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LeftInTX

(34,276 posts)
Fri Jul 5, 2024, 12:30 AM Jul 2024

This is all old. It's not more. Someone reposted it on social media the other day as if it was new.

The Epstein grand jury transcript is new, but Trump isn't in the Epstein grand jury transcript. He's in the Katie Johnson transcript which has been around for eight years now.


Donald Trump, Katie Johnson Allegations: Everything We Know
The allegations in the now-dismissed suits appear to[b] resurface on social media when documents related to Epstein are unsealed

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."

That lawsuit, filed in federal court in Riverside, California, in April 2016, named Trump and Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, as defendants. It claimed the men held Johnson as a "sex slave" in 1994 when she was 13 and forced her to perform sex acts.

A judge dismissed the case in May that year, ruling that the complaint didn't raise valid claims under federal law, Politico reported at the time.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-katie-johnson-allegations-sexual-assault-case-dismissed-1921051

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