Former model Stacey Williams is the latest woman to accuse Trump of sexual harassment

Another woman has accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, joining a list of more than a dozen women who have accused the former president of sexual misconduct.

Stacey Williams, ex Illustrated sports model, claims that Trump groped her in 1993 and Jeffrey Epstein, later convicted of sex crimes, I looked. She told CNN about the incident this week and also during a Zoom call with Survivors for Kamala, a group unaffiliated with the campaign.

“As soon as he got in front of me, he pulled me towards him and his hands were on me and they didn’t slip off,” she told CNN in an interview.

“Then the hands started moving and they were on the sides of my breasts, on my hips, back to my buttocks… they were on me the whole time.”

In a statement, Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied the allegations on Trump’s behalf.

“It is clear that this false story was concocted by the Harris campaign to divert attention from the deeply disturbing and newly discovered allegations” about Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, Leavitt wrote. Emhoff was accused of hitting his ex-girlfriend in 2012. The Harris campaign denies this.

“False allegations like these do harm to women who are truly victims of assault,” Leavitt added.

The alleged incident between Trump and Williams occurred while Williams was dating Epstein, who was in the 80’s and 90’s friend of Trump. Epstein took Williams to Trump Tower to meet Trump, and she claims Trump immediately began groping her.

“That context didn’t make sense because his hands were on me and then he and Jeffrey were just talking and looking at each other and smiling,” she said.

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“I just had this really sickening feeling that it was all coordinated – that somehow it was all like this, that I was thrown in there like a piece of meat in some weird, twisted game.”

Williams also claims that she received a postcard from Trump shortly after the meeting in which he wrote that Palm Beach, Florida – where his Mar-a-Lago club is now located – was her “home away from home.”

She told CNN that she didn’t talk about the incident for a long time out of shame.

“I felt a wave of shame and I couldn’t think about it, face it, talk about it for a very long time. “I put it in a little box inside me, turned the key and locked it,” she said.

Many victims of sexual violence remain silent long after the incident occurs.

Williams joins women list who accused Trump of sexual assault and other forms of sexual misconduct. Trump has denied all these allegations.

Additionally, Trump bragged about groping and kissing women on Access Hollywood tapeit was leaked a month before the 2016 elections.

Polls show that Election Day 2024 is just over a week away. The electorate may see the largest gender gap in modern electoral history. Most recently, women voters preferred Harris by 18 points NPR Marist PBS NewsHour Pollwhile men preferred Trump by 16 points.

It’s unclear how much such an allegation might sway voters; The effects of the Access Hollywood tape have been debated for years, and Trump ultimately won that close race. Moreover, most voters already have a strong opinion. This year’s polls have been remarkably stable in the months since Harris entered the race.