Clown ‘Donald Trumps’ Women, Squeezes Their Breasts: Police

JANESVILLE, WI — A man who calls himself "Shakes the Clown" asked two women at a haunted barn ealier this fall if they wanted him to "Donald Trump" them, and then grabbed and squeezed their breasts, according to a Rock County Circuit Court complaint charging the 43-year-old Janesville, Wisconsin, man with two counts of sexual assault.

The two women who filed complaints against the clown, whose real name is Brandon Goral, said he grabbed and squeezed their breasts after asking, “Do you want me to Donald Trump?” As he asked the question, Goral “made a hand gesture towards their vaginas and made a squeezing motion,” the complaint read.

The Trump comment may have been a reference to the 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape that surfaced during the 2016 presidential campaign and showed Trump bragging about groping women’s genitalia. Trump, at the time the host of "The Apprentice," told "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush, "When you’re a star, they let you do it," according to the tape. “Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

The incidents against the clown-costumed defendant took place on Oct. 23 as the two women were waiting in line to go through a haunted barn in Fulton, Wisconsin, according to the complaint. Several other women reported they had been assaulted by a clown who was working at the Halloween attraction, according to the complaint, and all described him as wearing a green wig.

The two women referenced in the criminal complaint by their initials said they were “caught off guard by what the clown had said and found it inappropriate,” and that they never gave him permission to touch their breasts.

In an interview with police, Goran said he does not touch women’s breasts unless he asked to, but that he was asked “multiple times” by different times to “grab their breasts for photos.” Asked how many times women requested such photos, he told investigators “three to four tops,” according to an affidavit signed by Rock County Assistant District Attorney Chiniqua L. White and Deputy Trevor Lee that was filed with the complaint.

To be clear, Goran isn’t associated with anyone in 1991 dark-comedy film, “Shakes the Clown.” Comedian Robert Francis 'Bobcat' Goldthwait stars in the title role in the film, which was a box-office bust, earning only about $115,000 in ticket sales against production costs of about $1.4 million.

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