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There are accusations against Donald Trump regarding sexual assault and harassment still outstanding. I found the statements of accomplished women (beauty queens are accomplished women) alarming. I also found the fact he would tour back stage while women were changing into their clothing even more alarming. There is no decency in that. He could have accomplished as much or more success for his pageants if he respected the women and their attendants and waited to speak to them after their preparations were complete and ready for the stage.
I realize morale is as much a part of any beauty pageant as contestants, but, there is no reason to violate a woman's sense of privacy. I think it is alarming.
October 19, 2016
By Melanie Mason
Donald Trump, (click here) asked in the debate on Wednesday about the multiple women who have accused him in the last week of unwanted sexual advances and inappropriate touching, dismissed such allegations as “all fiction” and said their stories have “largely been debunked.”
But while the Trump campaign has offered some rebuttals to a few of the allegations, the allegations — some of which center on events that occurred decades ago — have hardly been settled.
The women’s stories came in the wake of a leaked recording from 2005 in which Trump, then starring on NBC’s “The Apprentice,” boasted about groping women. He apologized for those comments, labeling them “locker-room talk,” but said in the second presidential debate he never acted in such a manner....
