Former model claims Donald Trump groped her after Jeffrey Epstein introduced them
A former model has come out and accused Donald Trump of groping and sexually touching her at his Trump Tower home in 1993.
Stacy Williams, who worked as a model in the 1990s, has told The Guardian newspaper that she first met Mr Trump in 1992 at a Christmas party after being introduced to him by the late sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
Ms Williams, 56, told the newspaper that Epstein was interested in her, and they casually dated for a period of a few months.
Some months later, in the late winter or spring of 1993, she said she was on a walk with Epstein when they stopped at Trump Tower, and Mr Trump put his hands “all over my breasts” as well as her waist and her buttocks.
She told The Guardian that she froze when it happened because she was “deeply confused” about what was going on.
Ms Williams said Mr Trump sent her agent a postcard in late 1993 that had an aerial view of Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach residence and resort.
She shared the postcard with The Guardian, and it shows Mr Trump’s handwriting, in what appears to be his trademark black sharpie pen. He wrote: “Stacey – Your home away from home. Love Donald”.
Ms Williams has previously shared parts of her claim on social media, but revealed the full details of the alleged encounter on a call on Monday organised by a group called ‘Survivors for Kamala’, which supports the Democrat nominee.
After the alleged incident, Ms Williams said she felt Epstein growing angry with her, and he blamed her for what Mr Trump is alleged to have done.
She said she felt the alleged incident seemed part of a “twisted game”, and added: “I felt shame and disgust and as we went our separate ways.”
The press secretary for Donald Trump’s campaign, Karoline Leavitt, gave The Guardian a statement categorically denying the allegations.
The newspaper said the statement said in part: “These accusations, made by a former activist for Barack Obama and announced on a Harris campaign call two weeks before the election, are unequivocally false.
“It’s obvious this fake story was contrived by the Harris campaign.”
Around two dozen women in total have accused the former president of sexual misconduct going back decades, and last year, a jury found him liable for sexually abusing the columnist E Jean Carroll in 1996.
No evidence has surfaced claiming that Mr Trump was aware of or involved in the misconduct perpetrated by Epstein – although the pair did know each other for decades.
Watch live: Trump holds rally in Georgia with special guests
Donald Trump is holding a vast rally in Georgia right now – his second event today in a state he is desperate to win back on election day.
He is appearing alongside special guests, including Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, and former Democrat congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
Watch live in the stream above, at the link below – and we’ll bring you any key lines right here.
Trump reacts furiously to former chief of staff Kelly calling him a ‘fascist’
In a scathing Truth Social post, Donald Trump called his former chief of staff John Kelly a “lowlife” after he called Trump a “fascist” which The New York Times reported in a story published yesterday, out of “pure Trump derangement syndrome”.
“The story about the Soldiers was A LIE, as are numerous other stories he told,” Mr Trump wrote.
Mr Kelly made headlines yesterday after he told the Times that Trump is “certainly an authoritarian” and said “he certainly falls into the general definition of a fascist”.
He also told the newspaper that Mr Trump spoke favourably about Adolf Hitler in the White House, saying Trump once said: “Hitler did some good things, too.”
Trump Jr lashes out at Kelly after report Kelly thought Trump met definition of fascist
Donald Trump Jr lashed out at his father’s former chief of staff John Kelly, calling him “part of that swamp” after The New York Times reported that Mr Kelly thought Mr Trump met the definition of a fascist and said Mr Trump has made comments admiring Adolf Hitler.
“He’s part of that swamp. He’s doing their bidding. That’s how you get a board seat in Washington DC,” Mr Trump Jr told Sky’s US partner network NBC News.
Mr Trump Jr asserted that if Mr Kelly “was that concerned about it, I think he would have said it five years ago, not two weeks before an election”.
Mr Kelly told the New York Times in a story published yesterday that Trump is “certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators – he has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure”.
Mr Kelly also reportedly said Trump has made comments such as “You know, Hitler did some good things, too.”
In response to the New York Times story, Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesperson, said in a statement that Kelly “totally beclowned himself” by recounting “debunked stories” about the Trump administration.
