Trump Lashes Out, Tries To Cast Doubt On Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, in Henderson, Nev. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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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.

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.

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  1. Psst, you’re supposed to say they were hitting on you… because you’re an irresistible chick magnet. The younger they are, the more they hit on you.

  2. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Poor Trump…It’s good to know one can tweet while in a fetal position.

  3. On the ropes when it’s all he has to talk about

  4. Um, you bragged about it, idiot. These women are just verifying that you did do it after you tried to dismiss it as locker room talk. Either way, you are a looser, Donnie. Your braggings are lies or you are a sexual predator. My guess is that you are both. What you don’t get, looser Donnie, is that a real man doesn’t have to force himself on a women, a real man is invited into a mutual relationship.

  5. In one day the Trump campaign, and Trump himself on his Twitter feed, has done more public demonization of women making allegations of sexual assault than Hillary Clinton ever did.

    One day for Trump. 40 years for Clinton.

    They’re exactly the same.

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