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- For the first time in US historical previous, both presidential nominees of the dominant parties were credibly accused of sexual misconduct.
- President Donald Trump, the Republican incumbent, has been accused of forcible kissing or groping by 16 girls. An extra seven have accused him of sinful sexual behavior. Two others have accused him of sexual assault or rape.
- Joe Biden, the weak vp and Democratic nominee, has been accused of sinful touching or feedback by eight other folks. One of them accused him of sexual assault.
- Industry Insider reviewed every allegation made against the candidates and their degree of corroboration. We moreover asked the accusers and the candidates for statement.
- Talk over with Industry Insider’s homepage for added tales.
The 2020 election is the first US presidential speed of the #MeToo generation. It be moreover the first one in as much as the moment American historical previous wherein both essential occasion candidates were credibly accused of sexual misconduct.
Whereas they vary in fashion and severity, the claims against Joe Biden and Donald Trump belong to the realm’s broader reckoning with the transgressions of extremely effective men. Biden has drawn eight allegations: seven for sinful touching or behavior and one for sexual assault. Trump has drawn 25 allegations: seven for sinful touching or behavior, 16 for forcible kissing or groping, and two for sexual assault or rape.
There are 33 total allegations between the 2 candidates.
Industry Insider has broadly lined the claims against Biden and Trump alike. This anecdote builds on these efforts by examining the info of every allegation — their chronology, nature, origin, and degree of corroboration — and organizing that records within an illustrated timeline and two structured tables, considered below.
We moreover asked every accuser, and every accused, within the occasion that they wished to elaborate the anecdote. The final consequence’s a detailed and canonical accounting of an unheard of advise.
There are 8 allegations against Biden: 7 for sinful touching or behavior, and 1 for sexual assault.
There are 25 allegations against Trump: 7 for sinful touching or behavior, 16 for forcible kissing or groping, and 2 for sexual assault or rape.
Of the eight other folks that accused Biden, four told us they planned to vote for Biden in November. Biden has in a roundabout way addressed allegations of sinful touching, promising to be extra “mindful of personal space,” nonetheless has denied assaulting Tara Reade.
Those who accused Trump did no longer betray a political affiliation and emphasised the problematic eventualities that girls face. “The indisputable fact that these in energy have the power to rating away with these atrocities is the advise,” photographer and weak mannequin Kristin Anderson told Industry Insider.
One lady, whose allegations are documented on this article nonetheless who feared speaking out again publicly, likened being grabbed by Trump to a narrowly averted automobile crash. “It was once in public, and it was once no longer very long. I wasn’t be troubled, nonetheless I felt there was once a possible, and that I would by no approach must be by myself with this man,” she told Industry Insider. “I was once very startled and alarmed. It was once out of nowhere.”
Trump himself acknowledged kissing girls without permission in a 2005 video bought by The Washington Put up, and confirmed a pattern of leering at undressed items leisurely the scenes in a 2005 conversation with Howard Stern published by CNN. In response to sexual-assault allegations, Trump has time and again asserted that the accusers were no longer his “fashion.”
Industry Insider excluded a entire lot of famous incidents from our evaluation. These embody two feedback made by Biden, and seen by reporters, to kids at campaign events in 2019. Critics considered these remarks as gendered and sinful, nonetheless did no longer symbolize them as sexual misconduct. We moreover overlooked an allegation against Biden that seemed in Counterpunch in 2008, on account of the journal did no longer identify the accuser and the journalist who published the claim died in 2012.
At final, we overlooked a 2016 lawsuit wherein an anonymous plaintiff, “Jane Doe,” accused Trump of raping her when she was once 13 years feeble. Journalists have broadly questioned the credibility of the case, which the plaintiff abandoned after failing to appear at a press conference in Los Angeles.
We asked the Biden and Trump campaigns if we had overpassed or misinterpreted any of the allegations against both candidate. Neither spoke back.
