Former Trump campaign staffer Alva Johnson is suing the President over an incident she says took place outside a Florida rally on August 24, 2016. Johnson claims that Trump grabbed her hand, leaned in, and kissed her on the lips as he was leaving an RV where he’d been prepping for the rally, and that she neither expected nor wanted Trump to kiss her.
The White House, of course, denies that the attack happened, but it’s pretty difficult to defend against an accusation that sounds exactly like what the President once bragged that he did all the time during a recording of him on a similar bus with television host Billy Bush in a taping of Access Hollywood:
I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.
One supposes that Ms. Johnson is fortunate that Trump was either too preoccupied with the rally or in too much of a hurry to continue his normal routine — because the end of that statement goes on to be much more vulgar, as everyone well knows. When she heard that infamous tape for the first time, she said “I felt sick to my stomach. That was what he did to me.”
Johnson told the Washington Post,
I immediately felt violated because I wasn’t expecting it or wanting it. I can still see his lips coming straight for my face.”
Johnson immediately told her boyfriend, mother, and stepfather about the unwanted kiss immediately after it happened — which all three confirmed to the Post. Johnson called the kiss “super creepy and inappropriate,” which, if we’re being honest, could be the title of an unauthorized biography of Donald Trump.
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is already in denial mode after the lawsuit was filed Monday, telling the Post, “This never happened and is directly contradicted by multiple highly credible eye witness accounts.”
Numerous women have accused Trump of unwanted sexual contact; Johnson is the first to accuse him of an act that occurred during his ascent to the presidency.
The story is developing and we will update as necessary.
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