Trump's 25 Sexual Assault Victims Thread

[Anonymous]

Allegations:

Temple Taggart, a former Miss Utah, told the New York Times in May 2016 that Trump "kissed me directly on the lips" when she met him at the Miss USA pageant in 1997. Trump did the same thing when Taggart met with him again at Trump Tower in Manhattan after he offered to aid her modeling career, she said.

In November 2017, Taggart spoke out again, telling the Times that the allegations against Trump were "brushed under the rug."


Trump's response:

Trump "emphatically" denies Taggart's claims.

"I don't even know who she is," Trump told NBC News in October 2016. "She claims this took place in a public area. I never kissed her. I emphatically deny this ridiculous claim."

Notes:

Temple was an adult in the Miss USA Contest, unlike yesterday's claimants, who were teens. All three were in 1997 pageants.

[Anonymous]

Let me guess.... the first she went public and made a complaint was when Trump was running for president.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me guess.... the first she went public and made a complaint was when Trump was running for president.

Your point?

[Anonymous]

Also worth noting is that Temple Taggart is a longtime Republican, and was not a supporter of Hillary Clinton.

https://kutv.com/news/local/im-not-scared-says-former-miss-utah-of-donald-trumps-threatened-legal-action

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let me guess.... the first she went public and made a complaint was when Trump was running for president.

Your point?

According to pp’s KUTV clip, Taggart, a Republican, says she started posting on Facebook about her experiences with Trump a month before her story came out, and before Trump was confirmed as the Republican nominee.

[Anonymous]

It’s a really interesting point that while goppers believe, or pretend to, every single charge against any Democrat, even if the timing is curious(ly opportunistic) and the alleged victim has long time ties to Republicans, even if the charges were broken by right wing propaganda and even if the lawyer is being paid by right wing operatives.

But there’s no number of Trump victims who will be believed by same even though Trump has frequently admitted to the crimes.

[Anonymous]

More on Taggart's trip to NYC after competing in the 1997 Miss USA pageant. From "All the President's Women."

And when she traveled to New York to meet modeling agencies, Trump "embraced me and kissed me on the lips a second time," she said. "What he did made me feel so uncomfortable that I ended up cutting my trip short, bought my own plane ticket, flew home, and never spoke to him again."

The same book also describes the "Trump Rule," under which Trump personally got to pick 6 of the 15 finalists and the judges selected the other 9. TMZ apparently has the audio. In Trump's own words:

"You know why we do that, because years ago when I first bought it, we chose 10 people. I chose none," he explained. "And I get here, and the most beautiful people were never chosen. And I went nuts. So we call it the Trump rule. It's the Trump rule and we get to choose."

Who here has any doubt that impressing Donnie in all the right ways, and putting up with all kinds of cr@p without complaining, was key to winning?

[Anonymous]

Here's TMZ about the audiotape.

https://www.tmz.com/2009/11/12/trump-rule-hot-chicks-required-in-miss-usa/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More on Taggart's trip to NYC after competing in the 1997 Miss USA pageant. From "All the President's Women."

And when she traveled to New York to meet modeling agencies, Trump "embraced me and kissed me on the lips a second time," she said. "What he did made me feel so uncomfortable that I ended up cutting my trip short, bought my own plane ticket, flew home, and never spoke to him again."

The same book also describes the "Trump Rule," under which Trump personally got to pick 6 of the 15 finalists and the judges selected the other 9. TMZ apparently has the audio. In Trump's own words:

"You know why we do that, because years ago when I first bought it, we chose 10 people. I chose none," he explained. "And I get here, and the most beautiful people were never chosen. And I went nuts. So we call it the Trump rule. It's the Trump rule and we get to choose."

Who here has any doubt that impressing Donnie in all the right ways, and putting up with all kinds of cr@p without complaining, was key to winning?

Oh 100%.

I wonder how many of his victims are out there. We’ve seen how his crazed followers treat the women who have publicly accused him. It’s probably like an iceberg.

