After several women came forward on Wednesday accusing Donald Trump of groping or forcibly kissing them, Trump lashed out on Twitter and disputed the women’s accounts.
As the accusations against Trump piled up Wednesday night and Thursday morning, Trump sought to cast doubt on the women’s claims on Twitter.
Why didn’t the writer of the twelve year old article in People Magazine mention the “incident” in her story. Because it did not happen!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2016
The phony story in the failing @nytimes is a TOTAL FABRICATION. Written by same people as last discredited story on women. WATCH!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2016
The New York Times on Wednesday evening reported on accusations from two women that Trump touched them inappropriately. The Trump campaign quickly hit back, calling the report “fiction” and threatening legal action against the New York Times.
People Magazine then followed with an account from one of the magazine’s writers, who said that Trump forcibly kissed her at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida in 2005.
The accusations follow the release of a 2005 tape in which Trump boasts about kissing women without permission and grabbing their genitals. During the Sunday night presidential debate, Trump denied that he ever carried out the actions he bragged about on the tape.
