‘I was in his grip’: Donald Trump’s latest sexual assault accuser details incident at US Open tennis tournament

‘He just shoved his tongue down my throat and I was pushing him off … his hands were very gropey,’ former model Amy Dorris says of 1997 incident

Trump has faced more than a dozen allegations of sexual misconduct, including rape. But he brushed them aside in his run for the White House

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Published: 10:55pm, 17 Sep 2020Updated: 2:39am, 18 Sep 2020

A former model has accused US President Donald Trump of groping and forcibly kissing her in 1997 – the latest allegation made against the Republican incumbent just weeks before he seeks re-election.

Amy Dorris told Britain’s The Guardian that Trump sexually assaulted her in his VIP suite at the US Open tennis tournament in New York – claims he denied via his lawyers.

“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,” Dorris said in an interview. “I was in his grip, and I couldn’t get out of it.”

Trump has faced more than a dozen allegations of sexual misconduct, including a claim by prominent American columnist E. Jean Carroll that he raped her in a department store changing room in the mid-1990s. But he brushed them aside in his run for the White House.

Soon before the 2016 election, a tape recording emerged from 2005 in which he was heard boasting about how his fame allowed him to “grab” women by the genitals when he wanted.

Trump dismissed this as “locker room banter” but subsequently apologised.

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