Donald Trump's Sexual Assault Accusers Tell Their Stories in New Ads: Exclusive
George Conway, the ex-husband of former Donald Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, is helping bring attention to the sexual assault claims against the former president as he seeks a second term in the White House.
On Wednesday, Sept. 25, the attorney's political action committee launched ads featuring two of the Republican presidential nominee's sexual assault accusers.
The first ad centers around former PEOPLE reporter Natasha Stoynoff, who claims she was assaulted by Trump during a December 2005 trip to Mar-a-Lago to interview him and his wife, Melania Trump, for the magazine - something he previously said had "No merit or veracity."
The second ad features Jessica Leeds, who claimed in a 2016 New York Times report that Trump grabbed her breasts and attempted to put his hand up her skirt while sitting next to him on a first-class flight in 1979, when she was 38 years old.
While Trump denied the claims in the Times article, Leeds vividly recalled the alleged encounter in the new ad, saying, "The airplane took off, and all of a sudden Donald Trump started groping me. He was trying to kiss me and I'm trying to push him away, he was basically overpowering me."
The ads will air on some of Trump's favorite channels - Fox News, ESPN, and The Golf Channel - in his home towns of West Palm Beach, Fla., and Bedminster, N.J. Additionally, the ads are being featured nationally on CNN, MSNBC's Morning Joe, Hallmark, Lifetime and streaming platforms in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania.
Trump has been accused of varying degrees of sexual misconduct by at least 26 women during his career, though he has vehemently denied wrongdoing.