The anonymous plaintiff dropped her lawsuit against Trump, the circumstances around which have been bizarre.

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.”

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    886·
    4 months ago

    The general consensus is that this lawsuit was fake and started by anti-Trump members of the GOP in 2016.

    • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world
      514·
      4 months ago

      The general consensus is that this lawsuit was fake and started by anti-Trump members of the GOP

      And yet there is a case number and record of the case.

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
        3·
        4 months ago

        Case was real, one was dismissed and another dropped though. I think they’re saying that the accusation was fake. The article does make it sound really suspicious, but also it mentions that it could be real but just handled bizarrely.

        • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          Exactly. Poor wording on my part, but the kicker is that none of the other Epstein victims corroborate that Katie Johnson was one of them.

        • lemmyman@lemmy.world
          13·
          4 months ago

          The lawsuit itself appears to be real, not fake.

          The allegations may not be true.

          It’s subtle, but there’s a difference

      • Syrc@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        …which confirms that there’s no new info.

        Some X users appeared to believe that the document is a recent filing. The post was shared after about 150 pages of transcripts related to a 2006 grand jury investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s rape and sex trafficking of teenagers was released to the public on Monday.

        However, the document included in the X post isn’t connected to those papers, but actually comes from a lawsuit filed in the months leading up to the 2016 election by an anonymous plaintiff using the name “Katie Johnson.”

        Now, I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually did it, wouldn’t even be the worst thing he did. But that is indeed the general consensus, afaik.

        EDIT: the article posted by Flying Squid would be more relevant to current events.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      102·
      4 months ago

      The Murdochian consensus, yes.

      As for the rest of us, anyone who’s bothered to look can see the situation fits trump to a T.

      Allegedly.

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        None of the other victims corroborate that Katie Johnson was even on the island. They made a real filing of fake claims.

        I’m all for sticking it to Trump and punishing him for his crimes, many of which were sexual and some may have been with underage girls. However we have to be careful to focus on the things he is actually guilty of, else he will just be exonerated and get another layer of orange Teflon added to his skin.