February 16, 2018: Trump Ten-Month Affair Revealed

 

2/16/18: With half the Valentines’ Day chocolates still uneaten in Melania’s gift box from President Hubby, The New Yorker reports on another alleged affair involving her husband in 2006. This time the target of Donald’s affection was a Playboy Bunny named Karen McDougal:

 

McDougal, a slim brunette…had been named Playmate of the Year, eight years earlier. In 2001, the magazine’s readers voted her runner-up for “Playmate of the ’90s,” behind Pamela Anderson. At the time of the party [at the Playboy Mansion where they met], Trump had been married to the Slovenian model Melania Knauss for less than two years; their son, Barron, was a few months old. Trump seemed uninhibited by his new family obligations.

 

McDougal later wrote that Trump “immediately took a liking to me, kept talking to me – telling me how beautiful I was, etc. It was so obvious that a Playmate Promotions exec said, ‘Wow, he was all over you – I think you could be his next wife.’”

 

Can we all agree – liberal and conservative alike – that the First Lady cannot possibly be pleased?

Ms. McDougal dressed for success.

March 20, 2018: The Bunny's Tale of a Cheating Trump

 

3/20/18: Trump’s single tweet for the day is in celebration of an event one suspects most Americans who do not own harvesters do not know is a calendar event at all. 

“Our Nation was founded by farmers,” he tap, tap, taps. “Our independence was won by farmers. And our continent was tamed by farmers. Our farmers always lead the way – we are PROUD of them, and we are DELIVERING for them! #NationalAgricultureDay” 

I waited anxiously all afternoon, hoping the president would tweet again. Perhaps: “Our farmers produce asparagus and Brussels sprouts and foods I despise. I did not boink the porn star! NO COLLUSION!” 

I thought that would be cool.

 

By the time Trump settled in for dinner, we knew a Playboy Bunny had filed suit asking the right to tell the story of a ten-month affair she allegedly conducted with Citizen Trump. During the 2016 campaign she was preparing to sell her story when the National Enquirer swooped in and bought up rights for $150,000. The company that owns the magazine never intended to publish it because, let’s face it, that magazine has the highest journalistic standards. 

The owner is also a close friend of Donald J. Trump. And this was standard practice at the Enquirer, to help friends, using what was called “capture and kill” to bury the story and keep the Bunny quiet. 

Now the Bunny says other promises made to her were not kept and she should have the right to take back her tale and make it public. 

Her tale. She’s already made her tail public.

The Enquirer tried to help Trump by claiming Ted Cruz's father helped

assassinate JFK.

April 19, 2018: Trump and the Playboy Bunnies

 

4/19/18: Today a Playboy Bunny escapes from a non-disclosure agreement (allegedly involving illegal backdoor dealings by Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen) brokered with the National Enquirer. 

A lot of different Bunnies figure in the story of this administration. So pay attention. This Bunny is Karen McDougal. She claims she carried on a ten-month affair with Trump in 2006. Now, in court, McDougal has won the right to tell her story, and, if possible, make as much money as she can.

(It appears the National Enquirer and its lawyers caved, because if they kept fighting, Cohen and others, possibly Donald J. Trump, might have been forced to give depositions.) 

Okay, don’t get the Bunnies mixed up. We are not talking about the Bunny impregnated by sleazebag Republican fund raiser and Trump pal, Elliott Broidy. (See: 4/14/18 and 4/16/18.) 

Nor do we mean the Bunny trainee who went on to become a federal judge (more on her in a moment). 

We mean the latest Bunny to tell her tale.

Judge Kimba Wood, back in the day.

 

Let’s be honest and just say: This is Trumpistan, where anything is possible. Of course, there’s another Playboy Bunny in the news! This time, we’re talking about Barbara Moore, Miss December 1992, who says she had an affair with Trump in 1993. And can I be the first, right here, to say, “Well, thank god, at least the First Lady wasn’t in the picture in those days.” 

