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
    997·
    3 days ago

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

    • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world
      615·
      3 days 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·
        2 days 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·
          2 days 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
          17·
          3 days ago

          The lawsuit itself appears to be real, not fake.

          The allegations may not be true.

          It’s subtle, but there’s a difference

          • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.socialEnglish
            262·
            3 days ago

            It might also be the allegations are 100% true, but the death threats and people trying to destroy your life and those around you might not be worth it. Look how Stormy has been treated when the Cult is out to get you.

            • lemmyman@lemmy.world
              91·
              3 days ago

              Yeah.

              I fear that my original comment might be misconstrued so I just want to make it (probably annoyingly) explicit:

              • original comment: lawsuit is fake
              • reply1: no it’s real there’s a case number
              • reply2: oh well then it must be true
              • my reply: well akshually the existence of the lawsuit is pretty clearly not fake (response to original and reply1) but yeah you’re right it hasn’t been tried and we don’t have all the evidence to show that its contents were true or not

              FWIW I fully believe Trump did this and worse, but that’s just me

              • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                2 days ago

                Poor wording on my part. The lawsuit was not fake, the allegations were. None of the other Epstein victims corroborate that Katie Johnson was even on Epstein’s island.

                I do think Trump has done similar/worse though, but there’s yet to be any real evidence surfaced.

      • Syrc@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days 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
      122·
      3 days 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·
        2 days 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.