Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump denied new accusations of groping and kissing by two women.
The latest accounts come after several women reported in recent days that Trump groped or kissed them without their consent.
In the latest allegations, two more women have come forward to accuse Trump of unwanted sexual touching, including a former contestant from a reality show that featured the Republican presidential candidate.
Summer Zervos, a former contestant on The Apprentice, alleged Trump made unwanted sexual advances towards her at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2007, while Kristin Anderson, a photographer, accused Trump sexually assaulted her in a New York nightclub in the early 1990s.
The 41-year-old Zervos appeared at a news conference on Friday with Gloria Allred, a well-known Los Angeles lawyer.
“He tried to kiss me again … and I said, ‘Dude, you’re tripping right now,’ attempting to make it clear I was not interested,” she said.
At the time according to her, Trump had married his third and current wife, Melania Trump, and the couple had an infant son.
However, at a campaign rally in North Carolina on Friday, Trump tried to discredit his accusers. He noted that because there were no witnesses to the interactions, the allegations were not credible.
“Right now I am being viciously attacked with lies and smears,” Trump said at an outdoor amphitheatre.
“It’s a phony deal. I have no idea who these women are.”
Trump also suggested the women who have come forward to accuse him were not physically attractive enough to merit his attention.
“Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you,” he said when speaking of one of the women.
In a statement released by his campaign team, Trump denied he was ever alone in a hotel room with Zervos and claimed the presidential candidate can’t recall precisely if he met her.
He even criticized the media for creating “a theater of absurdity that threatens to tear our democratic process apart and poison the minds of the American public”.