So…Trump wasn’t cheating on any wife. 

Then again, he was engaged to Marla Maples, who would soon become his second wife, and Maples was already pregnant with their child, a baby they would later name Tiffany. 

Ms. Moore at work.

If you would like to read all about what Moore calls a “steamy” affair you can click the link (above) and see what Moore told the British tabloid, the Daily Mail. She has all kinds of pictures from visits to Mar-a-Lago. It appears she took pictures of every room in the house and stuck her head in the broom closet and opened the dresser drawers and the medicine cabinets to have a peek. She has photos of herself with the cook, of herself in a bikini by the pool, ascending the steps, and one of the younger Big Orange Buffoon, flexing his Buffoon muscles. 

Moore says she came forward now because her name appeared in one of the legal documents filed in Karen McDougal’s case. 

Believe it or not, another Bunny was also outed in the documents; but she’s not talking yet.

 

For the president, I suppose you could say there’s good news and bad news in her story. First the good: Moore says Trump was a great lover and a gentleman. She even believes he’s a great president. 

(I think we can safely assume Trump was not attracted to Moore because of her impressive intellect.) 

The bad news – proven once again – is that Trump is a serial liar. 

Moore has few regrets about her affair; but she did admit she had no idea there was already another woman in his life. “But at the time I didn’t know he was with someone else, let alone engaged to Marla Maples and it was only recently I learned she was pregnant at the time.” 

This had “shocked” her, she said. 

The DailyMail.com reached out to the White House for comment. “A source familiar with the matter said the president said these are more false accusations.” 

That meant you had to add Moore to the incredible list of people who for no reason whatever tell lies about Trump. That list would include nearly two dozen women who have accused him of sexual improprieties, a couple of thousand students at Trump University who claim they were scammed, scores of undocumented Polish workers who insist they were cheated out of wages, and pretty much every person at the top of the Department of Justice and the F.B.I. 

Do you know what the motto of the F.B.I. is? It’s worth considering, for purposes of comparison: “Fidelity. Bravery. Integrity.”

 

If you’d care to read even more about the sexual escapades of our current president, you can go to the article and indulge. Moore goes into detail about how they met, how they flirted and how excited she was to meet the famous businessman in the flesh. 

In all the flesh. 

 

“I thought that we were dating and I was special.” 

“I was intimate with him the first night. Yes,” she says. 

And it was really…I felt special. I felt like he was very passionate with me and we both felt a chemistry. I was surprised he was older, I’d never been with an older man before, but he was good, a really good lover. He was kissing my neck, being really attentive. And you know, the sex was normal, he didn’t ask me to do anything weird at all.

 

That, at least, is a relief. 

“I felt like it was love-making, not just a one-night stand,” Moore continued. “And I didn’t feel like I was a piece of meat or anything. I just felt really admired and adored. He was very loving.” 

The next morning, she was embarrassed to “do the walk of shame back to her room in the sparkly gold dress she was wearing from the night before.”

Never fear, Ms. Moore. Donald is a gentleman – at least in terms of how he treats whatever woman he is boinking at the time. He “gave me an overcoat and called a security guard up to his suite. I felt like, wow, this guy really is nice. He’s a gentleman. He was a complete gentleman the whole time.” 

Moore was invited to Mar-a-Lago. Trump played golf part of the time and she watched, and they rode around in a golf cart and had sex. (Not in the golf cart, I don’t mean.) “I would make him laugh. And I remember him taking a lot of pictures of me. The whole thing was a whirlwind, a fantasy come true,” Moore says today. 

Did we mention Trump was already engaged and the woman he was going to marry was carrying his child???? 

Moore does have a lot of pictures, and the Daily Mail notes that these pictures still have the date stamps, for example, “April 25, 1993,” in lower right corners. 

