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October 10, 2016

Top Republicans Call on Trump to Step Down as Republican Nominee
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The debate came as a growing number of Republican officials called on
Trump to step down as their party's nominee following Friday's release
of the video showing Trump boasting of sexual assault. Fifteen
Republican senators, including former GOP presidential nominee John Mc
Cain, are now openly opposing Trump's candidacy. The highest-ranking
Republican woman in Congress condemned Trump's comments. Congressmember
Cathy Mc Morris Rodgers of Washington state said, "It is never
appropriate to condone unwanted sexual advances or violence against
women. Mr. Trump must realize that it has no place in public or private
conversations." Donald Trump has rejected calls to step down. In the
wake of the tape's release, there's a renewed focus on other reports of
Trump's mistreatment of women. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof
published a piece Friday titled "Donald Trump, Groper in Chief." It
details the claims of Jill Harth, a Florida business associate of Trump
who sued him for sexual harassment after he groped her at a business
dinner and later attempted to sexually assault her in the empty bedroom
of his daughter Ivanka. Harth described the incident to The Guardian.

Jill Harth: "He pulled me aside in the children's room and made another
sexually aggressive advance on me, where he tried to make his move. He
pushed me up against the wall and had his hands all over me and tried to
get up my dress again. And I had to physically say, 'What are you doing?
Stop it.' It was a shocking thing to have him do this, because he knew I
was with George, he knew that they were in the next room. And how could
he be doing this when I'm there for business?"

Topics:2016 Election Donald Trump Sexual Assault

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