Trump’s Past RESURFACES and He CAN’T STOP IT This Time
MeidasTouch
Jan 14, 2024
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas continues his investigative series on Donald Trump’s disturbing past making critical connections.
Transcript
Miss North Carolina 2006, Samantha Holvey tell her Story with Donald Trump
[Don Lemon] is it normal to see men in dressing
rooms at pageants and the and the owner
of a pageant
[Samantha Holvey, 2006 Miss N. Carolina] no no the um the director of the North
Carolina South Carolina Louisiana and
Alabama pageants it's very much a family
atmosphere um she doesn't even go
backstage when the girls are getting
ready only the female chaperones are
allowed backstage in the dressing rooms
um with the girls I've never had an
experience where there were men or D
dors or anything like that walking back
in the dressing rooms yeah
[Don Lemon] as I
understand there uh you have an
experience of something that happened
the night before the
pageant
[Samantha Holvey, 2006 Miss N. Carolina] well not the night before the
pageant but um when we were in New York
City on the media tour they were doing a
book launch at Trump Towers for the
universal Beauty um book and they had a
bunch of former Miss usas and Miss
universes and all 51 of us and we did
the Red Carpet and that was tons of fun
and then they lined us all up and Trump
went down the line and he shook your
hand and um you know looked you over
looked you up and down head to toe um I
was just checking everybody out
[Don Lemon] and you
thought; you
felt?
[Samantha Holvey, 2006 Miss N. Carolina] I felt uh very dirty um it was very
creepy it's kind of like when you're at
a bar and a creepy guy is checking you
out that's that was the experience for
me
[Ben Meiselas] That was Samantha Holvey, 2006 Miss North
Carolina. I'm Ben Meiselas from the MeidasTouch
Network. We've been doing a deep
dive into Donald Trump's background and
trying to connect dots in a cohesive way
where there's all this disparate
information that we're tying it together
here so I've seen a lot of comments and
I want to go and discuss Donald Trump's
past right now using these beauty
pageants that he owned as a way to EXP
exploit women and young girls the next
video I want to share with you is from
Tasha Dixon who competed as Miss Arizona
in 2001 here's what she describes that
Donald Trump would do to the uh women
who were participating in this
competition play this clip
[Tasha Dixon] he just came
strolling right in there was no second
to put a robe on or any sort of clothing
or anything um some girls were topless
other girls were naked as Miss Arizona
2001 Tasha Dixon competed in the missusa
pageant Donald Trump owned the contest
along with Miss Universe and Miss Teen
USA for 19 years our first introduction
to him was when we were at the dress
rehearsal and half naked changing into
our bikinis to have the owner come
walting in when we're naked or half
naked in a very physically vulnerable
position and then to have the pressure
of the uh you know the the people that
work for him telling telling us to go
Fawn all Fawn all over him go walk up to
him him talk to him and Dixon has strong
opinions about what she thinks were
Trump's motivations I'm telling you
Donald Trump owned the pageant for the
reason to utilize his power to get you
know around beautiful women Dixon who
lives in West Hollywood was 18 at the
time who do you complain to he owns the
pageant so there's no one to complain to
everyone there works for him the year
she competed the theme was empowering
women and after hearing recent audio of
trump talking about women she decided to
speak out I miss Arizona so I Veer more
on the conservative side um but I just
like
to choose what's right Dixon tells me
she hadn't heard the stern audio before
we did reach out to several 2001
contestants and those that responded
declined to be interviewed we did
however receive a statement from former
Miss California 2009 Carrie praon bowler
she said to us in a statement to paint
Mr Trump as someone who would purposely
walk into a women women's dressing room
and ask women to come and press him is
the most disgusting accusation so far Mr
Trump has empowered me as a woman has
given me career opportunities and
defended me during my reign as Miss
California USA in The Newsroom Serene
Branson kcal9 news you may recall this
from the
2016 campaign Alicia machados she was
1997 this is the 1997 interview she was
the 1996 Miss Universe and uh during
this live interview on CBS Donald Trump
started mocking her weight she had a
very powerful response to him during
this live interview play this clip
For
the first time in the history of the
pageant viewers can actually participate
there'll be a a question up and the
viewers can actually call in and vote uh
let's let's bring up the question it
says should a pageant title holder be
required to maintain her physical
appearance during her reign
why do you think this is an important
question the viewers would care about
well it's something that really has come
up over the last year and Alicia has
done an incredible job she really has
turned out to be one of the great miss
universes I will say and she had a
little problem during the Middle where
