Donald Trump’s presidential campaign on Tuesday denied a longtime political ally’s claim that Trump donated money to help pay off a mortgage held by a woman who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual assault.
“There’s no truth to that,” spokeswoman Hope Hicks told Fox News.
Liberal watchdog Media Matters For America on Monday flagged a February interview in which longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone said that Trump had given money to Kathleen Willey. Willey, a former White House volunteer, accused Clinton of groping her in 1993; Clinton denied that allegation in a 1998 deposition.
“Trump is himself a contributor — I’m not ready to disclose what he has given. And many, many other people,” Stone said in the interview with conspiracy-minded radio host Alex Jones while advertising a website accepting donations toward Willey’s mortgage.
Willey currently is a paid spokeswoman for an anti-Hillary Clinton political action committee created by Stone called the Rape Accountability Project for Education PAC, or RAPE PAC, according to Reuters.
Media Matters surfaced the Stone interview after Trump used audio of Willey’s accusations in a web video targeting Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“No woman should be subjected to it. It was an assault,” Willey can be heard saying in the video.
Stone was an adviser to the Trump campaign until the two parted ways last summer, with Trump saying he fired Stone and Stone saying he quit. But that hasn’t stopped Stone from weighing in on the latest developments in the presidential race, including encouraging Trump supporters to track down anti-Trump delegates at the GOP convention.
Trump’s campaign saying contradictory things simultaneously? How not-shocking!
Could be true – on the other hand, Trump seems too tight-fisted to give money to anybody who’s not named Donald Trump.
You must be wrong. How could he have any friends otherwise?
Someone ask Morning. Joe about this.
This story. has gotta be covered
Milk it Donald, milk it. Make sure you get all that ickyness over Bill Clinton from twenty years ago out now so it can be easily knocked down and allow HRC to steamroller you in the General. Otherwise it might make a difference in the real election and you wouldn’t want that, now would you?