“Just to answer the question on why they would come out," Katrina Pierson said, "because 15 minutes of fame.” | Getty Trump spokeswoman: Accusers want ’15 minutes of fame'

Donald Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson late Wednesday said four women have come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual misconduct because they want "15 minutes of fame.”

During a panel discussion on "CNN Tonight" with Don Lemon, Pierson responded to reports that the women had accused Trump of inappropriately touching them in separate incidents spanning several decades.


“Just to answer the question on why they would come out, Don, because 15 minutes of fame,” she said.

Pierson also disputed the account of Jessica Leeds, who claimed in an explosive New York Times story released earlier Wednesday that Trump grabbed her breasts while sitting beside her in first-class during a flight to New York. In her recollection, Leeds says Trump pulled up the armrest that separated them before groping her.

Pierson contested this account, claiming that armrests in first-class at the time were immovable.

“The first-class seats have fixed armrests so what I can tell you about her story, if she was groped on a plane, it wasn't by Donald Trump and it certainly wasn't in first class,” she said.

Pierson also took particular exception to accusations made by Jill Harth, who in 1997 filed a lawsuit $125,000,000 lawsuit alleging that Trump sexually harassed her in 1993.

“We know that one of those women in the last article was trying to get her book sold,” Pierson said. “She wanted to raise her profile.”

A day prior, Pierson clashed with CNN host Carol Costello, who cut off the Trump campaign spokesperson when she attempted to sidestep the topic of Trump's lewd comments taped in 2005. Asked by Pierson why she would not discuss opponent Hillary Clinton's stance on Syria, Costello abruptly replied: “I can’t Katrina, because Donald Trump is not talking about that."