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https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-walks-in-miss-teen-usa-contestants-changing/At least four women who competed in a Miss Teen USA beauty pageant told BuzzFeed News that Donald Trump walked into their dressing room while the contestants as young as 15 were undressing.
Mariah Billado, the former Miss Vermont Teen USA, tells Buzzfeed that the now 70-year-old Republican presidential candidate caused a panic in the dressing room of the 1997 pageant when he barged in unannounced as the young women were changing.
However, she says Trump shrugged off the intrusion, saying something along the lines of: "Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before."
Three other former teen beauty queens, who wished to remain anonymous, corroborated Billado's account. They recalled the girls hurrying to cover themselves, with one calling Trump's behavior "shocking" and "creepy."
LetMyPeopleVote
(172,762 posts)William Seger
(12,057 posts)2naSalit
(98,966 posts)I watched a video about the beauty pageant world and how epstein and the Victoria's Secret business were connected and it showed video of -45 and others overlooking contestants in conference rooms, the girls were in their underwear or bikinis, it was pretty lurid.At least one of the 'models' describe how they were used and sexually abused regularly.
Sorry I can't recall the title but it was posted here in DU
Silent Type
(12,022 posts)William Seger
(12,057 posts)It isn't said often enough: #rump is a shitty president because he's a shitty human being.
Takket
(23,361 posts)but everyone in the country can have a pavlovian reaction to the mention of "Hillary's emails". Thanks to the media.
MineralMan
(150,335 posts)It should have been a major story, I think.
William Seger
(12,057 posts)... which is what would likely have happened if some random creep did that, unless they were also very rich.
Emile
(39,200 posts)at one of the Epstein parties in New York.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-dropped-230770
FakeNoose
(39,509 posts)... and THAT is why she was forcibly raped.
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rsdsharp
(11,556 posts)Bob_in_VA
(122 posts)Isn't this during the same period that Epstein was deeply involved in trafficking minors girls for sex? Of course Donnie had "seen it before"... at Epstein's parties.
surfered
(10,339 posts)barbtries
(30,981 posts)i remember as well that krasnov went on Howard Stern and bragged about it.
this is 9 years old. he's a depraved monster and it was no secret.
question everything
(51,404 posts)Mr.Bee
(1,468 posts)I also remember the one from the nineties where trump wouldn't pay employees
and threatened he would tie it up in courts for decades.
Or the one where he'll sue if you compare his father to an orangutan. N/T
ColoringFool
(99 posts)Is a very particular one.
IronLionZion
(50,359 posts)tons of evidence in his own words. It's a lot for a supposedly innocent person.
ColoringFool
(99 posts)Megyn].
There is almost ZERO % CHANCE that Trump's pageants (also Miss Universe) and "modeling" company were NOT sources for Epstein's sex trafficking network.
That Trump sat young Ivanka provocatively on his lap; that he mentioned she was "date-worthy" for HIMSELF; and that he mused aloud if newborn Tiffany would have her mother Marla's bosom, speaks---no, SHOUTS---encyclopedic volumes about Trumps sexual depravity.
When even Jeffrey Epstein calls you evil.....
Fil1957
(404 posts)William Seger
(12,057 posts)GopherGal
(2,723 posts)She was brought in as a "co-host" of the Miss Teen USA pageant (in 1997 at the age of 15 if my Googling is accurate) and someone asked Vanky about it and her response was "he does that"
Sounds frighteningly nonchalant. I can't imagine mid-90's tweener Ivanka's friends' mothers let them come over for sleepovers if they had any idea.
MorbidButterflyTat
(3,925 posts)Growing up as a daughter to that monster.
mwmisses4289
(2,786 posts)"Yeah, he does that". Lots of implication there, and rumors have been rife for years about their relationship being an unnatural father daughter relationship.
GopherGal
(2,723 posts)according to her utterly disgusting father
These are some of the more sympathetic thoughts I had about her before 2017 or so when she became just another Trump opportunist nepo baby.
malaise
(291,195 posts)Last edited Sun Nov 16, 2025, 07:30 PM - Edit history (1)
On Stern
czarjak
(13,330 posts)CBHagman
(17,383 posts)...but not which outlets were covering it.
The story is yet another reminder of how much disturbing information was out there and how people (Republicans, voters, members of the media) did not treat it as proof of his unfitness for, well, much of anything in a functioning society.
sop
(16,903 posts)Corporate media largely ignored it and pretended Trump's despicable and criminal behavior really didn't matter.
