Thread by @mendelkalmenson

Inspired by the great @Zeddary thread, I present to you -

On the subject of @realDonaldTrump and #SexualAssault. A thread.

E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in a department store in the mid-90s, and two friends confirmed having been told about the incident then. Trump denies having ever met her. Since the allegations went public, she keeps a loaded gun near her bed to sleep.

Kristin Anderson accused Trump of reaching up her skirt and touching her vagina through her underwear while with friends at a NYC nightclub in the early 90s. Though disgusted, they dropped the matter, thinking “Okay, Donald is gross. We all know he’s gross. Let’s just move on”.

Jessica Leeds claims that Trump groped her while sitting next to her in a first class cabin of a flight sometime around 1980, causing her to move to the back of the plane. "He was like an octopus. His hands were everywhere..." is how she describes the event.

Karena Virginia accused Trump of groping her as she waited for her car in New York in 1998. She claims Trump grabbed her arm and touched her breast, and asked "Don't you know who I am?" Karena was partly inspired to come forward after watching the “Access Hollywood” tape.

Melinda McGillivray accused Trump of grabbing her butt backstage during a Ray Charles concert at Mar-a-Lago in 2003, when she was 23. A photographer present at the concert confirmed that McGillivray approached him soon after the incident and said "Donald just grabbed my a--!"

Natasha Stoynoff claims Trump brought her to a room alone at Mar-a-Lago in 2005 and "...shut the door behind us. I turned around and within seconds he was pushing me against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat." He said “We're going to have an affair, I'm telling you"

Rachel Crooks claims that after shaking hands with Trump, he kissed her "directly on the mouth" w/o her consent, when they met in 2005 at Trump Tower in Manhattan, where she was a receptionist. Crooks worried she would lose her job if she told her company about the interaction.

Ninni Laaksonen accused Trump of groping her backstage at a David Letterman show in 2006. "Trump stood right next to me and suddenly he squeezed my butt," she recalled. "He really grabbed my butt. I don't think anybody saw it, but I flinched and thought, 'What is happening?'"

Summer Zervos accused Trump of assaulting her in 2007 at The Beverly Hills Hotel. She claims: "He came at me and started kissing me open mouthed as he was pulling me towards him. He then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me very aggressively and placed his hand on my breast.”

There are quite a few accusations against Donald Trump concerning him waltzing into Miss Teen USA/Miss USA pageant contestants’ dressing rooms unannounced, and behaving wholly inappropriately.
Below are some of those accusations:

"I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, 'Oh my god, there's a man in here,'" Mariah Billado claims, adding that Trump responded with something along the lines of, "Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before."

Victoria Hughes said Trump first introduced himself to the teenage contestants when he unexpectedly walked into their dressing room. "It was certainly the most inappropriate time to meet us all for the first time"

Tasha Dixon: "He just came strolling right in, there was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing... Some girls were topless, other girls were naked." And there was "no one to complain to" because Trump owned the pageant and everyone employed there reported to him.

Bridget Sullivan claims Trump walked into the contestants' dressing room unannounced and hugged her inappropriately. "The time that he walked through the dressing rooms was really shocking. We were all naked" Bridget said, comparing Trump to a "creepy uncle."

(Bridget on right)

Cassandra Searles said Trump treated herself and other ... contestants "like cattle" and had them "lined up so he could get a closer look at his property. He probably doesn't want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room"

In Trump's own words:
"Well, I'll tell you the funniest is that before a show, I'll go backstage and everyone's getting dressed, and everything else, and you know, no men are anywhere, and I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it"

"You know, the dresses. ’Is everyone okay?' You know, they're standing there with no clothes. 'Is everybody okay?' And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that. But no, I've been very good"
Listen yourself: cnn.it/2Yz2fBp

This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it is a start, and it’s important we realize who Trump is as a human, even if you’re under the impression that he’s running the country well. He represents the USA, and I think we’re in a bad place if we, as a nation, can’t do better.

If you worry about these accusations being a publicity stunt or attempt by Ds to bring down Trump, I think you must ask yourself "how many allegations would it take to convince me? Would I give @BarackObama the same benefit of the doubt if he had 20+ allegations against him?"

From the great @StephenAtHome: "If one person in your life accused you of pooping in their kitchen sink, I could believe that's a lie. But if 22 people came forward with detailed accounts of the time you had pooped in their sinks, I'm gonna start thinking you're a sink-pooper"

My sources:

@businessinsider,@people,@Wikipedia,@TIME,@USATODAY,@TheSun,@GettyImages,@AFP,@BuzzFeedNews,@cnn,@cbs,@voxdotcom, Michael Stewart, MissUniverseDotCom.

If you noticed that I missed any, or if you have corrections, kindly let me know and I’ll correct them.