she gained a little weight I don't think
so yeah she's probably right I don't
think so okay and so let's let's talk
about that debate because you know it's
interesting uh the viewers are going to
make a a decision today and they're
going to vote in uh one way or the other
Alicia do you think that that should
matter because after all you were voted
in as being the most beautiful woman in
the world I am the most beautiful woman
in the world I certainly don't 20b or no
pounds I am the most beautiful woman in
the world do you not think that it's
important to maintain a certain look
during that year yes of course but I
think uh all woman in the world have a
problem with the weight and I I think
maybe I had some problem with this but
I'm I'm fine now and I
think uh 15 pound is nothing with 20
years old and I think the most important
for the next Miss Universe and then is
no more dinners no more lunch no more
breakfast and no more when you travel
diplomatic dinners and parties I think
what Donald's talking about and I think
most people agree that there is a look
to miss and more time for go to the gym
it's very important because when you
have when you are miss univers you don't
have time for nothing right Donald how
do you think that this this this Miss
Universe will be different from the
others well I don't know that it's going
to be different we have many beautiful
women and it's actually incredible I was
over there today and the women are
magnificent and so I don't think it's
going to be different it's going to be
more of the same and it's going to be
terrific and then you may recall the
Fallout from this Hillary Clinton
brought this up in 2016 because one of
the things that she was warning about is
that Donald Trump's Behavior against
women was not just abhorent and
disgusting and criminal but that it
would also from a policy standpoint have
an impact as well Hillary Clinton was
saying for example Donald Trump based on
the way he treats women wouldn't
hesitate to take away women's
Reproductive Rights but here's a series
right here of just a a montage if you
will a super cut of what went down in
2016 play this clip
this Venezuela you
are the new Miss Universe
and some people when they have pressure
don't eat and some people when they have
pressure eat too much like me but like
Alicia and she had a little problem
during the Middle where she gained a
little weight I think so yeah she's
probably right I don't think so okay
Donald Trump called you Miss Piggy yes
Miss Piggy Miss housekeeping how did
that make you
feel so sad congratulations your
citizens of the United
States
Donald she has a name where did you find
her name is ala Machado and she has
become a US citizen and you can bet
she's going to vote this November okay
good and then when Donald Trump made
statements and by comparison to what
Donald Trump's saying right now these
statements almost seem tame based on how
hateful his rhetoric is now and these
statements were so hateful When Donald
Trump made statements saying that
Mexican immigrants crossing the border
are killers rapists and Drug Runners
there was a boycott against uh the
beauty pageants and then Donald Trump
ultimately said that he was going to
skip the missusa pageant and here's how
some of the women who were running the
pageant uh responded and celebrated that
Trump wasn't going to be there play this
clip
uh we saw that Donald Trump announced on
Twitter he would not be here for The
Pageant tonight how
does I knew it was
be and I'm sorry something interrupted
me I'm just I'm wondering if that
changes anything um as far as the
pageant goes tonight or as far as the
the brand of The Pageant tonight right
you know the as I said two or three
weeks ago this pageant is an opportunity
to about be about the women and the city
and that's what we're focusing on and uh
uh you know what it's it's it's good for
us that we're just focusing full steam
ahead it hasn't really changed because
that's all we've been doing for the last
few days and and I know that there's a
big campaign going on out out west and
we're focusing here uh in Louisiana and
then there's of course Donald Trump's
own word regarding Miss Teen USA and how
Donald Trump said that and he confirmed
that he would show up when the girls
when the teenage girls were naked and he
would inspect their bodies while they
were naked this is Donald Trump in his
own words on Howard Stern bragging about
it play this clip
well you could also
say as the owner of the pageant it's
your obligation to do that so so you
have done that now tell me well I'll
tell you the funniest is that I'll go
backstage before show yes and everyone's
getting dressed and ready and everything
else and you know no men are anywhere
and I'm allowed to go in because I'm the
owner of the pageant and therefore I'm
inspecting it you know I'm inspecting I
want to make sure that everything is
good the dress is everyone okay you know
they standing there with no is everybody
okay and you see these incredible
looking women and so I sort of get away
with things like here's an article from
the Independent Donald Trump boasted
about meeting semi- naked teenagers and
beauty pageants Mr Trump said on Howard
Stern's radio show that you just heard
