A new sisterhood of Trump's accusers pushes for action
By Frances Stead Sellers and Mark Berman December 15 at 6:00 AM
Rachel Crooks and Samantha Holvey had never met. But through a twist of fate, they became players this week at the center of a national political storm over sexual misconduct that has now reached President Trump.
Both women have accused Trump of inappropriate advances earlier in his career, and a liberal film producer brought them together for the first time Sunday evening at a private dinner in Manhattan.
Crooks traveled from Ohio and Holvey from South Carolina to take part in a media blitz arranged by the filmmaker to bring attention to women’s accusations against Trump. The White House says all the women are lying, and the president tweeted this week that their allegations — first made public during the presidential campaign last year — were “false accusations and fabricated stories.” But Crooks and Holver said their memories of Trump remain vivid and unsettling. Crooks, 34, recalled him kissing her repeatedly in a Trump Tower encounter in 2005 when she was 22 years old.
Holvey, 31, remembered her experience as a 2006 Miss USA contestant, horrified when Trump, the pageant owner, barged into the dressing room to inspect the partially clothed women. She was one of several pageant beauties who had publicly complained that Trump treated contestants like his personal property. He talked about his unannounced dressing room inspections on Howard Stern’s radio show.
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