The British man being put forward by Donald Trump’s campaign team as a witness to his innocence in a sexual assault allegation has a record of involvement in political scandal and unproved allegations, financial mismanagement and taking money from a newspaper to expose a Tory MP’s sex scandal. They got on so well that Trump gave the cufflinks he was wearing to Gilberthorpe, then a teenager, at the end of the flight. Neither the New York Post nor the Trump campaign would say if he has been paid for his intervention. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jessica Leeds, one of two women who told the New York Times that Donald Trump molested her. The key witness for his claim in the libel trial was Tory politician Piers Merchant.

Source: The Guardian October 15, 2016 19:13 UTC