Clinton mocks ‘macho’ Trump for refusing a second debate with Harris
Bill Clinton has mocked Donald Trump for refusing to do a second debate before election day.
The former president told voters in Arizona: “One thing they decided not to do, for all their macho talk, those boys didn’t want to get anywhere near another debate, did they?”
Mr Clinton went on: “You think that’s rough – you should’ve been living in my house the last 49 years. It’s amazing – I haven’t won many debates at home.”
More seriously, the former president said: “If they have sense enough not to do any other debates and let people see things for themselves, then they just work on scaring people and sowing doubt.”
Clinton says Harris ‘has a chance’ of winning Arizona
When Bill Clinton won the state of Arizona in 1996, he became the first Democrat to do so since 1948.
After that, it voted solidly Republican until 2020, when the state voted for Joe Biden.
Speaking in the city of Phoenix today, Mr Clinton reflected on the state’s evolution over the past nearly three decades.
“I’ve watched with joy the way the state has become increasingly diverse, people have become increasingly empowered,” he said.
“And that means we have a chance to win this race.”
The former president went on to say he has looked at reams of polling data in recent weeks, and “we’re, in theory, in better shape in Arizona than in some states that look like they’re more Democratic”.
Watch live: Bill Clinton headlines ‘Black Leaders For Harris-Walz’ rally
With less than two weeks to go, the Harris campaign is bringing out the big guns (metaphorically speaking).
After Barack Obama spoke at two rallies yesterday, the preceding Democrat president Bill Clinton is on the campaign trail today.
He is now speaking at a “Black Leaders For Harris-Walz” event in Phoenix, Arizona.
You can watch it live in the stream above, at the link below – and we’ll bring you any key lines right here.
In pictures: Kamala Harris meets voters in key swing state
Kamala Harris is not speaking at any big rallies today ahead of her town hall event with CNN later.
But she did make a stop in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.
She met and spoke to voters at the Famous 4th Street Delicatessen in Philadelphia, which is near where the town hall will take place.
Trump family Lebanese in-law predicts ‘huge wave’ among Arab voters
In an exclusive interview with Sky News, the Lebanese-born father-in-law of Donald Trump’s younger daughter has defended his support for a man often accused of xenophobia, and has predicted the tide is turning for the former president with a group of unlikely voters.
“There’s a huge wave. There’s a huge shift towards the Republican Party and towards President Trump,” Massad Boulos told Sky’s Anna Botting on The World.
Dr Boulos, who immigrated to Texas as a child, has emerged as a key emissary for Donald Trump in a concerted effort to reach Arab-American voters, particularly in the swing state of Michigan where most of the diaspora in America live.
Boulos’s son, Michael, married Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany two years ago. Since then, Boulos has risen to become the latest extended family member to enter the inner orbit of Team Trump.
Speaking to Sky News, he defended Mr Trump’s position on immigration, explained why he believed a Trump presidency would be good for the entire Middle East, and he said Arab-American voters were drawn by Trump because of an erosion of their traditional values – “the major issues with the woke ideology,” he said.
Watch the full interview here:
Trump claims Netanyahu has called him twice in the last two days
“Nobody’s done what I’ve done for Israel,” Donald Trump declared at a rally in Georgia when asked how he intends to support Israel if he is re-elected president.
He pointed to his administration moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a controversial move to recognise it fully as Israel’s capital, as well as recognising Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and negotiating the Abraham Accords, which normalised relations between Israel and four Arab countries for the first time.
But the biggest policy in support of Israel, Mr Trump said, was withdrawing from the nuclear agreement with Iran – a deal current Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ardently against.
Mr Trump went on to say that if he wins the White House again, his administration will “take care of Israel” – and then joked he’d get 97% of the vote if he ran to be prime minister there.
“We’re going to do a lot for Israel, we’re behind them. The big thing – we want to have peace in the Middle East,” he said.
He added “Bibi [Benjamin Netanyahu] called me yesterday, he called me the day before, and we have a very good relationship,” Mr Trump claimed.
The former president also said that he will also resolve the war in Ukraine after Putin’s illegal invasion.