News - USWNT's Ali Krieger says Donald Trump is angered by women he 'cannot control or grope'

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USWNT's Ali Krieger says Donald Trump is angered by women he 'cannot control or grope'

USWNT defender Ali Krieger issued a strong rebuke to President Donald Trump after he tweeted about teammate Megan Rapinoe on Wednesday.

"In regards to the 'President's' tweet today, I know women who you cannot control or grope anger you, but I stand by (Rapinoe) & will sit this one out as well," Krieger wrote.

"I don't support this administration nor their fight against LGBTQ+ citizens, immigrants & our most vulnerable."

On Wednesday morning, Trump sent several critical tweets about Rapinoe, who had previously said she wouldn't visit the White House if the U.S. won the World Cup. Trump wrote, in part: "Megan should never disrespect our Country, the White House, or our Flag, especially since so much has been done for her & the team. Be proud of the Flag that you wear."

In regards to the “President’s” tweet today, I know women who you cannot control or grope anger you, but I stand by @mPinoe & will sit this one out as well. I don’t support this administration nor their fight against LGBTQ+ citizens, immigrants & our most vulnerable.

— Ali Krieger (@alikrieger) June 26, 2019

Trump added that while he hadn't officially invited the team to the White House, he was extending that invitation Wednesday: "I am a big fan of the American Team, and Women’s Soccer, but Megan should WIN first before she TALKS! Finish the job! We haven’t yet invited Megan or the team, but I am now inviting the TEAM, win or lose."

The Trump Timeline - Updated 06/27/2019

The Trump Timeline

2013 - Cassandra Searles

Inappropriate Sexual Advances and Contact

Searles as Miss Washington was a contestant in Donald’s Miss USA pageant. In 2013, she states that he “continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room.”

2010 – Karen McDougal

Consensual Affair

$150,000 paid by the National Enquirer to former Playboy model Karen McDougal for her story about an affair with Trump...then stopped the story, keeping it quiet. She is currently still under contract with the National Enquirer, however, in 2018, she has broken her exclusivity contract.

2010 - Erin Burnett's unnamed friend

Inappropriate Sexual Advances

Erin Burnett, a CNN journalist, claimed that while meeting with Donald in 2010, he tried to kiss her friend without permission. “Trump took Tic Tacs, suggested I take them also,” Erin revealed her friend said. “He then leaned in, catching me off guard, and kissed me almost on lips. I was really freaked out.”

2007 – Summer Zervos

Lawsuit filed 2017

Currently with the New York State Supreme Court

Sexual Assault

In 2017, Zervos filed a subpoena for "all documents concerning any woman who asserted that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately".

2006 – Stephanie Clifford “Stormy Daniels”

Consensual Affair, Settlement of $130,000 with a Gag Order

Trump’s personal Lawyer has admitted to payment for affair to Clifford, which, as of 2018, may have nullified the Gag Order

2006 - Ninni Laaksonen

Inappropriate Touching

Laaksonen, Miss Finland in 2006 and participant in Trump's Miss Universe pageant. Before she, Trump and three other pageant contestants posed for a photograph outside of the iconic amphitheater in New York City. "Trump stood right next to me and suddenly he squeezed my butt. He really grabbed my butt," Laaksonen alleged in an interview with Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat, according to the Telegraph.

2006 - Jessica Drake

Accused of Inappropriate Behaviour

Trump hugged and kissed her and two female companions in his hotel room without permission. She also charged that after she left the room, Trump or someone acting on his behalf called her and offered her $10,000 to return.

2005/2006 – Rachel Crooks

Accused Trump of grabbing, then forcibly kissing her in the lobby of an office building in New York City

2005/2006 - Juliet Huddy

2005 - Jennifer Murphy

Accused of Inappropriate Behaviour

A contestant on the fourth season of “The Apprentice,” the reality-TV show that Trump used to host, told British magazine Grazia that Trump kissed her on the lips after a job interview in 2005.

2005 - Natasha Stoynoff

Assault

According to the People Magazine journalist, “We walked into that room alone, and Trump shut the door behind us. I turned around, and within seconds he was pushing me against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat.”

2003 - Mindy McGillivray

Inappropriate Touching

Photo from Palm Beach Post

McGillivray states she was groped by Trump at Mar-a-Lago while working with a photographer.

2001 - Tasha Dixon

Accused of Voyeurism

Tasha Dixon, Miss Arizona USA, told a CBS affiliate in Los Angeles that in 2001, "[Trump] just came strolling right in. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless, other girls were naked."

2000 - Bridget Sullivan

Accused of Voyeurism

Bridget Sullivan was Miss New Hampshire USA. As she prepared for a television broadcast, Trump allegedly walked into the dressing room. She told BuzzFeed that he was coming to wish the contestants good luck, but they "were all naked".

1998 - Karena Virginia

Sexual Assault

Virginia states, "He then walked up to me and reached his right arm and grabbed my right arm, then his hand touched the right inside of my breast. I was in shock. I flinched.” Trump then asked her, "Don't you know who I am? Don't you know who I am?" she said.

1997 - Temple Taggart McDowell

Sexual Assault

Photo from The New York Times

Lawsuit Pending

Accused Donald J. Trump of kissing her on the mouth on two different occasions when she was competing in his Miss USA pageant.

