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NATION Saturday, October 15, 2016 East Oregonian Page 13A Trump denounces more ‘lies and smears’ Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Two more women came forward Friday to accuse Donald Trump of unwanted sexual touching, including a former contestant from a reality show that starred the Republican presidential nominee. The latest accounts come after several women reported in recent days that Trump groped or kissed them without their consent. At a campaign rally in North Carolina on Friday, Trump sought to discredit his accusers. He said because there were no witnesses to the interactions, the allegations were not credible. “Right now I am being viciously attacked with lies and smears,” Trump said at an outdoor amphi- theater. “It’s a phony deal. I have no idea who these women are.” Trump also suggested the women who have come forward to accuse him were not physically attractive enough to merit his attention. “Believe me, she would not be my irst choice, that I can tell you,” he said when speaking of one of the women. Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice,” said Trump made unwanted sexual advances toward her at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2007, while photog- rapher Kristin Anderson alleged Trump sexually assaulted her in a New York nightclub in the early 1990s. Zervos, 41, appeared at a news conference Friday with Gloria Allred, a well-known Los Angeles attorney. Zervos was a contestant on “The Apprentice” in 2006 and said she later contacted Trump to inquire about a job with one of his businesses. Zervos said she had an initial meeting with Trump, where he discussed a potential job with her. When they parted, he kissed her on the lips and asked for her phone number, she said. She said weeks later Trump called to invite her to meet him at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where she said she was expecting to have dinner with the New York billion- aire. Instead, she described a series of unwanted kisses and touching by Trump, which she said she repeat- edly rejected. “He tried to kiss me again ... and I said, ‘Dude, you’re tripping right now,’ attempting to make it clear I was not interested,” she said. Zervos said Trump eventually stopped and began talking as if they were in a job interview. She said she AP Photo/ Evan Vucci Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally Friday in Greensboro, N.C. Trump faces accusations from more women — Jessica Leeds, 74, told The New York Times that Trump groped her on an airplane more than three decades ago. Leeds says the two were seated next to each other when Trump lifted the armrest separating them and began to touch her, grabbing her breasts and trying to put his hand up her skirt. Leeds called the incident an “assault.” —Rachel Crooks says Trump kissed her without invitation in 2006 when she was a 22-year-old recep- tionist for a real estate irm located at Trump Tower. Crooks told the Times she was meeting Trump for the irst time when he took her hand to shake it and would not let go. He began kissing her cheeks and then kissed her on the mouth, she told the paper. —Mindy McGillivray, 36, of Palm Springs, Florida, says Trump groped her after she attended a Ray Charles concert at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2003. McGillivray told The Palm Beach Post she was standing with a group of people after the show and Trump came up behind her and grabbed her buttocks. —Natasha Stoynoff, a reporter for People magazine, says Trump forced himself on her in 2005, when she was interviewing him for a feature on the one-year anniversary of his marriage to Melania was later offered a low-paying job at a Trump-owned golf course. At the time, Trump had recently married his third and current wife, Melania Trump, and the couple had an infant son. Zervos said she is a Republican and has no political agenda in coming forward. Allred said her Email: Clinton campaign sought to cancel Wall Street speech WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton’s campaign asked former President Bill Clinton to cancel a speech to a Wall Street investment irm last year because of concerns that the Clintons might appear to be too cozy with Wall Street just as the former secretary of state was about to announce her White House bid, newly released emails show. Clinton aides say in hacked emails released Friday by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks that Hillary Clinton did not want her husband to cancel the speech, but after a “cool down period” was eventually convinced that canceling was the right step. Campaign manager Robby Mook said he real- ized canceling the lucrative speech would disappoint both Clintons but “it’s a very consequential unforced error and could plague us in stories for months.” The Clintons’ paid speeches have been an issue throughout the campaign, particularly Hillary Clinton’s private speeches to Wall Street irms. Hillary Clinton earned about $1.5 million in speaking fees before launching her presidential campaign, while Bill Clinton reaped more than $5 million from banking, tech and other corporate interests, according to inancial documents iled by Hillary Clinton. The campaign has never released transcripts of Hillary Clinton’s speeches, but the hacked emails did reveal excerpts lagged by her advisers as potentially concerning. In the excerpts, Clinton talked about dreaming of “open trade and open borders” in the Western Hemisphere. She also says politicians sometimes need to have “both a public and a private position” on issues. Bill Clinton was sched- uled to speak to Morgan Stanley executives in April 2015, a few days after his wife was set to launch her bid for president. “That’s begging for a bad rollout,” Mook wrote in a March 2015 email. In a later email, Mook says he feels “very strongly that doing the speech is a mistake” with serious poten- tial consequences for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. “People would (rightfully) ask how we let it happen.” The emails were among thousands published this week by WikiLeaks, which has been releasing a series of emails hacked from the accounts of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. U.S. intelligence ofi- cials last week blamed the Russian government for a series of breaches intended to inluence the presidential election. The Russians deny involvement. Trump. Stoynoff wrote in an article published on the magazine’s website that Trump was giving her a tour of his Mar-a-Lago mansion when he said he wanted to show