George Conway, the ex-husband of Kellyanne Conway is contributing to bringing public attention to sexual assault allegations against the former president, who is seeking a second term in the White House. Specifically, Conway was an aide during Trump’s first term.
That is precisely why, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, the lawyer’s political action committee released campaign ads featuring two of the Republican presidential candidate’s sexual assault accusers.
The first ad focuses on former PEOPLE reporter Natasha Stoynoff, who claims that she was assaulted by Trump during a trip to Mar-a-Lago back in December 2005 to interview him and his wife, Melania Trump, and that he has previously claimed to have “no merit or veracity.”
Stoynoff has described the encounter and how the events unfolded: “At one point, Melania went upstairs to change for the next photo shoot and Trump said to me, ‘I want to show you this beautiful picture, this beautiful room.’ He then led me into this room, then pushed me against the wall and started kissing me hard,” the actress says. “I tried to push him. He kept coming back toward me.”
The second ad features Jessica Leeds, who claimed in a 2016 New York Times report that Trump groped her breasts and tried to stick his hand up her skirt during a first-class flight in 1979, when she was just 38 years old.
Leeds said she crossed paths with Trump again at a charity event two years after their alleged meeting on the plane, where he insulted her with a “vulgar comment”.
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Although Trump denied the allegations in the New York Times article, Leeds recounted the whole episode in the new ad, by saying: “The plane took off and all of a sudden Donald Trump started groping me. He was trying to kiss me and I was trying to push him away, he was basically overpowering me”.
She then added: “When he started putting his hands up my skirt, I got out of my seat, grabbed my purse and went back to my seat. I was definitely shaken by the whole experience”.
The ads will air on some of the networks close to Trump’s electorate, such as Fox News, ESPN and The Golf Channel as well as in his hometowns, West Palm Beach, Florida, and Bedminster, New Jersey.
Nationally, the ads will also air on CNN, MSNBC’s and various streaming platforms, with a focus on reaching more viewers, as well as voters, in the key state of Pennsylvania, which will play a crucial role in choosing the next president.
Over the course of his career Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least 26 women, although he has always denied any wrongdoing. Despite numerous allegations, he has not faced criminal charges, as many of the allegations surfaced after the statute of limitations had run out.