[Anonymous]

************ DAY EIGHT ***********
********** CATHY HELLER **********

[Anonymous]

Allegations:

Cathy Heller told the Guardian in October 2016 that she was attending a Mother's Day brunch with her husband, children, and in-laws at Mar-a-Lago in the 1990s when Trump approached her table, introduced himself to her, and forcibly kissed her.

"He took my hand, and grabbed me, and went for the lips," she said, and added that she was "angry and shaken" as a result of the incident.

Trump's response:

A Trump campaign spokesman denied Heller's allegation, arguing that it couldn't have happened in public.

"There is no way that something like this would have happened in a public place on Mother's Day at Mr. Trump's resort," Jason Miller said. "It would have been the talk of Palm Beach for the past two decades."

[Anonymous]

Heller, her husband, her three children and her in-laws were among dozens of families seated at big round tables in what she and a relative who spoke to the Guardian recall was an open lobby.

Trump made the rounds greeting members of his club. When he stopped at their table, Heller recalled, and her mother-in-law introduced her, she stood and extended her hand.

“He took my hand, and grabbed me, and went for the lips,” she claimed.

Alarmed, she said she leaned backwards to avoid him and almost lost her balance. “And he said, ‘Oh, come on.’ He was strong. And he grabbed me and went for my mouth and went for my lips.” She turned her head, she claims, and Trump planted a kiss on the side of her mouth. “He kept me there for a little too long,” Heller said. “And then he just walked away.”

“I was angry and shaken,” she continued. “He was pissed. He couldn’t believe a woman would pass up the opportunity.” She added that he seemed to feel “entitled” to kiss her.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/15/donald-trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-cathy-heller

[Anonymous]

Cathy Heller has witnesses and friends she told about the assault.

The Guardian heard accounts that matched Heller’s from two other people: Susan Klein, the friend who was emailing with Heller, and a relative seated at the table with Heller that day. The relative, who declined to be named for fear of retaliation, recalled that Heller sat back down with a stunned look on her face.

“I remember she was really freaked out,” said the relative. The relative didn’t see Heller’s entire interaction with Trump, but saw him get “in her face” and saw Heller pull away. “He was very forceful … She really was definitely affected by this man who was very aggressive toward her.”

Heller and the relative both recalled that no one at the table quite knew how to react. “I was shook up,” said Heller. As they all processed the moment, Trump had already left.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/15/donald-trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-cathy-heller

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Allegations:

Kristin Anderson, a photographer and former model said Trump reached under her skirt and touched her vagina through her underwear at a New York City nightclub in the early 1990s.

Anderson, then in her early 20s, said she wasn't talking with Trump at the time and didn't realize he was sitting next to her when he groped her without her consent.

"So, the person on my right who, unbeknownst to me at that time was Donald Trump, put their hand up my skirt. He did touch my vagina through my underwear, absolutely. And as I pushed the hand away and I got up and I turned around and I see these eyebrows, very distinct eyebrows, of Donald Trump," she told The Washington Post in October 2016.

Anderson said she and her friends, who were talking together around a table at the time of the incident, were "very grossed out and weirded out," but thought "Okay, Donald is gross. We all know he's gross. Let's just move on."


Trump's response:

"Mr. Trump strongly denies this phony allegation by someone looking to get some free publicity," Hope Hicks, the president's then-spokeswoman and current White House communications director, told the Post in October 2016. "It is totally ridiculous."

This is an interesting piece from her blog......




https://spiritquest.blog

[Anonymous]

Cathy Heller has an interesting perspective on why claims against Trump have faded from the news.

Today she’s dismayed that despite all the sexual-harassment claims against Trump, “nothing stuck.” She told the Washington Post in October 2017 that she thinks things might have been different for Weinstein because his accusers were famous.

“A lot of them were actresses we’ve all heard of,” Heller said. “When it’s a celebrity, it has more weight than just someone who he met at Mar-a-Lago or a beauty-pageant contestant. They’re not people we’ve heard of. And that, in our society, has much more weight because they’re famous.”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/12/what-happened-to-trumps-16-sexual-misconduct-accusers.html?gtm=bottom>m=bottom

I also think it's because his base just doesn't care. They've heard the Access Hollywood tape where he admits to grabbing women and kissing them. And they still voted for him.