By Armando Hernandez
24 Oct 2024, 11:08 PM EDT
Two weeks before the presidential elections in the United States, A new scandal exposed Donald Trump. A former model accused the Republican of groping her after they were introduced by another tycoon, sex crimes defendant Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s.
According to revelations in The Guardian newspaper, Stacey Williams, a former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model She alleges that the former president abused her when she was 20 years old and briefly dated Epstein.
Williams said she and Epstein were walking together on New York City’s Fifth Avenue in 1993 when Epstein took her to Trump Tower to see Trump.
“The moment he got in front of me, he pulled me towards him and his hands were on me and they wouldn’t move away,” Williams said. “And then the hands started moving and they were, you know, on the sides of my breasts, on my hips, back to my butt, back up, more or less, you know, they were on me the whole time. And I was frozen. “I couldn’t understand what was happening.”
“I think she was probably trying to smile and act like she was involved in a social situation, but it was an out-of-body experience,” she said. “So I don’t know if I spoke, I don’t know if I answered questions, I don’t know. “It was one of the strangest moments of my life.”
Ironically, Epstein was convicted of sex crimes and committed suicide in prison in 2019.
Additionally, Williams said that after that embarrassing encounter, she received a postcard from Trump, delivered to her modeling agency by courier, with a photo of Palm Beach on the front showing his Mar-a-Lago resort.
“Stacey, your second home. Love, Donald,” the undated postcard read on the back.
In response, the former president’s campaign denied the allegations of sexual misconduct against him and said that Williams used to be an activist for former President Barack Obama, according to Variety.
“These allegations made by a former Barack Obama activist and announced in a Harris campaign call two weeks before the election are unequivocally false. “It is obvious that this false story was fabricated by the Harris campaign,” Trump’s national press secretary for his campaign, Karoline Leavitt, told the publication.
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