--- title: Donald Trump Accusers: 'Not My First Choice' Transcript description: Donald Trump personally fired back at several women who have accused him of sexual harassment or assault at a campaign rally. canonical: https://time.com/4532181/donald-trump-north-carolina-accusers-speech-transcript/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-14T20:52:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:13:10.017Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Trump's Speech Attacking His Accusers og:description: "Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you." og:url: https://time.com/4532181/donald-trump-north-carolina-accusers-speech-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt375e882cdf936ffd/6988aa19a988ca3cf46b9c25/donald-trump8.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Trump's Speech Attacking His Accusers twitter:description: "Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt375e882cdf936ffd/6988aa19a988ca3cf46b9c25/donald-trump8.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Donald Trump's Speech Attacking His Accusers by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Oct 14, 2016 8:52 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Greensboro, N.C., on Oct. 14, 2016. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Greensboro, N.C., on Oct. 14, 2016.Evan Vucci—AP by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Oct 14, 2016 8:52 PM UTC Donald Trump personally [fired back at several women](http://time.com/4531872/donald-trump-sexual-assault-accusers-attack/) who have accused him of sexual harassment or assault at a campaign rally in North Carolina. Speaking in front of a rowdy crowd in Greensboro Friday afternoon, Trump said all of the allegations were lies, called one accuser a “horrible woman,” told his followers to look another up on Facebook and said another accuser “would not be my first choice.” Here’s a complete transcript of the rally. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4532181/donald-trump-north-carolina-accusers-speech-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4532181/donald-trump-north-carolina-accusers-speech-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Donald Trump's Speech Attacking His Accusers","datePublished":"2016-10-14T20:52:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:13:10.017Z","description":"'Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you'","url":"https://time.com/4532181/donald-trump-north-carolina-accusers-speech-transcript/","keywords":["Donald Trump","2016 Election topic","North Carolina","transcripts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt375e882cdf936ffd/6988aa19a988ca3cf46b9c25/donald-trump8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt375e882cdf936ffd/6988aa19a988ca3cf46b9c25/donald-trump8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, in Greensboro, N.C. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)","creditText":"Evan Vucci—AP","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/4532181/donald-trump-north-carolina-accusers-speech-transcript/","name":"Read Donald Trump's Speech Attacking His Accusers"}}]}] ```