On Wednesday's Kelly File, Megyn Kelly laid out the alleged sexual harassment case against Donald Trump like the lawyer she used to be. First, she played the 2005 video of Trump saying he likes to kiss and grope women without consent, then the part of Sunday's debate where Trump denies actually groping or kissing women without their consent, and finally video of a woman saying Trump groped her on an airplane, one of three female accusers who came forward Wednesday with stories of allegedly being kissed or fondled by Trump. Later, she showed footage of an interview Wednesday in which a former Miss Teen USA contestant discussed Trump watching her and other teenage girls change clothes in the dressing room, plus Trump telling Howard Stern that he actually does stuff like that.
Fox News political analyst Chris Stierwalt told Kelly that the Trump camp knew these accusations were coming, and that this explains Trump's "bellicose attitude" at the debate, but fellow guest Dana Perino wasn't so sure. The Trump campaign is "expecting now for everybody that will be seeing these interviews with these women to not believe them," she said, "and one of the things they say in their statement is, How dare you reach back decades and look at possible sexual assaults from way before, like, how could it matter? But the problem is, that's exactly what they are asking people to do when they look at Bill Clinton."
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