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With Amy Dorris, 27 women have publicly accused the President of the United States, Donald Trump, of having sexually abused her. Her opponent Joe Biden is aware of similar allegations. But the differences are considerable.
Another woman accused US President Donald Trump of sexual harassment before the election. The image shows Trump giving a speech to his followers (September 17, 2020).
Photo: Evan Vucci (Keystone)
With Amy Dorris, there are now 27 women who publicly accuse Trump of having sexually abused, coerced or even raped her. And it might not be wrong to look at their names again here.
Ivana Trump (seine Exfrau), Jill Harth, E. Jean Carroll, Summer Zervos, Alva Johnson, Jessica Leeds, Kristin Anderson, Lisa Boyne, Cathy Heller, Temple Taggart McDowell, Karena Virginia, Karen Johnson, Mindy McGillivray, Jennifer Murphy, Rachel Crooks, Natasha Stoynoff, Juliet Huddy, Jessica Drake, Ninni Laaksonen, Cassandra Searles, Mariah Billado, Victoria Hughes, Bridget Sullivan, Tasha Dixon, and Samantha Holvey.
She couldn’t escape his grip
There is little to be said against believing Amy Dorris when she reveals that Trump harassed her in 1997 on the sidelines of the US Open tennis tournament in New York. She was invited to Trump’s private box along with her boyfriend at the time. she reported to The Guardianwho published his story this Thursday. Dorris was 24 at the time and working as a model.
“He stuck his tongue down my throat and I pushed it away,” says Dorris. “Then her grip tightened.” Trump touched her, “all over my ass, my breasts, my back, everything.” She reports that she was unable to evade his grip.
The story is confirmed by several witnesses. Including his therapist and good friends, whom he confidently described his experience at the time. The Guardian reporters found no inconsistencies in the statements. There are photos showing that Trump and Dorris met in the US Open lounges in the summer of 1997. In one image, Trump put his hand around her waist.
“This is just another pathetic attempt to attack President Trump right before the election.”
The Trump campaign rejects all the allegations in a statement. “The allegations are completely false,” said Jenna Ellis, a Trump campaign attorney. And: “We will use all legal means to hold The Guardian accountable for the malicious publication of this unsubstantiated story. This is just another pathetic attempt to attack President Trump right before the election. “
Dorris’s experiences are like a model for the accusations that have so far been made against Trump. Almost all of the women mentioned report that they were touched, groped or kissed by Trump at least unsolicited.
Trump has always denied everything. And he has even come to despise some women. As in the case of Natasha Stoynoff (read a list of victims: “Trump was like an octopus, his hands were everywhere”).
They can’t hurt you politically
The journalist had an interview with his wife Melania in 2005 at the Trump Mar-a-Lago golf course in Florida. Donald Trump is said to have given him a tour of the hotel on the occasion. In an inadvertent moment she turned to him and “within seconds he was pressing me against the wall and shoving his tongue down my throat.” They only saved the fact that Trump’s butler at the time entered the room a little later.
The story came out shortly before the 2016 election. Afterward, Trump poked fun at Natasha Stoynoff’s appearance at election events: “Look at her. Tell me what you think. I don’t believe that. “
Trump still won the 2016 election. And if he’s going to lose the 2020 election, it’s not because of Amy Dorris. Accusations don’t hurt you (read the article about this: “The matter will be forgotten until the next woman responds”). Almost all the other candidates would have to surrender. But unlike other candidates, Trump has no reputation to lose. In a video posted shortly before the 2016 election, he bragged that he could touch women “by the pussy” just because he was a celebrity.
They believe Trump or they don’t care
But even his wife Melania does not appear to have altered the accusations. She is said to have told her former friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, “I know who I am married to.”
So Amy Dorris’s accusations are likely to fade as much as anyone else. This works because Trump’s core voters believe him that they are not true or simply don’t care. The #metoo movement took place and takes place mainly in the left bladder. Republicans consider those who pollute the nest who even point out that there are perpetrators in their ranks.
Conservative writer Mona Charen, for example, spoke in early 2018 at CPAC, a conference attended by everyone who wants to be seen and heard in Republican circles. She said she found her party’s handling of the charges against Trump “hypocritical.” And she addressed the fact that the party in Alabama supported candidate Roy Moore. Although he was exposed to “credible” accusations in his electoral campaign of sexual abuse of minors. Charen was booed for this by her largely female audience and had to leave the facility under personal protection.
However, Republicans could not completely escape the pull of #metoo. Before the 2018 midterm elections, two dozen candidates had to end their campaign because they faced accusations of sexual harassment or worse. Half of them were Republicans. Only Trump remained unassailable on this issue. Until today.
How are the accusations against Joe Biden different?
There are also accusations against his opponent Joe Biden. In the spring of 2019, when the primary campaign had just started, seven women spoke up and said they had been touched inappropriately by Biden. This included kisses on the back of the head or uninvited hugs. None of the women accused Biden of sexual assault. Biden was defended by many in his party. But it came under pressure to make a declaration. In essence, she said that she did not know that her behavior could make women uncomfortable. Will work on that. This statement ended the debate for now (read the comment: The Grüsel in the White House).
Among the women, however, was Tara Reade, who in 1993 was an employee in then-Senator Biden’s office. In late March 2020, she expanded on her allegations on the podcast “The Katie Halper Show.” Biden, whose nomination could hardly be taken away, didn’t just put his hands on her shoulders, neck and hair in a way that made her uncomfortable. Her new accusation was that Biden pressed her against a wall, kissed her, slid his hand under her skirt, touched her with his fingers and asked, “Do you want to go somewhere else?”
Many disagreements
Some say that Reade’s story was later successfully buried by Democrats and sympathetic media. Others say that Reade got so lost in the contradictions that hardly anyone believed her anymore.
Tara Reade first publicly stated in a local newspaper in April 2019 that Biden had touched her inappropriately. But she had explicitly pointed out that it was not about sexual assault, but about abuse of power. She then spoke to various other outlets, such as the Washington Post, the New York Times or Vox. Nobody wanted to publish her story. Mainly because the reports did not find sufficiently clear evidence and first-hand statements, as explained by Vox author Laura McGann in a long article.
“I want you to know that you don’t have to let anyone do anything to you that you don’t want.”
Following the new accusations from Reade, the AP, Politico, the New York Times and others have embarked on a review of the story. They all came to the conclusion that there were too many inconsistencies in the game.
In the end, only Biden and Reade will know if it happened exactly in 1993. Biden was lucky that the crown pandemic overshadowed everything else. And that the desire of Democrats to replace Trump is overwhelming. That must have greatly lessened the need to continue the accusations that are surrounded by so many disagreements.
But why has Amy Dorris gone public now, more than 20 years after the Trump incident? Her daughters will soon be 13 years old, she says. And “I want you to know that you don’t have to let anyone do anything to you that you don’t want.” You want to be a role model for them. “I want you to see that I did not keep silent, that I faced someone who did something that was not acceptable.”
