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Uncle Joe

(66,061 posts)
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 03:43 PM 3 hrs ago

Beauty Queen Alleges Epstein Used Trump Pageants to Recruit Women

'FRESH MEAT'
Beatrice Keul told PunchUp that she believes the events were used as a pipeline for Jeffrey Epstein’s network.


A former beauty queen who alleges Donald Trump sexually assaulted her has claimed in an interview with PunchUp that vulnerable young women at his 1990s pageants were funneled toward Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network.

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Keul claims she watched fellow contestants at the 1993 Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant get picked out, pressured, and moved on to private gatherings with men they barely knew by Epstein and another “predator” working in the modeling industry.

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Instead of the usual routines and clear rules, she describes a murky environment in which powerful men hovered around contestants, sizing them up in hotel lobbies and private suites.

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During the years Donald Trump owned the Miss Universe franchise—which included Miss USA and Miss Teen USA—from 1996 to 2015, multiple former contestants have alleged he walked into backstage dressing rooms while women and teenage girls were changing and in various stages of undress.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/beauty-queen-alleges-epstein-used-trump-pageants-to-recruit-women/
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Beauty Queen Alleges Epstein Used Trump Pageants to Recruit Women (Original Post) Uncle Joe 3 hrs ago OP
Are we suprised?? Srkdqltr 3 hrs ago #1
Not one bit. debsy 1 hr ago #20
Yep I believe that 👍 TommieMommy 3 hrs ago #2
Was Trump Models a human trafficking scheme? C_U_L8R 3 hrs ago #3
Among other things jmowreader 3 hrs ago #4
Seeing shitstain was bleeding money at that time dave99 2 hrs ago #6
When is Trump's abuse of women going to result in media criticism? perdita9 3 hrs ago #5
When you GOT dirt on the Bosses, the help stays in line dave99 2 hrs ago #7
From our corporate media? The silence will continue Vogon_Glory 2 hrs ago #11
Trump admitted he walked into the pageant dressing rooms. HeartsCanHope 2 hrs ago #8
Yes, he absolutely did that and bragged about it. ShazzieB 2 hrs ago #15
Makes me ill. Sick humans they are. twodogsbarking 2 hrs ago #9
Pretty disgusting, but I think I've heard all this before... Fil1957 2 hrs ago #10
I thought that was common knowledge. SergeStorms 2 hrs ago #12
No surprise at all. It runs in the family. OGBuzz 2 hrs ago #13
I believe this confirms similar info already public. But basically tRUMP was Epstein's pimp. LymphocyteLover 2 hrs ago #14
I don't believe for one second that the pimp didn't participate in the actual crime. OGBuzz 2 hrs ago #16
Didn't Trump do a TEEN pageant? They were teens. Females, but not women. Greybnk48 1 hr ago #17
Remember when Steve Bannon and Michael Cohen got all those women to sign NDAs... FakeNoose 1 hr ago #18
i knew it oldinmtdem92 1 hr ago #19
For somebody that said they just "let you" grab them by the p.... Buddyzbuddy 1 hr ago #21

debsy

(1,104 posts)
20. Not one bit.
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 05:46 PM
1 hr ago

Many of us have been saying this from the get go, back when we first heard of Trump and Epstein years ago!

C_U_L8R

(49,652 posts)
3. Was Trump Models a human trafficking scheme?
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 04:11 PM
3 hrs ago

It certainly wasn’t a bonafide modeling agency.

perdita9

(1,373 posts)
5. When is Trump's abuse of women going to result in media criticism?
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 04:25 PM
3 hrs ago

The media destroyed Howard Dean for a weird scream he did at a rally.

They castigated Al Gore for "not being the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with.

They pummeled Hilary Clinton with false hysteria over emails and Benghazi.

Now we have this lecherous man in the White House with a long history of abusing Rosie O'Donnell, E. Jean Carroll, female reporters, female military heroes, female scientists and females in general.

The silence from the men in this country has been deafening. From the media, it's been insulting.

Vogon_Glory

(10,443 posts)
11. From our corporate media? The silence will continue
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 04:55 PM
2 hrs ago

It’s Oscar-Meyer wiener time 24/7, 395 all the time.

HeartsCanHope

(1,814 posts)
8. Trump admitted he walked into the pageant dressing rooms.
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 04:34 PM
2 hrs ago

I believe Trump himself bragged about it on the Howard Stern show. I couldn't find it verified

that it was the teenage pageants Trump admitted to barging into the rooms while the women

were changing or dressing. I believe these women, though. I hope they can prove it in a court of law.

Sexual predators need to be stopped!

ShazzieB

(23,103 posts)
15. Yes, he absolutely did that and bragged about it.
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 05:06 PM
2 hrs ago

I'd be willing to bet he barged into the changing rooms at all of those pageants, from the teen ones on up. He obviously felt entitled to do so. That sleazebucket has the kind of predator mentality that views women and young girls as potential playthings that exist only to provide pleasure to jackholes like him and would OF COURSE take any opportuntity to avail himself of such pleasure. 🤬

OGBuzz

(883 posts)
13. No surprise at all. It runs in the family.
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 05:00 PM
2 hrs ago

Donald's grandfather Frederick Trump operated brothels in the Yukon Territory and in British Columbia. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree....the Trump's are all pimps at heart. The separation between Epstein and Trump can be measured in nanometers.

OGBuzz

(883 posts)
16. I don't believe for one second that the pimp didn't participate in the actual crime.
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 05:16 PM
2 hrs ago

Two very rich 40 and 50 year olds, masters of the universe, operating in the 1990's and 2000's in New York and Palm Beach, with access to very young girls through beauty pageants. And we are expected to believe that only Epstein was doing the raping while the other guy was just sitting around spanking the monkey?

Greybnk48

(10,767 posts)
17. Didn't Trump do a TEEN pageant? They were teens. Females, but not women.
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 05:28 PM
1 hr ago

No offense to anyone but the use of "women" when describing young girls always triggers me. It's predator talk.

FakeNoose

(43,143 posts)
18. Remember when Steve Bannon and Michael Cohen got all those women to sign NDAs...
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 05:31 PM
1 hr ago

... so they wouldn't embarrass Chump while he was busy with his presidential campaign? It was about 100 women they contacted, according to Michael Wolff, who was quoting Bannon.

I'm pretty sure that none of those women were Miss USA contestants, and certainly not the Teen USA contestants. They're well past 21 now and can talk about what was done to them. Even though most of them had a parent or guardian, they were underage when they participated in the contests. Of course Epstein was going to hang all over them - Chump did the same, from what we've heard.

Buddyzbuddy

(3,067 posts)
21. For somebody that said they just "let you" grab them by the p....
Wed Jul 1, 2026, 05:49 PM
1 hr ago

and claimed that women just wanted to be with him he sure worked hard at being a predator. It would be more truthful if he had said girls couldn't resist him.

Melania and most women and girls in the rapists life most likely recognize his behaviors that have been detailed but may refuse to acknowledge it. Maybe out of fear or repulsion but rest assured, they know it. I can't imagine allowing your 10-18 year old daughter to be alone with gramps, especially with dementia. His impulse control was already non-existent before dementia. Don't count on Secret Service to stop him.

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