Damaging Trump story likely to come to light in ‘coming days’: adviser

A senior advisor to donald trumpThe Trump campaign has said other negative stories about the former president are likely to come to light in the coming days after a former swimsuit model alleged Trump groped her more than 30 years ago.

Stacey Williams, 56, detailed the allegations during a Zoom call on Monday organized by Kamala Survivors.

She accused Trump of groping and touching her sexually in an incident at Trump Tower in 1993 while Jeffrey Epstein—who was found dead in his cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, observed, according to the guardian newspaper, which first reported on the allegation. The newspaper said it spoke to two of Williams’ friends, who said she had told them about the incident years ago.

Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the allegation “unequivocally false” and alleged that “this false story was concocted by Kamala Harris‘campaign’ to harm Trump two weeks before the 2024 elections.

In an appearance in cnn‘s The situation room On Thursday night, Trump adviser Bryan Lanza suggested that more negative stories about Trump, orchestrated by the Democratic Party.

“We are two weeks away from the election,” he told host Wolf Blitzer. “It’s a lot of these false things coming to light. You know, we’ve addressed this. I suspect something will come out in the next few days, and then something will come out next week.”

He added: “This is a long playbook that the Democratic Party has followed and trying to find someone at the last minute to try to distract from the fact that they have yet to make their case for why Kamala Harris should actually be president.” “

Williams said NBC News on Wednesday that his decision to run was not made in conjunction with the Democratic Party. He also said he had not had any communication with the Harris campaign.

The Harris and Trump campaigns have been contacted for further comment via email.

Lanza also said Trump would not publicly address the allegation.

“He doesn’t need it,” she said. “We’re going to move forward. We’re going to talk about the issues that matter to the American people, which are immigration and the economy.”

Alencia Johnson, a senior adviser to the Harris campaign who appeared on The situation room Along with Lanza, he pointed to the long history of sexual misconduct allegations against Trump. He also noted that a jury had found Trump responsible for sexual abuse last year. Trump has denied all allegations.

Asked by Blitzer what the impact of the latest allegation might be, Johnson said: “It crystallizes this question… How do you agree with a man who has actually been found responsible for all of this? If there are lists and numbers of women “They keep coming out and talking about how they’ve been assaulted by this man, how are you really going to justify voting for someone like that?”

Harris’ survivors “are women who have said enough is enough,” Johnson added. “And I think this also gives permission to independent companies and Republican “Women who are actually tired of this dangerous culture that Donald Trump has introduced.”

Lanza said that “the dangerous culture is that every time we get close to the election, the Democratic Party is going to find an activist, the super activist that we discovered that files an accusation.”

When Blitzer pointed out Trump’s history of accusations, Lanza said there was also “a history of women making this stuff up.”

“We saw this in 2016: a lot of women came forward and no evidence was presented,” she said.

“How dare you?” Johnson responded. “How dare you trivialize women’s experiences and say that we made up these stories, because that’s not true.”