Johnson claimed that Trump violently raped her when she was 13 at a 1994 orgy hosted by Jeffrey Epstein — the billionaire who was convicted in 2008 of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution and has been accused of having sex with more than 30 underage girls.

Johnson said Trump had sexual contact with her at four of those parties, including tying her to a bed and violently raping her in a “savage sexual attack.” The lawsuit said Johnson “loudly pleaded” with Trump to stop, but that he responded by “violently striking Plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted.”

252 points

Trump is a pedo with several decades of documented creepy behavior.

There. “Explained.”

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Yet, here we are, with the potential of him to be the next president of the country (again). :/

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I think you mean the next king of your failed democracy.

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democracy

Never was one. Kinda exactly what led us here.

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This.
100%

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and the first king in the idiomonarchy.

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He should probably withdraw

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He should be thrown in prison and not even given the freedom to withdraw. He should be forcefully taken out, legally but violently.

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Something something defend something enemies both foreign and domestic…

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Think of the children, though. Those books are really dangerous.

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I told a trump cultist about the creepy things he said about his daughter. Guy said it’s ok, he made a mistake and God had forgiven him.

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So this wasn’t an official act? I guess it depends upon which SC justice you ask.

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Ask Trump is all.

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He might not have been the president in 1994, but I don’t have a source to back that up

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The general consensus is that this lawsuit was fake and started by anti-Trump members of the GOP in 2016.

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The general consensus is that this lawsuit was fake and started by anti-Trump members of the GOP

And yet there is a case number and record of the case.

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The lawsuit itself appears to be real, not fake.

The allegations may not be true.

It’s subtle, but there’s a difference

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Case was real, one was dismissed and another dropped though. I think they’re saying that the accusation was fake. The article does make it sound really suspicious, but also it mentions that it could be real but just handled bizarrely.

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Exactly. Poor wording on my part, but the kicker is that none of the other Epstein victims corroborate that Katie Johnson was one of them.

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Sure

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None of the other victims corroborate that Katie Johnson was even on the island. They made a real filing of fake claims.

I’m all for sticking it to Trump and punishing him for his crimes, many of which were sexual and some may have been with underage girls. However we have to be careful to focus on the things he is actually guilty of, else he will just be exonerated and get another layer of orange Teflon added to his skin.

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The Murdochian consensus, yes.

As for the rest of us, anyone who’s bothered to look can see the situation fits trump to a T.

Allegedly.

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Here’s a current press item about the issue, dated Jul 04, 2024, Donald Trump, Katie Johnson Allegations: Everything We Know - Newsweek

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…which confirms that there’s no new info.

Some X users appeared to believe that the document is a recent filing. The post was shared after about 150 pages of transcripts related to a 2006 grand jury investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s rape and sex trafficking of teenagers was released to the public on Monday.

However, the document included in the X post isn’t connected to those papers, but actually comes from a lawsuit filed in the months leading up to the 2016 election by an anonymous plaintiff using the name “Katie Johnson.”

Now, I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually did it, wouldn’t even be the worst thing he did. But that is indeed the general consensus, afaik.

EDIT: the article posted by Flying Squid would be more relevant to current events.

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Republicans: “That man is just LIKE US! He embodies every value that we hold dear! We should totally nominate him to lead our party.”

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Why did they drop it though? If it was actually proven, then that would’ve been the end for him

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Money or lack of evidence.

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Plus the death threats, the prospect of that court case defining one’s life, and being a very young adult wanting only to forget it.

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I personally couldn’t imagine trying to overcome telling a court room of people what I can only imagine is PTSD inducing memories, and then on top of that receiving death threats from Trumps cult. I’m not sure one could have enough years of trauma therapy to overcome that.

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She was 35 in 2016 when the suit was dropped, but valid points otherwise.

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Because she was getting death threats? They might have been credible and specific for all we know.

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