Show me proof of trump saying grab em by the pussy, or that he was peeping on underage girls in the changing room for his beauty pageant. and other things regarding women and girls.
Executive summary
The most direct public proof that Donald Trump said the words “grab ’em by the pussy” is the 2005 Access Hollywood recording, published in 2016, in which he says “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy” [1] [2]. Multiple news outlets, protests and archival reports have repeatedly cited and replayed that tape since 2016 [3] [4]. Allegations that Trump entered pageant changing rooms where underage girls were undressing come from a 2016 BuzzFeed investigation and later reporting: several former Miss Teen USA and Miss USA contestants say he walked in on girls as young as 15, while Trump and some defenders dispute or contextualize those recollections [5] [6] [7].
1. The clearest on-record admission: the Access Hollywood tape
The single strongest primary source for Trump’s coarse bragging about sexual contact with women is the Access Hollywood hot-mic recording from 2005, which the Washington Post published in 2016 and which transcript and coverage (BBC, Wikipedia, Reuters) quote directly: “I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy” [1] [2] [3]. That audio became a persistent touchpoint in subsequent reporting and political response, including organized protests and ad campaigns that quoted or replayed the line [4] [3].
2. Reports from pageant contestants: multiple, not unanimous, accounts
Reporting from BuzzFeed and follow-up pieces compiled statements from several former Miss Teen USA contestants who said Trump walked into dressing rooms when some contestants were undressing; some of those women reported ages as young as 15 at the time [5] [6]. Major outlets including People, Rolling Stone and The Guardian summarized these accounts and their context, noting that not all contestants recalled the same incidents and that the Trump campaign denied wrongdoing [8] [6] [9].
3. Media fact-checking and nuance around the pageant claims
Fact-checkers and investigative summaries (PolitiFact, Snopes) stress nuance: while multiple former contestants alleged unwanted entry into dressing rooms, other contestants said they did not remember such an incident; some social posts have misquoted or conflated Trump’s remarks about Miss USA/Miss Universe with Miss Teen USA specifically [7] [10] [11]. Snopes and PolitiFact note Trump told Howard Stern about entering dressing rooms when adult contestants were changing but that direct, provable admissions about underage contestants are not present in the public record [10] [12].
4. Broader tally of women who have accused Trump of misconduct
Independent compendia and major outlets have documented dozens of women who have publicly accused Trump of harassment, groping, or assault over decades; counts vary (roughly 18–69 depending on methodology), and Trump has denied the allegations [13] [14] [15]. Some accusers pursued legal action; at least one — E. Jean Carroll — prevailed in court on related defamation claims after alleging assault [16] [14].
5. Competing perspectives and Trump’s denials
Trump and his campaign have repeatedly denied unlawful conduct and characterized many accusations as politically motivated; his defenders point to inconsistencies among accusers or lack of criminal convictions [14] [17]. At the same time, journalists and researchers emphasize the consistency of some patterns in multiple accounts and the public impact of the Access Hollywood tape as contextual evidence [1] [18].
6. What the available sources do and do not show
Available reporting clearly documents the Access Hollywood tape in which Trump used the phrase about grabbing women’s genitals [1] [2]. Available sources also contain multiple contemporaneous and retrospective accounts from former pageant contestants who say Trump entered dressing rooms where minors were present; these are reported by BuzzFeed, People, Rolling Stone and others, and analyzed by fact-checkers who note corroborations and contradictions [5] [6] [8] [7] [10]. Available sources do not include a recording in which Trump explicitly confesses to entering Miss Teen USA changing rooms with the intent described by some accusers; some viral posts claiming such an explicit confession have been debunked or qualified by fact-checkers [11] [10].
7. How to read the record: patterns, burdens and public effect
Journalistic inventories show multiple, independent allegations spanning decades and a high-profile audio tape in which Trump brags about non-consensual behavior; those facts have driven sustained public scrutiny and legal claims [1] [13] [14]. At the same time, reporting also documents contested memories, denials, and disputes over precise facts — which is why fact-checkers emphasize nuance rather than simple binary conclusions [7] [10]. Readers should weigh the admitted Access Hollywood language as a direct primary source [2] and treat pageant-era allegations as credible firsthand claims documented by major outlets but not uniformly corroborated in every detail [5] [6] [7].
If you want, I can (a) list the primary clips/transcripts of the Access Hollywood tape and where to access them in the cited archives [2] [1], or (b) assemble the key pageant-era interviews and fact-checks in chronological order to show how reporting evolved [6] [7] [10].