Is Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump about to face a parade of women coming forward to undermine his claim that he has changed since 2005 when a recording that battered his campaign showed him talking in obscene language and denigrating women?

Watch out “Mr. Trump” (as his staffers unfailingly call him): civil rights attorney Gloria Allred says she’s being contacted by women who have had bad experiences with Trump. Things could get worse for Trump on the scandal front if Allred is on the case.
Much worse:

Gloria Allred, the civil rights lawyer who takes on high-profile targets, like Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski and, yes, Trump, confirmed to us that since the Access Hollywood tape’s release, she has been “contacted by women who allege inappropriate contact by Mr. Trump.”
More to the point, Allred discussed how Trump’s words suggest criminal behavior. “If there is an unwanted or unconsented to touching of a person’s intimate parts such as the genital areas or a woman’s breasts, that could constitute a sexual assault or a sexual battery,” she explained yesterday. She added that “when Rudy Giuliani was asked” on Sunday’s political programs “if Donald Trump was describing a sexual assault on the recently released 2005 video, he responded, ‘That’s what he was talking about.'” Allred said, “I am disgusted by what Donald Trump said and admitted that he had done on that video. An apology is not enough.”
The Access Hollywood tape was discovered after the AP’s report featuring former crew members on Trump’s reality show, The Apprentice, describing his demeaning behavior towards women; in one example, he allegedly judges female contestants’ breast sizes and discusses which women he’d want to have sex with. Allred released a statement last week, citing the numerous sexual harassment lawsuits and his lecherous behavior: “If Mr. Trump were to be elected president he would be the employer of the largest workforce in the country, federal government employees. Mr. Trump in that role would be sending a message through his past words and actions that sexual harassment of women in the workplace is acceptable and this could lead to other employers believing that they can follow Mr. Trump’s lead and openly sexually harass their female employees, thereby creating and condoning a hostile workplace for working women.”

Many conservatives hate Allred, but journalists know that if she calls a press conference where there’s smoke she will eventually make a good, solid case that there is fire. Here in San Diego, she was at the forefront of documenting the sexual harassment of then-Mayor Bob Filner, and helped bring him down.

If she calls a press conference and says she has more women coming forward, you can be sure it’ll be covered — and become a major story.

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JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief

Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.

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