1997 - Cathy Heller

Sexual Assault

Picture from The Guardian: Molly Redden

Cathy Heller charges that when she met Donald Trump for the first and only time, he grabbed her, went for a kiss, and grew angry with her as she twisted away. “Oh, come on,” she alleges that he barked, before holding her firmly in place and planting his lips on hers.

1995/1996 – E. Jean Carroll

Sexual Assault/Rape

Accused Trump of sexually assaulted her in the fall of 1995 or the spring of 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman store in New York City.

1994 – Katie Johnson

Rape

Lawsuit filed and recalled 3 times - Withdrawn due to Death Threats

Trump was accused of raping the 13 year old, with Jeffrey Epstein, who is a convicted Sex Offender, repeatedly over a four month period.

1992 – Jill Harth

Lawsuit filed 1997

Jill Harth alleges that Trump assaulted her several times. Trump attempted to put his hands between her legs. During a visit to Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in January 1993, Trump, according to Harth, offered her a tour before pulling her into the empty bedroom of his daughter Ivanka. "I was admiring the decoration, and next thing I know he's pushing me against a wall and has his hands all over me. He was trying to kiss me. I was freaking out." After she became engaged, Harth alleges, Trump began to stalk her.

1990’s - Kristin Anderson

Sexual Assault

Says Trump groped her beneath her skirt in a Manhattan nightclub, the China Club, in the early 1990s.

1989 – Ivana Trump

Married – 1970 to 1991

Children - Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric Trump

Lawsuit filed 1989 - Settlement

Ivana stated in a deposition taken in 1989, during their divorce proceedings, that Trump had expressed anger and ripped out hair from her scalp. The 1993 book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald Trump, by Harry Hurt III, described the alleged attack as a "violent assault" during which Donald attacked Ivana sexually. Ivana has since recanted this testimony.

1980’s - Jessica Leeds

Sexual Assault

Leeds alleges that about 45 minutes after takeoff, Trump lifted the armrest and began touching her, grabbing her breasts, and tried to put his hand up her skirt. "He was like an octopus," she said. "His hands were everywhere. It was an assault."

E. Jean Carroll - Two Women Who Heard E. Jean Carroll’s Account of Being Attacked by Trump Go Public

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06/27/2019
Two Women Who Heard E. Jean Carroll’s Account of Being Attacked by Trump Go Public

Writer E. Jean Carroll came forward last week with a rape allegation against President Donald Trump, and on Thursday the two women she privately confided in after the alleged assault spoke publicly for the first time. 

In an interview on the New York Times podcast “The Daily,” Lisa Birnbach and Carol Martin, journalists who have worked in New York media for decades, describe their conversations with Carroll, the conflicting advice they gave, and what has happened since. 

E. Jean Carroll on June 23, 2019, in New York. (Photo: Craig Ruttle, AP)

In a detailed excerpt from her upcoming memoir, “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal,” published in New York magazine on Friday, Carroll accuses Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s. She said he pulled down her tights and penetrated her. Trump has repeatedly denied the allegation — as he's done with the 19 other women who have accused him of sexual misconduct — claiming, “I’ve never met this person in my life." (A picture in New York magazine shows Trump and Carroll together at a 1987 party.)

Carroll recalls in the podcast that she fought back vigorously during the alleged assault. Afterward, she ran out of the department store, got onto 6th Avenue, pulled her phone out of her purse and called Birnbach, who was home on the Upper East Side with her two kids, then aged 6 and 3. 

Birnbach said she remembers Carroll "laughing" as she told the story. She said repeatedly that Trump pulled down her tights. Birnbach said at first she was laughing, too, but as Carroll continued she stopped, realizing what her friend was describing was rape.

"Honestly, you said 'he put his penis in me,'" Birnbach recalls. "And I said 'what? He raped you?'"

Birnbach said she encouraged Carroll to go to the police. She said she would go with her, but Carroll declined. 

"It was 15 minutes of my life. It's over. Don't ever tell anybody. I just had to tell you," Birnbach remembers Carroll saying.

Sometime later, between one and three days, Carroll told Martin. She was no longer laughing. 

"She was like, 'I can't believe this happened." Martin said.

Fearing Trump was too powerful to take on, Martin's advice to Carroll was the opposite of Birnbach's. She remembers telling Carroll, "Don't tell anybody. I wouldn't tell anybody this." 

After these conversations, the women say they never spoke about the alleged attack again. Not during the presidential campaign, nor after the leaked Access Hollywood tape (on which Trump is heard saying he's famous enough to freely sexually harass and assault women).

Carroll told the New York Times she didn't come forward then because she suspected her story wouldn't make a difference. She's faced criticism for coming out with her accusation now, including from Trump, who said "She is trying to sell a new book — that should indicate her motivation." 

However, she's not the first writer to disclose sexual abuse in a memoir.

"I think oftentimes, the place that the public and the media go is to thinking this is something someone is disclosing because of what they have to gain — to sell more copies," said Laura Palumbo, communications director at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. "But for a lot of survivors, a book is really an opportunity to tell their story on their own terms."

Carroll said she had no expectations her book would have an impact.

"I've learned as a woman of 76 years to have absolutely no expectations, because if you have even a half of an expectation, you will be disappointed," she said.

Since Carroll's story was published, the National Sexual Assault Hotline reports it has seen a 53% increase in calls. 

If you are a survivor of sexual assault, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 800.656.HOPE (4673) or visit hotline.rainn.org/online and receive confidential support.