in 200 five that he could get away with
walking into the dressing room to
inspect beautiful women Donald Trump
used to stroll right into the dressing
room of beauty pageants while the
contestants some of whom were teenagers
were naked or half-dressed a former
model has claimed Tasha Dixon was 18
when she competed in the missusa pageant
winning the State Crown our first
introduction to him was when we were at
the dress rehearsal and half naked
changing into our bikinis Miss Dixon
told CBS he just came strolling right in
there was no second to put robe on or
any sort of clothing or anything some
girls were topless other girls were
naked she added that people who worked
for Mr Trump pressured the women to fawn
over him go walk up to him talk to him
get his attention while still not fully
dressed Miss Dixon added the situation
made them feel awkward and physically
vulnerable four women who competed in
the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant
also said the Republican used to walk in
some of the girls were as young as 15 so
there there's another uh data point on
that right here um this is Donald Trump
on The Wendy Williams Show when he was
asked what he has in common with Ivanka
and what Ivanka has in common with him
Donald Trump said the following play
this clip we want to know a little bit
more about you guys so we play this game
here it's called fave five I'll ask the
question Ivanka you answer first and
then Dad you answer also okay Ivanka
what's the favorite thing you have in
common with your father either real
estate or golf Donald with your daughter
well I was going to say sex but I can't
relate that here's a photograph by the
way of Donald Trump uh Ivanka when she
was a little girl Eric when he was just
a boy and Jeffrey abstein and John
Casablancas who I did another story on
here um here
is uh a video right here of Donald Trump
this one uh this is his deposition that
was taken in the eege Carol Case where
he's asked about a video where he was on
the hot mic saying that uh because he's
rich and famous he grabs women by their
genitals and sexually abuses them um and
Donald Trump responded that either
unfortunately or fortunately this is
what rich men are able to do play this
clip and you say and again this has
become very famous in this video I just
start kissing them it's like a m maget
just kiss I don't even wait and when
you're a star they let you do it you can
do anything grab them by the [ __ ] you
can do anything that's what you said
correct well historically that's true
with stars it's true with stars that
that they can grab women by the [ __ ]
well that's what it's if you look over
the last million years I guess that's
been largely true not always but largely
true unfortunately or
fortunately and you consider yourself uh
to be a star
I think you can say that yeah and this
is from a federal court order that was
just issued this past week in New York
federal court by judge Lewis Kaplan who
explained that the jury in the last eing
Carol trial found by a preponderance of
the evidence that Mr Trump sexually
abused Miss Carol and injured her in
doing so his conduct was willfully
negligent or reckless in doing so or he
acted with a conscious disregard for
Miss Carol rights and Miss Carol was
entitled to compensatory and punitive
damages for sexual abuse of about $2
million consequently the fact that Mr
Trump sexually abused indeed raped Miss
Carol has been conclusively established
and is binding in this case that's from
a federal judge um and here is Donald
Trump at the young Republicans
Club about a month ago uh in New York at
a very fancy restaurant called chianis
and Donald Trump makes up the story that
a military General told him that the
most corageous thing this military
General has ever heard was When Donald
Trump mocked the woman he sexually
abuses that's what Donald Trump was
telling to the young Republicans here
play this
clip but I went onto that stage just a
few days later and a general who's a
fantastic general actually said to me
sir I've been on the battlefield men
have gone down on my left and on my
right I stood on Hills where soldiers
were killed but I believe the bravest
thing I've ever seen was the night you
went onto that stage with Hillary
Clinton after what happened and then
that woman asked you the first question
about it and I said locker room talk
it's locker room talk what the hell what
are you talk locker
room that was not a
great going going back to the statement
that you heard earlier in this video
from Hillary Clinton Donald Trump's
conduct not just abhorent disgusting
criminal in nature um but also the real
world ramifications of it as well to his
victims of course who he has created
unimaginable suffering to this country
and as Hillary Clinton said here's what
he's going to do play this clip of
Donald Trump bragging about what he did
and what he calls is a miracle play this
clip because for 54 years they were
trying to get roie way terminated and I
did it and I'm proud to have done it
they wanted to get it back right you
wouldn't be have that there would be no
question nobody else was going to get
that done but me and we did it and we
did something that was a miracle thank
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