model Amy Dorris has accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her during a US Open tournament in September 1997, according to an exclusive report by the Guardian. Her account is now among more than 20 allegations of sexual misconduct that have been brought against the president.
Dorris alleges that Trump forcibly kissed her and groped her outside the bathroom of his VIP box at the US Open, allegations that he denied through his lawyers. Dorris says she was visiting New York City with her then-boyfriend Jason Binn, who introduced her to Trump. Both she and Binn watched the US Open in Trump’s VIP box, and attended events with him in other parts of the city that September. After she went to use the restroom at the US Open, Dorris says, Trump approached her.
Read Article >Of course Ivanka Trump believes her dad’s accusers. She just doesn’t care.
Of course Ivanka Trump believes her father’s accusers.
She tried to claim in an interview with NBC’s Peter Alexander that she doesn’t: ”I believe my father, I know my father,” she said, “so I think I have that right as a daughter to believe my father.”
Read Article >Ivanka Trump on sexual misconduct allegations against the president: “I believe my father”
WhenNBC’s Peter Alexander asked Ivanka Trump whether she believes the more than a dozen women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual harassment and assault, she bristled at the idea of the question itself.
“I think it’s a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he’s affirmatively stated there’s no truth to it,” she responded in an interview that aired Monday on the Today show. In fact, she continued with a restrained laugh, “I don’t think that’s a question you would have asked many other daughters.”
Read Article >More than 50 people have faced consequences after sexual misconduct allegations. But not Trump.
Harvey Weinstein has been fired from the company he co-founded. Matt Lauer is gone from NBC. Mario Batali has stepped away from his restaurants.
What was striking about putting together a list of people who have been publicly accused of sexual misconduct in recent months was not necessarily the prevalence of the problem — unfortunately, women and gender-nonconforming people have long been aware of the sheer ubiquity of sexual harassment and violence. What was surprising — what felt new about this time in American history — was that of 105 people Vox included on the list, more than 50 have faced legal or professional consequences, from job suspensions to jail time. It’s too soon to tell what the long-term impact of #MeToo will be, but in a number of individual cases, it has produced swift action.
Read Article >Donald Trump won't apologize to women, so I did it for him
Apologies from men are having a moment. While the #MeToo crusade has created space for women (and men) who have experienced sexual harassment or assault to come forward with their stories, it has also forced men (and women) who have been accused of abusive behavior to take responsibility for their actions.
The apologies have been far from perfect: Some are missing key words, such as “sorry” or “apologize.” And some apologies might have included a “sorry” but also came with curious rants about the NRA or delicious, yet unsolicited, pizza dessert recipes.
Read Article >The lawsuit accusing Trump of raping a 13-year-old girl, explained
Fifteen women have now gone on record to say that Donald Trump sexually assaulted them. Out of all of their stories, one is the most explosive and bizarre — a woman who says Trump violently raped her at an orgy when she was just 13 years old. But the horrific details of her accusation have gotten the least attention.
It seemed like that was all going to change Wednesday, when the woman, who has gone by the pseudonyms “Katie Johnson” and “Jane Doe,” was set to appear at a press conference at the law offices of Lisa Bloom, a high-profile civil rights attorney and TV commentator. But the woman didn’t come to the press conference. Bloom told a room full of waiting reporters that Johnson was afraid to show her face after receiving multiple death threats, and that they would have to reschedule.
Read Article >Newt Gingrich’s fight with Megyn Kelly reveals a gross, twisted logic about sexual assault
Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly had a heated exchange with Trump supporter and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on Tuesday about Trump’s flagging poll numbers, and about the women who have accused Trump of sexually assaulting them.
When Kelly suggested the two things were related, Gingrich complained that the media devoted more coverage to the Trump tapes than to controversy over Hillary Clinton’s speeches.
Read Article >Trump’s response to adult film star’s allegation: “Oh, I’m sure she’s never been grabbed before”
The latest sexual assault allegation against Donald Trump comes from Jessica Drake, an adult film performer who says Trump grabbed and kissed her without permission and offered her money for sex in 2006.
But Trump’s response, CNN reports, suggested that Drake should expect to be grabbed without permission if she is working in porn.
Read Article >Lawyers are offering to defend Trump’s sexual assault accusers for free
In what was supposed to be a major policy speech on his first 100 days as president, Donald Trump’s only new proposal was vowing to sue the women who have accused him of sexual assault.
But in response, some prominent First Amendment attorneys are vowing to defend Trump’s accusers pro bono, or free of charge. Ted Boutrous of the law firm Gibson Dunn and Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe have thrown their hats into the ring on social media, and Boutrous says there are others willing to follow suit.
Read Article >Trump’s plan for his first 100 days in office includes suing the women accusing him of assault
Donald Trump’s speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Sunday, was billed as a sober, policy-minded look at his first 100 days in office.
But the first thing he promised to do after being elected was to sue the women who have accused him of sexual assault.
Read Article >A brief guide to the 17 women Trump has allegedly assaulted, groped or harassed
First, a secret recording captured Donald Trump bragging that he groped and kissed women without their consent: “Just kiss. I don’t even wait. When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy.”
