Donald Trump in his VIP box at the US Open in 1997. -
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It is the 26th accuser of the American president.
A former American model accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her at the US Open in 1997. Amy Dorris told British newspaper
The Guardian
on
Thursday
how the billionaire Republican would have kissed and touched her without her consent.
The president's lawyers fiercely denied, to the daily, these accusations unveiled six weeks before the presidential election of November 3.
In the Guardian today, Amy Dorris bravely told me about her allegation of sexual assault against Donald Trump.
On why now, she says: "I've noticed a shift in how women are being treated since he became president… so I am coming out for me, for my kids" https://t.co/p2VnJkYmx6
- Lucy Osborne (@Lucy_Osborne) September 17, 2020
According to Amy Dorris, her boyfriend at the time, Jason Binn, was close to Donald Trump.
The latter invited them both to his VIP box at the US Open.
In one photo, she is seen sitting between Binn and the New York real estate mogul.
According to his testimony, Donald Trump would have accosted her on September 5, 1997 in front of the toilets of his lodge.
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A ex-modelo Amy Dorris between Donald Trump eo empresário Jason Binn, seu namorado na época, durante uma partida do US Open, torneio de tênis que aconteece em Nova York, em 1997 .. (RINDO ...) pic.twitter .com / nFSIWMwmi0
- jorge santos (@ jsantos56) September 17, 2020
"He touched my buttocks, my breasts, everything"
“He stuck his tongue down my throat as I pushed him away.
It was then that his embrace was strengthened, his hands were wandering and he touched my buttocks, my breasts, my back, everything, ”she explains to the
Guardian
, adding to have asked him to stop.
Donald Trump, who was 51 at the time, "didn't care" about his refusal, she said.
“I was a prisoner in his embrace, and I couldn't get out of it,” she said.
The young woman, who was 24 at the time of the alleged facts, had "nausea" and felt "flouted", she explains.
Dorris immediately confided in a friend and her mother, and later, a psychologist, all three of whom corroborated her testimony.
Her ex-boyfriend, Jason Binn, did not wish to respond to the British daily but told the lawyers of the American president that he did not remember that she had informed him of such an incident.
Six weeks before the election
The former model explains to the
Guardian
that she thought about testifying publicly in 2016, when about fifteen women accused Donald Trump of assault or sexual harassment but that she was afraid of the consequences for his family.
She says she is coming out of her silence today to "set an example" for her 13-year-old daughters.
Donald Trump has been accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women, including columnist E. Jean Carroll, who accuses him of raping her in a changing room in the mid-1990s. The President denied all these accusations.
In the case of E. Jean Carroll, he indicated that she was "not his kind of woman".
Just before the 2016 election, a
2005
Access Hollywood
video
was released.
We heard Donald Trump boast, in vulgar terms, that he could kiss or grab women by the genitals thanks to his notoriety.
The candidate apologized for his comments but assured that he had never committed inappropriate acts.
According to an October 2016 poll, 54% of Americans found the accusations against him credible, but that did not prevent him from winning 81% of the vote of the electorate of White Evangelists.
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