New York Post

WIN, LOSE & DRAW IN ’BAMA

- By MARISA SCHULTZ mschultz@nypost.com

Several women who accused President Trump of sexual misconduct during the campaign are coming forward again to demand an investigat­ion — with one saying the future commander in chief called her a c--t.

Jessica Leeds said Trump was her seatmate on a flight nearly 40 years ago when he groped her and put his hands up her skirt.

“He’s all over me. Kissing and groping and groping and kissing,” Leeds told NBC’s Megyn Kelly on Monday. “But when his hands starting going up my skirt — I’m not a small person — I managed to wiggle out and stand up, grab my purse and I went to the back of the airplane.

“I stayed in the back of the airplane until we landed and everybody was off because I did not want to take the chance of running into him.”

Leeds said she encountere­d Trump years later at a New York event and he recognized her.

“You were that c--t from the airplane,” Trump said to her, Leeds claimed.

She and two other women — Samantha Holvey and Rachel Crooks — told Kelly they hoped Trump will face a reckoning now that “the environmen­t is different” than it was when they went public during the campaign.

“For us to put ourselves out there to try to show America who this man is and especially how he views women and for them to say, ‘Eh, we don’t care,’ it hurt,” Holvey said about Trump’s election. “Now let’s try Round 2. The environmen­t is different.”

The 2006 Miss North Carolina said Trump came into the women’s-only backstage area during a pageant event to inspect the contestant­s in their robes.

“He comes in like he owns the place,” Holvey said. “Like he owns you.”

Crooks, who worked in Trump Tower, said Trump kissed her near the elevators in 2005 the first day she met him.

“He held onto my hand and he kept kissing me,” she said.

The three women, who are featured in a new film called “16 Women and Donald Trump,” are calling for a congressio­nal investigat­ion into his conduct — much like the probes launched for Sen. Al Franken and Rep. Trent Franks, who have both been accused of sexual misconduct.

“I am hoping that this will . . . produce enough pressure on Congress to address it more than just for their own members but to address it with the president,” Leeds said Monday.

Trump has said all the women are lying, and the White House again claimed Monday that the accusation­s aren’t true.

“The president has addressed these accusation­s directly and denied all of these allegation­s,” said White House spokeswoma­n Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

 ??  ?? NOT GIVING UP: Rachel Crooks (from left), Jessica Leeds and Samantha Holvey, at a Manhattan press conference Monday, accuse President Trump of sexual misconduct from back when he was a private citizen.
NOT GIVING UP: Rachel Crooks (from left), Jessica Leeds and Samantha Holvey, at a Manhattan press conference Monday, accuse President Trump of sexual misconduct from back when he was a private citizen.

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