Two friends of former model Amy Dorris confirmed that she told them President Trump had sexually assaulted her at a tennis match during the U.S. Open in 1997.
Dawn Capp, a math teacher from Texas who happened to vote for Trump in 2016, told the New York Times that she recognized Dorris’s story when she detailed the alleged sexual assault in an interview with the Guardian. Capp and Dorris were longtime friends, and she said that she was told about the assault at the time it happened, long before Trump was a politician.
Kerri Whitfield, another friend of Dorris, also said that Dorris told her about the assault in the fall of 1997. Dorris’s mother also corroborated the story when her daughter first came forward.
Dorris said that Trump groped and forcibly kissed her when she was attending the event with Trump and her boyfriend at the time, Jason Binn. Dorris, who was 24 at the time, kept several artifacts from the day and has photographs confirming that she was at the event with Trump.
“He just shoved his tongue down my throat and I was pushing him off. And then that’s when his grip became tighter and his hands were very gropey and all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything,” said Dorris.
The Trump campaign has denied Dorris’s claims. They argue that Dorris would not have continued to spend time with Trump and Binn if the assault had happened. No one who attended the event with Trump and Dorris has come forward as a witness.
“This is just another pathetic attempt to attack President Trump right before the election,” said Jenna Ellis, a legal adviser to the Trump campaign.