After her dreamland visit to Mar-a-Lago, Moore and Trump regularly spoke over the phone. Moore says she’d regularly call him and came to be on first name terms with his two personal assistants, Rhona and Norma. (Rhona Graff was Trump’s executive assistant. Norma Infante Foerderer was his long-time personal assistant.) In an old phone book Moore dug out of her attic an entry under “T” shows Donald Trump’s phone numbers entered in pencil.

 

“I definitely felt like our relationship was getting stronger. And, and that’s when he invited me to New York to the Trump Tower and I just thought that, you know, we were an item. I thought that we were dating and I was special.”

 

She flew to New York and hung out in his penthouse and had sex. She came back to the city again in the summer, this time for a photo shoot. Another Playmate told her she should call her “boyfriend.” Moore did and Trump invited both young women over. Trump said he was tired after a long flight and didn’t want to go out (and we assume be seen and reported to Marla). 

Moore picks up the story once more: 

We had a couple of glasses of champagne and Donald was laying on his back, on his bed with his arms up and we were just sitting on the corner of his bed talking and chatting. Then he goes “come here” and I just started to hug him and we started kissing and my friend was still there. We just went at it and it was like she just didn’t exist.

 

At this point, you may want to stop reading or get a wastebasket in case your gag reflex acts up. As “things turned steamy,” the Daily Mail reports, “the friend retreated but only as far as a chair in the corner of the room. She sat and watched as Moore and the billionaire had sex. Moore smiles at the naughty moment.” 

That’s probably all you need to know about Trump, the gentleman. There was “giggling and it was playful,” Moore insists. It didn’t bother her that the other young woman was watching “because we were such good friends.” 

She hadn’t expected to have sex with a witness, but she was “really young and it’s just what happened.” 

Then a key detail, as related by the Daily Mail: “Throughout the illicit affair Moore says it never once occurred to her that Trump might be engaged to another woman. And not for a second did Moore think Trump was two-timing her with another woman, let alone engaged to someone.” 

Even when her aunt living in New Jersey, who was working in New York as a fit model, passed comment that she thought Trump was dating someone called Marla, Moore ignored it.

 

“I suppose I trusted him because we talked almost every day, but my aunt was right. I never ever thought that he was seeing anybody else that didn’t even cross my mind.

 

I was very young and I just thought this is my guy right now.”

 

Their “relationship” fizzled in September 1993. On October 13, Tiffany Trump was born. That December, Moore’s “gentleman” married Maples, in a lavish ceremony in front of a thousand guests. 

Moore adds, finally, that she and her daughter both voted for Trump in 2016. “I love him as our president. I love him because it’s funny to me when he kind of puts his foot in his mouth…I think he’s doing a great job and there’s more to come. I feel safe with him in charge.” 

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WHAT ABOUT THE Bunny trainee who became a judge? By happenstance, it turns out Judge Kimba Wood, currently hearing motions in the case involving F.B.I. raids on Michael Cohen’s office, home, hotel suite and safety box, once entered the Playboy Bunny training program on a lark. 

She was in college and needed money but only lasted a week. Prancing around in skimpy outfits wasn’t quite her style, no matter the pay. 

I think we can all agree this story would be even cooler if she had posed nude sometime in the past. 

But no.

 

All Judge Wood has been doing lately is denying motions by Trump’s legal team to quash evidence that may have turned up in the raids.

 

(Disclaimer: A second Playboy Bunny, Elke Jeinsen, later told the British tabloids that she did watch Moore and Trump have sex. The story has never gained much traction in the American media, save on the pages of Hollywood Life – and for once it may be Trump is innocent. But that’s two more women calling Trump a liar.)

June 21, 2019: A List of Women Accusing Trump of Sexual Assault or Impropriety

 

6/21/19: The New Yorker publishes an account by a writer named E. Jean Carroll, who claims to have been raped by Citizen Donald J. Trump in 1996. She says she feared to come forward earlier because she knew “she’d be attacked, threatened, and smeared by Trump and his supporters [emphasis added].” 

