Now that a jury has found former President Donald Trump liable for sexual assault, two of his former aides have come forward and allege he also committed sexual misconduct in the White House.

Trump’s aides, former White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin, and former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham were interviewed by CNN’s Erin Burnett after Tuesday’s verdict was handed down in the case brought forward by writer E. Jean Carroll, Truthout reports. The jury found Trump liable for sexually assaulting Carroll in the mid-1990s and also found him liable for defaming her. Trump spent years deriding her, calling her a liar, and his comments were so vitriolic in fact, that it cost Carroll her job.

The jury awarded her $5 million. Trump’s lewd and misogynistic behavior towards women has been well-documented, but this marks the first time a jury has rendered a verdict saying Trump engaged in an act of violent sexually-motivated aggression toward another person.

And according to Griffin, in her CNN interview, there were “countless cases” of “impropriety” by Trump while he was in office.

Trump’s behavior, in fact, caused her real concern.

“I thought the way he engaged with women was dangerous,” Griffin said, adding that there were “things that I would consider improper and that I had a duty to report,” to her superiors in the Trump administration.

“We wanted to chalk it up to locker room talk in 2016,” Griffin said, referring to the excuses Trump and his followers made after leaked audio from the infamous Access Hollywood tape was made public during 2016’s presidential campaign. “It was not locker room talk.”

Grisham has detailed Trump’s predatory behavior toward women in books she’s written about her time in the Trump administration, and she appeared on CNN to discuss the verdict in the civil trial.

The then-president continually commented on women’s looks during his time in office, Grisham said, referring to one particularly awful instance.

“[Trump] would always comment on women’s looks. He would even talk to me sometimes about various plastic surgeries, et cetera . . . But with this one staffer, it was really bad. . . . And the sad thing is every senior staff member knew it, everybody talked about it in our White House,” Grisham told Burnett.

“I did everything I could to keep her off of trips actually and to stay with her if she was with him alone, because I was really nervous about what could happen, Grisham said.

There were even times when Trump would order his subordinates to bring the woman nearer to him so that he could comment on her looks to others, Grisham said.

“He one time had one of my other deputies bring her back so that they could ‘look at her ass’ is what he said to him,” Grisham said.

This was a frustrating situation for Grisham and others who were concerned about Trump’s behavior. While they alerted then-chief of staff Mark Meadows to this, they really felt there was little else they could do.

“I think at the end of the day, what could they do other than go in there and say, ‘This isn’t good, sir?” Grisham said.

While Trump didn’t testify during the civil trial, in the video deposition of him responding to Carroll’s lawyers he spent plenty of time disparaging women and this was shown to the jurors. At one point he claimed he wouldn’t have raped Carroll because she wasn’t his “type.” Then he told one of her lawyers that she “wouldn’t be a choice” of his.

At least 26 women have come forward over the years and accused Trump of sexual harassment, according to Vice, which has been keeping a tally.

Carroll was jubilant at the outcome (who can blame her?), and she celebrated. This case, she said, wasn’t about money, it was about holding Trump accountable for his actions.

“I am overwhelmed, overwhelmed with joy and happiness and delight for the women in this country,” she said.

Not only is this a victory for Carroll and other women who have been sexually harassed by this man; it’s a victory for every woman who has ever been sexually harassed by any man. We are rarely ever listened to but this changes everything.

I hope so, anyway.

“Look at her ass.” Surprise, turns out Trump was constantly sexually harassing women when he was in the White House, and it happened “countless” times. (Video: CNN) pic.twitter.com/xg8NXjXWA0

— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) May 10, 2023