What he called them · 2016 campaign · № 53
Said of Jessica Leeds, who described an assault on a 1980s flight, 'she would not be my first choice'
“Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you.”
- Said
- , Campaign rally, Greensboro, North Carolina
- Subject
- Jessica Leeds
- Target
- Women
- Topic
- Elections
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
Leeds told The New York Times that Trump groped her on an airplane decades earlier. Just before the line above, Trump mocked her story to the crowd: 'I was sitting with him on an airplane, and he went after me on the plane. Yeah, I'm going to go after.' Trump called the claims reported by the Times 'totally and absolutely false.' This entry is limited to Trump's own words about her, not the allegation.