A website called subject politics posted a story about the woman who claimed that Donald Trump groped her on a commercial airline a number of years ago. The woman described the assault as follows:

Jessica Leeds says Trump assaulted her during a FIRST-CLASS flight to New York about three decades ago. Leeds, now 74, claims Trump lifted the ARM REST and began to touch her inappropriately about 45 minutes into the flight. “He was like an octopus,” she said. “His hands were everywhere.”

Whoops. First Class seats don’t have arm rests that lift up–they never have!

The article reports:

Here’s what one longtime Pilot posted last night on reddit, regarding the details of the accusers story:

“THE STORY DOESN’T SEEM PLAUSIBLE…THE REASON ARM RESTS FOLD UP IN ECONOMY CLASS IS THAT THE ROWS ARE SO CLOSE TOGETHER THAT MANY PEOPLE COULDN’T GET OUT OF THEIR SEATS OTHERWISE. IN FIRST-CLASS, THIS ISN’T AN ISSUE. I’VE ALSO LOOKED AT AS MANY FIRST-CLASS PICTURES AS I COULD FIND ON GIS (GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH), NOTHING, NOT A SINGLE FOLDING ARM REST.”

I will admit that I have not traveled enough in First Class to know that.

The article includes some pictures of the First Class section:

A radio commentator commented this morning that if he were sitting in an airplane and heard a woman protesting, he might have gotten involved–he has daughters. Somehow I think there is enough chivalry left in our country that if a woman protested being groped in a public setting, a flight attendant or bystander would have gotten involved.

This accusation doesn’t work. Even Encyclopedia Brown would have figured that one out!