President Donald Trump has said he is the target of “false accusations and fabricated stories of women who I don’t know and/or have never met”.
Mr Trump lashed out on Twitter a day after three women who previously accused him of sexual harassment shared their stories on NBC’s Megyn Kelly Today on Monday.
Mr Trump says Democrats “have been unable to show any collusion with Russia” and now are “moving on” to these allegations.
He added: “Fake News!”
The women, Jessica Leeds, Samantha Holvey and Rachel Crooks, urged Congress to investigate Mr Trump’s behaviour. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders pledged to provide eyewitnesses who would exonerate Mr Trump but failed to do so on Monday.
The claims surfaced during last year’s presidential campaign, but the women raised the issue again on the Kelly show and at a news conference.
“It was heartbreaking last year,” Ms Holvey said. “For us to put ourselves out there to try and show America who this man is and how he views women, and for them to say, ‘Eh, we don’t care’, it hurt.”
The former beauty queen said Mr Trump ogled her and other Miss USA pageant contestants in a dressing room in 2006.
Ms Crooks is a former receptionist at Trump Tower and Ms Leeds says she met Trump on a flight.
Sixteen women have made a range of accusations against Mr Trump, many after the release of the Access Hollywood tape last October in which Mr Trump bragged about groping women.
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