her a special room. He shut the door “and within seconds, he was pushing me against the wall, and forcing his tongue down my throat.” —Temple Taggart, a former Miss Utah, says Trump kissed her on the mouth more than once when she was a 21-year-old contestant in his Miss USA beauty pageant. Taggart initially told her story to the Times in May. She said she was struck by how Trump’s comments from the 2005 video mirrored her experience. —Jill Harth, a former business associate, told the Times that Trump put his hands under her skirt during a business dinner in 1992 and, on another occasion, tried to force himself on her. Harth sued Trump accusing him of sexual harassment in 1997. She dropped the lawsuit Trump after he settled a separate breach of contract suit. —More than 20 former crew members, editors and contestants on Trump’s “Apprentice” reality show described a pattern of crass behavior and demeaning comments on the set. Trump repeatedly addressed women with sexist language, rated female contestants by the size of their breasts and talked about which ones he’d like to have sex with, the people told The Associated Press. client told her parents and others about the incident shortly after it occurred. In a statement released by his campaign, Trump denied he was ever alone in a hotel room with Zervos and claimed to have only a vague recollection of meeting her. He lashed out at the media for creating “a theater of absurdity that threatens to tear our democratic process apart and poison the minds of the American public.” Late Friday, the Trump campaign released a statement in which a cousin of Servos said he was “shocked and bewildered” by her account. John Barry of Mission Viejo, California, said in the statement that Zervos “wishes she could still be on reality TV, and in an effort to get that back she’s saying all of these negative things about Mr. Trump.” In a story published online Friday, Anderson told The Washington Post that she was sitting on a couch with friends at a New York nightclub in the early 1990s when someone’s hand reached up her skirt and touched her through her underwear. Anderson, then in her early 20s, said she pushed the hand away, turned around and recognized Trump as the man who had groped her. Then recently divorced, Trump was then a frequent presence in the New York tabloids, and he was regular presence on the Manhattan club scene. “He was so distinctive looking — with the hair and the eyebrows. I mean, nobody else has those eyebrows,” Anderson, 46, told the newspaper. She said the assault was random and occurred with “zero conversation.” Anderson did not respond to a phone message from The Associated Press. She told the newspaper said she does not back Trump or Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. The Post said it contacted Anderson after a friend she had told about the incident recounted it to a reporter. Other friends also told the Post that Anderson recounted the same story to them years ago. Zervos’ and Anderson’s deci- sions to speak publicly about her experience follows last week’s disclosure by the Post of a 2005 video in which Trump boasted that his celebrity gave him the ability to grab women “by the p----. You can do anything.” Trump apologized for those remarks, but also dismissed them as “locker-room talk.” Also Friday, Melinda McGilli- vray, 36, of Palm Springs, Florida, told the AP that Trump’s denial in last Sunday’s presidential debate that he had ever groped women prompted her to come forward after years of brushing off an incident from 2003. She told The Palm Beach Post for a story published on Thursday that while she was backstage at a concert at Mar-a-Lago resort, when he grabbed her buttocks. “I wanted to do this so I can be a role model for my daughter,” McGillivray said. “I wanted to be that courageous woman that she sees every day, but in that moment she saw vulnerability and she saw a scared little girl.” 22 Nevada homes destroyed in wind-whipped wildire RENO, Nev. (AP) — A trio of wind-whipped wildires burning along the Sierra Nevada on Friday destroyed 22 homes north of Carson City, forced hundreds of evacuations at Lake Tahoe and temporarily closed a major highway connecting Reno to the mountain lake. Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval declared a state of emergency as hundreds of ireighters battled the most dangerous ire, which is still threatening hundreds of structures in the Washoe Valley along Interstate 580 and U.S. Highway 395 between Reno and Carson City. No serious injuries have been reported but four ireighters have been treated for smoke inhalation, said Tia Rancourt, spokeswoman for the Sierra Front Interagency Fire Dispatch Center. The wildland blaze that continued to burn out of control Friday night has charred about 3 square miles of brush and timber. It forced the closures of numerous schools and roads, and triggered widespread power outages. Federal disaster funds were approved late Friday to help cover ireighting costs in the parched area that has only recently shown signs of recovering from a ive-year drought About 500 ireighters were on the scene Friday night at the so-called Little Valley ire, which broke out about 1:30 a.m. in the mountains between Lake Tahoe and Washoe Valley about 8 miles north of Carson City Fire oficials reported zero containment, but said crews working in dificult terrain were aided by afternoon rains, and the winds that were gusting in excess of 50 mph died down. “We’ve made good progress on the homes we are currently protecting,” said Truckee Meadows Fire Battalion Chief Alex Kukulus. But “we are not out of the woods,” he told reporters. “We have active ire in the whole area and still no real containment.” More crews were on their way from as far away as the San Francisco Bay Area. “When we ramp this thing up this evening, we hope to have 1,000 ireighters in the area,” Kukulus said Friday afternoon. In addition to the homes, W e’ve Got A Solution! 541-720-0772 Visit our showroom: 102 E Columbia Dr. Kennewick, WA 99336 211 SE Byers Ave. Pendleton Susan Simpson Patio Rooms Sunrooms · Pergolas Patio Covers · Drop Shades · Solar Screens & More! www.mybackyardbydesign.com License #188965 With the extra money, my dream car became a reality. Become an East Oregonian Carrier. Want Year Around Outdoor Space? FREE Estimates! 17 outbuildings have burned. A ire engine also suffered signiicant damage. Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District Chief Charles Moore said the cause of the blaze was under investigation. 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