“He was like an octopus, his hands everywhere”: Two women come forward to claim Donald Trump touched them inappropriately

Two women have come forward to claim Donald Trump touched them inappropriately in separate incidents over the past few decades, the New York Times reported .

Jessica Leeds, now 74, claims Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt when she sat next to him on a flight in the early 1980s.

“He was like an octopus,” she told the New York Times. “His hands were everywhere.”

A second woman, Rachel Crooks, claims she ran into the billionaire outside an elevator in 2005 when she was a 22-year-old receptionist for a real estate company based in Trump Tower.

She told the Times that Trump, now 70, began kissing her and described the encounter as “inappropriate.”

The Republican presidential nominee slammed the claims as “fiction” and threatened to sue the Times.

He lashed out a one of the reporters who wrote the story, telling her that “none of this ever took place”.