“I’m somebody that knows how to win”.
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The accusations, made by Elizabeth Mae Davidson, 26, came in the days leading up to the Iowa caucuses Monday when Trump’s viability as a presidential candidate will be put to its first real test.
He was presumably not referring to potential sexual discrimination charges they might one day file against the campaign, yet here we are.
Trump told the Times that he did not recognize Davidson and denied ever making a comment on her appearance. He also explained that his staff had told him that Davidson “did a awful job”, and criticized the paper for publishing this story the day before the Iowa caucuses. He did not address the other two allegations, and he said he did not remember Davidson but had been told she had done “a bad job” while working on the campaign.
According to the New York Times, her discrimination complaint says “that men doing the same jobs were paid more and were allowed to plan and speak at rallies, while her requests to do so were ignored”.
According to The New York Times, Donald Trump may have paid a female employee less than her male peers, punished her based on her gender, and made an inappropriate comment about her and a “young” female volunteer’s looks. “But I never said it. It’s not in my vocabulary”. “I close the deal”, Trump said on ABC’s “This Week” this morning. She said she was sacked for breaking a non-disclosure agreement and making “disparaging comments about senior campaign leaders to third parties”, both of which she denies.
Trump’s issues with Fox News host Megyn Kelly are well-documented at this point.
The article went on to describe Davidson as “one of the campaign’s most effective organizers”, and noted that “she has recruited captains for almost all of the 65 precincts in Scott County, in many cases more than one captain per precinct”.
Presumably Davidson hasn’t been living under a rock for the past year, so she would have been well aware of this yet signed up to work for Trump anyway. While Davidson is a staunch Republican – her mother, Judy Davidson, is the Republican chairwoman of Scott County – her attorney O’Brien is a Democrat (and winery owner) who once ran for state Senate.
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Her lawyer, Dorothy A. O’Brien, told the Times that the complaint would trigger an automatic investigation by the Davenport civil rights agency.
