Trump Accused of Sexual Misconduct for the 27th Time

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67% : Former Miss Utah Temple Taggart says Trump kissed her "directly on the lips" twice -- first when he met her at the 1997 Miss USA pageant and then again at a meeting in Manhattan.
59% : Now, as polls show Trump a hair's breadth away from winning the presidency a second time, a 27th woman has shared her experience.
55% : Amy Dorris alleges that Trump kissed and groped her without her consent during the 1997 U.S. Open tennis championship.
53% : Within moments of arriving and greeting Trump, Williams alleges, he pulled her toward him and groped her breasts, waist, and buttocks.
53% : She also told BuzzFeed News in 2016 that she was shocked Trump came backstage the day the pageant was to be broadcast even though many of the contestants were naked.
53% : Jennifer Murphy, a former contestant on The Apprentice, says Trump kissed her on the lips after a job interview at Trump Tower in 2005.
52% : "Kristin Anderson, a former model, alleges that at a club in Manhattan in the early 1990s, Trump sat next to her, proceeded to slide his fingers up her skirt without her consent, then groped her through her underwear.
52% : Tasha Dixon, a former Miss Arizona, says that Trump walked into an area where she and other contestants were changing during the 2001 Miss USA pageant.
52% : In 2016, she wrote that during the interview, Melania -- then pregnant with their son, Barron -- left to change her wardrobe and Trump told Stoynoff he wanted her to see a "tremendous" room.
50% : She was 21 years old, and Trump was married to Marla Maples at the time.
49% : "Karen Johnson alleges that Trump grabbed her and pulled her behind a tapestry before forcibly kissing and groping her during a New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago in the early 2000s.
48% : Williams says she was casually dating the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in 1992 when he introduced her to Trump at a Christmas party, according to The Guardian.
46% : Crooks told the New York Times in 2016 that the incident occurred the first time she met Trump.
45% : Crooks, then in her early 20s, says they shook hands, but Trump didn't let her go and instead kissed her on both cheeks before kissing her "directly on the mouth.
44% : Five former Miss Teen USA contestants, including Mariah Billado and Victoria Hughes, say that Trump unexpectedly walked into the contestants' dressing room while they were changing during the 1997 pageant.
43% : Rachel Crooks alleges that Trump kissed her without her consent when she was a receptionist at Trump Tower in 2005.
42% : Cathy Heller alleges that Trump forcibly kissed her at a Mother's Day brunch at Mar-a-Lago that she attended with her husband, children, and in-laws around 1997.
42% : "Samantha Holvey, a former Miss North Carolina, says that Trump personally inspected each contestant of the 2006 Miss USA pageant "like we were just meat, we were just sexual objects, that we were not people.
37% : Summer Zervos, a former contestant on The Apprentice, alleges that Trump sexually assaulted her twice in 2007: first, she says he kissed her on the lips without her consent and then again at a dinner a few days later he kissed her "aggressively," groped her breast, and thrust himself on her while saying "Come on, man, get real.
33% : Stacey Williams says that during a visit to Trump Tower in 1993, Trump groped her breasts, waist, and buttocks as Jeffrey Epstein, who she was casually dating, looked on.
30% : When they walked in alone, Trump shut the door and pushed her against the wall before forcibly kissing her.
28% : Jessica Leeds claims that she was on a flight to New York in the late 1970s when Trump, a stranger to her, groped her breasts and tried to slide his hand up her skirt without her consent.
28% : "Cassandra Searles, a former Miss Washington, claimed that Trump "continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room" when she competed in the 2013 Miss USA pageant.
27% : "Ninni Laaksonen, a former Miss Finland, alleges that Trump groped her butt without her consent when they were backstage at The Late Show Eith David Letterman in 2006.
26% : They're horrible, horrible liars," Trump said in 2016, after the first wave of accusers came forward.
26% : The late Ivana Trump said during a deposition as part of the couple's 1990 divorce proceedings that Trump pushed her to the floor and raped her following an argument the year before.
25% : Trump denied Williams's story through his campaign, as he's denied every such accusation against him.
25% : She alleged that Trump attempted to grope her during a meeting at Trump Tower in 1992, then tried to kiss her, pushed her against a wall, and put his hands up her dress a month later while she was touring Mar-a-Lago.
24% : She told The Guardian in 2020 that Trump accosted her outside the bathroom at his private box and "shoved his tongue down" her throat and that he grabbed her "all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything."Karena Virginia accused Trump of groping her breast without her consent in 1998 while she waited for a car outside the U.S. Open, telling her, "Don't you know who I am?"Bridget Sullivan, a former Miss New Hampshire, says that when she met Trump at a party to promote the 2000 Miss Teen USA pageant, he hugged her "a little low on your back" and gave "a squeeze that your creepy uncle would."
23% : She later retracted her comments, saying that she felt "violated" by Trump but didn't want her "words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.
23% : Writer E. Jean Carroll alleges Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996.
22% : Since then, a handful of other accusers have come forward, Trump won and then lost the presidency, and a jury found found him liable for sexual abuse.
22% : Melinda McGillivray accused Trump of groping her backside without her consent during a Ray Charles concert at Mar-a-Lago in 2003 -- while Melania Trump was standing on the other side of her husband.
22% : Natasha Stoynoff, a former People reporter, alleges Trump sexually assaulted her in 2005 when she traveled to Mar-a-Lago to report an article about his and Melania's first year of marriage.
21% : Lisa Boyne claims that in 1996, she attended a dinner with Trump in New York City where he forced several women to walk across a table while he looked up their skirts and made comments about their underwear and genitalia.
21% : Juliet Huddy, a former Fox News anchor, accused Trump of kissing her without her consent in Trump Tower in 2005.
17% : This week, a former model named Stacey Williams accused Trump of forcibly groping her in 1993.
17% : Jessica Drake accused Trump of grabbing and kissing her without her consent at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in 2006.
5% : After she came forward with her story in 2019 and Trump denied the claims, Carroll sued him; a jury has since found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation.

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