CNN —Jessica Leeds, who previously accused Donald Trump of sexual assault and was a trial witness in a high-profile case against the former president, said Monday that she “laughed out loud” when she heard he recently disputed her allegation and said she “would not have been the chosen one.”“I laughed out loud.
She said she was seated in first class on an airplane next to Trump in the 1970s when he suddenly began groping her.
Leeds said she fought off Trump and moved to the back of the airplane.
Earlier this year a separate jury found Trump defamed Carroll when in 2022 he repeated several of the statements he initially made in 2019.
Her attorneys argued to the jury that the only way to stop Trump from repeating the statements was to hit him in his pocketbook.
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