A former Trump campaign staffer is dropping a lawsuit accusing the president of forcibly kissing her at a 2016 rally
Alva Johnson. Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post/Getty Images Alva Johnson, a former Donald Trump campaign staffer, is dropping a lawsuit accusing the president of forcibly kissing her at an August 2016 rally. Citing a hostile judge, threats to her safety, and Trump’s seemingly unlimited resources, Johnson said in a statement Thursday, “I’ve decided for the sake of my family that I will not continue with the case at this time.
When she filed suit in February, Johnson said she’d been considering coming forward for more than two years. “I’ve tried to let it go,” she told the Washington Post. “You want to move on with your life. I don’t sleep. I wake up at 4 in the morning looking at the news. I feel guilty. The only thing I did was show up for work one day.”
In July, Trump attorney Charles Harder posted video of the kiss online and claimed that it vindicated Trump, writing in court documents that it proved Johnson’s claims to be “entirely false.” He continued: “In watching the Video, the only conclusion a reasonable person could reach is that the exchange was an innocent moment between a dedicated campaign staffer and the candidate for whom she was working.
In an interview with the Daily Beast this week, Johnson said that the gravity of the interaction didn’t fully resonate until October of 2016 when she heard Trump’s now-infamous Access Hollywood tape.
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