Trump may ‘kiss you on the lips’

DEMOCRATS prepared fake Donald Trump job ads which claimed female staff should expect a “grope under the meeting table”, leaked emails reveal.

Donald Trump says allegations of sexual harassment are part of “one of the great political smear campaigns in the history of our country”. Picture: Sarah Rice/Getty Images/AFP

DEMOCRATS prepared fake Donald Trump job ads which claimed female staff should expect a “kiss on the lips” or a “grope under the meeting table” whether they “like it or not”, leaked emails reveal.

“We’re proud to maintain a fun and friendly work environment, where the boss is always available to meet with his employees,” read the draft ads intended to be placed on classifieds site Craigslist earlier this year. “Like it or not, he may greet you with a kiss on the lips or grope you under the meeting table.”

The fake ads were prepared by staffers working for the Democratic National Committee in May, emails released by WikiLeaks show.

Democrats prepared fake Trump "grope under the meeting table" Craigslist employment advertisement in May 2016 https://t.co/pePOdx2lf4 pic.twitter.com/KJXYTT9J3J

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 14, 2016

On May 18, DNC staffer Christina Freundlich emailed DNC communications director Luis Miranda and Mark Paustenbach, national press secretary for the Democrats, seeking approval for the draft job ads.

“Mark and Luis — digital created a fake Craigslist jobs post for women who want to apply to jobs one of Trump’s organisations,” Freundlich wrote.

“This will be a microsite and we still need to send it to Perkins. Since we will be pitching this, need your approval please.

“As long as all the offensive s*** is verbatim I’m fine with it,” Miranda wrote. “Yes it is,” Freundlich replied.

The emails were first released in July as part of a large batch of hacked DNC material, but have been seized on in light of recent allegations of sexual harassment against the Republican presidential nominee.

While the draft job ads appear to be satirical, supporters claim the emails suggest a smear campaign involving sexual assault allegations was being prepared by Democrats as early as May.

Women began coming forward last week following the release of a damaging video from 2005 in which Trump makes crude comments about women. “When you’re a star, they let you do it,” he said in the leaked tape. “Grab them by the p****. You can do anything.”

So far, nine women have come forward within the past week alleging they were assaulted, groped or kissed by Trump — claims which the billionaire has categorically denied. The Trump campaign has so far directly addressed seven of the allegations.

“These vicious claims, about me, of inappropriate conduct with women, are totally and absolutely false, and the Clintons know it, and they know it very well,” he told a rally in Ohio. “These claims are all fabricated. They’re pure fiction, and they’re outright lies. These events never, ever happened.”

Trump’s lawyers have threatened legal action and demanded a retraction from The New York Times over its October 12 story featuring two accusers, Jessica Leeds and Rachel Crooks.

At a rally in North Carolina, Trump claimed he was the “victim of one of the great political smear campaigns in the history of our country” being orchestrated by a “global power structure” conspiring with the mainstream media.

THE WOMEN MAKING ALLEGATIONS AGAINST TRUMP

• SUMMER ZERVOS, 41: says Trump made aggressive, unwanted sexual advances in a Beverly Hills, California, hotel room in 2007. A former contestant on The Apprentice, Zervos says she contacted Trump to ask for a job. He later invited her to dinner, and when she met him at his hotel, Zervos said, Trump almost immediately began kissing her and placed his hand on her breasts. (Statement: Donald Trump, John Barry)

• KRISTIN ANDERSON, 46: told The Washington Post that she was sitting on a couch with friends at a New York nightclub in the early 1990s when someone reached up her skirt and touched her through her underwear. Anderson, then in her early 20s, said she pushed the hand away, turned around and recognised Trump as the man who had groped her. (Statement: Donald Trump)

• JESSICA LEEDS, 74: told The New York Times that Trump groped her on a plane more than three decades ago. Leeds says the two were seated next to each other when Trump lifted the armrest separating them and began to touch her, grabbing her breasts and trying to put his hand up her skirt. Leeds called the incident an “assault”. (Statement: Jason Miller, Anthony Gilberthorpe)

• MINDY McGILLIVRAY, 36: says Trump groped her after she attended a Ray Charles concert at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2003. She told The Palm Beach Post she was standing with a group of people after the show and Trump came up behind her and grabbed her buttocks.

• NATASHA STOYNOFF: a reporter for People magazine, says Trump forced himself on her in 2005, when she was interviewing him for a feature on the one-year anniversary of his marriage to Melania Trump. Stoynoff wrote in an article published on the magazine’s website that Trump was giving her a tour of his Mar-a-Lago mansion when he said he wanted to show her a special room. He shut the door “and within seconds, he was pushing me against the wall, and forcing his tongue down my throat”. (Statement: Hope Hicks, Anthony Senecal, Melania Trump)

• RACHEL CROOKS: says Trump kissed her without invitation in 2006 when she was a 22-year-old receptionist for a real estate firm located at Trump Tower. Crooks told the Times she was meeting Trump for the first time when he took her hand to shake it and would not let go. He began kissing her cheeks and then kissed her on the mouth. (Statement: Jason Miller)

• TEMPLE TAGGART: a former Miss Utah, says Trump kissed her on the mouth more than once when she was a 21-year-old contestant in his Miss USA beauty pageant. Taggart initially told her story to the Times in May. She said she was struck by how Trump’s comments from the 2005 video mirrored her experience. (Statement: Donald Trump)

• JILL HARTH: a former business associate, told the Times that Trump put his hands under her skirt during a business dinner in 1992 and, on another occasion, tried to force himself on her. Harth sued Trump accusing him of sexual harassment in 1997. She dropped the lawsuit after he settled a separate breach of contract suit.

• CATHY HELLER: told The Guardian newspaper that Trump tried to kiss her on the mouth when he was introduced to her along with other guests at a Mother’s Day brunch at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, some 20 years ago. She said she extended her hand and that he took it, then grabbed her and “went for the lips”. She leaned backward and almost lost her balance, she says, and turned her head at the last minute, and he kissed her on the side of her mouth. She was left “angry and shaken”, she said. (Statement: Jason Miller)

Source: AP