Within days, after making  this accusation, she gets death threats.

 

____________________ 

“I took her out furniture shopping…I moved on her like a bitch.” 

Donald J. Trump

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Depending on how you count, Ms. Carroll would bring to 16 or 22 (the count varies based on how media outlets assess claims), the number of women who have accused President Pussy Grabber of criminal sexual behavior and/or sexual harassment. That would include Ivana Trump. She once described a violent sexual assault during the period when the couple was in process of a divorce. (The first Mrs. Trump later said her story was “without merit,” took a healthy divorce settlement, and signed a non-disclosure agreement.) 

So, let’s leave Ivana out and revisit the list of accusers. Vox and other news outlets have put together tallies similar to the one which follows. We have added detail for context:

 

E. Jean Carroll: She claims she was raped in a department store dressing room. Trump tells reporters he has no idea who she is or was and wouldn’t have attacked her since “she’s not my type.” 

Did Trump just say he would attack a woman if she was his type? 

He kind of did. 

Two of Carroll’s friends confirm that she described the rape at the time the alleged crime occurred. Initially, they told The New York Times they wanted to remain anonymous. 

In a series of denials, Trump insisted that Carroll was “totally lying.” “She is – it’s just a terrible thing that people can make statements like that,” he whined. She was “trying to sell a new book.” 

And…wait for it…Trump said Carroll’s story was “Fake News.” 

“I moved on her like a bitch.”  

For context, consider the Hollywood Access tape, recorded in 2005, kept secret for a decade. Trump talks about hitting on a woman other than his wife, Melania, who, in 2005, he had recently married: 

“I did try and f**k her. She was married,” Trump tells Billy Bush and several others, to general mirth. “And I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said, ‘I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture.’” 

(Ha, ha: In his pants!) 

“I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phony tits and everything. She’s totally changed her look.” 

No longer his type? 

So: The word of three women, E. Jean Carroll and friends, vs. Trump, 3-1 (and Trump’s words seem to validate their case.)

BLOGGER’S NOTE (5/9/23): During his first run for president, during his time in office, and after, Trump calls Ms. Carroll a liar. He continues to do so, after leaving the White House, hopefully for good. Carroll sues the former president for defamation. In a civil trial she easily prevails. The jury votes, 9-0, taking only three hours to decide, that the former president did sexually assault Ms. Carroll thirty years ago. She is awarded $5 million in damages and assorted costs. 

Nevertheless, Trump apologists call it a win, after the jury decides it can’t be sure Ms. Carroll was raped, but is sure sexual assault occurred.

Donald, of course, handles defeat with typical maturity. On Truth Social he explodes, “I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!”

 

This blogger would respond: 

9-0, DUDE. 

AND YOU PAID A LOT FOR THE “BEST” LAWYERS. 

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How does Trump treat women – what is he willing to try when he thinks he can get away with it? We know he has cheated on all three wives. That’s what detectives might call corroborating evidence. Here’s more:  

Kristen Anderson: She says Trump reached up her skirt at a nightclub. 

4-1.

 

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Mariah Billado: Miss Vermont Teen USA, 1997, said Trump walked into a dressing room while she and other teen beauty contestants were undressing. Three other young women anonymously supported her claim. 

She says she remembers putting on her dress as quickly as possible and thinking, “Oh my god, there’s a man in here.” 

This claim was later disputed, but Trump did brag, during a radio interview with Howard Stern, that he walked in on naked contestants in dressing rooms during the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants. 

Those contestants were adults.

Trump told Stern: 

Well, I'll tell you the funniest is that I’ll go backstage before a show, and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else, and you know, no men are anywhere. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it. You know, I'm inspecting, I want to make sure that everything is good.

 

You know, the dresses. ‘Is everyone okay?’ You know, they're standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody okay?’ And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that.   

8-1; Trump’s words seen to validate Billado’s case.

