Witness Says Leeds Account on Plane did not happen

The Donald Trump campaign is fighting back against allegations that Trump has sexually mistreated women — dismissing accusations as “phony,” attacking the news media that publishes them and providing a purported eyewitness to at least one alleged incident.

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, and running-mate Mike Pence on the campaign trail Friday vowed to provide evidence to expose a series of claims over the past several days by women who say Trump made unwanted sexual advances in the past.

Late Friday, a Trump aide told Fox News that Trump and Pence, the governor of Indiana, were referred in part to a New York Post story in which a British man says he was on the cross-country flight during which Trump allegedly tried to grope Jessica Leeds and that the incident didn’t occurred.

The 74-year-old Leeds said the incident occurred about three decades ago when she was a business woman working for a paper company.

The purported eyewitness, Anthony Gilberthorpe, says he was sitting across from Leeds and contacted the Trump campaign because he was “incensed” by her account, according to the newspaper.

“I have only met this accuser once and frankly cannot imagine why she is seeking to make out that Trump made sexual advances on her. Not only did he not do so (and I was present at all times) but it was she that was the one being flirtatious,” Gilberthorpe said in a note provided to The Post by the Trump campaign.

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