Woman claims Donald Trump 'reached up skirt and groped her' in latest sexual assault allegation

'Phony': Donald Trump said the woman had made the whole allegation up.
AP
Francesca Gillett14 October 2016

A woman in the US has claimed Donald Trump groped her under her skirt while on a night out in New York City in the 1990s.

Kristin Anderson said she was in her early 20s when the presidential candidate reached up under her skirt and touched her through her underwear during the alleged assault at a nightspot.

Ms Anderson, now 46, told her story to the Washington Post after spending several days deciding whether to go public with the sexual assault claims.

It is the latest in a string of sexual misconduct claims against Trump to emerge in recent days, after the New York Times reported the accounts of two women who said he had groped them.

But the Republican candidate said Ms Anderson was lying. His spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, said: “Mr Trump strongly denies this phony allegation by someone looking to get some free publicity. It is totally ridiculous.”

In the Washington Post report, Ms Anderson said she was sitting on a red velvet couch when the figure to her right moved his hand up her inner thigh and groped her.

She said she turned and recognised the man as Donald Trump.

"He was so distinctive looking," she told the newspaper, "with the hair and the eyebrows. I mean, nobody else has those eyebrows.

She added: "It wasn't a sexual come-on. I don't know why he did it. It was like just to prove that he could do it, and nothing would happen.

"There was zero conversation. We didn't even really look at each other. It was very random, very nonchalant on his part."

The newspaper said it had heard about Ms Anderson’s story through someone else and approached her.

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