‘In shock': Ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein again accuses Donald Trump of misconduct
Stacey Williams, now 57, dated Epstein more than 30 years ago, long before he was first arrested for his sex crimes. The incident she recalls, allegedly involving Mr Trump, happened in 1993. She spoke about it before last year's presidential election, and is now bringing attention to it again amid the renewed controversy around the Epstein files.
'They were best friends,' Ms Williams claimed of Mr Trump and Epstein during an interview with CNN today.
'I dated Jeffrey for a period of, more or less, I think about four or five months. And the only friend that he would mention every time we saw each other, or had a phone conversation, was Donald. They were very close, and they were up to no good.
'It was such a long time ago. But that was his bro, that was his wingman.'
CNN host Brianna Keilar noted that her network had spoken to three friends of Ms Williams, who said she had spoken to them about the alleged incident contemporaneously, many years before Mr Trump entered politics.
'I want to point out that I was polygraphed, before I did all this, by one of the most renowned examiners in the world,' Ms Williams said.
She also pointed to Epstein's testimony in interviews with the author Michael Wolff.
'Jeffrey confirmed to Michael what the two of them did to me,' she claimed.
'I was dating Jeffrey, and he was always talking about Donald. It was his bestie and everything. And he was joking about how Donald thought I was hot, or whatever,' she told Ms Keilar, recalling the alleged incident.
'He said, 'Let's stop in and see him.' So we went up to his office at Trump Tower. And within a couple of minutes, Donald was outside his office, and his hands were all over me. They were on my breasts, they were on my butt, they were on my hips, up and down.
'The two of them kept having a normal conversation.'
Ms Williams spoke of how 'shocking' the experience was.
'When that happens in broad daylight, in an office, with assistants walking back and forth, you're in shock,' she said.
'If it happens in a dark alleyway, you fight back. But when it's brazen like that, which is Donald Trump's forte, you go into shock.
'So I froze. And it was over very quickly, it was a few minutes. And then we got back in the elevator, and Jeffrey's energy had changed.'
She said Epstein was 'enraged' by the incident and, shouting, asked, 'Why would you let him do that?' once they were outside the building. Her interpretation was that Epstein expected her to resist more and was angry when she 'froze'.
This all echoes an interview Ms Williams gave during last year's election campaign, which Mr Trump's spokespeople dismissed as 'fake' at the time.
'The second he was in front of me, he pulled me into him,' said Ms Williams.
'And his hands were just on me, and didn't come off. Then the hands started moving, and they were on the side of my breasts, down to my hips, back down to my butt, back up. They were just on me the whole time. And I ... sorry. I froze.'
Ms Williams said she believed the incident was 'some kind of weird, twisted game' between Mr Trump and Epstein, whom she said allegedly 'smiled at each other' while it was happening.
'It's obvious this fake story was contrived by Kamala Harris's campaign,' Karoline Leavitt, who is now Mr Trump's White House Press Secretary, said at the time.
According to Ms Williams, Mr Trump sent her agent a postcard later in 1993, after the alleged incident. On its front was an aerial view of his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago.
'Stacey: Your home away from home. Love, Donald,' he wrote on the back.
Ms Williams alleged she was 'berated' by Epstein after the encounter.
'Jeffrey and I left and he didn't look at me or speak to me, and I felt this seething rage around me, and when we got down to the sidewalk, he looked at me and just berated me, and said why did you do that?' she recounted.
'He made me feel so disgusting, and I remember being so utterly confused.
'I felt shame and disgust and as we went our separate ways. I felt this sensation of revisiting it, while the hands were all over me.
'And I had this horrible pit in my stomach that it was somehow orchestrated. I felt like a piece of meat.'
Mr Trump has denied all allegations of sexual misconduct since he entered politics a decade ago. In 2023, however, he was found liable in civil court for sexually assaulting the author E. Jean Carroll, and was ordered to pay millions of dollars in damages.
The judge in that case found that Mr Trump 'digitally raped Ms Carroll'. Mr Trump appealed the ruling, but that appeal was denied earlier this month.
The President's personal conduct came into sharper focus, this past fortnight, after his hand-picked officials in the Justice Department and FBI reneged on their previous promises to release the so-called 'Epstein files'.
Mr Trump was a friend of Epstein for about 15 years, but no evidence has ever emerged to implicate him in the sex trafficker's crimes.
This week The Wall Street Journal published a story alleging Mr Trump wrote Epstein a gaudy birthday message in 2003. The note, printed inside an outline of a naked woman, said Mr Trump hoped 'every day (may) be another wonderful secret'.
The President has called the note 'fake' and launched defamation proceedings against the newspaper.
He has also instructed the Justice Department to release a small number of Epstein-related documents.
'I have asked the Justice Department to release all Grand Jury testimony with respect to Jeffrey Epstein, subject only to Court Approval,' said Mr Trump today.
'With that being said, and even if the Court gave its full and unwavering approval, nothing will be good enough for the troublemakers and radical left lunatics making the request. It will always be more, more, more. MAGA!'
Grand jury testimony only involves evidence offered in an attempt to move a prosecution forward, which in this case means it will almost exclusively relate to Epstein and his chief co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
That testimony will not implicate Epstein's unindicted co-conspirators, and indeed the Justice Department has requested, in its filing, that third parties remain unidentified.
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