While in Pyeongchang, South Korea to represent the United States at the Olympic Closing ceremony, Ivanka Trump, 36, sat with NBC News for an exclusive interview which aired on Monday on the “Today” show. They discussed a wide range of topics, and, when asked about her thoughts on the sexual misconduct allegations against her father, Donald Trump, by many women who claim he targeted them with unwanted comments, kissing, and touching, the first daughter and mother of three young children immediately found the question to be inappropriate.
Her position on the matter is very clear
She slammed NBC's Peter Alexander by saying, “I think it is a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he has affirmatively stated that there is no truth to it. I don't think that's a question you would ask many other daughters. I believe my father, I know my father. So I think I have that right as a daughter to believe my father.” The president has been accused publicly by more than a dozen women of sexual misconduct and/or assault -- during the election and as far back as the 1980s.
In August 2016, the Washington Post published an audio recording from 2005 where the president made lewd comments about women during a conversation with former “Access Hollywood” host, Billy Bush.
He’s heard saying that as a rich and famous man, he can get away with anything, such as kissing women without their permission and grabbing them by the p****. He also confessed to trying to be intimate with a married woman, “I moved on her like a b****, but I couldn’t get there, and she was married,” Trump says clearly, “Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phony t*** and everything.
She’s totally changed her look.” Trump has since defended his comments by referring to them as harmless locker room talk.
It’s a long list
The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, also sided with the president by responding, “Yeah, we’ve been clear on that from the beginning and the president has spoken on it,” when asked by CBS News reporter Jacqueline Alemany if the White House position on the matter was that all the accusers were lying about the sexual misconduct allegations.
But in December 2017, the HuffPost published the article, “A running list of the women who’ve accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct.” The article detailed the accounts of 21 women who have publicly accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct and his response to each allegation. Some of the accusers are:
- Bridget Sullivan – A former Miss Universe contestant who said he would hug and give her “a squeeze that your creepy uncle would.”
- Ninni Laaksonen – A former Miss Finland, she said, “He really grabbed my butt. I don’t think anybody saw it but I flinched and thought: ‘What is happening?”
- Jessica Drake – An adult film actor and director, says Trump kissed her without her consent and offered her $10,000 to have sex with him at a Lake Tahoe golf tournament.
- Kristin Anderson – She was out at a nightclub with a friend when Trump reached into her skirt and touched her vagina through her underwear.
- Samantha Holvey – A 2006 Miss USA contestant said, “He would step in front of each girl and look you over from head to toe like we were just meat, we were just sexual objects, that we were not people.”
- Jessica Leeds – During a flight over 30 years ago, Trump lifted her armrest and proceeded to touch her breasts and put his hands up her skirt. She said, “He was like an octopus, his hands were everywhere.”
