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TomCADem

(17,382 posts)
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 10:27 PM Apr 2020

TRUMP TEEN RAPE ALLEGATION RESURFACES, RONAN FARROW CLAIMS NATIONAL ENQUIRER TRIED TO PROTECT HIM IN

Remember how in 2019, it was disclosed that the National Enquirer was helping Trump by securing exclusive publication rights with numerous women in order to catch and kill potentially harmful stories from being disclosed during the Trump campaign?

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-teen-rape-allegation-national-enquirer-ronan-farrow-jane-doe-1465652?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_medium=Social&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true

Amid behind-the-scenes details of his explosive reporting on Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct, Ronan Farrow's new book Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators claims that American Media Inc. (AMI), the former publisher of the National Enquirer, tried to help Donald Trump bury allegations he raped a teenager in 1994.

Farrow claims in the book that AMI CEO David Pecker was in close contact with Trump when the rape allegations were made public in a 2016 lawsuit, and that then-National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard assured Trump's personal lawyer at the time, Michael Cohen, "that they would track down the woman with the rape allegation and see what they could do about her." An AMI spokesperson told Newsweek Tuesday that Farrow's claims are "completely untrue."

AMI has been accused in the past of purchasing potentially damaging stories about Trump in order to keep them from becoming public—a practice known in the industry as "catch and kill." Last December, AMI admitted that in 2016 it made a $150,000 payment "in concert" with Trump's election campaign to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who allegedly had an affair with Trump a decade earlier. The publisher made the pact with McDougal "in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election," the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

At the crux of the lawsuit filed against Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election were claims that Trump raped a woman when she was 13 years old in 1994. At the time, Trump's lawyer Alan Garten responded to the lawsuit saying that the allegations are "categorically untrue."
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TRUMP TEEN RAPE ALLEGATION RESURFACES, RONAN FARROW CLAIMS NATIONAL ENQUIRER TRIED TO PROTECT HIM IN (Original Post) TomCADem Apr 2020 OP
This is what we should be talking about mcar Apr 2020 #1
I remember reading about this in 2016. He also threatened her life and her family's. Native Apr 2020 #4
October 2019? What's new with the case? jimfields33 Apr 2020 #15
Yip UTUSN Apr 2020 #17
What's new is that it's going to finally be seriously looked into by the media Sugarcoated Apr 2020 #28
I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. captain queeg Apr 2020 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author spooky3 Apr 2020 #3
The 25 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct spanone Apr 2020 #5
K&R SheltieLover Apr 2020 #6
I saw a video or maybe just audio tape of her a few years back. MoonchildCA Apr 2020 #7
And Epstein killed himself.... Squidly Apr 2020 #8
She was the same age as daughter ivanka, reminded him of her. Pervert. niyad Apr 2020 #14
It's so disgusting. I can't even watch it again. MoonchildCA Apr 2020 #16
Donnie is a pedophile Sugarcoated Apr 2020 #26
So Corgigal Apr 2020 #9
Trump and AMI should sue then. I mean, this is libel right? Caliman73 Apr 2020 #10
Interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes should be on the way. oasis Apr 2020 #11
One good thing about Covid19 LeftInTX Apr 2020 #12
That MURDERER in the WH is a boastfully-admitted sexual predator. His defense when E. Jean niyad Apr 2020 #13
This is why tRump thinks he must retain power. It'll be better for him if he dies in office ffr Apr 2020 #18
guess what age Ivanka Trump was in 1994? SleeplessinSoCal Apr 2020 #19
goddamn I wish you hadn't put that picture in my head Midnight Writer Apr 2020 #20
sorry. but he always publicly seemed to promote her as a "hot" commodity. SleeplessinSoCal Apr 2020 #21
Unless there is an actual video the msm will ignore this. Meanwhile they plaster Biden ..... BSdetect Apr 2020 #22
Kick dalton99a Apr 2020 #23
K&R, "P" tape means Pedophile tape uponit7771 Apr 2020 #24
13 is a girl Sugarcoated Apr 2020 #25
...and Donnie is a pedophile Sugarcoated Apr 2020 #27
So McDougal took the money and ran. When she could have said no and Hotler Apr 2020 #29

Sugarcoated

(7,716 posts)
28. What's new is that it's going to finally be seriously looked into by the media
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 10:06 AM
Apr 2020

and hopefully all the other allegations. In depth, I hope.

Response to TomCADem (Original post)

spanone

(135,795 posts)
5. The 25 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 10:45 PM
Apr 2020

Oct 9, 2019, 2:07 PM

As a national conversation on sexual misconduct is gripping the country from Hollywood to Capitol Hill, some renewed attention has been focused on the sexual misconduct allegations that at least 25 women have made against Trump since the 1970s.

A deluge of women made their accusations public following the October 2016 release of the "Access Hollywood" tape, in which Trump was recorded boasting about grabbing women's genitals in 2005. Some others made their stories public months before the tape's release, and still others came forward in the months following.

Trump has broadly dismissed the allegations, which include ogling, harassment, groping, and rape, as "fabricated" and politically motivated accounts pushed by the media and his political opponents. He promised to sue all of his accusers during the 2016 election. In some cases, Trump and his lawyer have suggested that he didn't engage in alleged behavior with certain women because they weren't attractive enough for him to be interested in.

"Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign," the Republican nominee said during a 2016 rally. "Total fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over."


https://www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12





MoonchildCA

(1,301 posts)
7. I saw a video or maybe just audio tape of her a few years back.
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 10:47 PM
Apr 2020

She was telling the whole sordid story. It happened at a sex party. I don’t remember where I found the link. It seems like it would’ve likely been posted here.

Anyone else remember?

Edit (found it):

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MoonchildCA

(1,301 posts)
16. It's so disgusting. I can't even watch it again.
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 11:51 PM
Apr 2020

I just watched the first minute or so of it to make sure it was same one I saw before.

He really is a disgusting pervert. And that’s only one of his many disorders.

Caliman73

(11,726 posts)
10. Trump and AMI should sue then. I mean, this is libel right?
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 11:12 PM
Apr 2020

Trump said he would sue after the election. though I guess he didn't say WHEN after the election. I mean it could have been right after the election or 20 years after the election.

Trump is so full of shit. He isn't going to sue anyone because they would have to go through discovery. He knows he is guilty but plays the bulldog because that has always been his strategy. Ask David Kay Johnson.

niyad

(113,084 posts)
13. That MURDERER in the WH is a boastfully-admitted sexual predator. His defense when E. Jean
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 11:28 PM
Apr 2020

Carroll made her accusation? "She's not my type". Why didn't someone ask, as they should have, "What is your type to rape, then?"

ffr

(22,665 posts)
18. This is why tRump thinks he must retain power. It'll be better for him if he dies in office
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 12:45 AM
Apr 2020

than rots in prison.

Hotler

(11,396 posts)
29. So McDougal took the money and ran. When she could have said no and
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 10:16 AM
Apr 2020

went public with all the details to help scuttle the orange one's election.

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