July 2006.
People magazine reporter Natasha Stoynoff ran into Trump's wife, Melania, outside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York.
Melania gave her a warm hug and asked, "Natasha, why haven't we seen you around?"
She smiled and told Melania she missed her too, pinching the Trump couple's newborn son Baron's little foot, but she didn't mention the real reason.
A year earlier, she had interviewed the Trumps on their first wedding anniversary.
But after that, she deliberately avoided the couple and requested her superiors not to assign her any more stories about Trump.
On October 15, 2016, Natasha published an article on the People magazine website claiming that during the 2005 interview, while pregnant Melania went upstairs to change, Trump used the excuse of showing her a "must-see" room, closed the door, and forcibly kissed her.
It wasn't until a minute later, when Trump's butler entered the room, that she could escape.
Natasha only told her close friends about it.
In her article on the 15th, she wrote that she was afraid to expose the incident because she felt ashamed, blamed herself, and worried that this "famous, powerful, wealthy man" would discredit and ruin her career.
It wasn't until a few days ago, when she heard the recording released by The Washington Post on October 7, 2016.
In the recording, Trump, while appearing on a TV show in 2005, used vulgar language to describe his failed attempt to seduce a married woman.
She realized she shouldn't blame herself, and that she wasn't the only woman harassed by Trump.
So Natasha chose to reveal the story on this day.
At the same time, on October 15, not only did Natasha publicly accuse Trump of assault, but U.S. and U.K. media outlets successively reported multiple scandals of Trump sexually harassing women.
On October 15, The New York Times first exposed two incidents related to Trump's sexual harassment.
Jessica Leeds, a 74-year-old New York resident, said in an interview that more than 30 years ago, she was sexually harassed by Trump, who was seated next to her in first class on a plane.
During their chat, Trump learned she was divorced at the time, then he lifted the armrest, started groping her, trying to grab her breasts and lift her skirt.
The frightened Leeds quickly fled to economy class.
Two years later, Leeds encountered Trump again at a charity event; he seemed to remember her and insulted her with vulgar language.
Rachel Crooks, in 2005, at age 22, ran into Trump by chance in the elevator outside Trump Tower in New York.
Since her company had business dealings with Trump, she introduced herself and shook his hand, but Trump didn't let go—instead, he kissed her cheek and then directly kissed her mouth.
A few days later, Trump came to Crooks' office, claiming he wanted to introduce her to a modeling agency, and asked for her phone number.
According to the report, both Leeds and Crooks told their friends about their experiences at the time but didn't report it officially.
The New York Times stated it had verified the facts with those friends.
Subsequently, Florida's Palm Beach Post also quoted 36-year-old Mindy McGillivray on October 15.
Mindy McGillivray claimed that in 2003, while accompanying a photographer friend to shoot a concert, Trump grabbed her butt.
She turned to look, and Trump immediately averted his gaze; she told her friend right away.
On the same day, the U.K.'s The Guardian also reported similar incidents.
Two former beauty pageant contestants told The Guardian that Trump barged into the dressing room while they were changing, ogling their naked bodies.
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As the Republican presidential nominee, Trump—whose approval ratings had already been hit by the "recording scandal"—faced a new wave of public outrage.
Clearly, this was the second strike in Clinton's combo punch.
Trump himself did not respond to these sexual harassment allegations on the 15th.
However, Trump's campaign team issued a statement late on the 15th, denying the New York Times report and calling it a vulgar political attack.
Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, confirmed to The Guardian that evening that Trump would sue The New York Times.
And Hillary didn't miss the chance to kick Trump while he was down.
She pinned a tweet from October 7 to the top of her Twitter, which read: "Women have the power to stop Trump."
The second strike of Clinton's combo punch was quite effective.
In nationwide U.S. polls, after October 15, the gap between Hillary and Trump's approval ratings was gradually widening.
In the Huffington Post's aggregated poll data, Hillary was currently leading in major national polls, with the gap between them ranging from 5% to 10% since the second debate.
But even so, Trump wasn't completely isolated; he still had Republican supporters.
The New York Times reported on the 16th that four congressmen who had previously declared opposition to Trump said they would still vote for him.
They indicated that their change of stance wasn't because they agreed with some of Trump's actions, but because they feared being accused of disloyalty by Republican supporters, which could cost them votes in their states.
But this was obviously a cover; while Hillary's team kept moving, Trump's team wasn't idle either, clearly making some PY deals with certain people.
Moreover, Trump's counterattack came swiftly.
This time, he targeted Hillary's husband, Clinton.
He told the media: "During Hillary's tenure as Secretary of State, she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, ran the Clinton Foundation, which may have violated rules by accepting large donations from foreign governments."
He stated: "I've found key evidence from the emails released by hackers."
"In the sealed emails, a senior executive at the Clinton Foundation wrote: The Qatari government plans to donate $1 million to the foundation on Bill Clinton's birthday."
"My people checked the Clinton Foundation website and indeed found records of donations from the Qatari government, amounting to over $1 million."
Haha, a new round of mutual tearing had begun.
Arthur Brooks, president of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI), told The New York Times on the 11th that this election had exceeded his expectations, reaching a new moral low.