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   16 Women or Donald Trump—Whom Would You Believe?   
   That’s how many women have now accused the president of harassment,   
   assault, and other inappropriate behavior. By Brave New Films   
      
    TODAY 1:32 PM   
      
   If I asked you how many women have reported being sexually harassed or   
   assaulted by President Trump, how many would you say? Five? 10?   
      
   No fewer than 16 women have come forward to report being sexually harassed   
   or assaulted by the president. In the latest video from Brave New Films,   
   we put all of their stories together for the first time.   
      
   Seeing their stories together is incredibly powerful, and damning. Watch   
   “16 Women and Donald Trump” now.   
      
   As a society, we are finally beginning to hold powerful men to account for   
   abusing for their positions and influence to harass and abuse women. But   
   this movement for accountability will ring hollow if it doesn’t apply to   
   the most powerful, and public, sexual harasser in America—the president.   
      
      
   In the post–Harvey Weinstein (or Roy Moore, Louis C.K., etc.) world we   
   live in, we cannot ignore 16 women who over the course of decades in a   
   broad range of situations encountered the same pattern of manipulation,   
   misogyny, harassment and abuse.   
      
   We owe it to these women, and to all women, to hold President Trump to   
   account.   
      
   Cathy Heller met Trump at a Mother’s Day brunch in 1997. She tells us he   
   forcibly tried to kiss her. “He took my hand, and grabbed me, and went for   
   the lips.”   
      
      
      
      
   Jill Harth was getting a tour of Trump’s home in 1993 when, she tells us,   
   he sexually assaulted her in his daughter Ivanka’s bedroom, “pushed me up   
   against the wall, and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my   
   dress again, and I had to physically say: ‘What are you doing? Stop it.’”   
      
   Temple Taggart was a 21-year-old competing in the Miss USA pageant in 1997   
   when she tells us Trump forcibly kissed her. “He kissed me directly on the   
   lips. I thought, ‘Oh my God, gross.’ He was married to Marla Maples at the   
   time. I think there were a few other girls that he kissed on the mouth. I   
   was like ‘Wow, that’s inappropriate.’”   
      
   Cassandra Searles, a former Miss Washington, tells us that in 2013 Trump   
   treated the contestants “like cattle” and “continually grabbed my ass and   
   invited me to his hotel room.”   
      
   Jessica Leeds sat next to Trump on an airplane in the late 1970s, when she   
   tells us he grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt.   
   “He was like an octopus.” “His hands were everywhere.” “It was an   
   assault.”   
      
      
   Kristin Anderson was at a Manhattan nightclub in the early 1990s when she   
   tells us a man suddenly put his hand up her skirt, touching her genitals.   
   She recognized Trump—someone she had never met. “He just stuck his hand up   
   my skirt.”   
      
   Lisa Boyne attended a party in the mid-1990s with Trump, where she tells   
   us he made women walk across a table in front of him. He “stuck his head   
   right underneath their skirts” and commented on their genitals and whether   
   they were wearing underwear.   
      
   Karena Virginia encountered Trump at the US Open in 1998 when she tells us   
   Trump approached her at random, made sexual comments about her body, and   
   groped her. “Then his hand touched the right side of my breast. I was in   
   shock. I flinched. ‘Don’t you know who I am? Don’t you know who I   
   am?’—that’s what he said to me.”   
      
   Mindy McGillivray was helping photograph a Ray Charles concert at   
   Mar-a-Lago in 2003 when she says she was groped by Trump, “All of a sudden   
   I felt a grab, a little nudge. I think it’s Ken’s camera bag, that was my   
   first instinct. I turn around and there’s Donald. He sort of looked away   
   quickly. I quickly turned back, facing Ray Charles, and I’m stunned.’’   
      
   Rachel Crooks was a 22-year-old receptionist in Trump Tower in 2005 when   
   she introduced herself to Trump. She tells us he began kissing her cheeks   
   and “kissed me directly on the mouth.” “It was so inappropriate…. I was so   
   upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that.”   
      
   Natasha Stoynoff was interviewing Trump for People magazine in 2005 when,   
   she tells us, he closed the door to a room, with Melania waiting outside,   
   and attacked her. “I turned around, and within seconds he was pushing me   
   against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat.”   
      
   Jessica Drake encountered Trump at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in the   
   mid-2000s. She tells us that he “grabbed” her and two other women and   
   kissed them “without asking permission” and then offered her $10,000 and   
   use of his plane if she would come back to his room.   
      
   Ninni Laaksonen, a former Miss Finland, was preparing for a TV appearance   
   in 2006 when she tells us Trump groped her, “He really grabbed my butt.”   
   “I don’t think anybody saw it, but I flinched and thought, ‘What is   
   happening?’”   
      
   Samantha Holvey, a former Miss North Carolina, tells us that in 2006 Trump   
   came into the contestants’ dressing room and once had the contestants line   
   up so he could step “in front of each girl and look you over from head to   
   toe like we were just meat, we were just sexual objects, that we were not   
   people.”   
      
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   Tasha Dixon, a former Miss Arizona, tells us that in 2001 Trump “just came   
   strolling right in” to their dressing room. “There was no second to put a   
   robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless.   
   Others girls were naked.”   
      
   Trump in 2005 bragged to Howard Stern about invading his contestants’   
   dressing rooms, “You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. And you   
   see these incredible-looking women. And so I sort of get away with things   
   like that.”   
      
   Summer Zervos, a contestant on The Apprentice, met with Trump in 2007   
   about getting a job with the Trump Organization. She tells us he greeted   
   her with an “open-mouthed” kiss and groped her breast. As she attempted to   
   push him off, he “thrusted his genitals” against her.   
      
   These 16 brave women have faced attacks on their character, and many have   
   been threatened with legal action by Trump in an effort to intimidate and   
   silence them. How many other women have been harassed and abused by our   
   president?   
      
   Let’s not forget Trump’s infamous Access Hollywood interview in 2005 in   
   which he bragged about assaulting women. The leader of the free world   
   dropped lines like, “I moved on her like a bitch,” “Just kiss. I don’t   
   even wait,” and “Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”   
      
      
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