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Samantha Holvey, a former Miss USA contestant, further bolstered the case for Trump being creepy around the young women. Holvey, Miss North Carolina 2006, said the future president personally inspected each woman prior to the contest to the point where it was “the dirtiest I felt in my entire life.”

 

“He would step in front of each girl and look you over from head to toe like we were just meat, we were just sexual objects, that we were not people,” she explained.

 

“You know when a gross guy at the bar is checking you out? It’s that feeling.”

(Not exactly an accusation; just an assertion.)

And, when it comes to assessing the veracity of Trump’s statements, we might also note that his “spokesman,” John Miller, once told reporters that Trump’s marriage to Marla Maples was ended by Trump’s dalliance with supermodel Carla Bruni. Bruni promptly announced that she would never.

 

Ever!

Sleep with or date Donald.

 

And Trump later admitted that John Miller was actually him.

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Rachel Crooks: She worked as a receptionist at Trump Tower in 2005. When introduced to Trump, he kissed Crooks, 22, on the cheek and then the lips. Not long after he asked for her number. He claimed it was to give to a modeling agency.  

Also, did she need any furniture? 

Okay, that last part is a joke. Trump had just married Melania, his third wife, on January 22, 2005. 

9-1.

 

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Tasha Dixon: She says, when the Miss USA 2001 contestants were changing into bikinis, Trump “just came strolling right on in” to their dressing room. 

“There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless. Others girls were naked,” she told Rolling Stone magazine. Our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half-naked changing into our bikinis.”

10-1.

 

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Jessica Drake: Drake an adult film star, met Trump at a golf tournament at Lake Tahoe in 2006. She says he “hugged her tightly and kissed her on the lips.” Later, he invited her to his suite. Drake says she was offered $10,000 to have sex. Drake was friends with Stormy Daniels – the adult film star who claimed she had consensual sex with Trump around the same time. We do know Daniels was paid $130,000 to sign a non-disclosure agreement in the fall of 2016.  

11-1.

 

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Again, around that time, Playboy Bunny Karen McDougal had a lengthy affair with Trump. She says after she and the future president first had sex, he offered to pay. 

On one occasion Trump invited her back to his penthouse and they had sex. During their tryst, Donald pointed out a room which he described as “Melania’s room,” saying “she likes to have her alone time” there. 

McDougal says cheating on Melania in her own home creeped her out and she apologizes now. 

12-1.

 

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Since we’re on the topic, yet another Playboy Bunny, Barbara Moore, has claimed to have had a six-month affair with Trump. Moore, Miss December 1992, said she hooked up with Trump in 1993. Trump was engaged to Marla Maples at the time and Maples was already pregnant. (See: 4/19/18.) 

The “good news,” in this case, is that Moore was not accusing the future president of sexual abuse. 

The bad news, proven again, is that where women are involved, Trump has always been a serial liar. 

BLOGGER’S NOTE (9/17/21): In revisiting this post, I realized I shouldn’t have counted Moore as an accuser, since her affair was consensual. We’ll just go with the fact it’s more evidence that Trump is a liar. The following examples have been renumbered.

 

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Jill Harth: She says Trump made repeated sexual advances, including trying to put his hand up between her legs during a business meeting. In an incident at Mar-a-Lago, she says he “pushed me up against the wall, and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my dress again.”  

Harth sued Trump in 1997, accusing him of sexual harassment. The suit was dropped after Trump settled a breach of contract suit. 

13-1.

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Cathy Heller: Heller says Trump tried to grab her twice and kiss her, while she was celebrating Mothers’ Day (irony, there) at Mar-a-Lago in 2005 and working on a story about Donald’s and Melania’s first anniversary. She says Trump pushed her against a wall, kissed her, stuck his tongue into her mouth, and said, “We’re going to have an affair.” 

14-1.

 

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Ninni Laaksonen: The former Miss Finland, says Trump groped her behind in 2006. “He really grabbed my butt.” 

15-1.

