Lou Dobbs retweeted the phone number, address of one of Trump's accusers
The personal telephone number and home address of one of the women who alleged Donald Trump assaulted her was shared with the world Thursday morning, thanks in part to Fox Business Network anchor Lou Dobbs. In a retweet that has yet to be taken down, Dobbs shared a now disabled link to a conservative news site that had published accuser Jessica Leeds' personal contact information:
Dobbs has since issued this apology tweet:
Still, the anchor has more than 793,000 followers and his tweet was shared upwards of 1,000 times.
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Leeds, now 74, publicly accused Trump of groping her in the early 1980s in a story published Wednesday in The New York Times. Then a traveling businesswoman, Leeds said Trump "grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt" when they were seated next to each other on a flight to New York.
Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson denied Leeds' accusations in an interview Thursday morning, claiming that it wasn't possible in part because "first-class seats have fixed armrests."
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