MAN WHO MADE TYCOON FAMOUS Seven days of carnage
SUNDAY MIRROR
DONALD Trump’s reputation has taken such a battering over the last week, it tests the claim that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. LAST WEEKEND: Trump reels from revelations in a decade-old tape in which he is heard boasting about groping women. First Lady Michelle Obama called his remarks “shocking and demeaning”. He apologised and dismissed it as “locker room talk”. MONDAY: The Mirror told how many senior Republicans began disowning Trump as he faced rival Hillary Clinton in their second TV debate TUESDAY: The Mirror told how Trump tried to trip up Mrs Clinton by planting a string of women who had made sex assault claims again her husband Bill in the audience of the TV debate, and arranged a press conference with them. Bill Clinton has denied all their claims.
Then Trump was hit by sex assault allegations of his own. One accuser, Jessica Leeds, said Trump’s hands “were all over me”. He threatened to sue the New York Times, which published the claims, but the paper said it would welcome seeing him in court. WEDNESDAY: Natasha Stoynoff wrote in People magazine about how Trump “forcibly kissed” her. And ex-US Apprentice contestant Jennifer Murphy claimed Trump kissed her on the lips after a job interview at his offices after her dismissal from the show in 2005. THURSDAY: Trump rejected the accusations of sexual misconduct as “totally and absolutely false”.
Trump said women making the allegations were “horrible liars” and that the media was colluding with rival Mrs Clinton. He lashed out at one accuser, Ms Stoynoff, saying: “Have you seen her? I don’t think so.” FRIDAY: It was revealed Trump made inappropriate comments about a young girl at Trump Tower in New York.
The video, from an Entertainment Tonight US TV Christmas feature in 1992, shows Trump looking at a group of young girls.
He asks one if she’s “going up the escalator”. When she says she is, the then 46-year-old says to the camera: “I’m going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?”
Two more women claimed Trump made unwanted advances, including former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos who said he forcibly kissed her, grabbed her breast and thrust his genitals at her.
Kristen Anderson claimed Trump reached up her skirt at a New York nightclub in the early 1990s.