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Multiple former Miss Teen USA and Miss USA contestants have told reporters that Donald Trump entered backstage dressing rooms while contestants were changing — in at least one reported 1997 Miss Teen ...
Reporting shows two related threads: (A) Donald Trump publicly boasted about walking backstage at Miss USA/Miss Universe pageants where adult contestants “were standing there with no clothes” (he told...
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 i...
Donald Trump owned the Miss Universe organization from 1996 to 2015, a period during which multiple former Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contestants have alleged he entered dressing rooms while contestan...
Reporting and archive material show two related threads: Donald Trump publicly boasted in a 2005 Howard Stern interview that, as owner of pageants, he would go backstage and see contestants “standing ...
Two separate threads emerge from the provided reporting: multiple former Miss Teen USA contestants publicly alleged that Donald Trump entered dressing rooms while they were changing, with some claiman...
Donald Trump explicitly described going backstage at pageants and seeing contestants undressed in multiple interviews; a widely cited wording is, “Well, I’ll tell you the funniest is that before a sho...
Multiple former Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contestants told reporters that Donald Trump entered dressing rooms during pageants while contestants were changing, sometimes describing participants as you...
Miss Universe contestants first publicly accused Donald Trump of misconduct in reporting tied to the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant, when several women said Trump entered dressing rooms where girls — some...
Multiple former Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contestants have told journalists that Donald Trump entered dressing rooms when contestants were partially or fully undressed; reporting names Tasha Dixon , ...
The core claim—that Donald Trump actively *recruited* girls from his beauty pageants and placed them in apartments or chartered flights to islands for sexual purposes—is by the provided reporting. Mul...
Fact-checkers conclude that the Howard Stern audio shows Donald Trump bragged about walking backstage where contestants were undressed, but they uniformly warn that social posts which attribute that q...
Several former Miss Teen USA and Miss USA contestants have said Donald Trump entered dressing rooms or otherwise behaved inappropriately during the years he owned the pageants (1996–2015). Reporting n...
Several former Miss Universe/Miss USA contestants and other pageant participants have publicly accused Donald Trump of inappropriate sexual behavior at various times between the 1990s and the 2010s; t...
Several former Miss USA and Miss America–connected contestants and pageant participants have accused Donald Trump of a range of inappropriate sexual behavior while he owned the pageants, including sta...
Available reporting shows multiple former Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contestants have said Donald Trump entered dressing rooms while contestants were changing, including allegations from the 1997 Miss...
Former Miss Universe contestants and former pageant participants leveled multiple, specific allegations against Donald Trump across decades: claims include groping and attempts to lift dresses, enteri...
Erika Kirk’s earliest documented contact with the Trump family comes from her participation as Miss Arizona in the 2012 Miss USA pageant, which was co-owned by Donald Trump; there is in the supplied r...
Erika (also spelled Erika/Erica in coverage) Kirk’s publicly reported talents during her Miss USA-era profile are , presented through her roles in high school leadership, participation in volleyball a...
Erika Kirk competed as and represented Arizona at the national pageant; she did not compete in the Miss America system, nor is there evidence she participated in a "Miss Texas" state pageant. Multiple...