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Donald Trump addressed the latest round of sexual assault allegations at a rally today in Greensboro, North Carolina, claiming that the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct are lying for "probably a little fame."

Earlier today, photographer Kristin Anderson shared her story of sexual assault with The Washington Post. She said during the 1990s, while she was working in New York as a model, she was sitting in a nightclub when she felt a hand under her skirt, touching her genitals through her underwear. She looked at the man who was touching her, and it was Donald Trump. At brunch a few days later with her friends, she told them what happened, and they all decided, she wrote, "Okay, Donald is gross. We all know he’s gross. Let’s just move on." In a a video for the The Washington Post, Kristin says at the time, she thought it was inconsequential, but realized that it's not. The Washington Post spoke to Kristin's friends, who confirmed she's shared the story several times over the years.

At his rally in North Carolina, Trump said that Kristin's accusation must be false because, he said, he would never have been in a nightclub alone. (That was his entire argument.) His dismissal of the accusations represents a larger cultural issue of victim-blaming and victim-shaming when it comes to sexual assault. In addition, Trump wondered at the rally why People writer Natasha Stoynoff — who wrote a first person essay this week saying that when she was covering the Trumps for People, Donald forcibly kissed her — in particular didn't write an expose about him after the incident. However, these sorts of comments are exactly why survivors of sexual assault don't report their cases. After all, according to RAINN, nearly half of people who are sexually assaulted don't say anything because they fear retaliation. And 43% say they've heard that other people had a negative experience reporting their sexual

Since the 1970s, at least 26 women have publicly accused Donald Trump, of rape, kissing, and groping without consent; looking under women's skirts; and walking in on naked teenage pageant contestants. Trump has denied all of the allegations.

Trump has a history of insulting and belittling women when speaking to the media and on social media. He has made lewd comments, disparaged women's physical appearance, and referred to them using derogatory epithets.

In October 2016, two days before the second presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, a 2005 "hot mic" recording surfaced in which Trump was heard saying that "when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy." The incident's widespread media exposure led to Trump's first public apology during the campaign and caused outrage across the political spectrum.

General overview

Donald Trump has been accused of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, including non-consensual kissing or groping, by at least 25 women since the 1970s.

In June 2019, writer E. Jean Carroll alleged in New York magazine that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in 1995 or 1996. Two friends of Carroll stated that Carroll had previously confided in them about the incident. Trump called the allegation fiction and denied ever meeting Carroll, despite a photo of them together from 1987 being published by the magazine. In November 2022, Carroll filed a suit against Trump for battery under the Adult Survivors Act. On May 9, 2023, a New York jury in a civil case found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against Carroll, but found him not liable for rape. They awarded Carroll US$5 million in damages.^[16&#

She said she was "very grossed out and weirded out".

Ms Anderson said she turned round to find a man sitting on a red velvet couch whom she recognised instantly as the celebrity property mogul.

"He was so distinctive looking," she told the Washington Post, "with the hair and the eyebrows. I mean, nobody else has those eyebrows."

She added: "It wasn't a sexual come-on. I don't know why he did it. It was like just to prove that he could do it, and nothing would happen.

"There was zero conversation. We didn't even really look at each other. It was very random, very nonchalant on his part."

The newspaper said it had approached Ms Anderson after learning of her story through a third party, and she had spent several days deciding whether to go public.

Mr Trump's spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, said in a statement emailed to the Washington Post: "Mr Trump strongly denies this phony allegation by someone looking to get some free publicity. It is totally ridiculous."

Meanwhile, Summer Zervos, a former contestant on season five of The Apprentice in 2006, said she was sexually assaulted by Mr Trump after she was invited by him to discuss job opportunities.

Ms Zervos, 41, told an emotional news conference in Los Angeles that she met him in 2007 in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where the businessman greeted her by kissing her on the mouth.

She said he asked her to sit next to him on a sofa where he "grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me again very aggressively and placed his hand on my breast".

Ms Zervos fought back tears as she said Mr Trump attempted to lead her into the bedroom and "began thrusting his genitals", even as she fended off his advances.

She said Mr Trump then began talking to her as if she were a candidate for a job interview.

Ms Zervos, who described herself as a Republican, said she was