Former model accuses Trump of sexually assaulting her in 1997

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

Amy Dorris told a British newspaper that Trump sexually assaulted her in his VIP suite at the US Open tennis tournament in New York. “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,” she added.

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.

Trump, however, brushed these charges aside in his run for the White House. Shortly before the 2016 election, a tape recording emerged from 2005 in which he was heard boasting about how his fame al- lowed him to “grab” women by the genitals when he wanted. Trump dismissed this as “locker room banter” but subsequently apologised.

Dorris was 24 at the time of the alleged incidents. Trump was 51 and married at the time to his second wife, Marla Maples. She said that she told Trump to stop but “he didn’t care.” She added: “I felt violated, obviously.”

Trump’s attorneys, however, told the newspaper that her version of events was unreliable and there would be other witnesses if she had been assaulted.