Permanent record

Cassandra Searles's public allegation record

Event date
Category
Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation
Posture:
Named social-media allegation preserved by independent reporting

Cassandra Searles alleged in a June 2016 Facebook post and comment, preserved in named reporting, that Trump repeatedly grabbed her buttocks and invited her to his hotel room during Miss USA 2013.

Evidence basis

independent-corroboration

Documented response

A bounded search of the Miami Herald and TIME reports located no claimant-specific response; TIME documented Trump's aggregate denial of the allegations.

Disposition

The original post is no longer public. Two independent publications on different hostnames preserve the named, dated account; no filed claim or adjudication was located through 2026-08-28.

Dated sources

  1. — Miami Herald (Independent reporting preserving the original post)
  2. — TIME claimant-by-claimant review (Independent reporting and source review)

Correction status

No substantive correction recorded for this version.

Canonical citation

Cassandra Searles's public allegation record. Donaldtrumpler.com. https://donaldtrumpler.com/records/2016-06-cassandra-searles-allegation/

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