Donald Trump touched us inappropriately, Jessica Leeds and Rachel Crooks claim

THE accusations are flying at Republican nominee Donald Trump, and they are getting uglier and uglier.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has denied touching two women inappropriately. Picture: Gerardo Mora/Getty Images/AFP

DONALD Trump allegedly looked at a group of young girls during an Entertainment Tonight Christmas special and said he would be dating one of them in 10 years.

CBS News says the video, which was released on Wednesday, was shot at Trump Tower 24 years ago.

In the video, one of the girls is going up an escalator when Trump turns to the camera and says: “I am going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe that?”

In another explosive revelation, two women have come forward to claim that Donald Trump touched them inappropriately.

Jessica Leeds and Rachel Crooks told The New York Times that Trump had “assaulted” them and his claims that he never touched women without permission were untrue.

The Trump campaign has dismissed the women’s allegations as false.

When questioned by the Times, Trump allegedly shouted at the reporter and said: “None of this ever took place. You are a disgusting human being.”

A statement from Trump’s campaign said the entire article was fiction and the Times “was launching a completely false, co-ordinated character assassination”.

Ms Leeds, 74, of Manhattan, claimed Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt during a flight three decades ago. She said she sat beside Trump in first class, and 45 minutes after take-off, he lifted the armrest and started to touch her.

“He was like an octopus,” she said. “His hands were everywhere.”

Ms Leeds said she left her seat and went to the back of the plane.

“It was assault,” she told The Times.

BREAKING: I sat next to Donald Trump on a plane. He groped me and put his hand up my skirt. - Jessica Leeds https://t.co/LRP08ldn1B pic.twitter.com/AT7jq4Gl3F

— carolynryan (@carolynryan) October 12, 2016

Ms Crooks said she was a 22-year-old receptionist at a real estate investment and development company in Trump Tower when she encountered him outside a lift in 2005.

She said he introduced himself and shook her hand before kissing her cheeks and then her mouth, in what she called a clear violation. Immediately afterwards, she phoned her sister.

“She was very worked up about it,” Ms Crooks’ sister said. “Being from a town of 1600 people, being naïve, I was like ‘Are you sure he didn’t just miss trying to kiss you on the cheek?’ She said, ‘No, he kissed me on the mouth.’ I was like, ‘That is not normal.’”

Neither woman reported her incident to the authorities, but both did tell family and friends about their ordeal.

Ms Leeds, who was 38 at the time and living in Connecticut, said she only decided to speak about it recently, while Ms Crooks told people straight after she said it took place.

Both told The Times they were angered by Trump’s denial during this week’s debate that he had acted inappropriately towards women.

Trump spokesman Jason Miller told CNN that the articles from The New York Times was “fiction”.

“It is absurd to think that one of the most recognisable business leaders on the planet with a strong record of empowering women in his companies would do the things alleged in this story,” the statement from Mr Miller said.

"you're a disgusting human being," trump told me when i asked about claims that he touched women inappropriately:"https://t.co/naHweclUo0

— megan twohey (@mega2e) October 12, 2016

WRITER ‘ATTACKED’

People Writer Natasha Stoynoff has also claimed she was left “badly shaken” after an encounter with the businessman in 2005.

Stoynoff, who had covered Trump several times in the past, said she was interviewing him as part of a first wedding anniversary story at the time.

Melania, who was heavily pregnant, had gone to change when Stoynoff claimed Trump told her he wanted to show her around the mansion.

“We walked into that room alone, and Trump shut the door behind us,” she writes. “I turned around, and within seconds, he was pushing me against the wall, and forcing his tongue down my throat.”

She said her self esteem had been reduced to zero and she was thankful a butler had interrupted a minute later. She also claims he later told her they were going to have an affair.

A spokeswoman for Trump said: “This never happened. There is no merit or veracity to this fabricated story.”

‘HAVE YOU EVER DONE THESE THINGS?’

Earlier this week, Trump was condemned globally for a 2005 video in which he admitted to groping and forcing himself on women.

Among a litany of sexual assault admissions, he said in the video his star status enabled him to do anything to women, including, grabbing “them by the p***y”.

Trump later issued an apology and compared the remarks to “locker room banter”.

When asked about those comments during the second leaders’ debate, Trump replied: “I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than I do.”

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper replied: “So, for the record, you’re saying you never did that?”

Trump: “I’ve said things that, frankly, you hear these things I said. And I was embarrassed by it. But I have tremendous respect for women.”

Cooper: “Have you ever done those things?”

Trump: “And women have respect for me. And I will tell you, no I have not.”

The New York Post has also reported that Trump barged in on Miss Teen USA contestants while they were changing clothes, and engaged in “creepy” dressing room banter with the girls — some as young as 15.

At least four women told Buzzfeed that the mogul — who owned the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants from 1996 until last year — nonchalantly strolled into their dressing room during the 1997 pageant.

Miss Teen Vermont in 1997 Mariah Billado. Picture: Facebook

“I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my God, there’s a man in here!’” former Miss Vermont Teen USA Mariah Billado told the site about the alleged 1997 incident.

Trump, she recalled, responded, saying something like: “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”

Three other women, who asked to remain anonymous, also remembered the future Republican presidential nominee entering their dressing room while the girls were changing.

Two of them said the girls rushed to cover themselves, with one calling it “shocking” and “creepy”.

Bridget Sullivan, right, congratulates Miss Tennessee USA in 2000.

Bridget Sullivan, who competed as Miss New Hampshire in the 2000 Miss USA pageant, also claimed in an interview with Buzzfeed earlier this year that Trump would walk through the dressing room while women were naked.

She also said that Trump would “hug you just a little low on your back” and give “a squeeze that your creepy uncle would”.

Comments Trump allegedly made about a singer who appeared on the 2010 season of Celebrity Apprentice have also surfaced.

Transcripts from the show taken from scenes which didn’t make the cut found their way to the media.

One of them included a boardroom session which was set to decide which team had better marketed an aspiring country singer to stardom.

“I assume you’re gonna leave this off, don’t put this s**t on the show, you know. But her skin, her skin sucks, OK?” Trump says of country singer Emily West, according to the show’s production transcript.

“I mean her skin, she needs some serious f**king dermatology.”