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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign on Thursday denied a Guardian newspaper report in which a former model accused the New York-based real estate developer of sexually assaulting and groping her at the tennis tournament. from the US Open in 1997.
The Guardian reported that Amy Dorris told the newspaper in an interview that Trump assaulted her outside a bathroom in her VIP box at that year’s tournament. She was 24 at the time, the newspaper said.
“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,” the newspaper quoted Dorris like saying.
The president’s reelection campaign on Thursday said the allegations were not true.
“The allegations are totally false. We will consider all available legal means to hold The Guardian accountable for the malicious publication of this unsubstantiated story,” said Jenna Ellis, legal adviser for the Trump campaign.
Efforts to reach Dorris by phone for comment were unsuccessful.
The Guardian said in an email that it endorsed their reports.
The newspaper published photos that it said were provided by Dorris that showed her with Trump and said she interviewed several people Dorris trusted at the time of the incident. She said that in total she provided six photos showing the two of them together, as well as her ticket to the tournament on the day she said the incident occurred.
Trump has faced a series of allegations of sexual misconduct before his term. Shortly before the November 2016 election, a 2005 “Access Hollywood” recording revealed that he bragged about groping women. Trump dismissed the comments as “costume jokes” and apologized.
Dorris, a mother of twins, told the newspaper that she considered running in 2016 but decided against doing so in part out of fear for her family.
“Now I feel like my daughters are about to turn 13 and I want them to know that you don’t let anyone do anything to you that you don’t want to,” she said.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Scott Malone, Rosalba O’Brien and Daniel Wallis)
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