
According to this, a former campaign staffer is accusing President Trump of kissing her without consent. She’s now suing.
In interviews and in the lawsuit, Alva Johnson said Trump grabbed her hand and leaned in to kiss her on the lips as he exited an RV outside the rally in Tampa on Aug. 24, 2016. Johnson said she turned her head and the unwanted kiss landed on the side of her mouth.
She even claims that Pam Bondi witnessed the unwanted kiss. However, she denies it. Both alleged witnesses are denying it, actually.
Two Trump supporters that Johnson identified as witnesses — a campaign official and Pam Bondi, then the Florida attorney general — denied seeing the alleged kiss in interviews with The Post.
As recently as May 2017, Johnson spoke glowingly of Trump in a radio interview.
“He is more incredible in person than I think you would even think as you see him on TV,” she told the Alabama-based program Politics and Moore. “He’s just the nicest guy… He treats everyone as if they are a part of his family.”
But now? Now Trump’s the ACTUAL DEVIL.
She claims she only spoke highly of him, because she was under an NDA.
One of Johnson’s lawyers, Hassan Zavareei, said that at the time of the radio interview, she was bound by a nondisclosure agreement and was “saying what she thought Trump and his supporters wanted.”
“She was under an oppressive NDA that prevents her from saying anything negative about the president,” he said. “She was also trying to move on with her life and had an application for a job with the embassy in Portugal pending.”
She’s also accusing Trump’s campaign of not paying her as much as white staffers, because why the heck not?
Johnson, an event planner who lives in Madison County, Ala., is seeking unspecified damages for emotional pain and suffering. The federal lawsuit, filed Monday in Florida, also alleges that the campaign discriminated against Johnson, who is black, by paying her less than her white male counterparts. A campaign spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnany, rejected that claim as “off-base and unfounded.”
The White House has responded to this story. Sarah Sanders called it “absurd on its face.”
“This never happened and is directly contradicted by multiple highly credible eye witness accounts,” Sanders said.
I wasn’t there and can’t say what ACTUALLY happened, but something about Johnson’s entire story isn’t adding up for me. If I had to guess, she probably didn’t get her way on something and wants some cold, hard cash and figured this was the easiest way to do it. Maybe there was NO interaction at all, or maybe Trump did that cheek kiss thing that some people are into, and she decided to blow it way out of proportion.
Who knows.
h/t Washington Post