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Jessica Valenti
Don’t Stop Talking About the Trump Sex Assault Allegations
The President took a verbal lashing last week, but some of his past actions were missing
Last week, Michael Cohen laid bare the president’s many failings in front of Congress. The former lawyer called Donald Trump a racist, claimed that then-businessman would ask Cohen to cheat small-business owners, pay people off, and lie for his benefit.
Missing from Cohen’s testimony, however — and from the national conversation lately — is his well-documented history of treating women poorly.
The president of the United States has been accused of sexual harassment or assault by nearly two dozen women. Jill Harth, for example, claims Trump tried to rape her in 1997. Kristin Anderson says Trump reached under her skirt, out of nowhere, to touch her vagina in the 1990s. Trump’s ex-wife, Ivana, accused him of rape during a divorce deposition. (She later said she wasn’t raped “in the criminal sense,” but that “as a woman, I felt violated.”) And Jessica Leeds says Trump groped her on a plane. Trump responded by claiming Leeds was too unattractive to assault. Just days ago, yet another woman, Alva Johnson, came forward to claim that Trump forcibly kissed her — a story, like so many before it, that has…
