The 25 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct

Rachel Crooks, left, Jessica Leeds, center, and Samantha Holvey attend a news conference, Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, in New York to discuss their accusations of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump. Mark Lennihan/AP Images

At least 25 women have accused President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct since the 1970s.

Renewed attention has been brought to the allegations amid the #MeToo movement and a national conversation concerning sexual misconduct.

Trump has repeatedly denied the accusations, denouncing his accusers as „liars.“

In June 2019, c olumnist E. Jean Carroll accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room the mid-1990s.

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As a national conversation on sexual misconduct is gripping the country from Hollywood to Capitol Hill, some renewed attention has been focused on the sexual misconduct allegations that at least 25 women have made against Trump since the 1970s.

A deluge of women made their accusations public following the October 2016 release of the „Access Hollywood“ tape, in which Trump was recorded boasting about grabbing women’s genitals in 2005. Some others made their stories public months before the tape’s release, and still others came forward in the months following.

Trump has broadly dismissed the allegations, which include ogling, harassment, groping, and rape, as „fabricated“ and politically motivated accounts pushed by the media and his political opponents. He promised to sue all of his accusers during the 2016 election. In some cases, Trump and his lawyer have suggested that he didn’t engage in alleged behavior with certain women because they weren’t attractive enough for him to be interested in.

„Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign,“ the Republican nominee said during a 2016 rally. „Total fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.“

The president said these „false allegations“ against him were made by „women who got paid a lot of money to make up stories about me.“ And then alleged that the „mainstream media“ refused to report on evidence that the accusations were made up.

Trump has not yet made good on his promise to sue any of the women — although two women have sued him – and the White House says that Trump’s election proves the American people don’t consider the allegations disqualifying.

„The people of this country, at a decisive election, supported President Trump, and we feel like these allegations have been answered through that process,“ White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters in December 2017, after several of the president’s accusers appeared on national television to rehash their allegations.

But despite Trump’s denials, 50% of voters — 59% of women and 41% of men — surveyed in a December 2017 Quinnipiac poll released think the president should resign as a result of the sexual misconduct allegations against him. Several Democratic lawmakers have recently called on Trump to resign over the accusations.

One accuser, Samantha Holvey, who out again last year about her experience with Trump as a Miss USA pageant contestant, said that while his election was painful, she and others see the #MeToo movement as an opportunity to „try round two.“

„We’re private citizens, and for us to put ourselves out there to try and show America who this man is and especially how he views women, and for them to say ‚meh, we don’t care‘ — it hurts,“ Holvey said on NBC News‘ „Megyn Kelly Today“ in December 2017. „And so now it’s just like, all right, let’s try round two. The environment’s different. Let’s try again.“

Here are all of the allegations — in chronological order — made by 25 named women:

The 25 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct slides