Allegations of Groping Resurface Against Trump Amid Campaign Tensions

In a recent CNN interview, Stacey Williams alleged that Donald Trump groped her during a meeting in the 1990s facilitated by Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump campaign swiftly refuted the claims, linking them to a supposed political tactic by the Harris campaign.

Stacey Williams, a former model, has come forward with allegations that former President Donald Trump groped her during a meeting in the 1990s, as detailed in a CNN interview. Ms. Williams stated that the alleged incident took place in 1993 at Trump Tower in New York City, after she was introduced to Trump by Jeffrey Epstein, with whom she claims she was in a relationship at the time. She recounted that when Trump approached her, "the second he was [in front of me], he pulled me into him, and his hands were just on me and didn’t come off."

In a statement, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, Karoline Leavitt, dismissed the allegations as politically motivated, asserting that they were publicized during a call for Kamala Harris’s campaign just weeks before the election. Leavitt called the accusations "unequivocally false," and suggested that they were meant to distract from allegations made against Doug Emhoff, Harris's husband, by an ex-girlfriend who accused him of slapping her in 2012.

Williams narrated the discomfort during the encounter, saying that while Trump and Epstein chatted, she felt frozen, describing the experience as "an out of body experience." Following that alleged incident, Williams mentioned her decision to end her relationship with Epstein, who faced serious legal troubles before his death in 2019.

Since Trump began his political career in 2016, numerous women have come forward with accusations of sexual misconduct against him. Trump has consistently denied these claims. In 2023, a civil jury ruled that Trump was liable for sexually abusing writer E Jean Carroll, who has since gained favorable outcomes in her defamation lawsuits against him following his derogatory remarks.