NYT Breaking News: Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately

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By MEGAN TWOHEY and MICHAEL BARBARO
October 12, 2016

More than three decades ago, when she was a traveling businesswoman at a paper company, Ms. Leeds said, she 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, she recalled, Mr. Trump lifted the armrest and began to touch her. According to Ms. Leeds, Mr. Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt.

“He was like an octopus,” she said. “His hands were everywhere.”

She fled to the back of the plane. “It was an assault,” she said.

Ms. Leeds has told the story to at least four people close to her, who also spoke with The New York Times.

Mr. Trump’s claim that his crude words had never turned into actions was similarly infuriating to a woman watching on Sunday night in Ohio: Rachel Crooks.

Ms. Crooks was a 22-year-old receptionist at Bayrock Group, a real estate investment and development company in Trump Tower in Manhattan, when she encountered Mr. Trump outside an elevator in the building one morning in 2005.

Aware that her company did business with Mr. Trump, she turned and introduced herself. They shook hands, but Mr. Trump would not let go, she said. Instead, he began kissing her cheeks. Then, she said, he “kissed me directly on the mouth.”

It didn’t feel like an accident, she said. It felt like a violation.

“It was so inappropriate,” Ms. Crooks recalled in an interview. “I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that.”

read more and see video: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html

[Xipe Totec]

1. Panochio is going down. nt

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5. and the deplorables will excuse this too, just watch

[Johonny]

15. Jerry Falwell jr on CNN to excuse it

Nothing fake christians like more than an immoral act

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21. Trump campaign calling it total fiction.

Chris Matthews reading Trump campaign statement.

[MattP]

2. The only thing I can't believe is people saying they are shocked

Horrified yes, but shocked not even.

[livetohike]

3. Here we go. I hope everyone he sexually abused comes forward.

I am so sick of him and his equally disgusting surrogates.

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11. we know the scenario

His advisors will huddle in Trump Tower. He'll offer a bogus apology. His supporters will excuse him, saying he's contrite and has been forgiven by God. And then the surrogates will attack Bill Clinton.

[boston bean]

4. wow!

[sheshe2]

6. White Male Privilege

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8. and this afternoon he was saying "Hillary should go to jail."

Hey, Donald, who belongs in jail!

[sheshe2]

22. Landslide.

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24. let's take back the Senate and House!

[sheshe2]

26. Works for me.

[malaise]

51. His co-author said earlier that

everything he says is really projection - it's about him - he knows he should be in jail.
He 'outConed' himself this time

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62. he called the NYT reporter who questioned him about the allegations "a disgusting person"

classic projection

[malaise]

63. People Magazine now

He's a fucking predator - it's over

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65. Lawrence just said Trump is "going nuclear"

He's going to sue the NYT.

He's going to respond to the allegations by "turning Bill Clinton into Bill Cosby."

Total MELTDOWN!

I think you're right, it's over.

[malaise]

66. No one gives a flying fugg

Bill isn't running for office

sp.

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67. Donald may try to "turn Bill Clinton into Bill Cosby" but

Trump may find himself sharing a cell with Bill Cosby.

[malaise]

7. The end is nigh

Good riddance Groper Don the Con!

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9. so now we'll have his advisors huddling again in Trump Tower as they had done when the Access video

was released last Friday

[malaise]

10. It's good that people now know what the society is facing

with Groper Don the Con and his morons

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14. this reminds me of the Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991

I think that was the first time sexual harassment had ever gotten national attention.

If I recall, Thomas testified on a Saturday morning. All children's television was canceled and viewers were warned of graphic content.

[malaise]

16. But watching the ReTHUG and Religious hypocrites for some time

I now understand how they voted for that scumbag Clarence Thomas. They have absolutely no moral compass.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

47. That's the truth. Remember C street

Or K street...whatever it's called.

Pukes meeting there for discussion on how to impose a theocratic government, prayer circles, and trysts with mistresses.
After which they prayed together and received forgiveness from gawd. Washed in the blood of the holy lamb



Is that little Opus Dei club still open for business?? It's like a mafia storefront, laundering your seven deadly sins.

[malaise]

49. add Ensign to that

remember his scandal. Only they can be forgiven. It's so convenient.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

54. No I don't remember Ensign...

Can you fill me in? I think I must have missed that.

[malaise]

55. He was the rising star from Nevada

It was back in 2009 - there was huge coverage here on DU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ensign_scandal.

I thought of him because you mentioned C Street.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

58. Thanks malaise!

I'll have a read!

Maybe I was taking a break from du at the time.

[bmstee01]

12. Is news covering it?

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18. Chris Matthews covering it right now

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33. from CNN

[Maven]

13. Ugh, he is so fucking gross.

I wonder if the rats who jumped ship and then climbed aboard again will jump ship once more?

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59. Republicans Endorse, Unendorse And Then Re-Endorse Donald Trump

by Elise Foley
10/12/2016

WASHINGTON ― Multiple Republicans who called for Donald Trump to step down as the Republican presidential nominee over the weekend are now saying they will still vote for him.

In an impressive bit of rhetorical gymnastics, some are also saying that they never technically un-endorsed Trump in the first place ― even though they all said that he should be replaced by his running mate Mike Pence as the Republican nominee for president.

Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) and Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.) all confirmed on Tuesday that they will support the Republican ticket, even if it’s led by Trump instead of Pence, the governor of Indiana. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said the same day that he would likely vote for Trump.

