The behavior Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been calling just “locker room talk” sounds like it might be much more than talk. Several women have come forward with tales of times when Trump touched them inappropriately. Tonight, yet another came forward.
‘Donald Just Grabbed My Ass!’
The woman in this case is 36-year-old Mindy McGillivray, who alleges that Donald Trump grabbed her 13 years ago at an event at Mar-a-Lago. McGillivray told the Palm Beach Post that she was at home watching the debate this past Sunday. Moderator Anderson Cooper asked Trump if he had ever done the things described in the 2005 Access Hollywood tape released last Friday.
When he said no, McGillivray tells the Post that:
“… She rose from her couch and yelled at the TV screen: ‘You liar!'”
McGillivray did say that she never reported the assault. However:
“… Her companion that day, photographer Ken Davidoff, vividly remembers when McGillivray pulled him aside moments after the alleged incident and told him, ‘’Donald just grabbed my ass!'”
According to the Post, Davidoff and his father, the late Bob Davidoff, were the official photographers of Mar-a-Lago at the time of the alleged incident, which was:
“… A deal they got only after Trump demanded he get 20 percent of their proceeds, Ken Davidoff said.”
McGillivray described the incident as follows:
“After the show, Davidoff and McGillivray were standing in a pavilion behind the main house in the middle of a group of people. To their left was Regis Philbin and his wife, Joy, according to Davidoff. To McGillivray’s immediate right was Trump and his fiancée, Melania … ‘All of a sudden I felt a grab, a little nudge. I think it’s Ken’s camera bag, that was my first instinct. I turn around and there’s Donald. He sort of looked away quickly. I quickly turned back, facing Ray Charles, and I’m stunned.'”
She says she never saw Trump again, but that her family and the Davidoffs were aware of the incident. Though never reported to authorities, she says:
“When Trump entered the presidential race, she said she started telling the story to more friends. One day last week, Davidoff came across a photo his father took that night in 2003 of Trump and Charles.
‘He sent it to me and was like, “Remember that night?” “Oh, yeah. I remember that night,’ McGillivray said.
When Trump told Cooper during the debate Sunday that he never groped a woman, McGillivray said she started to consider sharing her story.”
McGillivray is one of several women who have come forward today with similar stories.
Two Other Women Have Come Forward Just Today
Jessica Leeds, 74, and Rachel Crooks, 33, both told their stories of inappropriate touching to the New York Times today. Ms. Leeds tells of how Trump allegedly groped her on an airplane over 30 years ago, and Ms. Crooks says Trump kissed her on the mouth when she was working in the Trump Tower in 2005.
Trump has, of course, denied all the claims.
The Clinton released the following statement about the reports:
“‘This disturbing story sadly fits everything we know about the way Donald Trump has treated women’ said Hillary for America communications director Jenn Palmieri. ‘These reports suggest that he lied on the debate stage and that the disgusting behavior he bragged about in the tape is more than just words.'”
Watch this video of Ms. Leeds describing Trump’s groping, courtesy of the New York Times:
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