Washington — In interviews with the New York Times, two women accused Donald Trump of inappropriate touching — claims that his spokesperson called "fiction", but which may further damage the Republican presidential candidate’s chances of winning the November 8 election.The report on Wednesday was followed by a stream of similar allegations from several other women, putting more pressure on Trump as he lags Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in national opinion polls.The campaign was already struggling to contain a crisis after a video surfaced last week showing the candidate bragging in 2005 about groping women and making unwanted sexual advances.One of the women, Jessica Leeds, appeared on camera on the New York Times’s website to recount how Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt on a flight to New York in or around 1980.The second woman, Rachel Crooks, described how Trump "kissed me directly on the mouth" in 2005 outside the elevator in Trump Tower in Manh...
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