Donald Trump Ordered by candidate and date, listed below are the entire info of every allegation of sexual misconduct or sinful touching against Biden and Trump, respectively.
Biden accuser No. 1: Tara Reade
Alleged incident date: 1993
Nature of allegations: Despicable touching alleged in 2019; sexual assault alleged in 2020.
Description: In 2019 Reade told The Union that Biden touched her inappropriately a entire lot of times in 1993. In 2020, she told Katie Halper that Biden had sexually assaulted her in 1993, digitally penetrating her within the hall of a Senate building.
First reported by: The Union, “The Katie Halper Characterize“
Replacement of corroborators: 5
Corroborators: Lynda LaCasse (weak neighbor), Lorraine Sanchez (weak colleague), Collin Moulton (brother), two anonymous mates.
Corroborations reported by: Industry Insider, Linked Press
Other corroborating proof: A cell phone call matching the outline of the one Reade claimed her mother had made to the “Larry King Characterize” in 1993; a 1996 court docket document exhibiting Reade told her then husband about sexual harassment whereas working in Biden’s office.
Other corroborating proof reported by: The Intercept, The Tribune in San Luis Obispo
Candidate response: Biden denied harassing and assaulting Reade. “I’m asserting unequivocally: It by no approach came about,” he mentioned on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Comment: Reade did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Biden accuser No. 2: Ally Coll
Alleged incident date: 2008
Nature of allegations: Despicable touching/behavior.
Description: Coll, a weak Democratic staffer, alleged that Biden “leaned in, squeezed her shoulders and delivered a compliment about her smile, conserving her ‘for a beat too long'” when they met at an occasion in 2008.
First reported by: The Washington Put up, April 4, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Candidate response: Without referring to any notify allegation, Biden tweeted a two-minute video acknowledging that he had unintentionally made girls feel wretched and professing to be extra mindful of personal space.
Comment: Coll confirmed The Washington Put up’s reporting, and she or he told Industry Insider: “I’m pleased that Vice President Biden spoke back respectfully, has affirmed accountability and acknowledged that the experiences of girls are no longer handiest staunch nonetheless precious and could possibly moreover unbiased be fragment of the conversation of titillating our nation forward.” Coll moreover told Industry Insider that she supports Joe Biden for president. “On the diversified side of the pollis a presidential candidate who has been credibly accused of sexual misconduct — including forcible sexual assault and rape — by a minimal of a dozen girls, and a Vice Presidential candidate who refuses to spend by myself with a girl who’s no longer his wife,” she mentioned. “The replacement on this election is possibly no longer clearer to me, and I have not any query that, despite his prior missteps, Biden could possibly be the champion I need within the White Home come November.”
Biden accuser No. 3: Amy Lappos
Alleged incident date: 2009
Nature of allegations: Despicable touching/behavior
Description: Lappos alleged that Biden rubbed noses alongside with her at some stage in a 2009 political fundraiser in Greenwich, Connecticut.
First reported by: The Hartford Courant, April 1, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Candidate response: Without referring to any notify allegation, Biden tweeted a two-minute video acknowledging that he had unintentionally made girls feel wretched and professing to be extra mindful of personal space.
Comment: Lappos confirmed The Hartford Courant’s reporting and told Industry Insider, “I make stronger Biden and notion to vote for him. I take into consideration Trump is destroying The us and killing Americans within the approach.”
Biden accuser No. 4: D.J. Hill
Alleged incident date: 2012
Nature of allegations: Despicable touching/behavior.
Description: Hill told The Original York Cases that Biden do his hand on her shoulder and started losing it down her support whereas they were photographed at a fund-raising occasion in Minneapolis, making her feel “very wretched.”
First reported by: The Original York Cases, April 2, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Candidate response: Without referring to any notify allegation, Biden tweeted a two-minute video acknowledging that he had unintentionally made girls feel wretched and professing to be extra mindful of personal space.
