Trump stöttar O’Reilly efter uppgift om sextrakasserier
I en intervju med New York Times ger Donald Trump sitt stöd till den inflytelserika Fox News-profilen Bill O’Reilly efter att han anklagats för sexuella trakassier.
Nyligen publicerade tidningen en granskning av O’Reilly där man skrev att fem kvinnor genom åren tagit emot pengar, sammanlagt 117 miljoner kronor, från O’Reilly själv eller från Fox News. Detta för att inte ta anklagelserna vidare rättsligt.
– Personligen tycker jag inte att han skulle ha gjort upp i godo. Man ska ta det hela vägen. Jag tror inte att Bill gjort något fel, säger Trump till New York Times.
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Trump har själv anklagats för flera fall av sextrakasserier
Wikipedia (en)
Donald Trump, an American businessman and current President of the United States, has been accused of sexual assault and sexual harassment by at least fifteen women since the 1980s. Trump has denied the allegations, saying that he has been the victim of media bias, conspiracies, and a political smear campaign. In October 2016, Trump publicly vowed to sue all of the women who have made allegations of sexual assault or sexual harassment against him, as well as to sue the New York Times for publishing the allegations, but never followed through.
Several of these allegations preceded Trump's candidacy for president; many more arose during that campaign, especially after his second debate with Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton on October 9, 2016. That debate was held two days after a 2005 recording was leaked in which Trump bragged about kissing women ("I don't even wait"); as well as how easy it was for a celebrity like himself to "grab them by the pussy", because "they let you do it."
When Trump denied that his recorded comments amounted to a personal confession of sexual assault and denied ever having inappropriately touched a woman, many of his accusers stated that it was these denials provoked them into going public.
Three women have filed lawsuits - that were eventually withdrawn and/or settled - alleging that they were sexually assaulted by Trump. Additionally one accuser filed a defamation lawsuit after Trump called her a liar. In addition to these lawsuits, Trump has also been publicly accused of non-consensual kissing, or non-consensual groping of breasts, buttocks and genitalia, by at least twelve more women.
Multiple accusations, primarily beginning in October 2016, claim that Trump entered dressing rooms of beauty pageant contestants in 1997, 2000, 2001, and 2006, while they were in various stages of undress, a practice that Trump admitted to during a 2005 interview on The Howard Stern Show. This practice allegedly extended to Miss Teen USA; several former participants in that pageant allege that Trump walked into the dressing rooms of girls as young as 15.
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