Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has claimed that by bringing up his alleged cases of sexual assault, the media outlets were creating a “theater of absurdity” that threatens to tear the country’s democratic process apart.
The latest accuser, a former contestant on Trump’s reality show, The Apprentice, said he made unwanted sexual advances at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2007. Neither he nor his campaign offered evidence to counter the accusations his running mate said earlier would be coming.
“I was surprised, but felt that perhaps that was just his form of greeting”, Zervos said. When she and two other friends heard the story, they found themselves “laughing at how pathetic it was” on Trump’s part, the Washington Post reported.
Almost a dozen women have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault or harassment – accusations denied by the real estate mogul who was caught in a newly-surfaced 2005 video boasting that stardom allowed him to grope women with impunity.
Two new accusers have stepped forward against Donald Trump, raising the number of accusers to six.
On Friday, Summer Zervos, a Huntington Beach resident and contestant on season 5 of the reality TV show, appeared with attorney Gloria Allred at a news conference in Los Angeles.
“It is very common for people who have experienced assault to blame themselves and excuse away what the predator has done”, Russo said.
Donald Trump dismissed the allegations he kissed or groped some half dozen women on Friday, calling such claims “lies, ‘ ‘100 percent made-up” and ‘totally and completely fabricated’.
The Trump campaign released the following statement from the victim’s cousin to discredit her story.
“You scream, you shout”, says Dezenhall. He has strenuously denied them.
Trump released a statement later denying her account.
Another woman, Ms Kristin Anderson, told The Washington Post that Mr Trump had sidled up to her in a nightclub in the early 1990s, reached under her miniskirt and touched her through her panties.
John Barry, Zervos’ first cousin, said in a statement issued by the campaign that she praised Trump up until he turned down an invite to come to her restaurant. Zervos said the encounter left her feeling ” abashed and nervous but after consultations with family and her friends, she determined to pursue a job with Trump and met with him at his request for dinner. She said the assault was random and occurred with “zero conversation”.
“He put me in an embrace and I tried to push him away”, Zervos said.
“The person on me right, who unbeknownst to me at that time was Donald Trump, put their hand up my skirt”, Anderson told the Post.
Zervos claims that after she was “fired” from “The Apprentice” in 2006, she sought to maintain contact with Trump for career and business advice, as well as for possible employment with his company. “We feel the backlash of the Trump supporters”.
The news conference was the first time Zervos has spoken to the press about her allegations against Trump. Ryan earlier this week ignited a civil war within his party when he told rank-and-file House Republicans that he wouldn’t be campaigning for the party’s presidential nominee or defending him.
According to Zervos, after she repeatedly told him, “Come on man, get real“, the businessman finally backed off and treated the remainder of the meeting “like a job interview”, leaving Zervos confused as to whether the overtly sexual behavior had been “some kind of test“.