Former model Stacey Williams is the latest woman to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct: NPR

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Another woman has accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, adding to a list of more than a dozen women who have accused the former president of inappropriate sexual behavior.

Stacey Williams, a former Sports Illustrated The model claims Trump groped her in 1993 while Jeffrey Epstein, who was later convicted of sex crimes, watched. She told CNN about the incident this week and in a Zoom call with Survivors for Kamala, a group unaffiliated with the campaign.

“As soon as he was in front of me, he pulled me close and his hands were just on me and wouldn't let go,” she said in an interview with CNN.

“Then the hands started moving and they were on the sides of my breasts, on my hips, all the way down to my butt… they were just on me the whole time.”

In a statement, the Trump campaign's national press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, denied the allegations on Trump's behalf.

“It is obvious that this fake story was fabricated by the Harris campaign to distract from the deeply troubling and newly uncovered allegations” about Harris' husband Doug Emhoff, Leavitt wrote. Emhoff was accused of hitting an ex-girlfriend in 2012. The Harris campaign has denied this.

“False allegations like these do a disservice to women who have actually been victims of assault,” Leavitt added.

The alleged incident between Trump and Williams occurred while Williams was dating Epstein was in the 1980s and 1990s a friend of Trump. Epstein had taken Williams to Trump Tower to meet Trump, and she said Trump immediately began groping her.

“That context didn't make sense because the hands were on me and then he and Jeffrey just kept talking and looking at each other and smiling,” she said.

“I just had this really disgusting feeling that it was all coordinated – that the whole thing was somehow like I was being rolled in there like a piece of meat for some strange, twisted game.”

Williams also says that shortly after the encounter, she received a postcard from Trump in which he wrote that Palm Beach, Florida – the location of his current Mar-a-Lago club – was her “home away from home.”

She told CNN that she didn't talk about the incident for a long time out of shame.

“I felt a wave of shame and just couldn't think about it, deal with it and talk about it for long. I put it in a little box inside of me, turned the key and locked it,” she said.

Many victims of sexual violence remain silent long after the incident.

Williams joins one List of women who have accused Trump of sexual assault and other forms of sexual misconduct. Trump has denied all of these allegations.

Additionally, Trump bragged about groping and kissing women in the Access Hollywood tape that was leaked a month before the 2016 election.

With just over a week until Election Day 2024, polls suggest the electorate could have the widest gender gap in modern electoral history. Voters recently favored Harris by 18 points NPR Marist PBS NewsHour pollwhile male voters preferred Trump by 16 points.

It's unclear how much such a claim might influence voters; The impact of the Access Hollywood tape has been debated for years, and Trump ultimately won this close race. Furthermore, most voters have made up their minds. This year's polls have been remarkably stable in the months since Harris entered the race.