The Sexual Abuse
1980s
Jessica Leeds
Businesswoman
“Ms. Leeds … sat beside Mr. Trump in the first-class cabin of a flight to New York. They had never met before. About 45 minutes after takeoff … Mr. Trump lifted the armrest and began to touch her. … Mr. Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt. … She fled to the back of the plane.”
“He was like an octopus.”
“His hands were everywhere.”
“It was an assault”
New York Times: Two Women Say Trump Touched Them Inappropriately
1989
Ivana Trump
Ex-Wife
“After a painful scalp reduction surgery to remove a bald spot, Donald Trump confronted his then-wife, who had previously used the same plastic surgeon.”
“‘Your fucking doctor has ruined me!’, Trump cried”
“What followed was a ‘violent assault,’ according to Lost Tycoon. Donald held back Ivana's arms and began to pull out fistfuls of hair from her scalp, as if to mirror the pain he felt from his own operation. He tore off her clothes and unzipped his pants.”
“He raped me”
STARTING IN 1992
Jill Harth
Business Partner
“Trump put his hands up her skirt, touching her crotch.”
“He name-dropped continuously, when he wasn't groping me.”
“I was admiring the decoration, and next thing I know he's pushing me against a wall and has his hands all over me. He was trying to kiss me. I was freaking out.”
“Harth says that she worried about being raped by [Trump]”
1993
Stacey Williams
Model
“Epstein suggested during a walk they were on that he and Williams stop by to visit Trump at Trump Tower. … Trump greeted Williams, pulled her toward him and started groping her. She said he put his hands ‘all over my breasts’ as well as her waist and her buttocks. She said she froze because she was ‘deeply confused’ about what was happening. At the same time, she said she believed she saw the two men smiling at each other.”
The Guardian: Donald Trump groped me …
1993
Beatrice Keul
Pageant Queen
“I was not prepared. I tried to do what I could to get rid of him.”
“He kissed me on the lips and on the neck. He tried to lift my dress.”
“He was grabbing and touching my body everywhere he could.”
New Republic: Horrifying Details of Trump Sexual Assault
1994
Katie Johnson (Jane Doe)
Model
“I loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop, but he did not. Defendant Trump responded to my pleas by violently striking me in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted. ... Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened me that, were I ever to reveal any of the details of Defendant Trump's sexual and physical abuse of me, my family and I would be physically harmed if not killed.”
“Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein knew that I was 13 years old.”
Politico: “during those parties [Trump] tied her to a bed and raped her.”
28 women
accused Trump of sexual misconduct
1996
E. Jean Carroll
Author
“The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips. … he holds me against the wall with his shoulder and jams his hand under my coat dress and pulls down my tights. … he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I’m not certain — inside me.”
New York Magazine: Donald Trump assaulted me in a dressing room
“Donald Trump must pay $5 million in damages for sexually abusing magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defaming her by branding her a liar, a jury decided on Tuesday.”
Reuteurs: Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll, jury says
“Mr. Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms. Carroll”
1997
Temple Taggart McDowell
Miss Utah USA
“He kissed me directly on the lips. I thought, ‘Oh my God, gross.’ He was married to Marla Maples at the time. I think there were a few other girls that he kissed on the mouth. I was like ‘Wow, that’s inappropriate.’ ”
New York Times: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private
1997
Amy Dorris
Model
“She accused Trump of forcing his tongue down her throat, touching her all over her body and holding her in a grip from which she could not escape, while ignoring her pleas to stop. ‘His hands were very gropey and all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything,’ she said, recalling how she used her teeth to try to force his tongue out of her mouth. ‘I felt trapped.’ ”
“It felt like there were tentacles on me that I couldn’t rip off, I was trying to get his arms off of me and they would not come off because I wasn’t strong enough.”
The Guardian: The women who accuse Trump of sexual misconduct
2005 Access Hollywood Tape
“I moved on her like a bitch!”
“You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it, you can do anything ... grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”
2007
Summer Zervos
The Apprentice Contestant
“He came to me and started kissing me open-mouthed as he was pulling me towards him. I walked away … He then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me again very aggressively and placed his hand on my breast. I pulled back and walked to another part of the room … he began thrusting his genitals.”