Trump Has A Historical past Of Questionable Conduct With Girls

Trump Has A Historical past Of Questionable Conduct With Girls

Trump has a historical past of questionable habits with ladies: NY Occasions
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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event on the Indiana Theater in Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S., Could 1, 2016. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein
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Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a marketing campaign rally in Eugene, Oregon, U.S. on May 6, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart/File Photograph
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Protesters shout exterior the Republican Nationwide Committee the place Trump was meeting Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Capitol Hill in Washington May 12, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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Interviews with dozens of girls who've worked for Donald Trump or interacted with him socially reveal a sample of usually unsettling personal habits by the Republican presidential candidate, The New York Instances reported on Saturday.
The Instances, which stated it primarily based the article on more than 50 interviews, quoted women who recounted episodes during which he treated ladies as sexual objects and made comments about their bodies. However some girls said Trump had inspired them in their careers and promoted them within his companies, usually in positions by which ladies tended to be excluded.
When asked about the unflattering incidents described in the article, Trump either denied that they happened or disputed the small print, the newspaper stated.
Lots of things get made up over time,” Trump informed the Occasions. I have all the time handled ladies with nice respect.”
A Trump representative didn't instantly respond to a request by Reuters for remark.
Barbara Res, who oversaw construction of Trump's Manhattan enterprise headquarters, mentioned he would typically interrupt conferences with comments about women's figures.
During a job interview for a Los Angeles undertaking, for instance, Trump made a random apart about Southern California ladies. "They handle their asses," Res recalled Trump saying.
Years later, when Res says she had gained weight, she mentioned Trump instructed her: "You want your sweet."
Even so, Res, who labored for Trump for 12 years before quitting and then got here again as a marketing consultant for six extra, said she was grateful to Trump for her skilled alternatives, although she stated he continuously referred to as her "Honey Bunch," the Instances reported.
Trump also earned a popularity for being seen with beautiful women relationship again to his days at a New York army-style boarding school where he was named "girls' man" within the yearbook, the Instances reported.
Barbara Fife, a deputy New York mayor within the nineteen nineties, recalls Trump telling her at her Metropolis Corridor workplace that he was in a hurry as a result of he had "an excellent date tonight with a mannequin for Victoria's Secret," she advised the Occasions.
I saw it as immature, fairly actually,” Fife was quoted as saying.
As a candidate, Trump has made frequent references to his record in enterprise as proof of how American girls would profit if he's elected. He has typically stated that no one cherishes” or respects” girls greater than him.
Some of those interviewed praised Trump for giving women positions of power.
I believe there are mischaracterizations about him,” Jill Martin, assistant counsel on the Trump Group, instructed the Instances. For me, he's made it a scenario the place I can actually excel at my job and nonetheless devote the time essential for my family.”
The story comes lower than two weeks after the last of Trump's Republican rivals dropped out, all however assuring him the celebration's presidential nomination this summer time.
All through his unbelievable marketing campaign, Trump has managed to deflect criticism about his perspective to ladies, fueled by verbal insults he lobbed at Fox Information anchor Megyn Kelly and former Republican candidate Carly Fiorina.
(Reporting by Frank McGurty; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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