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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 02:16 PM Feb 2019

BREAKING: Former Campaign Staffer Sues Trump for Allegedly Kissing Her Without Her Consent

Source: Mediaite



by Pardes Seleh | Feb 25th, 2019, 10:18 am

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In a lawsuit filed Monday morning in Florida, 43-year-old Alva Johnson said Trump had grabbed her hand and kissed her on the lips while he was getting out of an RV during a campaign rally trip on August 24, 2016, in Tampa, Florida. Johnson told the Washington Post he had leaned in for a kiss when she accidentally turned her head, and the kiss landed on the side of her mouth, which was “super-creepy and inappropriate.”

“I immediately felt violated because I wasn’t expecting it or wanting it,” she told the Post. “I can still see his lips coming straight for my face.” Johnson, a mother of four, said the unwanted kiss happened after she had brought Trump’s campaign volunteer into the RV he was in to take photos with him. According to the lawsuit, she had given him words of encouragement before his rally and told him he’s “doing an awesome job. Go in there and kick ass.” That is when he leaned in for the kiss.

“Oh, my God, I think he’s going to kiss me,” she related to the Post. “He’s coming straight for my lips. So I turn my head, and he kisses me right on the corner of my mouth, still holding my hand the entire time. Then he walks on out.”

Several Trump employees and allies have denied the claims against him, saying they had never seen or heard of the kiss until now. Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s newest campaign spokeswoman, called Johnson’s allegation “off-base and unfounded.” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders called it “absurd on its face.” Two of the witnesses Johnson had identified, then-Florida attorney general Pam Bondi and another campaign official, told the Post they did not see the alleged kiss happen.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/former-campaign-staffer-sues-trump-for-allegedly-kissing-her-without-her-consent/

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BREAKING: Former Campaign Staffer Sues Trump for Allegedly Kissing Her Without Her Consent (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2019 OP
The republican family-values role model* is a complete pig Achilleaze Feb 2019 #1
Pamela Bondi is the picture in Webster's for "Deplorable." NoMoreRepugs Feb 2019 #2
Hilarious !! n/t jaysunb Feb 2019 #3
"Absurd on its face"...well, the lech was aiming for her mouth... Guilded Lilly Feb 2019 #4
WashPost has it also, link... riversedge Feb 2019 #5
Yup BumRushDaShow Feb 2019 #8
"Well when youre a star they let you ..." Fullduplexxx Feb 2019 #6
Nah - He did it. Oneironaut Feb 2019 #7
So where's the OUTRAGE??!? What do Hannity and Limbaugh say? What about Kellyanne? Still In Wisconsin Feb 2019 #9
So did she still vote for him? N/t TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #10
Republicans going to DEMAND he step down like Franken?? Bengus81 Feb 2019 #11
Oh shit! Didn't Mikey Cohen take of that thing??? Go see Don Jr, he's got the check book now! marble falls Feb 2019 #12
Eeeeccchhh, gross. Marie Marie Feb 2019 #13

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. The republican family-values role model* is a complete pig
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 02:18 PM
Feb 2019


* aka KGOP republican Comrade Dirty Donny, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
4. "Absurd on its face"...well, the lech was aiming for her mouth...
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 02:28 PM
Feb 2019

And it was more like revolting on her face.
When will this Cretin be held accountable for anything by any of his paid flunkies?

riversedge

(70,239 posts)
5. WashPost has it also, link...
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 02:28 PM
Feb 2019





Former campaign staffer alleges in lawsuit that Trump kissed her without her consent. The White House denies the charge.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/former-campaign-staffer-alleges-in-lawsuit-that-trump-kissed-her-without-her-consent-the-white-house-denies-the-charge/2019/02/25/fe1869a4-3498-11e9-946a-115a5932c45b_story.html?utm_term=.b6c9fddc29cd


By Beth Reinhard and Alice Crites



February 25 at 9:01 AM




A former campaign staffer accuses Trump of an unwanted kiss. Now she's taking him to court.
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In interviews with The Washington Post, and in the lawsuit, Alva Johnson said Trump grabbed her hand and leaned in to kiss her on the lips as he exited an RV outside the rally in Tampa on Aug. 24, 2016. Johnson said she turned her head and the unwanted kiss landed on the side of her mouth, which she called “super-creepy and inappropriate.”

“I immediately felt violated because I wasn’t expecting it or wanting it,” she said. “I can still see his lips coming straight for my face.”

Johnson said she told her boyfriend, mother and stepfather about the incident later that day, an account all three confirmed to The Post. Two months later, Johnson consulted a Florida attorney about the unwanted kiss; he gave The Post text messages showing that he considered her “credible” but did not take her case for business reasons. The attorney gave Johnson the name of a therapist, whose notes, which The Post reviewed, reference an unspecified event during the campaign that had left her distraught............................


While more than a dozen other women have publicly accused Trump of touching them in some inappropriate way, Johnson is the only accuser to come forward since he took office and the only one to allege unwanted contact during the campaign. Trump faces a defamation lawsuit in New York brought by Summer Zervos, a former “Apprentice” reality TV contestant, who claims he forcibly kissed and groped her in 2007.................................



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BumRushDaShow

(129,053 posts)
8. Yup
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 03:18 PM
Feb 2019

Just went to that link before I saw your post.

I hope she has some protection because she is about to face the wrath of RW media.

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