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Trump accused of raping former Miss Switzerland in Democrats’ Epstein report (www.independent.co.uk)

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Donald Trump is accused of raping a former Miss Switzerland in a report probing the president’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein released by House of Representatives Democrats this week.

Beatrice Keul, a retired model and beauty pageant contestant, told the House Judiciary Committee about an incident alleged to have taken place at New York’s Plaza Hotel in 1993. The report, released a week ahead of the midterm elections, also summarizes previously reported allegations from four other women against Trump.

The White House has strongly denied all of the reports’ claims, accusing “crazed” Democrats of “a desperate attempt to distract Americans” and insisting that the president has been “fully exonerated of anything related to Epstein.”

Keul previously claimed in October 2024 that Trump had sexually assaulted her at a beauty pageant staged at the Plaza Hotel, which Trump then owned.

"The president may have raped someone, but we need to double down on the made up rape threat that transgender people pose to women!"

-Republicans, demonstrably.

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[-] nehal3m@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 hour ago

The White House has strongly denied all of the reports’ claims, accusing “crazed” Democrats of “a desperate attempt to distract Americans” and insisting that the president has been “fully exonerated of anything related to Epstein.”

Funny, the White House started a whole ass war to distract from the Epstein files. Projection at it's finest.

[-] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 39 minutes ago

You don't have to say 'accused' we fucking know he did it

[-] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 1 points 4 minutes ago

Absolutely on brand for Trump.

Its just nuts that the WH can just issue a 3 sentence press release and the story barely rates a mention.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 minutes ago

And the consequences will be..........?

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 0 points 13 minutes ago

The dems wouldn't have had the balls to run this until vivek opened the door with his poor taste.

[+] bertlewirth@lemy.lol -66 points 2 hours ago

The dems don’t care. They’re just doing this so they get elected. Then if/when they’re elected, it’ll get buried again.

[-] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 hour ago

"Democrats aren't doing anything!

Democrats do something.

"They don't mean it though!"

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 6 points 58 minutes ago

So far as I can tell, the only meaningful push to hold any Epstein pedophile accountable has come from the Dems, with the one Republican who pushed for it being ousted by the GOP and Israel.

I wouldn't immediately jump to doomerism conclusions when so far all the evidence is pointing you in the other direction. Just get off your ass and go vote for the Dems.

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 40 points 2 hours ago

These kind of defeatist comments smell like all those Harris will start WW3 astro turf comments from the last election cycle.

[-] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

possibly but better not to have a rapist as President though

[-] aksdb@lemmy.world 49 points 2 hours ago

Sure, could be that they do the right thing for the wrong reasons. But it's still the right thing.

[-] midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 hour ago

So much this. I hate when people are like "they don't really believe that" in response to some public statement. The public statement itself is important! Half a politician's job is public speaking. What they say in public matters just as much as what they do in private, and immediately attacking someone for doing the unobjectionably right thing is self defeating.

[-] fonix232@fedia.io 22 points 2 hours ago

"The opposing candidate is not perfect/only slightly better, so we may as well wallow in shit up to our noses instead of it being only up to our chest"

[+] artyom@piefed.social -9 points 2 hours ago

No one suggested not voting for them.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

In my experience a very large amount of lemmy users support an idea that you should not vote for the democrats because afterwards complatency is too easy while more of Trump may unlock a civil war revolution.

I highly disagree with it and i dont think it will work out that way. I rather fight facist-lite then cant-wait-for-an-excuse-to-bomb-“woke”-cities-facism but i do understand the logic those “users” apply.

The real question is, are those users actually real people voicing their personal opinions or are they trolls/bots. Its not a good sign how increasingly vocal they are right in front of a US election and suddenly silent afterwards. Complacent much?

My suggestion is to vote lesser evil and then the moment they win a No-kings protest, continueing to grill the entire office to make it clear their polical win comes with 0 support from the people.

[-] artyom@piefed.social -5 points 22 minutes ago

I've literally never seen anyone on the threadiverse suggest that you should not vote for Democrats.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 minutes ago

Maybe you are just lucky but most likely its my own fault for enganging to much with these people. They are rarely explicit about it in the first comment.

[-] Stormy@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 hour ago

Maybe but do you think a rapist is a good leader?

[-] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago

If they try to bury it they're going to meet the same fate. And Dem voters will be far less forgiving.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io -2 points 2 hours ago

That's probably what they hope to do, but as Trump and co. have shown, you can't quite put that genie back in the bottle that easily. They'll definitely be looking for an opportunity to sweep it under the rug though.

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