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Edward Helmore

‘Like an octopus’: Trump accuser rebuts ex-president’s denial that he groped her

An older woman in front of the Trump Tower.
Jessica Leeds at a press conference outside Trump Tower in Manhattan on Monday. Photograph: Julia Nikhinson/AP

Donald Trump sexual abuse accuser Jessica Leeds says she ruefully “laughed out loud” when the former president recently disputed her sworn testimony that he grabbed her, tried to kiss her and ran his hand up her skirt on a plane in the 1970s by insisting “she would not have been the chosen one”.

“He assaulted me 50 years ago and continues to attack me today,” Leeds said alongside her attorneys during a press conference in New York on Monday. “It was like he had 47 arms – like an octopus, but not a sound was spoken.”

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