Trump accuser Jessica Leeds told reporters at Trump Tower Monday that "he's a sexual predator." Her remarks came in response to Trump saying that he'd never have "chosen" her to assault. Asked if she plans a defamation suit, she said, "no decision has been made.
" At a press conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Friday, former President Donald Trump wanted the world to know he would never have sexually assaulted Jessica Leeds . "She would not have been the chosen one," he told reporters, implying her appearance wasn't up to his standards. On Monday, Leeds held a press conference of her own to confront him on that insult.
With Trump Tower as her backdrop, she called the GOP presidential candidate "a sexual predator" and said she is deciding whether to sue him. "He assaulted me 50 years ago and he continues to attack me today," she told a group of reporters gathered on Fifth Avenue. She called Trump's "chosen one" comments "really bizarre.
" "I must admit I did laugh," she said of hearing of the remark. "It's a little spooky and a little difficult to process. He does seem to be kind of obsessed.
But here I am." Leeds accuses Trump of groping her while he sat next to her in the first-class cabin on a flight in 1979. She first publicly aired her accusation in 2016, during the presidential campaign, telling The New York Times that Trump groped her as they sat side by side in the first-class cabin of a New York-bound flight.
Leeds told her story in greatest detail in the spring o.