bdmetronews Desk ॥ Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump apparently once had a penchant for walking in on beauty pageant contestants while they were changing.
“He just came strolling right in. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless. Other girls were naked,” Tasha Dixon, Miss Arizona in 2001, recalled to KCBS-TV for a story published Tuesday.
Trump’s campaign has been embroiled in controversy over a 2005 audiotape in which he boasted about his celebrity status allowing him to grope and kiss women.
On Sunday, CNN published separate 2005 audio of Trump bragging to shock-jock Howard Stern about walking into contestants’ dressing rooms when they were naked or half-naked. He told Stern that owning the Miss Universe competition allowed him to “get away with” walking into the contest’s dressing room while the women were naked or in the middle of changing.
“Well, I’ll tell you the funniest is that before a show, I’ll go backstage and everyone’s getting dressed, 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,” Trump told Stern. “You know, I’m inspecting because I want to make sure that everything is good.”
“You’re like a doctor,” Stern said.
Trump continued, “You know, the dresses. ‘Is everyone OK?’ You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody OK?’ And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that. But no, I’ve been very good.”
