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(21,145 posts)and whatever else is in that e-mail dump is a damning enough that they need to control the narrative by feinting transparency and flooding the media with other suspects to divert attention from the President.
FOX News will of course only focus on everyone else but trump
Emile
(39,194 posts)at one of the Epstein parties in New York.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-dropped-230770
Coldwater
(626 posts)
Aviation Pro
(15,070 posts)I want to say more but I dont want to be banned.
wolfie001
(6,550 posts)Maybe a higher up will send you a private message? Just curious. I've called him many, many names and everyone fits that sociopath.
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Joinfortmill
(19,536 posts)ms liberty
(10,804 posts)My preference is nature taking it's course, on live teevee.
Coldwater
(626 posts)Aviation Pro
(15,070 posts)What say you, Princess Sparkle Pony? Are you a victim?
bonniebgood
(957 posts)the first trump president term. Epstein and trump knows. I remember a slip of those girls in NYC.
Blue_playwright
(1,609 posts)democrank
(11,941 posts)Hes such a creep. A dangerous creep.
LymphocyteLover
(9,063 posts)Coldwater
(626 posts)who was recently indicted by trump's DOJ
Wiz Imp
(8,176 posts)There was a previous video released of "Katie Johnson" but her face was pixellated. I can find no evidence of a legitimate video ever surfacing that shows her face. So I have no idea where this came from and Edwards doesn't say.
FakeNoose
(39,508 posts)... women who had been assaulted by Chump were being contacted while Chump ran for president in 2016. Steve Bannon and Michael Cohen handled many of them and the object was to get these women to quietly sign NDAs. Some were paid to sign (for example Stormy Daniels), others did it willingly without pay, and a few refused to sign. Katie Johnson (not her real name) was one who refused to sign, and in fact she had plans to reveal to the media what Chump did to her when she was 13 years old.
Katie Johnson contacted a lawyer and made plans for a lawsuit. She went on the air such as this YouTube video that was originally televised in 2016, and the Chump campaign must have become alarmed. Suddenly everything went quiet, Katie Johnson disappeared and couldn't be located, the lawyers abandoned the planned lawsuit, and we never heard another word.
What happened to Katie Johnson? Nobody knows. Maybe she left the country completely, or maybe she changed her name for privacy and went into seclusion. Were threats made? Was she compensated financially as a settlement? Was it all a teenage girl's fantasy? Well the fact that Tiffany Trump knew Katie Johnson and encouraged her to wear a blond wig to look like Ivanka, I don't think so. It would be easy enough to ask Tiffany I suppose.
I believe the real Katie Johnson (wherever she is) has proof that she was raped by Chump, and her mother and perhaps other family members also know. Maybe her life was threatened, or maybe she was offered a lot of money to keep quiet, that part we don't know. But the story will come out eventually, and maybe we'll find something in Epstein's 20,000 emails.
Chump has been acting like a Mafia don for too long and we've seen how he behaves when he's backed into a corner. Threats, blackmail and buyouts are his SOP, and Steve Bannon knows something ... and maybe Michael Cohen does too.
If Katie Johnson is the same age as Ivanka then she must be 44 years old now. Has she written a book? I hope so. Maybe she has safely stored away her evidence, medical reports, and other proof to be published after Chump kicks the bucket. One can hope. I'm sure she's not the only underage victim ....
Wiz Imp
(8,176 posts)She may be, but there are strong reasons to doubt any of it is true.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/09/03/trump-epstein-katie-johnson/
Numerous journalists, advocates and political operatives had attempted to get, or had been promised, in-person access to Johnson. These promises never panned out. Steve Baer, a conservative mega-donor whose extensive email contacts helped to push the claims, for example, told Jezebel that he never met the accuser in person, despite many attempts.
Only one outlet, the now defunct millennial-targeting site Revelist, scored any sort of interview with the accuser. In July 2016, after first being promised an in-person meeting by Meagher, Revelist's Emily Shugerman had to settle for a conference call that left her questioning whether Johnson really existed. "I don't know if the Katie Johnson I spoke to is the same girl who Trump allegedly raped in 1994, or if that girl even exists," she wrote.
Julie K. Brown, the journalist who uncovered the federal government's plea deal with Epstein in 2008, pushed back on the notion that journalists had ignored the Johnson claims, writing on X that, "The woman just wouldn't talk, and her lawyer would not confirm she was even legit. The address she gave on her first lawsuit was false. She was linked to political operatives at one point."
Link to tweet
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Trump, for his part, has previously been held liable for sexual assault in civil court, and has been found guilty of charges that involve paying off a woman to silence her about sexual contact with him. Further, the former president has bragged about sexual misconduct on tape. Such facts provide documentary evidence supporting the notion that Trump has a history of sexual assault, but not against children. The actual documentary evidence in support of the latter claim is inexorably linked to Lubow and is tied to a person Johnson who may, in all reality, not exist.
FakeNoose
(39,508 posts)Epstein used to know it, but he died.
One interesting possibility is that Steve Bannon had the job of getting women to sign NDA's while Chump was campaigning for the presidency in 2016. Maybe Bannon contacted the real "Katie Johnson" and found out that she was not going to sign the NDA, but she was planning to sue Chump. That would have become a real 4-alarm fire, if that's what really happened.
Since Julie K. Brown doesn't know "Katie Johnson's" real name, it would be hard to track her down. Also the rape supposedly happened in Manhattan, not in West Palm Beach.
Wiz Imp
(8,176 posts)I'm not saying she isn't. But there is plenty of evidence that the whole story was made up. Not a single person has ever stepped up to confirm any of it. Until evidence is presented to support the claims, I remain skeptical.
LymphocyteLover
(9,063 posts)LymphocyteLover
(9,063 posts)unless you think she's lying
Wiz Imp
(8,176 posts)She admitted in the interview that one of her clients was effectively a right wing operative even though she still refused to believe it. I think it's very possible that "Katie Johnson" and those involved with her very well could have duped her. And in the one article, "Katie Johnson's" alleged lawyer Goldman said he had no way to get in touch with her. Sorry, but I find that very suspicious. Also, a lawsuit was filed in California which was almost immediately thrown out because there were multiple problems with it, and then a couple months later, basically the same lawsuit was filed in New York. And she completely disappeared and fell off the face of the earth immediately after withdrawing her lawsuit? I find that very suspicious as well. She was suing $100 million, so why is there no record of her making a claim against the Epstein who through multiple entities (Epstein Victims' Compensation Program, JPMorgan Chase Settlement & Deutsche Bank Settlement) has paid out close to $500 million to his victims? It's a proven fact that the initial story of "Katie Johnson" was spread by a man who has a history of spreading fake stories.
I have not and will not totally dismiss this case. I believe there is definitely a chance that it is true. But until I see some real evidence, I'll remain skeptical.
Botany
(75,887 posts)KS Toronado
(22,116 posts)on national TV he says "SEX"