Comment: Hill did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Biden accuser No. 5: Vail Kohnert-Yount
Alleged incident date: 2013
Nature of allegations: Despicable touching/behavior
Description: Kohnert-Young, a weak White Home intern, alleged that Biden placed his hand on the support of her neck and placed his forehead on hers, telling her she was once a “gorgeous lady,” as she was once exiting the basement of the West Fly.
First reported by: The Washington Put up, April 4, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Candidate response: Without referring to any notify allegation, Biden tweeted a two-minute video acknowledging that he had unintentionally made girls feel wretched and professing to be extra mindful of personal space.
Comment: Kohnert-Yount confirmed The Washington Put up’s reporting and told Industry Insider she’d be voting for Biden over Trump.
Lucy Flores and Joe Biden at some stage in a canvass kickoff in Las Vegas on November 1, 2014.
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Biden accuser No. 6: Lucy Flores
Alleged incident date: 2014
Nature of allegations: Despicable touching/behavior.
Description: Flores, who was once Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in Nevada in 2014, alleged that Biden smelled her hair and kissed the support of her head at some stage in a political occasion that one year.
First reported by: The Lower, March 29, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Candidate response: Without referring to any notify allegation, Biden tweeted a two-minute video acknowledging that he had unintentionally made girls feel wretched and professing to be extra mindful of personal space.
Comment: Flores did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Biden accuser No. 7: Sofie Karasek
Alleged incident date: 2016
Nature of allegations: Despicable touching/behavior.
Description: After Karasek recounted the anecdote of a sexual-assault victim at the 2016 Oscars, Biden spoke back by clasping her arms and and urgent his forehead against hers.
First reported by: The Washington Put up, April 4, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Other corroborating proof: a broadly published record of the incident.
Candidate response: Without referring to any notify allegation, Biden tweeted a two-minute video acknowledging that he had unintentionally made girls feel wretched and professing to be extra mindful of personal space.
Comment: Karasek did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Biden accuser No. 8: Caitlyn Caruso
Alleged incident date: 2016
Nature of allegations: Despicable touching/behavior.
Description: Caruso alleged that Biden placed his hand on her thigh at a campus rally on sexual assault whereas she was once a pupil at the University of Nevada, in Las Vegas.
First reported by: The Original York Cases, April 2, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Candidate response: Without referring to any notify allegation, Biden tweeted a two-minute video acknowledging that he had unintentionally made girls feel wretched and professing to be extra mindful of personal space.
Comment: Caitlyn Caruso confirmed The Original York Cases’ reporting and told Industry Insider they attempted to bring discomfort when Biden placed his hand on their thigh, nonetheless felt immobilized sitting in a room with the Vice President and Secret Carrier. “This behavior is honest one example of the recommendations men, especially extremely effective men, transgress boundaries each day,” Caruso mentioned. “Whereas I carry out no longer elaborate my journey as sexual assault, this behavior is sinful, especially in expert settings. I’d relish to stress that given completely different experiences and movies of Biden’s lack of physical boundaries and my dedication to survivors, I take into consideration Tara Reade and her account of abuse at his arms.”
Trump accuser No. 1: Jessica Leeds
Alleged incident date: Early 1980s.
Nature of allegations: groping
Description: Leeds, a retired stockbroker, alleged that Trump touched her breasts and attempted to be triumphant in below her skirt whereas they were seated beside every diversified within the first class cabin on a flight to Original York.
First reported by: The Original York Cases, October 12, 2016
Replacement of corroborators: 4
Corroborators: Linda Ross (buddy and neighbor), Leeds’ son, Leeds’ nephew, one anonymous buddy.
Corroborations reported by: The Original York Cases
Candidate response: Trump denied Leeds’ allegation at a rally in 2016, asserting: “Factor in me. She wouldn’t be my first replacement.”