Over the weekend, the four were among the many high-profile Republicans who dropped their support for the nominee, after The Washington Post published 2005 video footage of Trump bragging about using his celebrity status to kiss and grope women without their consent.

read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/deb-fischer-donald-trump_us_57fe4819e4b0d505a46b3c76

[The_Casual_Observer]

17. Trump will deny everything and accuse

The women of one thing or another.

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19. yep, Trump campaign just gave a statement

Chris Matthews is reading it as I write this.

edit: They care calling it total fiction.

[gwheezie]

20. Who didn't see this coming

Being reported now on MSNBC. When Cooper pressed trump asking him if he had ever done what he claimed & he said no, the slightest smile crossed Hillary's lips. The women are coming for trump, the world will thank us.

[sheshe2]

23. "The women are coming for trump, the world will thank us."

^^THIS^^

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27. ...

[sheshe2]

31. Kick This

[BlancheSplanchnik]

48. Perfect. n/t

[treestar]

50. very good!

that's for sure.

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60. ...

[Egnever]

32. Yup the second he said it. He was done.

Anderson pinned him on it and maybe single handedly finished his campaign.

[Takket]

25. LOCK HIM UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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29. yep

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. These women are brave - you know the Trumpkins

will try to harass them mercilessly.

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53. yep, Robert Costa talking with Rachel now on MSNBC

He said the Trump campaign is declaring "all out war" on the women and the media.

[Warpy]

30. How prissy can you get? He ASSAULTED both of them

OK, I get legal hairsplitting, they can say allegedly assaulted them. The proper word is still "assaulted."

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35. CNN and MSNBC also using the term "inappropriate touching" nt

[Warpy]

36. it's unacceptable no matter who uses it.

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37. I agree but could it be their lawyers have told them to refrain from calling it "sexual assault"?

[Warpy]

38. Which is why I said the simple word "ASSAULT" is more appropriate

even if they have to use "alleged" in front of it to make lawyers happy.

It's not brushing against a woman on a crowded subway. It's intentional, premeditated, humiliating ASSAULT.

Call it what it is.

[Lefthacker]

43. I believe

That's a fifteen yard penalty in football.

[Trust Buster]

34. SEEMS ORANGE IS THE NEW COSBY

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40. Whoa! That almost made me spit out my drink.

You win the internet.

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41. Donald Trump offered PR advice to Bill Cosby in 2014 over rape allegations

Olivia Blair
October 11, 2016

In 2014, Bill Cosby, once considered a US national treasure, was at the start of a rapid and dramatic fall from grace as more and more accusations of sexual assault came to light.

One man who thought the situation was “sad” and was quick to share his thoughts on how Cosby should handle the situation was the now Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

In a 2014 interview from the red carpet for an event he was attending with his wife Melania, the billionaire offered Mr Cosby some PR advice, encouraging him to defend himself against the multiple sexual assault allegations instead of remaining silent.

“I think it’s very sad and frankly I don’t think he’s handling it well,” the 70-year-old told E! News. “He should say something because he’s being accused of terrible things and to have absolutely no comment, I think he’s getting very bad advice from a PR standpoint and he should do it differently. He’s not doing a very good job of handling it.”

read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-bill-cosby-rape-claims-allegations-pr-advice-sex-abuse-women-a7355146.html

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52. Cosby actually played a very positive role of TV

There is no such quality associated with Groper Don the Con.

This is no defense of Cosby.

[lindysalsagal]

39. Chris Hayes just covered this. Keeps it in the news. Good.

Fools like fRump forget that the truth always comes out.

[Johnny2X2X]

42. CNN

LOL!!! The Cons on Cooper's show were saying this helps Trump with his narrative that the media is out to get him.

He's been publicly accused by several new women today of sexual assault, under any circumstances that's really really bad. When it's 5 days after you bragged about sexually assaulting women in exactly the same way these women claim it's explosive.

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44. I expected as much from the DEPLORABLES

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

45. Can't wait to see his pack of mental patients defending this shit. nt

[Thrill]

46. Might turn out this guy was worst than Cosby

But he's a star. They let him do it

[lindysalsagal]

56. Even IF these women were making up stories, too bad, it will stick

Because he put himself on video.

So, there is no question of legitimacy: He said it, he owns it, period.

[BlueStater]

57. Orange Bill Cosby

I'm going to enjoy every single second of this fucker's downfall. Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.

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61. Lawrence reporting Trump campaign says they are going to respond to these allegations by

"turning Bill Clinton into Bill Cosby"

As a commentator just told Lawrence, "They are going nuclear."

[Rex]

64. So who is going to be his next campaign manager?

I hope they file a class action lawsuit. Pig needs to pay for his assaulting ways.

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68. looks like they are not only keeping Bannon, but Bannon has already chosen a strategy to deal with

the allegations against Trump:

"We’re going to turn him (Bill Clinton) into Bill Cosby," Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon says.

.. the campaign will soon bring forward new accusers: “Women are coming to us who have been groped or sexually abused by Bill Clinton.”

Trump is considering featuring these women at campaign rallies to “give witness to what Hillary Clinton actually did.” The Republican nominee’s decision to close out his campaign by attacking what he alleges to be Bill Clinton's history of sexual violence, and his wife's role after the fact, suggests the next few weeks could be among the ugliest in modern presidential history.

On Thursday night, the Trump campaign will begin a new media blitz, his advisers say, with Broaddrick, Willey, and Jones appearing together on a one-hour Fox News special hosted by Sean Hannity. Additional interviews will follow.

read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-12/trump-takes-a-back-to-the-future-focus-on-bill-clinton-s-women