Lower than two weeks earlier than the presidential election, a former mannequin has gone public with accusations that Donald Trump groped her in a 1993 encounter facilitated by the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Stacey Williams, now 56, shared the incident with the Guardian on Wednesday, saying she felt Trump’s actions had been a part of a “twisted game” he and Epstein had been taking part in together with her.
Based on her recollection to the Guardian, Epstein launched Williams to Trump at a 1992 Christmas social gathering, and it was clear to her that the 2 males “were really, really good friends and spent a lot of time together.” She mentioned she and Epstein started relationship shortly after the social gathering.
A couple of months later, Epstein requested her to accompany him on a go to to Trump Tower, the place Trump sexually assaulted her, she mentioned.
“He pulled me in to him and started groping me,” Williams mentioned of Trump in a video printed by The Guardian. “He put his hands all over my breasts, my waist, my butt, and I froze. And I froze because I was so deeply confused about what was happening, because the hands were moving all over me, yet these two men were like, smiling at one another and continuing on in their conversation.”
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Williams felt as if the incident was deliberate by Trump and Epstein, who killed himself in jail in 2019 as he awaited trial on federal fees of alleged intercourse trafficking of minors.
Later, Williams mentioned, Epstein “berated” her over the groping.
“I felt shame and disgust and as we went our separate ways, I felt this sensation of revisiting it, while the hands were all over me,” she mentioned. “And I had this horrible pit in my stomach that it was somehow orchestrated. I felt like a piece of meat.”
Trump later despatched her a postcard that includes an aerial view of Mar-a-Lago and a message studying, “Stacey – Your home away from home. Love Donald.” The Guardian printed pictures of the postcard, which incorporates handwriting resembling Trump’s, apparently written in his ordinary heavy black marker.
A spokesperson for Trump’s marketing campaign denied Williams’ accusations, calling her a “former activist for Barack Obama.”
“It’s obvious this fake story was contrived by the Harris campaign,” Trump marketing campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned in a press release.
Williams additionally shared her expertise with Trump on a name Monday organized by the group Survivors4Harris, which featured actor Ashley Judd and lawyer Anita Hill.
Greater than two dozen girls have accused Trump of sexual misconduct. Final yr, a jury discovered him answerable for sexually assaulting the author E. Jean Carroll in a division retailer dressing room within the Nineties and ordered Trump to pay her $5 million in damages.
Need assistance? Go to RAINN’s Nationwide Sexual Assault On-line Hotline or the Nationwide Sexual Violence Useful resource Heart’s web site.
