Trump suggests his accusers are too unattractive to assault

Trump suggests his accusers are too unattractive to assault The GOP presidential nominee mocked several of the women accusing him of sexual assault.

Donald Trump on Friday intimated a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her was not attractive enough to have drawn his interest, part of a broader attack on the integrity and physical appearance of multiple women who've come forward this week to accuse the GOP presidential nominee of sexual assault.

“Yeah, I’m gonna go after her,” he said sarcastically at a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. “Believe me, she would not be my first choice. That I can tell you. You don’t know. That would not be my first choice.”

Trump was referring to Jessica Leeds, a woman who told The New York Times on Wednesday that Trump groped her while the two were seated together on an airplane in the early 1980s.

“I was with Trump in 1980. I was sitting with him on an airplane and he went after me on the plane,” the Republican presidential nominee said, using the voice he usually deploys to mock people.

Trump said he was being “viciously attacked with lies and smears,” calling such allegations “a phony deal.” He also said the attacks were his critics' only hope for stopping the success of his political movement.

“When you looked at that horrible woman last night, you said 'I don’t think so,'” Trump told his supporters. “I don’t think so. Whoever she is, wherever she comes from, the stories are total fiction. They are 100 percent made up. They never happened. They never would happen. I don’t think it happened with very many people, but they certainly aren’t gonna happen with me.”

Trump also dismissed former People magazine reporter Natasha Stoynoff's allegation. In a first-person account, she claimed Trump forcibly kissed her in 2005 at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

Trump maintained that her story has already been debunked and encouraged his supporters to visit her Facebook page and judge for themselves whether he would want to kiss her.

“She’s a liar. She is a liar,” he said. “She’s writing a story — check out her Facebook page, you’ll understand.”

Trump also said his campaign advisers had told him not to attack the women criticizing him but to instead ignore the accusations and discuss other policy matters, including job creation.

But he did not take that advice.

“I feel I have to talk about it because you have to dispute when somebody says something, and fortunately we have the microphone, we’re able to dispute,” Trump said. “Some people can’t. These are lies being pushed by the media and the Clinton campaign to try and keep their grip on our country. They are all false. They’re totally invented fiction — all 100 percent totally and completely fabricated.”

Trump also disputed the account of Kristin Anderson, who told The Washington Post on Friday that Trump slid his fingers inside her miniskirt to touch her vagina through her underwear while she was engaged in a conversation inside a Manhattan nightclub in the early 1990s.

Trump argued it was untrue because she claimed he was sitting alone in a club, saying that “I really don’t sit alone that much.”

“I was sitting alone, like this,” he said, looking lonesome. “And then I went wahh,” he said, sticking out his hand, apparently illustrating how he allegedly reached up her skirt.

“I just heard this one. It’s like — it’s like unbelievable,” he said

Trump said the media was focusing on the allegations instead of focusing on the WikiLeaks hacks of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails.

“They’d rather talk about this, somebody that you’ve never seen that said, ‘Oh, in 1992, he went like this,’” Trump said, sticking out his right hand and getting a laugh out of the crowd.

He outright rejected any allegation against him, claiming to his supporters that they’re all a result of a conspiracy created by collusion between the media and the Clinton campaign designed to keep him out of the White House.

“These are all horrible lies, all fabrications,” he said. “And we can’t let them change the most important election in our lifetime. If 5 percent of the people think it’s true — and maybe 10 percent — we don’t win.”

Leeds' allegation was published alongside Rachel Crooks', who accused Trump of forcibly kissing her outside a Trump Tower elevator in 2005.

In an interview with CNN on Thursday, Leeds said Trump touched her “wherever he could find a landing spot.”

“I kept thinking, maybe the stewardess is going to come and he'll stop, but she never came,” she recalled of the 15-minute encounter.

Trump faces a series of sexual assault allegations from women who have come forth in the wake of a leaked 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape in which Trump is heard boasting about forcibly kissing and groping women with impunity because he’s “a star.”

In addition to accusations from Leeds and Crooks, former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos told celebrity attorney Gloria Allred at a news conference Friday that Trump groped her and kissed her twice on the lips in 2007. Mindy McGillivray told the Palm Beach Post that Trump grouped her butt at Mar-a-Lago in 2003, and five Miss Teen USA pageant contestants told BuzzFeed that Trump would enter the contestants’ dressing rooms while the girls were changing. And in 1992 “Entertainment Tonight” footage released by CBS this week, Trump talks to a young girl and tells the camera he’s going to be dating her in 10 years.

Trump speculated that the women came forward either for fame or money. “Who knows?” he asked, adding, “The Clinton campaign is pushing it.”

“The whole thing is one big fix. It’s one big fix,” he said. “It’s one big, ugly lie. It’s one big fix. The press can’t write the kind of things they write, which are lies, lies, lies. The stories are fabrications and false, and the only thing I say is hopefully — hopefully — our patriotic movement will overcome this terrible deception.”