Stacey Williams, a former model, has made serious allegations against former President Donald Trump during a CNN interview, claiming that he groped her in the early 1990s. Williams states that the alleged incident took place in 1993 after disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with whom she was then involved, introduced her to Trump at Trump Tower in New York City.
According to Williams, when Trump approached her, he immediately pulled her towards him, with his hands on her body inappropriately. "The second he was in front of me, he pulled me into him, and his hands were just on me and didn’t come off,” she recounted. This behavior persisted while Epstein and Trump engaged in conversation, leaving Williams feeling frozen and in shock, describing the experience as "an out of body experience."
The Trump campaign responded to these allegations, which surfaced just weeks before the upcoming election, with strong denials. Campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt asserted that the claims were made during a call for Kamala Harris’s campaign and suggested they were an attempt to distract from allegations against Doug Emhoff, Harris’s husband, who has also faced accusations of past misconduct.
Emhoff’s ex-girlfriend, anonymously quoted by the Daily Mail, accused him of slapping her in 2012, which he has denied through a spokesperson. As political tensions rise ahead of the 2024 presidential election, Williams's allegations add to the growing list of accusations against Trump since his initial candidacy announcement in 2016. Notably, a civil jury concluded in 2023 that Trump was liable for sexually abusing writer E Jean Carroll, who has won multiple defamation lawsuits against him related to his public comments.
As the political landscape intensifies, Stacey Williams's accusations are likely to evoke significant discussion regarding past behaviors of politicians and their consequences.
