Trump sexual assault accusers speak out in new George Conway PAC ads

Two women accusing former President Trump of sexual assault have laid out their allegations in two political ads urging voters not to elect the former president for a second term.

The $250,000 advertising campaign, announced Wednesday by conservative attorney George Conway’s Anti-Psychopath PAC, includes two 60-second commercials, with former saleswoman and stockbroker Jessica Leeds telling her story in one and former People Magazine journalist Natasha Stoynoff hers in another. Both publicly accused the former president in 2016, and Trump has denied their claims.

The ads will run through Election Day in Pennsylvania and target women on the Hallmark and Lifetime channels, according to the PAC. The advertising campaign also targets Republicans and independents on streaming platforms.

The push is part of a larger, $500,000 nationwide campaign “to tell women’s stories and remind swing voters of Trump’s deficient character,” according to a press release.

In the first ad, Leeds said she was on a flight in 1979 and was approached shortly before departure by a stewardess who invited her to follow her to first class. Leeds said she obeyed her, and in the window seat she found Trump introducing himself to her.

“The plane took off and suddenly Donald Trump started groping me,” Leeds said. “He tried to kiss me and I try to push him away. He basically overwhelmed me.”

“When he started putting his hand up my skirt, I stood up, grabbed my purse and went back to where I was, and the whole thing really shook me up,” she continued.

Two years later, Leeds said, she met Trump and his wife at a fundraiser.

“He looked at me and said, ‘I remember you. “You’re the guy on the plane,” Leeds said in the ad.

“Donald Trump views women as his entertainment,” Leeds added. “He’s a serial robber. He said it straight out, and he did it, and he will continue to do it.”

In the second ad, Stoynoff said she traveled to Mar-a-Lago in 2005 to interview Trump for People Magazine. Trump’s then-wife, former first lady Melania Trump, went upstairs to change, Stoynoff said, and Trump told Stoynoff that he wanted to do so to show her “this beautiful painting, this beautiful room.”

“He takes me into this room, pushes me against the wall and starts kissing me hard,” Stoynoff said in the video.

“I tried to push him. He kept coming towards me. I was in shock and suffocated, and he had his hands here on my shoulders,” Stoynoff said, placing his hands on her shoulders. “I felt sick inside. I was horrified.”

Stoynoff said the butler entered the room and Trump turned to her and said, “You know we’re going to have an affair, don’t you?” At that point, “Melania came closer. I was horrified,” she added.

Stoynoff said she blamed herself for the incident for years. That changed when the “Access Hollywood” video came out in 2016, in which Trump brags about having achieved a level of fame that allows him to grab women by their genitals.

“I realized it wasn’t my fault, that he was just a predator of women,” Stoynoff said in the complaint. “What could have happened if the butler hadn’t come into the room? Donald Trump is a convicted sex offender. We cannot elect this man president.”

Stoynoff said her perspective also changed when she heard stories from women like journalist E. Jean Carroll, who filed a successful lawsuit against the former president, claiming he raped her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman’s in the 1990s . Both Stoynoff and Leeds testified in this trial to show a pattern of sexual assault.

Trump was ultimately found liable for sexual assault and defamation and ordered by a New York jury to pay tens of millions of dollars. Trump denies the allegations and is appealing both cases.

The Anti-Psychopath PAC’s press release said the ad campaign in Pennsylvania comes just days after Trump told women “I am your protector” at a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday.

The goal of the ad campaign, according to the PAC, is twofold: “First, it reinforces the traumatic stories for undecided voters across the country and reminds them that a vote for Trump is a vote for a serial sexual predator.” Second, it will provoke the former president by it confronts him with the impact of his actions and the lives he has upended as a result.”

Conway, who has become one of the most prominent conservative voices against Trump in recent years, praised Stoynoff and Leeds for their involvement in the ads.

“Sometimes it takes decades for the truth to fully emerge,” Conway said in a statement. “Natasha, Jessica and so many other brave women like them have long been telling us who Donald Trump really is – a malignant narcissist who abuses other people like everyone else breathes.”

“It’s time for Pennsylvania voters to listen to them and put an end to his destructive foray into public life,” he continued.

The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment on the ad campaign.

Updated at 1:59 p.m. EDT

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