Former Trump campaign staffer alleges that he forcibly kissed her after a rally in 2016
A former staffer on President Donald Trump's campaign, Alva Johnson, on Monday alleged that the president forcibly kissed her at a Florida rally during his 2016 presidential campaign run.
Johnson, while speaking to The Washington Post in an interview, alleged: "I immediately felt violated because I wasn't expecting it or wanting it. I can still see his lips coming straight for my face." Johnson, who filed a lawsuit against Trump, told the outlet that Trump grabbed her hand and leaned in to kiss her on the lips as he came out of an RV outside a rally in Tampa, Florida on August 24, 2016. The former staffer said that she turned her head and the kiss landed on the side of her mouth, the 48-year-old called the incident "super-creepy and inappropriate."
Johnson's allegations were dismissed by the White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who called the accusation "absurd on its face." "This never happened and is directly contradicted by multiple highly credible eye witness accounts," Sanders told The Post.