{"id":257667,"date":"2016-10-13T05:13:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T05:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=257667"},"modified":"2016-10-13T05:13:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T05:13:53","slug":"us-election-2016-trump-groped-woman-like-an-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/us-election-2016-trump-groped-woman-like-an-octopus\/","title":{"rendered":"US Election 2016: Trump ‘groped woman like an octopus’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Two women have told the New York Times that Donald Trump touched them inappropriately, but the Republican candidate’s campaign denies the report.<\/p>\n
One woman said the White House hopeful grabbed her breasts and attempted to put his hand up her skirt on a flight three decades ago.<\/p>\n
The second woman said Mr Trump kissed her on the mouth against her will at Trump Towers in 2005.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump’s campaign said “this entire article is fiction”.<\/p>\n
The New York Times was launching “a completely false, coordinated character assassination,” a statement from his campaign said.<\/p>\n
Jessica Leeds, 74, from Manhattan, told the paper she had been sitting next to Mr Trump in the first-class cabin of a flight to New York when he lifted the armrest and began to touch her.<\/p>\n
She was 38 years old at the time.<\/p>\n
“He was like an octopus… his hands were everywhere,” she said. “It was an assault.”<\/p>\n
‘So upset’<\/strong><\/p>\n Rachel Crooks was a 22-year-old receptionist at a real estate company in Trump Tower when she said she was kissed on the lips by Mr Trump outside a lift in the building.<\/p>\n “It was so inappropriate,” Ms Crooks told the New York Times.<\/p>\n “I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that.”<\/p>\n Neither women has ever reported their accounts to the authorities, but both shared what happened to them with friends and family.<\/p>\n