So the Trump campaign has put forward a British man who says he was on the plane in the first class cabin on the flight on which Jessica Leeds claims Donald Trump groped her. He is the campaign’s evidence that Leeds is lying because the man says Trump didn’t do anything. The man’s name is Anthony Gilberthorpe. He’s 54. So he is claiming to remember an uneventful flight more than 35 years ago when he was in his late teens.
And there’s something else: Gilberthorpe has a record of outlandish claims and taking cash from tabloids to set people up. Yes, really. He’s the Trump campaign’s official pushback. Here’s the story.
