At a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump vehemently denied reports that he had made inappropriate sexual advances on multiple women.
“These vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely false,” Trump said at the rally in the crucial swing state.
“And the Clintons know it, and they know it very well. These claims are all fabricated. They’re pure fiction, and they’re outright lies. These events never, ever happened and the people that said them meekly fully understand,” he continued.
Trump promised that the stories are going to be debunked as lies by evidence to be released in the future.
“We already have substantial evidence to dispute these lies, and it will be made public in an appropriate way and at an appropriate time very soon,” he said.
Trump’s comments came after The New York Times, Palm Beach Post, and People Magazine simultaneously published articles in which women talked about inappropriate advances they claimed Trump had made on them. The articles were published just days after Sunday’s second presidential debate in which Trump denied having committed such acts.
The four women in the reports said that they decided to come forward following Trump’s denial and gave explicit testimonies of their interactions with Trump.
In his West Palm Beach speech Trump addressed the New York Times specifically, linking Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton to the New York Times’ agenda.
“Now we address the slander and libel that was just last night thrown at me by the Clinton machine and The New York Times and other media outlets as part of a concerted, coordinated, and vicious attack,” Trump said.
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