“Trump tried to kiss me.” Former Fox News host, Juliet Huddy, said that Donald Trump tried to kiss her back in “2005 or 2006”. She could not remember the exact date, but it was pretty clear to her that he was trying to kiss her on the lips, and she felt surprised rather than threatened.
On Compound Media’s Mornin’! With Bill Schulz, Huddy said, “He took me for lunch at Trump Tower, just us two. 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! It was a weird moment. He never tried anything after that, and I was never alone with him.”
She also added that if he had tried to go further, she would have stopped him. “Now I have matured I think I would say, ‘Woah, no,’ but at the time I was younger, and I was a little shocked. I thought maybe he didn’t mean to do it, but I was kind of making excuses.”
During an appearance on the Fox News show, Trump joked about the incident, saying, “I hit on her, but she blew me off.”
Huddy appeared on several Fox News shows and co-hosted a syndicated show from channel WNYW. She had to leave Fox News after filing a complaint about harassment against Bill O’Reilly. She settled with 21st Century Fox, and O’Reilly got fired earlier this year due to the sexual harassment allegations.
Huddy claimed that she was “disappointed” with Trump’s reaction to O’Reilly’s news. “When all the stuff came out about Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump was one of the people who said, ‘I don’t believe this happened and I don’t believe he did it,'” she said. “I was actually very disappointed in Trump, I thought. ‘You know what, f*** you!'”
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