Former Fox News host Juliet Huddy said that Trump, a man who has been accused of every from making inappropriate remarks to rape by over 10 women, allegedly tried to kiss her in an elevator after the two had a professional lunch meeting at Trump Tower, Page Six reports. While Huddy at the time dismissed her own shock, she said she now realizes that his alleged behavior was inappropriate.
Huddy described the incident on “Mornin!!! with Bill Schulz” on compoundmedia.com, which reportedly occurred in 2005 or 2006. She said that Trump took her out to lunch in his luxury Manhattan high-rise to talk about her potentially doing something with ‘The Apprentice’, and that when they were saying goodbye, Trump allegedly kissed her in the elevator.
“He took me for lunch at Trump Tower, just us two,” she said. “He said goodbye to me in an elevator while his security guy was there, rather than kiss me on the cheek he leaned in to kiss me on the lips. I wasn’t offended, I was kind of like, ‘Oh my god’.”
While she was “surprised that he went for the lips,” Huddy shrugged it off. A few years after the incident, though, Trump joked about pursuing her on her Fox News talk show. She recounted the latter interaction, which made her start to question Trump’s behavior in the elevator:
“Trump was a guest and he came on stage, He said, to the audience and producers, not on camera, ‘I tried hitting on her but she blew me off.’ He was laughing. At the time I was not offended by it, I thought he was a single man and leaned in for a kiss… maybe he thought, ‘She’s been out to lunch with me and maybe she is interested.’
“Now I have matured I think I would say, ‘Woah, no’, but at the time I was younger and I was a little shocked,” she said. “I thought maybe he didn’t mean to do it, but I was kind of making excuses.”