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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.”

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[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 253 points 4 months ago

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

There. "Explained."

[-] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 88 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Woht24@lemmy.world 70 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 31 points 4 months ago

He should probably withdraw

[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

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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[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 181 points 4 months ago

Why isn't this all over prime time news, including fox, so the christian voters can see it.

More importantly why aren't the democrats and liberal establishment forcing this into the public eye. They could be using this to their advantage. Why aren't we hearing about it as loudly as we should be. I'm not seeing it any where mainstream.

Fuck, biden should give a press announcement only for this.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 87 points 4 months ago

(1) trillionaires (such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk) bought out the media - "prime time news" no longer exists, as it used to, now instead we have advertising segments meant to increase profitz

(2) the christians do not care - as evidenced by the fact that they already know. They just used him to accomplish their ends, of restricting abortion and whatever. Authoritarians just don't think in terms like right or wrong, and rather what am I told to feel about this or that?

(3) also, yes they are THAT MUCH against the LGBTQIA+ "agenda" (of living life free from outside interference) that they could have watched the event happen live, heard her screams, and still vote for Trump. Some would still vote that way even if he had done it personally to them. It is an entirely different mindset, and we would do well to listen to it, rather than be surprised a few months from now (as we were before in 2016).

(4) if you want to understand it moar better-er, the best teacher I've seen is The Alt Right Playbook, by Innuendo Studios - I recommend starting at the beginning and going all the way through it, but the most relevant one to this discussion I think is this one.

TLDR: they know, they don't care in the slightest - truly.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 44 points 4 months ago

It boils down to this: To the GOP the idea that a LGBT person might molest a child is more important than the reality that Trump actually has.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

No need to hyperbolic with the use of trillionaires there.

Billionaires, 0.1%, ultra wealthy or any other term would have sufficed.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 10 points 4 months ago

Thank you for the correction - it is Amazon that has 2 trillion and Tesla 1 trillion, but Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk themselves each have only ~0.2 trillion, so billionaires not trillionaires indeed. My words would carry more weight if I were more careful slinging them around:-).

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[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

I have to upvote Innuendo Studios.

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[-] Freefall@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago

There is a whole group of religious folks that are certain he is the antichrist and want to bring him to power so he can bring about the end of days, revelations, the rapture (where they will be saved), then after hell on earth, the 1000 years of peace....so....they are totally cool with his evil. It's insane when you think about it from the position of nothing in religion being real.

[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

I dont doubt it one bit. These people belong in mental institutions. Yet they're allowed (encouraged?) to vote, as well as raise (indoctrinate) children into their ridiculous way of thinking.

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[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Why are the dumb people driving the car?

[-] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 30 points 4 months ago

I think evangelicals see this sort of thing as a positive.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

They think they might get a chance to do it too

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[-] EnderWiggin@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

It should be revealing with a story like this just how controlled the media has actually become. The vast majority of major media outlets have been slowly bought out and/or heavily funded by right-wing groups. The story should be everywhere, but you'll probably only see it in niche news sites and maybe MSNBC. This is also why all we really see are negative stories about Biden regardless of what Trump does or says.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The article describes why the story feels to them so strange and suspicious. For example

It was the end of an incredibly strange case that featured an anonymous plaintiff who had refused almost all requests for interviews, two anonymous corroborating witnesses whom no one in the press had spoken to, and a couple of seriously shady characters — with an anti-Trump agenda and a penchant for drama — who had aggressively shopped the story around to media outlets for over a year.

Those shady characters — a former reality TV producer who calls himself “Al Taylor” and a “Never Trump” conservative activist named Steve Baer — had been mostly unsuccessful in getting the media to bite. There are a few very good reasons for that, which the Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim succinctly summed up: Taylor and Baer have been really sketchy about the whole thing, and since the accuser is anonymous, journalists can’t do anything to verify her claims. The only journalist who has actually interviewed Johnson, Emily Shugerman at Revelist, came away confused and even doubting whether Johnson really exists.

Since a tape of Trump bragging about sexual assault came out in early October, a dozen named women have come forward with credible, similar-sounding allegations of Trump forcibly kissing or groping them in exactly the way he described on that tape. Johnson’s case was an outlier, with far more salacious allegations from a source that seems far less credible.

And it goes much further. I guess not many wanted to go hard on this story with it seeming a bit sketchy. Like they said in the end

It’s true that the allegation is explosive, andcould make voters see Trump’s many disturbing comments about young girls over the years in a new light. But it’s also very dubious and uncertain, and there’s no real need to promote a case like that when a dozen women have come forward with much more credible stories, using their own names and making themselves available to reporters for scrutiny.

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[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 112 points 4 months ago

He Raped that LITTLE GIRL as an OFFICIAL Act of the Presidency!

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[-] DevCat@lemmy.world 100 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 56 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 51 points 4 months ago

It is amazing how there is no line that Trump/GOP are willing to cross for this man. I've never seen a guy make so many people admit they have no moral backbone at all. Everything they hate and say other groups are he is.

Criminal ✅

Con-Man ✅

Rapist ✅

Racist (They enjoy this.) ✅

Hostile insurrection. ✅

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

~~Criminal ✅~~ Illegal Democrat Witch Hunt

~~Con-Man ✅~~ Media Lies

~~Rapist ✅~~ Fake News

~~Racist (They enjoy this.) ✅~~ Democrats are the real DEI racists.

~~Hostile insurrection. ✅~~ Peaceful protest.

Unfortunately for them this is what that list is.

We live in 2 or more realities existing simultaneously due to the real scum of the earth: propagandists.

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[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 49 points 4 months ago

538 upvotes on an article from 2016. This rape allegation was known in 2016:

A 2016 lawsuit accused Trump, then a candidate for president, of raping a minor, but no evidence was put forth before the case was dropped.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 74 points 4 months ago

but no evidence was put forth before the case was dropped.

The case was dropped because the victim received death threats from Trump's fanclub.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 22 points 4 months ago

The whole case was also really suspicious, like the article said. People, including the only reporter who got to interview the woman (over a phone call) wasn't even sure if the person actually ever existed. Seeing that this is a fairly old article, I wonder if we got any new info on this.

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[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 45 points 4 months ago

Technically not an accusation, Trump lost the lawsuit to Jane Doe. When Trump denied the allegations and accused her of defrauding him, he got sued again for defamation.

Trump raped a 13 year old girl.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Aren't those different cases?

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[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

But her emails. But his stutter.

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 24 points 4 months ago

Supreme Court: "Presidential Action! Immune!"

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 24 points 4 months ago

Oh thank God it was explained away.

Anyway, here are 13 pages of links to Biden old lame shitposts by tankies.

Don't forget to nuke the west!

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I am afraid to think that soon we will find ourselves discussing whether or not someone who has raped a girl can run for presidency

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[-] moon@lemmy.cafe 17 points 4 months ago

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

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 51 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Biden sniffs hair and loves his son yuck!

/s

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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

Is this the one where the girl and her mother were constantly threatened so they refused to testify and moved away?

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