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In reply to the discussion: Taylor and Mensch now report, based on separate sources, a sealed indictment against DT. [View all]jberryhill
(62,444 posts)It couldn't have been that it was a scheme originally promoted by a Cruz backer and a Jerry Springer producer.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/3/13501364/trump-rape-13-year-old-lawsuit-katie-johnson-allegation
This spring, a man called Al Taylor sent a video of a woman with a blurred face and blonde wig (allegedly Johnson) recounting the allegations against Trump to news outlets, saying he wanted $1 million for it. Taylor, the Guardian reported, was actually Norm Lubow, a former producer on the Jerry Springer show who has a history of using fake names and disguises to make juicy, false claims about celebrities.
The lawsuit was promoted to the media by an anti-Trump, anti-abortion activist named Steve Baer, a conservative activist and donor with a very influential email list that he uses to relentlessly spam reporters and conservative power players. Baer, too, has a history of passing around whoa if true rumors: Last year, he was a key figure in spreading the notion that US Rep. Kevin McCarthy was having an extramarital affair with a woman in Congress when McCarthy was a candidate to become speaker of the House.
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Because, you see, the Trump organization kept a detailed log on girls raped in the 1990's, and has followed them ever since, so that if they ever made anonymous accusations later, they'd know which one it was and where to find them.