President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House. (AP Photo / Alex Brandon)
Trump has faced more than a dozen allegations of sexual misconduct, including the claim by prominent American columnist E. Jean Carroll that he raped her in a department store locker room in the mid-1990s.
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A former model accused US President Donald Trump of groping and forcing her kiss in 1997, the latest accusation made against the Republican president just weeks before he seeks re-election.
Amy Dorris told Britain’s Guardian that Trump sexually assaulted her in his VIP suite at the US Open tennis tournament in New York, claims he denied through his lawyers.
“He just shoved his tongue down my throat and I pushed him. And that’s when his grip got tighter and his hands were very groping and all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything,” Dorris said in an interview. . .
“It was in his grip and he couldn’t get out of it,” he added.
Trump has faced more than a dozen allegations of sexual misconduct, including the claim by prominent American columnist E. Jean Carroll that he raped her in a department store locker room in the mid-1990s.
But he pushed them aside in his run for the White House.
Shortly before the 2016 elections, a recording emerged from 2005 in which he could be heard bragging about how his fame allowed him to “grab” women by the genitals whenever he wanted.
Trump dismissed this as “locker room jokes,” but later apologized.
Dorris was 24 years old at the time of the alleged incidents. Trump was 51 years old and married at the time to his second wife, Marla Maples.
The accuser provided The Guardian with several photos showing her at Trump’s company, and multiple people corroborated her account, saying she told them at the time.
She says she told Trump to stop, but “he didn’t care.” She added: “I felt violated, obviously.”
When asked why he was still close to Trump in the days that followed, Dorris replied, “That’s what happens when something traumatic happens: you freeze.”
But Trump’s lawyers told the newspaper that her version of events was not reliable and that there would be other witnesses if she had been assaulted.
They suggested in comments to The Guardian that the indictment could be politically motivated, weeks before Trump faces Joe Biden in the Nov.3 election.
Dorris, now 48, said she decided to come forward to be a role model for her teenage twin daughters.
She first told The Guardian her story more than a year ago, but asked the newspaper not to publish it.
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