Then came reports that on The Howard Stern Show in 2005, Trump said he walked into dressing rooms while pageant contestants were naked. Now more than a dozen women have come forward, both anonymously and not, to say Trump did exactly that: that he grabbed them and kissed them and groped them without consent, or walked in on them naked.
Read Article >6 people went on the record to back up a reporter who says Trump assaulted her
Both Donald and Melania Trump have made some cringeworthy attempts to discredit People magazine reporter Natasha Stoynoff, who says Donald Trump pushed her up against a wall and forcibly kissed her while she was profiling him and a then-pregnant Melania in late 2005.
Donald brushed off Stoynoff’s claims by strongly suggesting that she wasn’t attractive enough to warrant his advances. “Look at her,” Trump said during a speech. “Look at her words. You tell me what you think. I don't think so.”
Read Article >Donald Trump shows the opposite of “political correctness” isn’t free speech. It’s just different repression.
Donald Trump is running as a rebel against “political correctness.” His supporters believe that Americans have gotten too sensitive, that people can no longer express their opinions safely and openly without someone getting offended.
Trump assures his followers that they’re the underdogs: that the nation’s most powerful institutions are dedicated to silencing their views. “The establishment and their media neighbors wield control over this nation through means that are very well known,” he told them Thursday. “Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, rapist, xenophobe and morally deformed. They will attack you. They will slander you. They will seek to destroy your career and your family. They will seek to destroy everything about you, including your reputation. They will lie, lie, lie and then again they will do worse than that.”
Read Article >Donald Trump on sexual assault accuser: “believe me, she would not be my first choice”
Donald Trump has, once again, suggested that he didn’t sexually assault a woman because she was too unattractive.
“Believe me, she would not be my first choice,” Trump said. “That I can tell you.”
Read Article >A cop who’s spent 30 years fighting sexual assault explains why victims often wait to come forward
Tom Tremblay has spent decades advocating for the prevention of sexual assault and domestic violence, first as a police officer in Vermont and now as a consultant. Much of his work focuses on how to improve law enforcement practices to make it easier for victims of sexual assault to come forward and report crimes.
The fact that it took some women decades to report Donald Trump’s alleged sexual misconduct doesn’t surprise him at all.
Read Article >Trump: I didn’t sexually assault a People magazine reporter, because “look at her”
Donald Trump denied a People magazine journalist’s claim that he sexually assaulted her during an interview. His explanation: She’s not attractive enough.
On Wednesday, People magazine journalist Natasha Stoynoff alleged that Trump tried to forcibly kiss her while she was on assignment. She wrote that Trump brought her into a room, shut the door, “and within seconds, he was pushing me against the wall, and forcing his tongue down my throat.”
Read Article >Watch: Michelle Obama’s powerful speech on the Trump sexual assault allegations
During a campaign appearance for Hillary Clinton in Manchester, New Hampshire, Michelle Obama emotionally discussed the sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump. "It has shaken me to my core," she said. Watch it above.
"Last week, we saw this candidate actually bragging about sexually assaulting women," Obama said. "And I can’t believe that I’m saying that a candidate for president of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women. And I have to tell you that I can’t stop thinking about this. It has shaken me to my core in a way that I couldn’t have predicted."
Read Article >Read Donald Trump's bizarre, frightening speech responding to sexual assault allegations
At a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, Donald Trump fired back against the accusations from women that he had sexually assaulted them. He said the New York Times story claiming he had assaulted a woman on an airplane was a “totally fabricated and false story.”
He seemed to imply that a People magazine reporter who accused him of kissing her against her will wasn’t attractive enough: “Take a look. You look at her. Look at her words. You tell me what you think. I don't think so.”
Read Article >Donald Trump’s past tweets about rape and sexual misconduct seem even worse now
Donald Trump once suggested that sexual assault and rape in the military is not the fault of the men doing the attacking, but the fault of the military for putting men and women together.
Seriously. Here’s the tweet:
Read Article >What it’s like to read conservative media the day after new Trump sexual assault allegations
The nation woke Thursday morning to a huge rebuttal to Donald Trump’s claim that a recently released audiotape, in which Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women, was just “locker room banter” and no action: At least four women from Trump’s past have come forward with new accusations about his long history of sexual assault and harassment.
But conservative media seems to be avoiding the story.
Read Article >What if a woman or racial minority tried to say what Donald Trump has said?
What would it be like if a black, Hispanic, Muslim, or woman candidate for president said the bigoted things Donald Trump has been saying — except focused such comments on white men?
It's a useful thought experiment — one that shows the extremism of Trump's views, as well as the white, male privilege that permits him to espouse them as a candidate for president.
Read Article >Trump’s lawyer sends laughable letter to the NY Times calling for retraction of sexual assault story
On Wednesday night, the New York Times published a bombshell report in which two women accused Donald Trump of doing what he had once boasted about in previously leaked audio: groping and forcibly kissing them.
Trump is reacting to the story as he has to many other issues in the past: with legal threats.
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