Comment: Jessica Leeds confirmed The Original York Cases’ reporting and told Industry Insider: “It was once now commonplace to be pressured on an airplane in nowadays, or at work. I surely belief the advise was once better for ladies on today time and age nonetheless after my anecdote came out I heard from all ages of working girls the harassment continues. Both candidates are within the the same age community so I’m no longer a good deal surprised if there is no longer surely some girls who has a criticism again Biden nonetheless it’s standard working process for Trump.”
Trump accuser No. 2: Ivana Trump
Alleged incident date: 1989
Nature of allegations: rape
Description: In an early 1990s divorce deposition, Ivana Trump mentioned Donald Trump brutally raped her in 1989.
First reported by: Harry Damage III
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Other notes: After The Day-to-day Beast revisited the allegation in July 2015, Ivana Trump issued a assertion that mentioned, in fragment, “The anecdote is fully without advantage.”
Candidate response: Trump told Newsday that the allegation was once “obviously unsuitable” in 1993. A representative for Trump told Industry Insider in 2015 that the allegation was once “feeble news and it by no approach came about.”
Comment: Ivana Trump is possibly no longer reached for statement.
Trump accuser No. 3: Kristin Anderson
Alleged incident date: Early 1990s.
Nature of allegations: groping
Description: Anderson alleged that Trump reached below her skirt and touched her vagina by her underclothes at a Manhattan nightclub within the early 1990s.
First reported by: The Washington Put up, October 14, 2016
Replacement of corroborators: 2
Corroborators: Kelly Stedman (buddy), Brad Trent (buddy)
Corroborations reported by: The Washington Put up
Candidate response: “Mr. Trump strongly denies this phony allegation by any individual taking a look to rating some free publicity,” weak Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told The Washington Put up. Hicks moreover told USA This present day that it can possibly be “illogical and nonsensical” for Trump to be by myself in a nightclub.
Comment: Kristin Anderson verified The Washington Put up’s reporting and emphasised that she did no longer come forward for political causes. “The indisputable fact that these in energy have the power to rating away with these atrocities is the advise, which is a non-partisan advise,” she told Industry Insider. “I honest happen to have had an abusive journey with our most modern President alongside with many replacement girls who came forward. We were known as ‘dogs,’ adding to the be troubled and trauma of the incidents we suffered … My hope is that by telling my tales, I will shed gentle into the darkness and pave a extra extremely effective route for ladies into the long escape.”
Trump accuser No. 4: Jill Harth
Alleged incident date: 1992, 1993
Nature of allegations: groping
Description: In a 1996 deposition, Harth alleged that Trump groped her below the table at a 1992 dinner at the Oak Room of the Plaza Resort, and again, at some stage in an early 1993 tour of Mar-a-Lago.
First reported by: The Original York Cases, Also can 14, 2016
Replacement of corroborators: 1
Corroborators: George Hourane (then boyfriend)
Corroborations reported by: The Original York Cases
Candidate response: In Also can 2016, Trump mentioned that Harth’s claims were “meritless.”
Comment: Jill Harth told Industry Insider that she stands by the allegations made in a 1997 suit she filed against Trump.
E. Jean Carroll at her dwelling in Warwick, NY in 2019.
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Trump accuser No. 5: E. Jean Carroll
Alleged incident date: Mid-’90s.
Nature of allegations: sexual assault
Description: Carroll alleged that Trump attacked her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room, forcibly kissing her and sexually assaulting her earlier than she was once in a purpose to push him off.
First reported by: The Lower (excerpted from Carroll’s guide), June 21, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 2
Corroborators: Carol Martin (buddy), Lisa Birnbach (buddy)
Corroborations reported by: The Original York Cases
Candidate response: Trump denied Carroll’s allegations, telling The Hill “She’s no longer my fashion.”
Comment: E. Jean Carroll adheres to her account and the claims made in her ongoing defamation suit against Trump.
Trump accuser No. 6: Lisa Boyne
Alleged incident date: 1996
Nature of allegations: taking a look up items’ skirts
Description: Boyne told The Huffington Put up that at a Manhattan dinner with Trump and the slack modeling agent John Casablancas, Trump insisted that items crawl at some stage within the dining table whereas he seemed up their skirts and commented on their genitalia.
