Rachel Crooks introduced herself to Trump at an office in 2002; her company did business with his. She shook his hand, but then he didn’t let go, and then, she said, forcibly kissed her on the mouth. “It was so inappropriate,” she said. “I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that.”

In the video, Trump told Billy Bush, “You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait.”

Long-ago allegations are, of course, usually impossible to prove. But both women have told friends their stories over the years, and the friends confirmed those accounts to the Times. Meanwhile, their stories seem to have opened up floodgates for other women to air their stories.

Mindy McGillivray told The Palm Beach Post that Trump had groped her while she was assisting a photographer friend at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in January 2003. (A Trump spokeswoman denied the story.) A Miss USA contestant from Washington state reportedly posted on Facebook that Trump had groped her.

And Natasha Stoynoff, a former People reporter, wrote for that magazine about an assault that she says occurred while she was writing a story on the first anniversary of Trump’s wedding to Melania Knauss in 2005. Stoynoff, who had been covering Trump for some time, says that Trump wanted to show her a room at Mar-a-Lago:

We walked into that room alone, and Trump shut the door behind us. I turned around, and within seconds, he was pushing me against the wall, and forcing his tongue down my throat. Now, I’m a tall, strapping girl who grew up wrestling two giant brothers. I even once sparred with Mike Tyson. It takes a lot to push me. But Trump is much bigger—a looming figure—and he was fast, taking me by surprise, and throwing me off balance. I was stunned. And I was grateful when Trump’s longtime butler burst into the room a minute later, as I tried to unpin myself.

Stoynoff said that a few moments later, Trump told her, “You know we’re going to have an affair, don’t you?” Stoynoff said she told a colleague about the incident, but blamed herself, did not act, and asked to leave the Trump beat. A Trump spokesperson denied that story, too.

Trump has insisted that his language in the video was nothing more than “locker-room” conversation. But Leeds and Crooks are not the first women to lodge such accusations. Jill Harth, who worked with Trump on pageants in the 1990s, has said that Trump tried to grope her on various occasions, and sexually assaulted her in his daughter Ivanka’s bedroom. “I was admiring the decoration, and next thing I know he’s pushing me against a wall and has his hands all over me,” Harth told Nicholas Kristof, the Times columnist. “He was trying to kiss me. I was freaking out.” On another occasion, she says she vomited as a defense mechanism.