Trump Accuser Says She 'Jumped Out Of Her Skin' During Debate
NPR
October 14, 2016
When Jessica Leeds was a traveling paper saleswoman in the late 1970s and early 1980s, she told herself that sexual harassment was just a fact of life.
"You didn't complain about that sort of thing," she told NPR in an interview Friday, which will air on "All Things Considered."
But an encounter she says she had with Donald Trump on a New York-bound airplane more than thirty years ago was different.
As she initially recounted to the New York Times in a story published Wednesday, she says Trump groped and kissed her as the two sat next to each other in first class.
"Whether it was 15 minutes or not, it seemed like forever," she said.
The encounter had began as a "cordial" conversation over an in-flight dinner.
Leeds said she had been escorted by a flight attendant from coach to first class, where she found herself seated next to Trump.
"They served a dinner....After the dinner was cleared he began encroaching on my side of the seat," Leeds told NPR's Audie Cornish.
"Mr Trump started coming over to me and groping me and trying to embrace me.
And then his hands started going up my skirt."
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