Donald Trump's History of Sexual Assault

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Since the 1970s, at least 26 women have accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault. Trump has repeatedly denied the accusations, calling his accusers "liars" and even suggesting that they were getting paid to accuse him. The identical pattern of behavior may be seen in the majority of those accusations which includes putting his hand under women's skirts, looking under women's skirts, and making sexual comments about women's bodies.

During the presidential nominee's 2016 rally, he said "Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign... Total fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over." The president said these "false allegations" were made up by "women who got paid a lot of money to make up stories about me." Despite these accusations, 55 percent of white women voted for Trump. 90 percent of Black women voters supported Joe Biden, along with 70 percent of Hispanic women.

Opinion

Just because Trump is the President doesn't mean that he should be able to get away with these things. I'm hoping that after Joe Biden is sworn in as the President, Trump will be held accountable for not only these horrific things that he has done to these women, but violating campaign finance laws, possibly committing tax fraud, and the many other countless illegal things he has done.

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Below are only the first six of the twenty six allegations, in chronological order.

Jessica Leeds

BBC News

Allegations:

Jessica Leeds told the New York Times in 2016 that Trump had reached his hand up her skirt and groped her on a plane. "He was like an octopus. His hands were everywhere," She said. After running into Trump at a gala in New York three years after the incident, he called her a c---.

Ivana Trump

Vanity Fair

Allegations:

Trump's first wife, Ivana Trump, accused her then-husband of raping her after falling into a fit of rage in 1989. Ivana said he had attacked her after he had a "scalp reduction" procedure done by a doctor she had recommended. She said he had torn her clothes and yanked out a chunk of her hair.

Kristin Anderson

The Washington Post

Allegations:

Kristin Anderson, a former model, accused Trump of reaching his hand under her skirt and touching her genitals through her underwear at a New York City nightclub in the early 1990s. "-as I pushed the hand away and I got up I turned around and I see these eyebrows, very distinct eyebrows, of Donald Trump," she said.

Jill Harth

The Guardian

Allegations:

Jill Harth worked with Trump in the 1990s as a businesswoman. Harth told the Guardian in 2016 that Trump pushed her against a wall, put his hand up her skirt, and tried to kiss her at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort in the early 1990s. Harth told the New York Times "He was relentless, I didn't know how to handle it. I would go away from him and say I have to go to the restroom. It was the escape route."

Lisa Boyne

Business Insider

Allegations:

Lisa Boyne, a health food business entrepreneur, said she had gone to a 1996 dinner with Trump and John Casablancas, a modeling agent, which several other women who attended were forced to walk across a table in order to leave. Boyne says that Trump looked up their skirts as they walked across the table and commented on their underwear and genitals.

Mariah Billado and Victoria Hughes

Allegations:

Two Miss Teen USA contestants said that Trump walked in on them while they were changing in their dressing rooms during the 1997 pageant. "I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, 'Oh my god, there's a man in here," Billado said, who represented Vermont at the time. Victoria Hughes, former Miss New Mexico, said Trump had first introduced himself to the teenage contestants when he walked into their dressing room unexpectedly.