‘I Tried to Push Him, He Kept Coming Back At Me’: Trump’s Sexual Assault Accusers Speak Out in Chilling 2024 Election Ad

Former President Donald Trump declared this week that he would be a “protector” of women. In a pair of campaign ads, two women described how the ex-president sexually assaulted them.

People Magazine was the first to report on the ads, which were backed by George Conway’s Anti-Psychopath PAC, and one of their own journalists, Natasha Stoynoff, recounted what happened when she visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2005:

At one point, [Melania Trump] went upstairs to change her clothes for the next photo shoot, and Trump said to me, ‘I want to show you this beautiful painting, this beautiful room.’ He leads me to this room, pushes me against the wall, and starts kissing me forcefully. I tried to push him. He kept coming back at me.

I was in shock and smothered, and he had his hands here against my shoulders. I felt sick inside. I felt horrified, and thank goodness the butler charges into the room. Like many women, I blamed myself. So Trump turned to me and said, ‘You know we’re going have an affair, don’t you?’ and Melania was approaching. I was horrified.

Trump claimed that he had never met Stoynoff. The ad featured a photo that proved otherwise.

In a separate ad, Jessica Leeds described her encounter with Trump on a plane in 1979:

The airplane took off, and all of a sudden Donald Trump started groping me. He was trying to kiss me and I’m trying to push him away. He was basically overpowering me. When he started putting his hand up my skirt I got out of the seat, grabbed my purse, and went back to my original seat and I certainly was shook up by the whole thing.

Leeds added that two years later, Trump saw her and said: “I remember you. You’re that cunt from the airplane.”

Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), said in 2016 that he believed Leeds’s account.

People reported that the ads will get airtime on “some of Trump’s favorite channels — Fox News, ESPN, and The Golf Channel — in his home towns of West Palm Beach, Fla., and Bedminster, NY.” The ads will also be seen on streaming platforms in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania, and there are plans to run them on NewsNation during the October 1 vice presidential debate.

Trump has denied the allegations by Stoynoff and Leeds, as well as other allegations of sexual assault, but he was found liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll and defaming her after that verdict. The judge in the defamation case ruled that Trump and his legal team could not say that the ex-president didn’t rape Carroll.