![]() You can do anything,” he said, as well as “I just start kissing them. The dirt: Even before the release of a 2005 video in which he boasted about sexually assaulting women-“Grab them by the pussy. Mike Segar / Reuters Sexual-Assault Allegations This is a snapshot of some of the most interesting and largest of those scandals. Including business deals that have simply failed, without any hint of impropriety, would require thousands more. To catalog the full sweep of allegations would require thousands of words and lump together the trivial with the truly scandalous. They stretch over more than four decades, from the mid-1970s to the present day. The breadth of Trump’s controversies is truly yuge, ranging from allegations of mafia ties to unscrupulous business dealings, and from racial discrimination to alleged marital rape. While they did not derail his presidential hopes, many of them remain live issues as Trump begins his transition to the White House. The 2016 presidential campaign saw a long string of stories showing scandals involving Trump, both large and small-from questionable business dealings to allegations of sexual assault. Zervos’s suit serves to underscore an even more unusual fact, though, which is that Trump won election despite a raft of allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct lodged by women in multiple places, from different eras. Bill Clinton settled a suit for sexual harassment filed by Paula Jones. It’s unusual for a president to be in such a legal situation-though not entirely unprecedented. That seems unlikely, because a spokeswoman dismissed the suit immediately. She added that she would withdraw the suit if Trump said she had been truthful. ![]() Trump the opportunity to retract his false statements about me and the other women who came forward,” she said, as my colleague Nora Kelly reported. Trump denied those claims, saying all of the women who had accused him had made their stories up. ![]() She claims that he kissed her and pressed his genitals against her nonconsensually. Zervos, who’s represented by the famous lawyer Gloria Allred, was one of the several women who accused Trump of sexual assault or misconduct prior to the election. Last week, a few days before Trump’s inauguration, the former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos sued him in New York State, accusing the president of defamation. Donald Trump is now president and not just a private citizen, but that doesn’t mean he’s free of the controversies that dogged him in his former life. ![]()
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