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On Monday’s Megyn Kelly Today, the host and former Fox News personality brought on three of the women who have accused President Donald Trump of sexually harassing and/or assaulting them. Samantha Holvey, Jessica Leeds, and Rachel Crooks all say that at some point they were on the receiving end of behavior from Trump that ranged from forcibly kissing them to groping them to putting his hands under their clothes.
With Today at the center of the current American reckoning with sexual harrassment and assault — having just recently disposed of Matt Lauer after accusations about him came forward — Kelly has decided to once again step into the crosshairs of Donald Trump.
There have been at least 16 women in total who have come forward with their own stories of Trump sexually harassing them, from pageant contestants to businesswomen to reporters. On Monday’s episode of Today, Kelly spoke to three:
- Samantha Holvey, a former Miss USA pageant contestant, who says that Trump — who owned the Miss USA pageant at the time — would come by to “inspect” the contestants.
- Rachel Crooks, who used to work in Trump Tower, for a company that did business with Trump. She says Trump forcibly kissed her by the elevators in the building one morning.
- Jessica Leeds, who says Trump stuck his hand up her skirt while seated next to her on an airplane in the late 1970s.
Kelly also related that her old Fox News colleague Juliet Huddy recently related a story of her own about Trump forcibly kissing her on an elevator in 2005. “Trump is on record, saying he did this,” Kelly said, speaking of the Access Hollywood recording whereupon Trump bragged to Billy Bush about advancing on women and “grab[bing] them by the pussy” and because he was rich and famous he could get away with it. Kelly drew the line from that statement to the actions that Holvey, Crooks, and Leeds are describing.
Kelly of course had her own unpleasant run-ins with Trump, on a more public scale. After moderating a Republican candidate debate in August of 2015, wherein Kelly brought up Trump’s history of being harsh and cruel to women in public, Kelly was criticized by those on the right, and Trump himself spoke derrogatorily about “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
Trump has recently come under fire for his public support of Alabama senatorial candidate Roy Moore, who has been accused of sexual misconduct with several women, some of whom were underage at the time of the incidents.
