“Trump’s behavior was well known to senior staff,” said Olivia Troy, who served as an advisor to former Vice President Mike Pence.
“I witnessed his behavior and his harassment of the employee publicly, even in meetings,” Troy told “Newsweek,” adding that “this behavior was known to many senior staff in the White House.”
Troy’s comments come after a jury concluded in a New York civil court, last Tuesday, that former US President Donald Trump was liable for sexually harassing and defaming a former writer and journalist, and ordered him to pay $5 million in compensation.
Troy had accused Trump of failing to manage the Corona crisis, saying: “He really does not care about anyone other than himself,” adding that he told her at the time: “Maybe that Corona virus is a good thing,” because it means that he will not have to shake hands with “these people.” The disgusting ones”, and he meant his supporters.
The 9-member jury, after deliberating for less than 3 hours, rejected the charge of “rape” brought by journalist and writer E. Jane Carroll, the former president, but found him guilty of “sexual harassment” of her, in a closely watched civil trial.
This is the first time Trump has faced legal consequences for decades-old sexual harassment accusations brought against him by 12 women.
Trump was quick to denounce a “shameful court ruling,” and in a comment on his social networking network, “Truth Social,” he reaffirmed that he did not know Carroll, stressing, “I have absolutely no idea who this woman is.” He also mocked her, describing her as a witch, and said that his lawyer “will appeal.” “.
Carroll, 79, last year filed a lawsuit against Trump, accusing him of raping her in the locker room of the Bergdof Goodman luxury department store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in 1996.
-Carroll said before the civil court, which began its sessions two weeks ago, that the supposed assault generated a sense of “shame” in her, and made her unable to establish romantic relations, adding that she had waited more than 20 years to reveal the incident, because she was “afraid” of Trump.
-Her lawyers asked two women to testify that Trump sexually assaulted them decades ago. Former businesswoman Jessica Leeds told the Manhattan Federal Court that “Trump sexually harassed her during a plane trip in the United States in the 1970s,” while journalist Natasha Stoynoff said that “Trump kissed her without her consent during an interview at his residence in Mar-a-Lago in 2005.”
About a dozen women accused Trump of sexual harassment before the 2016 elections that brought him to the White House. But he denies all accusations, and none of them has been prosecuted. The lawsuit filed by Carroll cannot lead to any criminal prosecutions.
Trump’s misconduct
In the same context, former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham and counselor Alyssa Farah Griffin revealed, in an interview on CNN, that “Trump had inappropriate behavior with women during his presidency in the White House.”
And last Tuesday, Elisa Farah, who worked as director of communications for the White House and a former assistant to US President Donald Trump, confirmed during her appearance on “CNN” that she had conveyed to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, “countless” violations of the former president, expressing her displeasure. Trump’s bad behavior towards women.
In turn, Grisham said, “Trump was focusing specifically on an employee in her team,” adding that “Trump tried to sexually harass the woman,” explaining that “he was asking her to be the employee with him on his trips even when it was not her turn.” Grisham was responsible. On staff rotation by virtue of her work in the Trump administration, where she was Director of White House Communications.
“It was so bad that the woman was very uncomfortable,” Grisham told CNN, stressing that she “tried her best not to be the employee with Trump alone.”
Newsweek confirmed in its report that it had tried to contact Trump’s office and his campaign for comment, but Trump’s office manager, Mark Meadows, did not respond to the calls.
