WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Donald Trump's lawyer has sent a legal notice to The New York Times asking it to retract a report in which two women have accused him of sexual assault.
In a notice sent to Dean Bacquet, Executive Editor of the NY Times, Marc Kasowitz, the GOP nominee's counsel, said the story published on Wednesday is reckless, defamatory, and constitutes libel. The timing of the article is nothing more than a politically-motivated effort to defeat Trump's candidacy, he added.
Wednesday, the New York Times published a report titled 'Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately.'
Jessica Leeds, 74, accused Trump of groping her on a plane while Rachel Crooks alleged the Republican nominee kissed her outside an elevator in the Trump Tower when she was a 22-year-old receptionist in 2005.
The Trump lawyer accused the newspaper of not checking the veracity of these allegations. 'Why these two individuals waited, in one case, 11 years, and, in another case, more than three decades, before deciding to come forward with these false and defamatory statements,' he said.
Kasowitz demand that NY Times immediately cease any further publication of this article, remove it from its website and issue a full and immediate retraction and apology.
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