Jessica Leeds, now 81, recounted what she was exposed to during her testimony in the case of former American writer and journalist E. Jean Carroll, who is suing the former president for rape and defamation.
A woman told a New York court on Tuesday that Donald Trump sexually harassed her during a plane trip in the United States in the late 1970s.
Jessica Leeds, now 81, recounted what she was exposed to during her testimony in the case of former American writer and journalist E. Jean Carroll, who is suing the former president for rape and defamation.
Trump denies the charges against him in a case that is only one of a series of legal procedures he faces that may hinder his candidacy for the 2024 US elections and his quest for a second term in the White House, where he spent four years between 2017 and 2021.
Leeds told federal court in Manhattan that Trump groped her in the business class section of a trip to New York in 1978 or 1979.
And she continued, “He did not generate any dialogue. It happened suddenly.” “Try to kiss me and feel my breasts,” she added.
Leeds made this accusation for the first time during an interview she gave to The New York Times before the 2016 elections that brought Trump to the presidency.
During that election campaign, about a dozen women accused Trump of sexually harassing them.
Leeds had made her accusations publicly after Trump denied, during a debate with Hillary Clinton, the validity of the information published about him committing any sexual harassment.
Leeds said at the time, “I was furious because he was lying.”
In early April, Trump appeared before the court in criminal cases related to paying money to a former porn star to buy her silence before the 2016 presidential election, which he won at Clinton’s expense.
Among the most prominent cases haunting the forty-fifth president of the United States are the accusations leveled against him of exerting pressure on officials of the electoral process in the state of Georgia in 2020, in addition to an investigation regarding his handling of the White House archives.
