Donald Trump is accused of groping by ex-model Stacey Williams

Presidential candidate Donald Trump is accused of groping former model Stacey Williams.

The incident, which a Trump spokesman has denied, was said to have occurred at Trump Tower in New York in 1993 and was part of a “twisted game” between the former president and late sexual abuse convict Jeffrey Epstein, Williams said in a statement Opinion article in the Guardian newspaper.

It is alleged that Trump and Williams met in the early 1990s, when she was working as a professional model, through Epstein, whom she said she briefly dated. Williams said it appeared Trump and Epstein were close friends and had “spent a lot of time together.”

Months after that acquaintance, Williams claims that Trump pulled her close and groped her, putting his hands “all over my breasts” as well as her waist and buttocks when they met again. She claims to have been “deeply confused” and frozen, and claims she saw the two men smiling at each other.

Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for Trump's campaign, issued a statement to the Guardian newspaper denying the incident: “These allegations were made by a former Barack Obama activist and announced at a Harris campaign call two weeks before the election “It is clear that this fake story was created by the Harris campaign.”

Williams has previously made accusations against Trump on social media, but laid out the fuller details in a Zoom call organized by Survivors For Kamala, a group that supports Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Actress and activist Ashley Judd and attorney Anita Hill, among others, took part in the call.

During the call, she claimed that Epstein became angry with her after they left Trump Tower and asked her why she let Trump touch her. “It made me feel so disgusting and I remember being completely confused,” she said, adding that the incident appeared to be part of a “twisted game.”

“I felt shame and disgust, and as we went our separate ways, I felt the sensation of looking at it again with hands all over me. I had this horrible feeling in my stomach that it was somehow staged. I felt like a piece of meat,” she said.

Williams also shared a postcard that Trump allegedly sent her offering to let her stay at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. The message, which appeared to be in Trump's handwriting, read: “Stacey – your second home. I love Donald.”

Williams claimed to have broken up with financier Epstein shortly afterwards and was unaware of his widespread sexual abuse. He committed suicide in prison in 2019 after being convicted of various horrific sexual offenses over many years. Trump and Epstein were friends in the 1980s and 1990s, but the former Republican president claimed in 2019 that they had a falling out and hadn't spoken in “15 years.” There is no evidence that Trump knew of Epstein's unlawful conduct.

Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct by various women over several decades, but has always denied the allegations. He was convicted in 1996 of sexually abusing columnist E. Jean Carroll. This week, Survivors For Kamala published a full-page ad in the New York Times to remind citizens of the allegations surrounding Trump and urge them to vote for the vice president in the upcoming election.

The bitter race for the White House is now entering its final stages as Americans go to the polls on November 5th.