Passenger Arrested for Groping Woman Tells Cops President Trump ‘Says It’s Ok’

A Florida man on a Southwest flight from Houston to New Mexico was arrested after a woman passenger complained to attendants he had been groping her repeatedly.

The woman says she fell asleep on the flight and when she woke up he was touching “the right part of her right breast,” NBC News reports.

She apparently gave him the benefit of the doubt, assuming it had been an accident, but half an hour later, she says she “felt fingers slowly grab the back of her arm, squeezing above the elbow then slowly and ‘attentively’ grab her right side, again around her ribs and bra line,” the complaint says.

The woman then confronted the man, asked him why he thought it was OK to touch her, then asked for a seat reassignment.

49-year old Bruce Michael Alexander was arrested and charged with “abusive sexual contact” after the flight landed. He was ID’d by his “thick and hairy” fingers “with dirty fingernails.”

While he did not admit to touching the passenger, Alexander, in handcuffs, told police “that the President of the United States says it’s ok to grab women by their private parts,” according to the complaint.

Trump in fact told Billy Bush in the now-infamous “Access Hollywood” video that, “when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the p****.”

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