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ificandream

(10,538 posts)
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 12:55 PM Oct 25

Trump accused of groping a woman in 1992 while Jeffrey Epstein watched

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Emile (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: Associated Press/MSN

Story by DAN MERICA, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stacey Williams alleged this week that former President Donald Trump groped her at Trump Tower in early 1993 as disgraced hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein watched. The former model made the allegation during a video chat of sexual violence survivors supporting Vice President Kamala Harris ' campaign.

Williams’ allegation is the latest in a lengthy list of accusations made against Trump, including by E. Jean Carroll, who has been locked in a legal battle with the businessman-turned-president after a jury found him liable in 2023 for sexually assaulting the advice columnist in 1996 and later for defaming her. The allegations against Trump go back decades and include those described in the “Access Hollywood” tape, a 2005 video made public weeks before Election Day 2016 that showed the then-reality television star bragging about grabbing, forcibly kissing and sexually assaulting women.

Williams said on the video call that she met and began seeing Epstein in 1992. Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial in New York for a series of sex trafficking charges, sparking rampant conspiracy theories. The former model said the two were walking down Fifth Avenue in “late winter, early spring” of 1993 when Epstein suggested they “stop by and see Trump."

“So we went into Trump Tower and went up the elevator. And moments later, Trump was greeting us and he pulled me into him and started groping me,” Williams recalled. “He put his hands all over my breasts, my waist, my butt. And I froze. And I froze because I was so deeply confused about what was happening because the hands were moving all over me.”



Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-accused-of-groping-a-woman-in-1992-while-jeffrey-epstein-watched/ar-AA1sVZif



Been expecting something like this.
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PSPS

(14,147 posts)
1. This will boost trump's standing with his base including, inexplicably, the women
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 12:59 PM
Oct 25

Lonestarblue

(11,844 posts)
2. I still remember those utterly disgusting t-shirts some MAGA women with an arrow pointing toward their genitals.
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 01:05 PM
Oct 25

The words on the shirt were something like “Trump can grab me here anytime.” They were essentially making fun of and supporting the sexual assault of women. I will never understand why any woman worships Trump. He is a thoroughly revolting person.

ificandream

(10,538 posts)
3. I think the answer is they don't take his remarks seriously enough.
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 01:15 PM
Oct 25

They think he's joking or that he'd never do anything like that. The thing is, though, with the E. Jean Carroll story, the story about the beauty pageant where he walked in on half-naked young girls and this one, he isn't. And these dumb maggots refuse to see that.

greatbaldeagle

(160 posts)
7. They like his racism and other 'isms
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 02:44 PM
Oct 25

more than they care about sexual assault. Unless of course the alleged perpetrator is an immigrant from an s-hole country, some other non-white man, and/or democrat and the victim is a straight white republican woman. The simple complexities and uncomplicated ambiguous nuances of cognitive dissonance.

50 Shades Of Blue

(10,888 posts)
4. She's very brave.
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 01:19 PM
Oct 25

JoseBalow

(5,259 posts)
5. It's the exact same MO his other victims describe
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 01:20 PM
Oct 25
"And I froze because I was so deeply confused about what was happening because the hands were moving all over me.”

C0RI0LANUS

(1,422 posts)
6. Can anyone explain this, other than raw naked mental illness?
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 01:20 PM
Oct 25


Now this "person" is crowd-sourcing to raise money to remove this tattooed blight from her forehead.

Source:

https://whatsthejam.com/influencers-and-models/woman-with-trump-tattoo-on-forehead-now-fundraising-5000-for-removal/

Aristus

(68,400 posts)
10. Right now, she needs to clean up what's inside that head.
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 04:46 PM
Oct 25

Conjuay

(2,117 posts)
11. No pity for that level of stupidity.
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 04:56 PM
Oct 25

She could be Orange Ogre's press secretary.
She seems his type.

riversedge

(73,164 posts)
8. Some day Lady Justice will escort him to jail. Someday.
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 03:21 PM
Oct 25

Mz Pip

(27,897 posts)
9. Unless there's a video
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 04:37 PM
Oct 25

MAGAts won’t care. They won’t care even if there is a video. That’s how low they can go.

mzmolly

(51,653 posts)
12. It's just 'locker room' assault.
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 05:49 PM
Oct 25

Nothing to see here.

Emile

(29,946 posts)
13. After an alert and discussion with the hosts, locking.
Sat Oct 26, 2024, 02:32 AM
Oct 26

This is a duplicate of the same news story posted earlier. https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143327453

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