First reported by: The Huffington Put up, October 13, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Other notes: A buddy of Boyne’s confirmed the dinner nonetheless no longer Trump’s behavior.
Candidate response: Hicks told The Huffington Put up that Boyne’s allegation was once a fabrication. “Mr. Trump by no approach heard of this lady and would by no approach carry out that,” she mentioned.
Comment: Lisa Boyne did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Trump accuser No. 7: Mariah Billado
Alleged incident date: 1997
Nature of allegations: ogling undressed pageant contestants leisurely the scenes
Description: Billado, a weak Omit Vermont Teen USA, alleged that Trump walked leisurely the scenes at the 1997 Omit Teen USA pageant whereas contestants — some as younger as 15 — were getting changed.
First reported by: BuzzFeed News, October 12, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 4
Corroborators: 3 unnamed Omit Teen USA 1997 contestants, Victoria Hughes
Corroborations reported by: BuzzFeed News
Other corroborating proof: Trump himself described his leisurely the scenes behavior on the Howard Stern reward in 2005.
Candidate response: The Trump campaign issued a blanket denial of claims made by pageant contestants in 2016. “These accusations have not any advantage and have already been disproven by many replacement participants who were most modern,” the assertion read.
Comment: Mariah Billado did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Trump accuser No. 8: Victoria Hughes
Alleged incident date: 1997
Nature of allegations: ogling undressed pageant contestants leisurely the scenes
Description: Hughes, the weak Omit Original Mexico Teen USA, came forward after Mariah Billado and alleged that Trump walked leisurely the scenes at the 1997 Omit Teen USA pageant whereas contestants, all between the ages of 15 and 19, were undressed.
First reported by: BuzzFeed News, October 13, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 4
Corroborators: 3 unnamed Omit Teen USA 1997 contestants, Mariah Billado
Other corroborating proof: Trump himself described his leisurely the scenes behavior on the Howard Stern reward in 2005.
Candidate response: The Trump campaign issued a blanket denial of claims made by pageant contestants in 2016. “These accusations have not any advantage and have already been disproven by many replacement participants who were most modern,” the assertion read.
Comment: Victoria Hughes did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Trump accuser No. 9: Temple Taggart
Alleged incident date: 1997
Nature of allegations: nonconsensual kissing
Description: Taggart, the weak Omit Utah, alleged that Trump presented himself by kissing her on the mouth whereas he was once married to Marla Maples.
First reported by: The Original York Cases, Also can 14, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Candidate response: “I agree with out a longer even know who she is,” Trump told NBC News. “I emphatically shriek this ridiculous claim.”
Comment: Temple Taggart did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Trump accuser No. 10: Cathy Heller
Alleged incident date: 1997
Nature of allegations: nonconsensual kissing
Description: Heller alleged that Trump forcibly kissed her at a Mar-a-Lago brunch in 1997.
First reported by: The Guardian, October 12, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 2
Corroborator(s): Susan Klein (buddy), unnamed relative
Corroborations reported by: The Guardian
Candidate response: A spokesman for the Trump campaign known as Heller’s allegation a “bogus claim” and mentioned “there is rarely a approach something relish this would have came about in a public subject … It can possibly were the controversy of Palm Coastline for the previous two a long time.”
Comment: Cathy Heller confirmed The Guardian’s reporting.
Karena Virginia speaks at a press conference in Original York City.
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Trump accuser No. 11: Karena Virginia
Alleged incident date: 1998
Nature of allegations: groping
Description: Virginia alleged that Trump commented on her legs, then approached her and touched her breast, as she was once anticipating a automobile provider to take her up after the US Delivery tennis occasion in Queens, Original York.
