Source: Safe in David Pecker’s office at American Media, Inc.
This memo is circa 1991-92*.
In 1992, a gossip column in New York Newsday called The China Club, then located in the basement of the Beacon Theater at Broadway and 75th street, “Donald’s Monday-night nest.”
UPDATE: On August 14, the Washington Post reported that Donald Trump allegedly molested a young wanna-be model in the China Club in the early Nineties.
Kristin Anderson told the paper that she had been seated on a tufted red velvet couch when she recognized the man to her right. “I mean,” she said, “Nobody else has those eyebrows.” As Ms. Anderson talked with friends, Mr. Trump proceeded to casually snake his hand up her miniskirt and poke her vagina though her underwear.
“It wasn’t a sexual come-on,” she said. “I don’t know why he did it. It was like just to prove that he could do it and nothing would happen. There was zero conversation. We didn’t even really look at each other. It was very random, very nonchalant on his part.”
The accusation came a week after the release of a 2005 Access Hollywood tape, in which Mr. Trump is recorded telling host Billy Bush off camera, “when you’re a star, they let you do it, you can do anything … grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”
“Mr. Trump strongly denies this phony allegation by someone looking to get some free publicity,” Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told the Post. “It is totally ridiculous.”
SECOND UPDATE: On October 22, Mr. Trump claimed that the ten women who had come forward accusing him of sexual impropriety were making it up to hurt his campaign. “All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.”
He further speculated, “It was probably the (Democratic National Committee) and Hillary’s campaign who put forward these liars with their fabricated stories. But we’ll probably find out later through litigation, which we’re so looking forward to.”
THIRD UPDATE: In a cover story in New York magazine in June 2019, writer E. Jean Carroll accused Mr. Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1995 or early 1996.
FOURTH UPDATE: On June 27, Mr. Trump told the political website The Hill that Ms. Carroll was “totally lying.” He explained that he could not have raped her. “She’s not my type,” he said, “OK?”
UPDATE TO SECOND UPDATE: As of April 27, 2022, Mr. Trump has not sued any of the more than two dozen women who have accused him of sexually assaulting them.
- The memo is fake. The rest is real.