Trump accuser speaking in LA with attorney Gloria Allred

<p>&quot;These people are horrible people. They&#39;re horrible, horrible liars,&quot; Donald Trump said&nbsp;<a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?416882-1/donald-trump-calls-allegations-absolutely-false" target="_blank">at a rally</a>&nbsp;in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday.</p><p>The Trump campaign has been in damage control mode for the past week.&nbsp;</p><p>It all started with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html" target="_blank">this</a>: &quot;I did try and f--- her, and she was married,&quot; Trump said in a video released by The Washington Post.</p><p><b>SEE MORE: <a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/more-video-of-donald-trump-s-playboy-past-has-surfaced/">Even More Video Of Donald Trump's Playboy Past Has Surfaced</a></b></p><p>On the afternoon of Oct. 7,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a>&nbsp;published a 2005 video of Trump making lewd comments about women.&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;I just kiss. I don&#39;t even wait. And when you&#39;re a star they let you do it. You can do anything,&quot; Trump said in the video.&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Whatever you want,&quot; Billy Bush, then-host of &quot;Access Hollywood&quot; said.&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Grab then by the p----. You can do anything,&quot; Trump explained.</p><p>The campaign released a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/statement-from-donald-j.-trump" target="_blank">statement</a>&nbsp;quickly, calling the comments &quot;locker room banter,&quot; which didn&#39;t sit well with politicians on either side of the aisle.</p><p>A few hours later, Trump posted a video&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/784609194234306560" target="_blank">apology</a>.</p><p>&quot;Anyone who knows me knows these words don&#39;t reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong and I apologize,&quot; Trump said in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/videos/vb.153080620724/10157844642270725/?type=2&theater" target="_blank">prerecorded video</a>&nbsp;statement shared on social media.</p><p><b>SEE MORE: <a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/donald-trump-faced-sexual-harassment-allegations-in-the-past/">Trump's Sexual Harassment Allegations Start Way Before That Tape</a></b></p><p>Trump was scheduled to campaign in Wisconsin with Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan on Oct. 8. But&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/10/08/reports-pence-bails-ryan-campaign-event/91786414/" target="_blank">Ryan canceled</a>&nbsp;that joint appearance.&nbsp;</p><p>Things came to a head during the second presidential debate on Oct. 9.</p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/us/politics/transcript-second-debate.html" target="_blank">Anderson Cooper asked</a>, &quot;Have you ever done those things?&quot;</p><p>&quot;And women have respect for me. And I will tell you no I have not,&quot; Trump said.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/327067170/161027-NBCWSJ-October-N-500-Poll" target="_blank">A poll</a>&nbsp;published Oct. 10 showed Hillary Clinton will an 11-point lead with likely voters. It was conducted after the video was published but before the second presidential debate.&nbsp;</p><p><b>SEE MORE: <a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/paul-ryan-won-t-defend-or-campaign-for-trump-after-tape-leak/">Paul Ryan Won't Defend Trump Now, But He Won't Unendorse Him Either</a></b></p><p>On Wednesday, CBS&nbsp;<a href="http://www.etonline.com/news/200276_donald_trump_makes_lewd_joke_to_group_of_young_girls_1992_exclusive/" target="_blank">released video</a>&nbsp;from an&quot;Entertainment Tonight&quot; segment in 1992. In that video, Trump says of a young girl, &quot;I&#39;m going to be dating her in 10 years, can you believe it?&quot;</p><p>After all this, a wave of women started coming forward with stories about being assaulted by Trump. On Oct. 12,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news" target="_blank">The New York Times</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/palm-beach-post-exclusive-local-woman-says-trump-groped-her/w5ii48gwdJY9htsLl88GcP/" target="_blank">The Palm Beach Post</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://people.com/politics/donald-trump-attacked-people-writer/" target="_blank">People</a>&nbsp;magazine all published sexual assault allegations against Trump.</p><p>In a&nbsp;<a href="https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/DemandForRetraction.PDF" target="_blank">letter</a>&nbsp;from Trump&#39;s attorney to The New York Times on Wednesday night, Trump&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/us/politics/donald-trump-lawsuit-threat.html" target="_blank">threatened to sue</a>&nbsp;the paper, demanding a retraction and an apology.&nbsp;</p><p>The letter said the letter was &quot;reckless, defamatory and constitutes libel per se.&quot;</p><p>The New York Times&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/13/us/politics/david-mccraw-trump-letter.html" target="_blank">responded</a>&nbsp;Thursday in kind, with a letter refusing to remove the article, saying, &quot;Nothing in our article has had the slightest effect on the reputation that Mr. Trump, through his own words and actions, has already created for himself.&quot;</p><p><b>SEE MORE: <a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/more-women-are-accusing-donald-trump-of-sexual-assault/">More And More Women Are Accusing Donald Trump Of Sexual Assault</a></b></p><p>Trump took to Twitter early on Oct. 13&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/786560925113266176" target="_blank">to deny</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/786554517680693248" target="_blank">the allegations</a>&nbsp;in The New York Times and People magazine. Those denials continued on the campaign trail.</p><p>&quot;Take a look. You take a look. Look at her. Look at her words. You tell me what you think. I don&#39;t think so. I don&#39;t think so,&quot; Trump said of the People magazine writer who accused Trump of kissing her without her consent.</p><hr><b>Trending stories at <a href="http://www.newsy.com">Newsy.com</a></b><ul class="inline-related-links"><li><a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/obama-signs-bill-to-put-changing-tables-in-men-s-bathrooms/">One Of The Few Things Congress Can Agree On Is Diapers</a></li><li><a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/more-women-are-accusing-donald-trump-of-sexual-assault/">More And More Women Are Accusing Donald Trump Of Sexual Assault</a></li><li><a href="http://www.newsy.com/videos/clinton-and-trump-tied-in-utah-poll-mcmullin-close-behind/">Utah Might Break Its Republican Voting Streak In This Election</a></li></ul>