 

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Jessica Leeds: She says Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to reach up her skirt when they were riding in business class on a flight back in the 1970s. Trump was “like an octopus,” she added. Trump denied having octopus hands. 

He said Leeds wasn’t his type. But if she was…. 

16-1.

 

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Mindy McGillivray: McGillivray, 23, was helping a photographer friend with an event at Mar-a-Lago. She says Donald Trump groped her behind. 

17-1.

 

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Jennifer Murphy: Murphy, a contestant on The Apprentice, says Trump kissed her on the lips without asking permission. 

18-1.

 

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Cassandra Searles: In a Facebook comment, Searles, Miss Washington 2013, said that Trump “grabbed my ass” and repeatedly invited her up to his hotel room. 

Ladies, the moral of the story: Back out of Trump’s presence, unless there are witnesses in the room. 

She has called Trump a “misogynist,” who “treated us like cattle.” Paromita Mitra of Mississippi, a contestant that same year, described his treatment of the women in similar fashion, saying, “I literally have nightmares about that process.

20-1.

Searles is at right.

 

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Natasha Stoynoff: Stoynoff, a writer for People, was working on a story about the Trump’s, including Melania’s pregnancy in 2005. “Donald wanted to show me around the [Mar-a-Lago] mansion,” she said in 2016. “There was one ‘tremendous’ room in particular, he said, that I just had to see. We walked into that room alone, and Trump shut the door behind us. I turned around, and within seconds he was pushing me against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat.” 

Trump responded – as always – calling Stoynoff’s story “Fake News.” It couldn’t be true, Trump said, because, again, she wasn’t hot enough for him. “She lies! Look at her, I don’t think so,” he said during a 2016 campaign rally. 

People noted, that Stoynoff had confided in friends and colleagues in 2005, as soon as the attack occurred. She did not want to hurt a pregnant Melania if the story got out. Six individuals, including her former journalism professor, corroborated her story. 

That makes 26 individuals who say Trump acted inappropriately, or who back up a friend who told them at the time he had. 

27-1

 

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Bridget Sullivan: Miss New Hampshire, 2000, says Trump walked through the pageant dressing room while women were naked. 

28-1.

 

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Temple Taggert: As Miss Utah, in 1997, she was introduced to Trump, who kissed her directly on the lips. She found it “gross.” She remembered thinking, “Wow, that’s inappropriate.” He later promised a modeling contract and grabbed and kissed her on the lips again.

Trump was, of course, married to Marla Maples, his second wife, at the time. 

29-1.

Trump and Taggert.

 

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Summer Zervos: The former Apprentice contestant says Trump kissed her on the lips when she visited his office in New York. He invited her to dinner, “but instead took her to a hotel bungalow, groped her and tried to have sex with her.” Trump called Zervos out by name during the 2016 campaign. He referred to her as a liar. She has a pending lawsuit against him for defamation. 

30-1. 

As for their word vs. Trump, three of these women won settlements of some kind or were paid hush money to bury their stories. 

And Zervos has had the courage to haul Trump’s ass into court.

Zervos, left, with her lawyer.

 

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE (7/7/19): News breaks that Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested again. Epstein got off lightly a decade ago, thirteen months in jail, with “work release,” so that he only spent nights behind bars, despite horrific charges of sex-trafficking girls as young as 13. 

What prosecutor cut him such a great deal? Alexander Acosta – currently Secretary of Labor in the Trump administration. 

And who was accused of violently raping a 13-year-old girl in 1994 – and then threatening her and her family if she talked, reminding her he was a very powerful person? Yes, Epstein, of course. 

And Donald J. Trump. 

The girl in that case said she was lured to Epstein’s mansion by “promises of money and a modeling career.” She had two witnesses who corroborated parts of her story; but her case was dropped. 

If we were still counting accusers’ words against the current President of the United States, that would bring our tally to 32 to 1. 

Or: Trump vs. Womanhood.