Several hours before Kind made his statement, BuzzFeed reported the allegations from four former contestants ( and later, a fifth).įour women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant said Donald Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants - some as young as 15 - were changing. But we'll lay out what we do know about the allegation. We're not going to rate this on our Truth-O-Meter, since some of the key sources are anonymous. The implication is that the alleged incident, back when the Republican nominee owned the pageant, wasn’t a mistake. So, did Trump 'walk right in on' naked 15- and 16-year-old contestants in their dressing room? Man, is that the image we want of the president of the United States? It’s just disturbing to think that he could get away with all this stuff.' 'I was just reading on the way over here this morning on how Trump would walk into the (Miss) Teen USA dressing room, all these 15- and 16-year-olds completely naked, just walk right in on them. Ron Kind, D-Wis., commented on one of the latest revelations, saying: 12, 2016, meeting with the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, U.S.
As waves of allegations of Donald Trump’s inappropriate behavior toward females swept over the presidential campaign, reaction from around the country was swift.ĭuring an Oct.
