Commentary
The Huge Trump Story Very Few People Are Talking About
- by Philip Rosenstein , Staff Writer, November 3, 2016
At 3 p.m. PST on Wednesday afternoon, a Jane Doe plaintiff had a planned public event at the Lisa Bloom law firm in Los Angeles. The event never happened.
According to court papers filed in the Southern District of New York at the end of September, Jane Doe filed suit against Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein for rape, sexual misconduct, criminal sexual acts, sexual abuse, forcible touching, assault, battery, intentional and reckless infliction of emotional distress, duress, false imprisonment, and defamation.
She was 13 years old at the time of the alleged crimes.
Yesterday’s event was called off after “Jane Doe received numerous threats … [and] she decided she [was] too afraid to show her face,” according to a tweet by Irin Carmon, a reporter at MSNBC and NBC.
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When trying to access Lisa Bloom’s site around 6 p.m. EST, it was unreachable, due to assumed excessive traffic. Later, Bloom tweeted that her Web site and emails were hacked.
A number of reputable news outlets have reported on this story, including Politico, Quartz, The Huffington Post and New York Daily News. The accusations have yet to hit other mainstream outlets.
Doe’s sudden disappearance makes it less likely we will hear anything about this case before November 8.
Still, key facts in this case are unconditionally true:
Jeffrey Epstein, a known paedophile, who pleaded guilty to felony charges of prostitution in 2008 and was sentenced to 18 months in jail, has a long and friendly relationship with Donald Trump.
In 2002, Trump told New York magazine, “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it -- Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
Two declarations have been submitted in this case from women who were privy to the alleged crimes, one who said she saw the acts take place, and another who was in school with Jane Doe and was told about the events. Both have decided to remain anonymous.
The judge assigned to the case in question has set a court date for December 16, 2016, and thus, our potential president elect may be involved in a case where he is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl, with witnesses corroborating Jane Doe’s account. Hillary Clinton may have her own legal troubles, but I’ll leave it up to the reader to determine which is more abhorrent.
Bloom is the daughter of renowned women’s-rights lawyer Gloria Allred.
I dont know why this doesnt get more play? It has been out there for weeks!
It hasn't gotten more play because Bill Clinton also hung around with Jeffrey Epstein and "they" don't want that in the news.
To Philip's point - "Clinton’s presence aboard Jeffrey Epstein’s Boeing 727 on 11 occasions has been reported, but flight logs show the number is more than double that, and trips between 2001 and 2003 included extended junkets around the world with Epstein and fellow passengers identified on manifests by their initials or first names, including “Tatiana.” The tricked-out jet earned its Nabakov-inspired nickname because it was reportedly outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young girls."
In a hundred years or so, students of history will (with any luck) be astounded that the sins of one spouse were socially, if not legally, also assigned to the other spouse.
True, Bill Clinton is not running for president--HRC is. But she certainly has stood "by her man" and the duo became a potent political team. The Jeffrey Epstein story isn't new and many high-profile people been involved in Epstein's orgy-like parties. There were allegations of sexual slavery against Epstein and he was convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution and served 13 months. Bottom line: The rich and powerful feel entitled to anything they want, and to treat people any way they want. Nothing new here. Narcissicism is also a factor.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/30/the-billionaire-pedophile-who-could-bring-down-donald-trump-and-hillary-clinton.html
Last I heard "standing by your man", or in the general lexicon "working through big issues in your marriage" did not make someone guilty of the transgressions of the spouse, regardless of whether they were partners in politics or anything else (see Dick Morris' story - he's still married to his wife, too..does that make her a "toe sucking prostitute for my husband " enabler? No).
Anyone who thinks they know what goes on in someone else's marriage is a fool. Over 50% of marriages end in divorce and - right or wrong - adultery is pretty common, kids. To assign attributes of one spouse to the other is absurd, but it seems to sell papers and clickthroughs.
Vote for your candidate based on ability to govern, experience, character, vision for the country and policy and whatever else you'd like (including pending indictments/litigation whereby constitutional fiat one is innocent until proven guilty).
But leave Melania and Bill out of it. We don't elect couples because couples do not govern in the USA. Individuals do.
"We don't elect couples because couples do not govern in the USA. Individuals do." - Laura Wilkinson Sinton
Can we put an asterisk next to Mr. and Mrs. President Reagan?
The lack of play may just be because even the most rabid anti-Trump media don't think he actually raped anyone. And that Gloria Allred is the worst ambulance chasing lawyer of all time. But this is also last century's perspective on media--maybe the Times hasn't run with it, but anyone on social media already knows about this case.