Trump Hits Back at Accusers by Promising to Refute Their ‘Lies’
Following a story in The New York Times on Wednesday that featured four women going on the record to accuse Donald Trump of inappropriately touching them, the Republican presidential nominee fired back hard during a rally in West Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday.
“These vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely false,” Trump exclaimed.
He continued, “And the Clintons know it, and they know it very well. These claims are all fabricated. They’re pure fiction, and they’re outright lies. These events never, ever happened, and the people that said them meekly fully understand.”
In addition to denying the accusations made by his accusers, Trump said he had evidence that would prove his innocence.
“We already have substantial evidence to dispute these lies, and it will be made public in an appropriate way and at an appropriate time, very soon,” he said.
This all comes on the heels of Trump’s apologizing for comments he made in 2005 while with Access Hollywood host Billy Bush, where the real estate mogul bragged about trying to sleep with a married woman and boasted that because he was rich and famous, women would let him do anything to them, including grabbing their genitals.
Trump described these comments as “locker room talk” when questioned by moderator Anderson Cooper about them during Sunday’s presidential debate.
He also said it was simply “talk,” contrasting it with the alleged sexual misconduct of former President Bill Clinton, the husband of his opponent, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Trump also said Thursday he believed the accusations from the four women were part of a coordinated effort to take him down.
“Now we address the slander and libels that was just last night thrown at me by the Clinton machine and The New York Times and other media outlets as part of a concerted, coordinated and vicious attack,” he said.
Trump said the timing of the allegations — matching up directly with recent document dumps by WikiLeaks that were unfavorable to Hillary Clinton — was not something that happened by chance.
“It’s not [a] coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment and all together at the same time as WikiLeaks releases documents exposing the massive international corruption of the Clinton machine, including 2,000 more emails just this morning.”
Trump’s attacks on The New York Times followed a letter his lawyers wrote to the newspaper Wednesday threatening a lawsuit over its “libelous” and “defamatory” article if it did not retract what was written about the four accusers. (For more from the author of “Trump Hits Back at Accusers by Promising to Refute Their ‘Lies'” please click HERE)
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