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pnwmom

(108,980 posts)
Sun May 1, 2016, 08:45 PM May 2016

In 1997 a woman filed a $125 million lawsuit against Trump for sexual assault.

She ended up withdrawing it, but it is bound to haunt him if he tries to go after Bill.

Another thing that will haunt him -- the claim of rape by his first wife during their divorce action (which she has also tried to walk back, but it's a matter of record. So is his lawyers' false claim that there is no such thing as rape within a marriage.)

So I believe that anything he says to try to smear Hillary with Bill's actions will blow up in his face.

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/exclusive-inside-the-donald-trump-sexual-assault-lawsuit/

The lawsuit was filed by Jill Harth who then went by Jill Harth Houraney on April 25, 1997. Harth, who was in her early 30’s at the time, alleged that Trump engaged in hostile and offensive sexual behavior towards her from 1992 to 1997 including “groping” her under her dress on several occasions, “forcibly” moving her to his daughter’s bedroom in an attempt to have sex with her, and repeatedly, aggressively and inappropriately propositioning her for sex. She called it “sexually abusive” and LawNewz.com spoke to her in an exclusive interview.

The 12-page complaint is filled with sordid allegations against Trump, often very specific, and including dates and times. At other points in the filing, she presents second hand accounts of even more boorish behavior that she attributes to Trump.

Harth says she met Trump in her capacity as a pageant producer organizing international model search events in the early 1990’s. This was around the same time that Trump was active in the beauty pageant world. Harth’s lawsuit came as her former husband George Houraney was involved in a breach-of-contract dispute with Trump over a beauty contest at one of Trump’s properties in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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Harth also claimed in the lawsuit that in 1993 Trump made numerous phone calls to her home in Boca Raton, Florida from New York demanding that she “sleep with him.” In the court filing, she also claimed that on January 9, 1993: “Trump forcefully removed (Harth) from public areas of Mar-A-Lago in Florida and forced (her) into a bedroom belonging to defendant’s daughter Ivanka, wherein (Trump) forcibly kissed, fondled, and restrained (her) from leaving, against (her) will and despite her protests.” In the court document, she said that Trump bragged that he”would be the best lover you ever have.”

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In 1997 a woman filed a $125 million lawsuit against Trump for sexual assault. (Original Post) pnwmom May 2016 OP
Too bad this can't be converted to a criminal charge... harrose May 2016 #1
Our Country Deserves Better Feathery Scout May 2016 #2
Trump could molest a 6 year old and the right wingers will still vote for him Sam_Fields May 2016 #3
Whatta classy guy Hekate May 2016 #4

harrose

(380 posts)
1. Too bad this can't be converted to a criminal charge...
Sun May 1, 2016, 08:47 PM
May 2016

... so that we can put that Repuke in jail where he belongs.

Feathery Scout

(218 posts)
2. Our Country Deserves Better
Sun May 1, 2016, 09:02 PM
May 2016

There's a lot of ugliness about Trump in his civil lawsuits.

Hoping things don't dive down into the nadir during the GE.

Our country deserves better.

Sam_Fields

(305 posts)
3. Trump could molest a 6 year old and the right wingers will still vote for him
Mon May 2, 2016, 12:02 AM
May 2016

I can't stand to listen to the self-absorbed asshat talk on TV.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
4. Whatta classy guy
Mon May 2, 2016, 02:15 AM
May 2016

Very shortly the posters from the "pedophile to pantsuits" thread will show up claiming Bill and Hillary were in on it. Ugh.

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