Women accusing Trump of sexual harassment are lying: White House
The White House says all the women who accused US President Donald Trump of sexual harassment during last year’s presidential election campaign are lying.
“Is the official White House position that all of these women are lying?” a CBS News reporter asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday.
Sanders responded: “Yeah, we’ve been clear on that from the beginning, and the president has spoken on it.” She did not comment further and quickly moved on to another question.
Last week, Trump addressed the accusations from the more than a dozen women and dismissed them as “totally fake news...It’s fake, it’s made-up stuff. And it’s disgraceful what happens.”
Trump also rejected the accusations during his election campaign. "As you have seen, I am a victim of one of the great political smear campaigns in the history of our country," he said at a rally last October in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The White House comment comes amid a series of sexual harassment scandals across the United States.
Women have recently been coming forward to share encounters of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, including in the media and entertainment industries and the realm of politics.
An avalanche of sexual misconduct allegations have been made in recent weeks against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. The scandal has rippled in a wide range of industries, encouraging victims of sexual assault to share their stories on social media under the hashtag #MeToo.
Weinstein, who is Jewish, was recently fired from his company and expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is known around the world for its annual Academy Awards, or the "Oscars."
Mark Halperin, a prominent journalist and political analyst, was also accused of sexual harassment by five women who worked with him while he was an executive at ABC News.
Halperin was suspended by MSNBC on Thursday. He later issued a lengthy apology on Twitter.
His statement came after CNN reported allegations that Halperin propositioned, fondled and pushed himself against five women in the early 2000s while he was ABC News’ political director.
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