Donald Trump Accused Of Groping Former Model Stacey Williams As Part Of “Twisted Game” With Jeffrey Epstein
Presidential candidate Donald Trump has been accused of groping former model Stacey Williams.
The incident, which a Trump spokesperson has denied, is alleged to have occurred in 1993 at Trump Tower in New York and was part of a “twisted game” between the former President and the late convicted sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein, said Williams in an article in the Guardian newspaper.
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It is alleged Trump and Williams became acquainted through Epstein, whom Williams said she had briefly dated, in the early 1990s when she was a professional model. Williams said it appeared Trump and Epstein were close friends and “spent a lot of time together.”
Months after that introduction when they met again, Williams alleges Trump pulled her towards him and groped her, putting his hands “all over my breasts” along with her waist and buttocks. She claims to have been “deeply confused” and froze, and alleges she saw the two men smiling at each other.
Karoline Leavitt, Press Secretary for Trump’s election campaign, gave a statement to the Guardian denying the incident: “These accusations, made by a former activist for Barack Obama and announced on a [Kamala] Harris campaign call two weeks before the election, are unequivocally false. It’s obvious this fake story was contrived by the Harris campaign.”
Williams has made allegations about Trump before on social media, but outlined the fuller details on a Zoom call organized by Survivors For Kamala, a group supporting Democratic Party Presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Actress and activist Ashley Judd and lawyer Anita Hill were among those on the call.
On the call, she claimed Epstein had become angry at her after they left Trump Tower, asking her why she had let Trump touch her. “He made me feel so disgusting and I remember being so utterly confused,” she said, adding the incident appeared to be part of a “twisted game.”
“I felt shame and disgust and as we went our separate ways, I felt this sensation of revisiting it, while the hands were all over me. I had this horrible pit in my stomach that it was somehow orchestrated. I felt like a piece of meat,” she said.
Williams also shared a postcard that she said Trump had sent her, offering her to stay at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. The message, which appears to be in Trump’s handwriting, read: “Stacey — your home away from home. Love Donald.”
Williams claimed to have split with financier Epstein soon after and was unaware of his widespread sexual abuse. He committed suicide in prison in 2019 after being convicted of various horrific sexual offenses across many years, including soliciting an underage prostitute. Trump and Epstein were friends in the 1980s and 1990s, but the former Republican President claimed in 2019 they had fallen out and not spoken “in 15 years.” There is no evidence Trump knew of Epstein’s illegal behavior.
Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct by various women over the decades, but has always denied the allegations. He was found liable of sexually abusing columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996. This week, Survivors For Kamala took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to remind citizens of the accusations surrounding Trump and urging them to vote for the Vice President in the upcoming election.
The bitter race for the White House has now entered the final stretch, with Americans going to the ballot box on November 5.
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