Trump threatens to sue women
Jessica Drake alleges Republican nominee kissed her without consent, he threatens to sue accusers
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has threatened to sue women who have accused him of sexual assault, but after the election, which has fuelled talks that he may have given up on the race and was looking beyond the November 8 election.
In a speech unveiling a plan for his first 100 days in office, the Republican presidential candidate spent the first few minutes castigating his accusers and the media for giving them voice, and threatened to break up big media conglomerates that had accumulated too much power. “Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign,” he said in Gettysburg. “Total fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.”
Donald Trump has threatened to sue women who have accused him of sexual assault, but after the election, which has fuelled talks that he may have given up on the race and was looking beyond the November 8 election, at least in his mind.
In a speech unveiling a plan for his first 100 days in office, the Republican US presidential candidate spent the first few minutes castigating his accusers and the media for giving them voice, and threatened to break up big media conglomerates that had accumulated too much power.
“Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign,” he said on Saturday in Gettysburg.
“Total fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.”
Shortly after or around the time of the speech, another woman Jessica Drake, an adult film actor, alleged Trump had kissed her against her will and had called to invite her to dinner. When she refused, he had allegedly asked, “What do you want? How much?”
The Trump campaign said in a statement the nominee “does not know this person, does not remember this person and would have no interest in ever knowing her” and said it “another attempt by the Clinton campaign to defame” him.
Would he as president, if elected, really sue them risking being deposed personally in each of those cases? Michael Warren, a commentator for the conservative news daily, The Weekly Standard, wrote that the statement “is not one of a man who believes he has a chance of winning. It’s an act of resignation.
The nominee had then gone on to list out some of the steps he intended to initiate in the first 100 days in office, showing he was very much in the race, and with the goal of winning. But Warren seemed unconvinced.
The Washington Post was most expansive, in fact, in a report about Trump’s speech at a rally in North Carolina, a swing state, on Friday, saying he had seemed “subdued” and “his voice was hoarse”.
Though he spoke about winning, he seemed to have given some thought to losing. “What a waste of time if we don’t pull this off,” he said, adding,“You know, these guys have said: ‘It doesn’t matter if you win or lose. There’s never been a movement like this in the history of this country.’ I say, it matters to me if we win or lose. So I’ll have over $100 million of my own money in this campaign.”