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Saturday, October 15, 2016
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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.
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Truckee Meadows Fire
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cause of the blaze was
under investigation. But
he said it started in an area
where a controlled burn was
conducted earlier this week.
The powerful winds
fanning the lames reached
gusts in excess of 100 mph
over the top of the Sierra
early Friday.
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