First reported by: press conference with Gloria Allred, October 20, 2016
Replacement of corroborators: 1
Corroborator(s): Virginia’s husband
Corroborations reported by: The Washington Put up
Candidate response: Trump spokesman Jessica Ditto known as the allegation a “coordinated, publicity seeking assault with the Clinton campaign,” describing criminal expert Gloria Allred as a “discredited political operative.” Allred denied that the Clinton campaign had any involvement within the allegation.
Comment: Karena Virginia confirmed The Washington Put up’s reporting and the allegations made in Gloria Allred’s press conference. Virginia told Industry Insider that she shared her account with extra relatives and end mates over time. “Talking about sexual assault publicly creates spruce fright and shame. Being known as a liar for The fact that one shares with deep vulnerability can motive submit and most modern trauma to the survivor,” she mentioned. “I surely pray that the me too circulation helps girls to feel supported to keep in touch up within the occasion that they’ve to … and that the formative years will feel protected in using their voices.”
Trump accuser No. 12: Tasha Dixon
Alleged incident date: 2001
Nature of allegations: ogling undressed pageant contestants leisurely the scenes
Description: Outdated Omit Arizona Tasha Dixon alleged that she and her fellow Omit USA 2001 contestants were first presented to Trump without warning, whereas they were changing into bikinis at some stage in a fancy dress rehearsal.
First reported by: CBS, October 11, 2016
Replacement of corroborators: 0, nonetheless pattern has been corroborated
Other corroborating proof: Trump himself described his leisurely the scenes behavior on the Howard Stern reward in 2005.
Candidate response: The Trump campaign issued a blanket denial of claims made by pageant contestants in 2016. “These accusations have not any advantage and have already been disproven by many replacement participants who were most modern,” the assertion read.
Comment: Tasha Dixon did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Trump accuser No. 13: Bridget Sullivan
Alleged incident date: 2000
Nature of allegations: ogling undressed pageant contestants leisurely the scenes
Description: Sullivan, Omit Original Hampshire 2000, alleged that Trump walked leisurely the scenes whereas the contestants were all bare to need them correct success.
First reported by: BuzzFeed News, Also can 18, 2016
Replacement of corroborators: 0, nonetheless pattern has been corroborated
Other corroborating proof: Trump himself described his leisurely the scenes behavior on the Howard Stern reward in 2005.
Other notes: Four contestants within the the same pageant did no longer eradicate Trump’s behavior.
Candidate response: The Trump campaign issued a blanket denial of claims made by pageant contestants in 2016. “These accusations have not any advantage and have already been disproven by many replacement participants who were most modern,” the assertion read.
Comment: Bridget Sullivan did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Trump accuser No. 14: Karen Johnson
Alleged incident date: early 2000s
Nature of allegations: nonconsensual kissing
Description: Johnson alleged that Trump grabbed her, pulled her leisurely a tapestry, and forcibly kissed her at a Original one year’s Eve occasion at Mar-a-Lago.
First reported by: Esquire (excerpted from “The total President’s Ladies”), October 9, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 1
Corroborator(s): unnamed buddy
Other corroborating proof: unspecified documentation and photos
Corroborations reported by: Esquire (excerpted from “The total President’s Ladies”)
Candidate response: Trump has no longer addressed Johnson’s accusation, nonetheless broadly denied all sexual-misconduct allegations against him on a pair of instances.
Comment: Karen Johnson is possibly no longer reached for statement.
Trump accuser No. 15: Melinda McGillivray
Alleged incident date: 2003
Nature of allegations: groping
Description: McGillivray was once assisting photographer Ken Davidoff at a Mar-a-Lago record shoot when Trump grabbed her dazzling butt cheek, she alleged.
First reported by: The Palm Coastline Put up, October 12, 2016
Replacement of corroborators: 1
Corroborator(s): Ken Davidoff (Mar-a-Lago photographer)
Corroborations reported by: The Palm Coastline Put up
Candidate response: Trump has no longer addressed McGillivray’s claim straight, nonetheless broadly denied all sexual-misconduct allegations against him on a pair of instances.
