{"id":2729,"date":"2024-10-24T06:57:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T06:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2024-10-24T06:57:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T06:57:49","slug":"former-model-says-trump-groped-her-during-encounter-facilitated-by-epstein-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=2729","title":{"rendered":"Former Model Says Trump Groped Her During Encounter Facilitated By Epstein: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Less than two weeks before the presidential election, a former model has gone public with accusations that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0groped her in a 1993 encounter facilitated by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Stacey Williams, now 56, shared the incident with\u00a0<a class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/23\/donald-trump-accuser-stacey-williams-jeffrey-epstein?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-item-name=\"the Guardian\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67198146e4b0ede6b2c001bc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/23\/donald-trump-accuser-stacey-williams-jeffrey-epstein?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">the Guardian<\/a> on Wednesday, saying she felt Trump\u2019s actions were part of a \u201ctwisted game\u201d he and Epstein were playing with her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>According to her recollection to the Guardian, Epstein introduced Williams to Trump at a 1992 Christmas party, and it was clear to her that the two men \u201cwere really, really good friends and spent a lot of time together.\u201d She said she and Epstein began dating shortly after the party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>A few months later, Epstein asked her to accompany him on a visit to Trump Tower, where Trump sexually assaulted her, she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"public-good-placeholder\" class=\"pg-placeholder\">\n<div class=\"pgs-dpg-card\" data-pgs-partner-id=\"verizon-huffpost\" data-loaded=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cHe pulled me in to him and started groping me,\u201d Williams said of Trump in a video published by The Guardian. \u201cHe put his hands all over my breasts, my waist, my butt, and I froze. And I froze because I was so deeply confused about what was happening, because the hands were moving all over me, yet these two men were like, smiling at one another and continuing on in their conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"cli cli-image js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"img-sized\">\n<div class=\"img-sized__placeholder\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/67198a611900003500ea5ffc.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&amp;format=webp\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2730\" title=\"67198a611900003500ea5ffc\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/67198a611900003500ea5ffc.jpeg\" alt=\"67198a611900003500ea5ffc\" width=\"720\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/67198a611900003500ea5ffc.jpeg 720w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/67198a611900003500ea5ffc-300x210.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"cli-image__spacer\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"cli-image__caption caption-cli\">From left, Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in 2000.<\/figcaption><div class=\"cli-image__source-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"cli-image__credit\" aria-label=\"Image Credit: Davidoff Studios Photography via Getty Images\">\n<div class=\"credit-container\"><span class=\"credit\">DAVIDOFF STUDIOS PHOTOGRAPHY VIA GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Williams felt as if the incident was planned by Trump and Epstein, who killed himself in prison in 2019 as he awaited trial on federal charges of alleged sex trafficking of minors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Later, Williams said, Epstein \u201cberated\u201d her over the groping.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I had this horrible pit in my stomach that it was somehow orchestrated. I felt like a piece of meat.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Trump later sent her a postcard featuring an aerial view of Mar-a-Lago and a message reading, \u201cStacey \u2013 Your home away from home. Love Donald.\u201d The Guardian published images of the postcard, which includes handwriting resembling Trump\u2019s, apparently written in his usual heavy black marker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>A spokesperson for Trump\u2019s campaign denied Williams\u2019 accusations, calling her a \u201cformer activist for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/barack-obama\">Barack Obama<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s obvious this fake story was contrived by the Harris campaign,\u201d Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Williams also shared her experience with Trump on a call Monday organized by the group Survivors4Harris, which featured actor Ashley Judd and lawyer Anita Hill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>More than two dozen women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct. Last year, a jury found him\u00a0<a class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/jury-verdict-e-jean-carroll-trump-rape-case_n_644d4035e4b039ec4e855930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-item-name=\"liable for sexually assaulting\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67198146e4b0ede6b2c001bc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"644d4035e4b039ec4e855930\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\">liable for sexually assaulting<\/a>\u00a0the writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room in the 1990s and ordered Trump to pay her $5 million in damages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than two weeks before the presidential election, a former model has gone public with accusations that\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0groped her in a 1993 encounter facilitated by the late sex offender Jeffrey&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,257],"tags":[852,850,851,319],"views":408,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}