--- title: Donald Trump Denies Sexual Assault Accusations: Transcript description: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday denied multiple allegations of sexual assault. Read his full speech canonical: https://time.com/4530515/donald-trump-sexual-assault-accusations-transcript/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-13T19:21:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:11:28.828Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Donald Trump's Speech Addressing Sexual Assault Accusations og:description: "These claims are all fabricated" og:url: https://time.com/4530515/donald-trump-sexual-assault-accusations-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1f403a96bd416751/6988a9f62dce0130d29eb07e/donald-trump-transcript-florida.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Trump Holds Campaign Event In West Palm Beach, Florida og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Donald Trump's Speech Addressing Sexual Assault Accusations twitter:description: "These claims are all fabricated" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1f403a96bd416751/6988a9f62dce0130d29eb07e/donald-trump-transcript-florida.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Donald Trump's Speech Addressing Sexual Assault Accusations  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Oct 13, 2016 7:21 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the South Florida Fair Expo Center on Oct. 13, 2016 in West Palm Beach, Fla. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the South Florida Fair Expo Center on Oct. 13, 2016 in West Palm Beach, Fla.Joe Raedle/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Oct 13, 2016 7:21 PM UTC Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday [denied multiple allegations](http://time.com/4530339/donald-trump-sexual-assault-media-hillary-clinton/) of sexual assault, dismissing the claims of his accusers and railing against the press. “These claims are all fabricated,” Trump said, around the same time that the New York _Times_ sent a letter [declining to retract its story](http://time.com/4530428/new-york-times-donald-trump-lawsuit/). “They’re pure fiction, and they’re outright lies. These events never, ever happened.” Here is the full transcript from the event in West Palm Beach, Fla. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4530515/donald-trump-sexual-assault-accusations-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4530515/donald-trump-sexual-assault-accusations-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Donald Trump's Speech Addressing Sexual Assault Accusations","datePublished":"2016-10-13T19:21:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:11:28.828Z","description":"\"These claims are all fabricated\"","url":"https://time.com/4530515/donald-trump-sexual-assault-accusations-transcript/","keywords":["Donald Trump","2016 Election topic","transcript","transcripts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1f403a96bd416751/6988a9f62dce0130d29eb07e/donald-trump-transcript-florida.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1f403a96bd416751/6988a9f62dce0130d29eb07e/donald-trump-transcript-florida.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trump Holds Campaign Event In West Palm Beach, Florida","caption":"Trump Holds Campaign Event In West Palm Beach, Florida","creditText":"Joe Raedle/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4530515/donald-trump-sexual-assault-accusations-transcript/","name":"Read Donald Trump's Speech Addressing Sexual Assault Accusations"}}]}] ```