Comment: Melinda McGillivray confirmed The Palm Coastline Put up’s reporting.
Trump accuser No. 16: Jennifer Murphy
Alleged incident date: 2004
Nature of allegations: nonconsensual kissing
Description: Murphy, a contestant on season four of “The Apprentice,” alleged that Trump took her aback by kissing her on the lips after a job interview, nonetheless that she was once no longer suffering from it.
First reported by: Grazia journal, June 24, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Other notes: Murphy told Grazia that she was once no longer suffering from Trump’s advances.
Candidate response: Trump has no longer addressed Murphy’s account straight, nonetheless broadly denied all sexual-misconduct allegations against him on a pair of instances.
Comment: Jennifer Murphy did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Trump accuser No. 17: Natasha Stoynoff
Alleged incident date: 2005
Nature of allegations: nonconsensual kissing
Description: Outdated Other folks correspondent Natasha Stoynoff went to Mar-a-Lago to interview Donald and Melania Trump for a tale on their first wedding anniversary. Stoynoff alleged that whereas Melania was once momentarily absent, Trump pushed her against a wall and compelled his tongue down her throat.
First reported by: Other folks, October 12, 2016
Replacement of corroborators: 6
Corroborator(s): Liza Herz (buddy), Marina Grasic (buddy), Paul McLaughlin (weak journalism professor), Liz McNeil (editor), Mary Green (editor), Liza Hamm (colleague)
Corroborations reported by: Other folks
Candidate response: Trump tweeted that the incident “did no longer happen” on October 13, 2016. Later that very same day, Trump addressed the allegation at a rally in Florida, asserting: “Label at her. I agree with out a longer assume so.”
Comment: Natasha Stoynoff did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Trump accuser No. 18: Juliet Huddy
Alleged incident date: 2005 or 2006
Nature of allegations: nonconsensual kissing
Description: Huddy, a weak Fox News host, alleged that Trump kissed her on the lips in a Trump Tower elevator whereas asserting goodbye. Huddy mentioned that she was once no longer offended at the time.
First reported by: “Morning With Bill Schulz,” December 7, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Other notes: Huddy told Schulz she was once no longer stricken at the time of the incident, nonetheless her perspective has changed.
Candidate response: A White Home legit denied Huddy’s accusations.
Comment: Juliet Huddy did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Rachel Crooks, Jessica Leeds, and Samantha Holvey hear to Lisa Boyne address the conference by capability of speakerphone at some stage in a press conference held by girls accusing Trump of sexual misconduct on December 11, 2017 in Original York City.
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Trump accuser No. 19: Rachel Crooks
Alleged incident date: 2005
Nature of allegations: nonconsensual kissing
Description: Crooks alleged that Trump forcibly kissed her when she presented herself to him in 2005. Crooks worked as a receptionist at an true-property company in Trump Tower at the time.
First reported by: The Original York Cases, October 12, 2016
Replacement of corroborators: 2
Corroborator(s): Brianne Webb (sister), Clint Hackenburg (then boyfriend)
Corroborations reported by: The Original York Cases
Candidate response: “None of this ever took subject,” Trump told The Original York Cases.
Comment: Rachel Crooks did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Trump accuser No. 20: Samantha Holvey
Alleged incident date: 2006
Nature of allegations: ogling undressed pageant contestants leisurely the scenes
Description: Holvey, the 2006 Omit North Carolina, alleged that Trump personally inspected every contestant earlier than the Omit USA pageant, taking a look every lady up and down. Holvey told CNN that Trump and Melania moreover seemed leisurely the scenes whereas contestants were getting ready.
First reported by: CNN, October 13, 2016
Replacement of corroborators: 0, nonetheless pattern has been corroborated
Other corroborating proof: Trump himself described his leisurely the scenes behavior on the Howard Stern reward in 2005.
