CAMPAIGN PROVIDES WITNESS
Late on Friday, the Trump campaign put forward a British man who disputed the account of one of the accusers, Jessica Leeds.
Leeds, who is now 74, said Trump groped her on a flight to New York, in or around 1980. Her account was published in The New York Times earlier this week and she has since been interviewed on CNN.
The New York Post reported that the man, Anthony Gilberthorpe, contacted the Trump campaign after Leeds went public with her story, and said he was sitting near Leeds and Trump in first class on the same flight.
"I was there, I was in a position to know that what she said was wrong, wrong, wrong," said Gilberthorpe, who is now 54 and would have been a teenager at the time.
Trump had been promising that he would soon provide information showing the allegations against him were false.
Gilberthorpe is known in Britain for his claims that he provided underage boys to British politicians for sex parties in the 1980s.
Trump, 70, mocked Leeds on Friday. "Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you," he said.
He called Natasha Stoynoff, a reporter who wrote in People magazine that Trump kissed her and pinned her against a wall, a "liar" and told the rally to "check out her Facebook page, you'll understand."
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