Second Woman, Actress Jordana Grolnick, Accuses President George H.W. Bush of Groping Her

According to Grolnick, the others in the room “laughed politely and out of discomfort.” Barbara Bush was in the room as well. “[She] said something along the lines of, ‘He’s going to get himself put into jail!’ to which we laughed harder,” Grolnick said. She reached out to family members after the act occurred, but she was told to laugh it off because Bush was “an old sick man.”

In reaction to the allegation, Bush spokesperson Jim McGrath issued the following statement to Deadspin: “At age 93, President Bush has been confined to a wheelchair for roughly five years, so his arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures. To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke — and on occasion, he has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner. Some have seen it as innocent; others clearly view it as inappropriate. To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologizes most sincerely.”

Grolnick’s claims against Bush are nearly identical to Heather Lind’s allegation. The “Mistress America” and “Demolition” actress shared in a since-deleted Instagram post that Bush “touched [her] from behind” while taking a photo at a March 2014 press event celebrating her AMC television series “Turn: Washington Spies.”