Giuliani calls accusation he groped Cassidy Hutchinson ‘totally absurd’

Rudy Giuliani has denied allegations that he groped former Trump White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson at a Jan. 6, 2021, event, calling her accusation “completely, absolutely false” and “totally absurd.”

In her new book, Hutchinson claims Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who served as former President Trump’s personal attorney, groped her backstage during Trump’s rally at the White House Ellipse a few hours before the Capitol riot.

Hutchinson said Giuliani moved his hand “under my blazer, then my skirt,” The Guardian reported, citing an excerpt of the book it obtained.

Giuliani addressed the allegations in an interview Wednesday on Newsmax.

“First of all, I’m not going to grope someone at all,” he said. “And No. 2, in front of like a hundred people? Plus that day I had extra security, and I had my entire staff around me virtually all day.”

“There would have been no occasion for this to happen, it’s completely absurd,” he added.

Giuliani initially declined to comment on the claims as reports surfaced this week. Hutchinson’s book, titled “Enough,” depicts her experience as an aide to Trump’s then-chief of staff Mark Meadows in the White House and as a key witness in the House’s Jan. 6 hearings.

“I feel his frozen fingers trail up my thigh,” she wrote of Giuliani in an excerpt quoted by The Guardian. “He tilts his chin up. The whites of his eyes look jaundiced. My eyes dart to John Eastman, who flashes a leering grin. I fight against the tension in my muscles and recoil from Rudy’s grip.”

Hutchinson’s book is set to be published Sept. 26.

Giuliani is one of 19 defendants, including former President Trump, to be indicted on charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. The former Trump lawyer turned himself in to an Atlanta jail last month and was released on $150,000 bond.

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