The final weeks of America's 2016 presidential election present a fast ride in which his "shackles have been taken off." Over the years I've referenced my own love for driving sports cars with a firm grasp of driving a stick. As millions of Americans -- and especially American women have tweeted in the last week, our memories of sexual abuse, including firmly delivered sexual aggression and rape were unleashed listening to Donald Trump's Billy Bush video released last Friday by The Washington Post.

Women were shocked when Donald Trump brought the recently fired, former head of FOX News Roger Ailes into his inner campaign circle.

Over the past week, Donald Trump's words and actions sickened America's women as we reflected on the denials in our own lives. I shared details of my own stories years ago on Anne of Carversville.

Last night all hell broke loose in the world of women and Donald Trump. A series of stories broke over the morning into evening.

Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately The New York Times

Jessica Leeds, then a businesswoman at a paper company, alleges that Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt during a flight more than three decades ago. Leeds has gone on camera with the story, one shared previously with friends and family members. Leeds told the Times about her own moment of reckoning:

At that moment, sitting at home in Manhattan, Jessica Leeds, 74, felt he was lying to her face. “I wanted to punch the screen,” she said in an interview in her apartment.

Another woman Rachel Crooks was then a 22-year-old receptionist at Bayrock Group, with offices in Trump Tower. Crooks says Donald Trump kissed her on the mouth outside an elevator in 2005, in a detailed recollection that Trump's own brought to life. Immediately after the incident Crooks both called her sister Brianne Webb and told her boyfriend that evening what had happened in Trump's mauling of her.

When the Times reporter asked Donald Trump for comment on Tuesday, the presidential candidate was livid. “None of this ever took place,” said Mr. Trump, who began shouting at the Times reporter, threatening to sue the newspaper. “You are a disgusting human being,” he told the reporter as she detailed the women’s claims about Trump's behavior.

Teen Beauty Queens Say Trump Walked in on Them Changing Buzzfeed

BuzzFeed's Wednesday Oct. 12 story read: "Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant said Donald Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants — some as young as 15 — were changing.”

More than half of the now grown women said they couldn't remember if Trump was in the dressing room, and three of the four wanted to remain anonymous. One of the then young contestants told BuzzFeed that when Trump entered the dressing room while she was getting dressed, he “said something like, ‘Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.’”

Donald Trump: Woman says candidate groped her Palm Beach Post

For more than 10 years, Mindy McGillivray shared the details with her being groped by Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago with only close friends and family. But watching Sunday night's debate in which Trump insisted that he had never groped and kissed women or grabbed their genitals, McGillivray said she sat on the couch and yelled at the TV screen: "You liar!"

Her companion that day, photographer Ken Davidoff who she was assisting, vividly remembers when McGillivray pulled him aside moments after the alleged incident and told him, ‘’Donald just grabbed my ass!’’'

Physically Attacked by Donald Trump -- A PEOPLE Writer's Own Harrowing Story People

The evening ended in a stunning story narrated by PEOPLE writer Natasha Stoynoff, who went to Mar-a-Lago in December 2005, for a story on Donald and a very pregnant Melania Trump on their first wedding anniversary.

“I just start kissing them,” Donald Trump said to Bush in the Access Hollywood tape revealed last Friday. “It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.” Fast forward now into Stoynoff's corporate-lawyer-vetted PEOPLE story.

"We walked into that room alone, and Trump shut the door behind us. I turned around, and within seconds he was pushing me against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat.

Now, I’m a tall, strapping girl who grew up wrestling two giant brothers. I even once sparred with Mike Tyson. It takes a lot to push me. But Trump is much bigger — a looming figure — and he was fast, taking me by surprise and throwing me off balance. I was stunned. And I was grateful when Trump’s longtime butler burst into the room a minute later, as I tried to unpin myself."

The butler informed us that Melania would be down momentarily, and it was time to resume the interview.

'He Grabbed Me': Woman Alleges Trump Grope Her Exactly As Described on Tape Newsweek

As Newsweek reported on Sunday:

“Jill Harth, a pageant owner trying to work with Trump in the mid-1990s, filed suit against him in federal court in Manhattan in 1997, describing a ‘relentless’ campaign of sexual harassment and assault including an incident in which he reached under a table, put his hands on her thighs and grabbed her ‘intimate private parts’ during a meeting at a New York restaurant.”

The last seven days are not the first time Donald Trump has been accused of sexual aggression.

Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Public New York Times

Temple Taggart, Miss Utah 1997, is quoted in May 2016 that when she was introduced to Trump, “He kissed me directly on the lips. I thought, ‘Oh my God, gross."

We learned in the same story that by senior year in 1964 at the New York Military Academy, Donald Trump was crowned "ladies' man" in the yearbook.

Asked how he had earned the “ladies’ man” title, Mr. Trump at first demurred. “I better not tell you — I’ll get myself in trouble,” he said. He later elaborated, saying he had “a great feeling” and “a great like” for women.

In the light of day this Thursday October 13, just weeks out from the November 8 election, one does wonder exactly what Donald Trump meant with that comment. We have had the appetizer of how Trump's great regard for women is expressed. Is there an even more diseased main course on the way in the next few weeks?

There is only one dessert that I want in this election, and it's the election of Hillary Rodham Clinton as the president of the United States. ~ Anne

Related Headlines

All of Donald Trump's Accusers: A Timeline of Every Alleged Grope and Assault The Daily Beast