Alva Johnson said Trump kissed her without her consent outside a rally in Florida in August 2016.
She told Washington Post:
I immediately felt violated because I wasn’t expecting it or wanting it.
I can still see his lips coming straight for my face.
Johnson told the Post she turned her head to avoid the unwanted kiss,
which landed on the side of her mouth and felt “super-creepy and
inappropriate.”
The allegation is described in a federal lawsuit filed Monday in
Florida, in which Johnson is seeking unspecified damages for emotional
pain and suffering, according to the Post.
Alva alleged in the lawsuit that Trump grabbed her hand and tried to
kiss her on the lips as he exited an RV outside the Tampa rally on Aug.
24, 2016.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders dismissed Johnson’s accusation, calling it “absurd on its face.”
Sanders said in a statement:
This never happened and is directly contradicted by multiple highly credible eye witness accounts.
In the lawsuit, Johnson, who is black, also alleges that Trump’s
campaign discriminated against her by paying her less than her white
colleagues. Trump’s campaign has denied the accusation.
Over 21 women have accused Trump of various instances of sexual
misconduct between the early 1980s and mid-2000s. He has vehemently
denied the allegations.