Candidate response: The Trump campaign issued a blanket denial of claims made by pageant contestants in 2016. “These accusations have not any advantage and have already been disproven by many replacement participants who were most modern,” the assertion read.
Comment: Samantha Holvey confirmed CNN’s reporting.
Trump accuser No. 21: Ninni Laaksonen
Alleged incident date: 2006
Nature of allegations: groping
Description: Outdated Omit Finland Ninni Laaksonen, who competed within the Omit Universe 2006 beauty pageant, alleged that Trump squeezed her butt earlier than acting on “The Late Characterize With David Letterman.”
First reported by: Ilta-Sanomat, October 27, 2016
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Candidate response: Trump has no longer addressed Laaksonen’s account straight, nonetheless broadly denied all sexual-misconduct allegations against him on a pair of instances.
Comment: Ninni Laaksonen did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Trump accuser No. 22: Jessica Drake
Alleged incident date: 2006
Nature of allegations: nonconsensual kissing
Description: Drake alleged that Trump hugged and kissed her without her permission at a golf occasion in Tahoe, California.
First reported by: Press conference with Gloria Allred, October 22, 2016.
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Candidate response: Trump known as Drake’s allegation “fiction” and mentioned, “‘Oh, I’m hurry she’s by no approach been grabbed earlier than.”
Comment: Jessica Drake did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Jessica Drake speaks beside criminal expert Gloria Allred at some stage in a press conference in Los Angeles, California on October 22, 2016.
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Trump accuser No. 23: Summer Zervos
Alleged incident date: 2007
Nature of allegations: nonconsensual kissing
Description: Zervos, a weak contestant on “The Apprentice,” alleged that Trump forcibly kissed her and, on a separate occasion, placed his hand on her breast. Both incidents occurred in 2007.
First reported by: Press conference with Gloria Allred, October 14, 2016.
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Other corroborating proof: calendars and electronic mail
Other corroborating proof reported by: The Hollywood Reporter
Candidate response: In a 2016 assertion, Trump mentioned he “vaguely” remembered Zervos as a contestant on “The Apprentice,” nonetheless “by no approach met her at a resort or greeted her inappropriately.”
Comment: Summer Zervos did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Trump accuser No. 24: Cassandra Searles
Alleged incident date: 2013
Nature of allegations: ogling undressed pageant contestants leisurely the scenes
Description: In a Fb submit, Searles, the weak Omit Washington, asked her fellow Omit USA 2013 contestants whether or not they remembered Trump lining them as much as steal a nearer examine his “property.”
First reported by: Deepest Fb submit, June 2016
Replacement of corroborators: A minimal of two contestants from the the same pageant commented on the Fb submit, declaring Searles’ account.
Corroborators: Paromita Mitra (Omit Mississippi 2013), Shannon McAnally (Omit Virginia 2013)
Other corroborating proof: Trump himself described his leisurely the scenes behavior on the Howard Stern reward in 2005.
Candidate response: The Trump campaign issued a blanket denial of claims made by pageant contestants in 2016. “These accusations have not any advantage and have already been disproven by many replacement participants who were most modern,” the assertion read.
Comment: Cassandra Searles did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
Trump accuser No. 25: Alva Johnson
Alleged incident date: 2016
Nature of allegations: nonconsensual kissing
Description: Johnson, a weak Trump campaign staffer, alleged that Trump grabbed her hand and leaned in to kiss her at some stage in a rally in Tampa. The kiss landed on the side of her mouth.
First reported by: The Washington Put up, February 25, 2019
Replacement of corroborators: 0
Other corroborating proof: Trump’s personal criminal expert, Charles J. Tougher, published a video of the incident. Tougher mentioned the video exonerated his client; Johnson’s criminal expert mentioned it supported Johnson’s claim.
Other notes: Two witnesses denied seeing the encounter.
Candidate response: Sanders brushed off Johnson’s allegation as “absurd on its face” in a assertion equipped to The Washington Put up.
Comment: Alva Johnson did no longer acknowledge to requests for statement.
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