A Trump accuser is trying to explain away emails that show her trying to sell her skills as a makeup artist to Trump even after she said he groped her.
Here are some of the emails from the Hill:
“Hi Donald, you are doing a tremendous job of shaking things up in the United States. I am definitely on Team Trump as so many others are,” Jill Harth wrote the future president in an Oct. 1, 2015, email sent to him through his New York company’s headquarters.
“I can’t watch television without seeing you or hearing your name everywhere! It’s a good thing for sure but PLEASE let me do your makeup for a television interview, a debate, a photo session, anything!” Harth wrote.
Here’s her explanation:
“In 2015 I was very excited about a new men’s cosmetic product line that I had developed and needed a prominent spokesperson. And after discussions with my business associate she thought Donald Trump would be ideal. I called Trump’s executive assistant who asked me to put everything in writing by email with a formal proposal for Trump,” Harth said.
Harth said the “flattering nature” of her business pitches “were necessary to satisfy Trump’s ‘huge’ ego” and that the passage of time had left her feeling comfortable asking for a job that would put her in close proximity to a man she accused of sexually assaulting years before.
“Yes, I had moved on but had not forgotten the pain he brought into my life,” she said, saying she underwent therapy to deal with her prior experiences. “I was older, wiser. Trump was married to Melania and I had hoped he was a changed man.”
Here are the accusations she made:
In her 1997 lawsuit and during the 2016 campaign, Harth alleged that during a January 1993 meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, the future president pushed her up against a wall and groped her, trying to get his hands up her dress.
Harth explained she never intended to resurrect the 1997 lawsuit or its allegations and had made peace in her mind about Trump, and that reporters forced her name unwillingly into the public domain when they discovered her old litigation.
She said she turned negative on Trump after hearing him deny her allegations. “Having to retell my experiences of Donald Trump’s harassment is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” she stated.
“Once the media rediscovered the complaint, Donald responded to it by repeatedly denigrating and disparaging me and releasing an old National Enquirer article from the ’90s that he planted,” she said.
SO it’s not completely contradictory, but it does undermine her story when she says she was groped and it was awful and terrible but she was OK with jumping on the Trump train later when she could professionally benefit by it…
Here’s Harth talking about the groping allegations a year ago: