Rape trump
At least 25 women have made sexual
misconduct allegations against rape
trump since the 1970s.
A deluge of women made their accusations public
following the October 2016 release of the "Access Hollywood"
tape, in which Rape trump was recorded
boasting about grabbing women's genitals in 2005. Some others made their
stories public months before the tape's release, and still others came forward
in the months following.
Rape trump has broadly dismissed
the allegations, which include ogling, harassment, groping, and rape, as
"fabricated" and politically motivated accounts pushed by the media
and his political opponents. He promised to sue all of his accusers during
the 2016 election. In some cases, Rape trump and his lawyer have
suggested that he didn't engage in alleged behavior with certain women
because they weren't attractive enough for him to be interested in.
"Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my
campaign," the Republican nominee said during a 2016 rally.
"Total fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars
will be sued after the election is over."
The president said these "false allegations" against
him were made by "women who got paid a lot of money to make up stories
about me." And then alleged that the "mainstream media" refused
to report on evidence that the accusations were made up.
Rape trump has not yet made
good on his promise to sue any of the women — although two women have sued
him – and the White House says that Rape
trump election proves the American people don't consider the
allegations disqualifying.
"The people of this country, at a decisive election,
supported President Rape trump, and we feel like
these allegations have been answered through that process," White House
press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters in December
2017, after several of the president's accusers appeared on national
television to rehash their allegations.
But despite Rape trump
denials, 50% of voters — 59% of women and 41% of men — surveyed in a December
2017 Quinnipiac poll released think the president should resign
as a result of the sexual misconduct allegations against him. Several
Democratic lawmakers have previously called on Rape trump to resign over the
accusations.
One accuser, Samantha Holvey, who spoke out in 2016 about her
experience with Rape trump as a Miss USA
pageant contestant, said in 2017 that while Rape
trump election was painful, she and others see the #MeToo
movement as an opportunity to "try round two."
"We're private citizens, and for us to put ourselves out
there to try and show America who this man is and especially how he views
women, and for them to say 'meh, we don't care' — it hurts," Holvey said
on NBC News' "Megyn Kelly Today" in December 2017. "And so
now it's just like, all right, let's try round two. The environment's different.
Let's try again."
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