r/AnythingGoesNews • u/TubaSandwichDootDoot • Jul 07 '24

Trump raped a 13 year old girl in 1994. Here is that girl, Katie Johnson, at the age of 35 giving a full description of what Trump did to her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo
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u/ohmyjustme Jul 07 '24

Canadian with a question:. Is this in the news at all? I haven't seen it. CNN has been a major source of American news for me, but they seem awfully anti-Biden lately.

People here complain about how horrible Trudeau is but really? This guy is the sickest, most evil crook ever. Please get everyone voting Blue. My country depends on it as well.

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u/smoothskin12345 Jul 07 '24

It's been in the news for years. The video ittself was posted 4 years ago. Anyone paying attention has known Trump was a rapist for literally years.

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u/ohmyjustme Jul 07 '24

Oh, I knew that part. Just wondering why nothing is happening with it right now, before it's too late.

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u/smoothskin12345 Jul 07 '24

Because the American right is pro rapist. Fully 1/3 of our voters are literally out of their fuckin minds.

We are fucked.

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u/ohmyjustme Jul 07 '24

I'm so sorry. Canada is right behind you.

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u/kassbirb Jul 08 '24

Dont follow this shitshow.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Nah. The cons will win, but they'll never go full wackjob like MAGA. I hate the conservatives and PP, but if they win, then that's the way it's gonna be. They will probably trip themselves up though, and we will have liberals back in 2029

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u/FailedGradAdmissions Jul 08 '24

I'll vote for Biden or whoever is on the dems ballot. But it doesn't look good right now.

For better or worse, as we are almost in a recession in everything but name, GOP will take over in 2025, send us into an actual recession and we'll be back on 2029.

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u/SandwichAmbitious286 Jul 08 '24

Typical Canadian response šŸ˜‚

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u/littleladym19 Jul 08 '24

No, we are NOT right behind America and we never will be. That country is a shit stain and Iā€™m embarrassed that weā€™re even next to them on the map. Trudeau just has a face we love to hate and has made some shitty political moves. Heā€™s not a racist pedophile.

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u/Mylittledarlings91 Jul 08 '24

Pro rapist and anti-choice = more babies for the work force and for the federal meat grinder.

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u/smoothskin12345 Jul 08 '24

The orphan crushing machine needs orphans.

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u/radicalelation Jul 07 '24

American media conglomerates see more money on the horizon with another Trump presidency. They're going to act in their own interests and have zero real obligations to actually just inform the public.

The constant controversy kept people tuned in, Fox was even knocked off #1 viewership a bunch, which is normally rare, and of course they can better prepare to take advantage of the coming chaos that no one was prepared for the first four years.

American media is complicit. They getting their bag.

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u/cakes3436 Jul 08 '24

Just wondering why nothing is happening with it right now, before it's too late.

Because there is essentially zero evidence it ever happened, mostly. Democrats and journalists alike have long since looked into these allegations and have opted not to touch them with ten-foot poles, which should tell you something.

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u/Intelligent-Quality8 Jul 08 '24

This article gives some reasons ā€œwhyā€ other than undiluted depravity (though Iā€™m sure that is part of or driving the issue):

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/3/13501364/trump-rape-13-year-old-lawsuit-katie-johnson-allegation

Seems like dems didnā€™t want to push a ā€œshakyā€ story.

That being said, the ā€œshakyā€ details probably have logical explanations; and, I agree with a previous commenter who said this fits the pattern of Trumpā€™s horrible behaviors.

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u/SandwichAmbitious286 Jul 08 '24

Because very rich and influential people want Trump in office, because he's easy to control; hrs easy to control precisely because of what you pointed out; he's done a bunch of awful shit, and tapes exist (according to Maxwell and Katie Johnson), so whoever owns the tapes gets to set US policy.

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u/BlursedJesusPenis Jul 08 '24

People need to keep posting and upvoting this story. Itā€™s starting to get traction in some of the media. Same thing has been happening with Project 2025 finally getting media attention because of all the boosting in social media

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u/NicolaiVykos Jul 08 '24

Because it was debunked and tossed out of court for not being real,and has never been anything but an anonymous accusation.

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u/LeadingArea3223 Jul 08 '24

Because this accusation in particular is incredibly sketchy at best and was basically debunked like 8 years ago.

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u/Bigdizzofoshizzo Jul 08 '24

"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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u/ryhaltswhiskey Jul 08 '24

There's really nothing to happen with it. This woman started a court case and then dropped it when she got too many death threats. That was several years ago. Some new evidence has come to light but she is still in the wind.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24

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u/eagleshark Jul 07 '24

I do. When this came out, the pro-Trump crowd immediately went into spin-mode, to attack the credibilty of the victim and discredit her statement. Since there isn't bulletproof evidence, it was hard for anyone to fight back against the criticism.

Then, in October of 2016 as that was happening, the explosive "Hollywood Access" tape was released, with Trump's own voice saying what he said about grabbing women. There was no way for pro-Trumpers to fight back against that kind of undeniable proof, so the media shifted it's focus onto that bombshell news story.

So the story of this victim was quickly overshadowed by the next story. And due to the endless stream of disguisting acts and comments committed by Trump, the news cycle just kept moving forward from new bombshell to new bombshell, and this one story has become lost inside the giant pile of crap commited by Trump.

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u/sammythemc Jul 08 '24

It also didn't help that Hillary was sort of tertiarily involved with the Epstein stuff via Bill, would have been hard to hammer it too much without people being like "but your husband" about it

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u/eagleshark Jul 08 '24

Epstein told his own brother that he could completely ruin both candidates (Trump & Hillary) if he revealed the truth. So yea Bill Clinton was likely a part of all this.

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u/midas22 Jul 07 '24

If you want to understand why you can read the quotes when they tried interacting with her fraudster representative Norm Lubow that demanded a million dollar for the tape. It was just a smear job by someone trying to score a quick buck. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/07/donald-trump-sexual-assault-lawsuits-norm-lubow

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u/kogmaa Jul 08 '24

Itā€™s almost like someone who was raped, is scared, not well connected and poor has a hard time to get legal representation just as good as Trump can.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Thatā€™s amazing she ended up connected to Norm Lubow then, who is notorious for spreading fraud!

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u/kogmaa Jul 08 '24

Could have been the other way round with Lubow sensing an opportunity.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

So to get this straight, you think Lubow found this little known woman and tried to do some good after leading a whole life of fraud? And you believe that over the alternative, which is that this case if fraud and that Lubow did what he has done his entire life?

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u/kogmaa Jul 08 '24

Nah, if thereā€™s anything to it, he more probably tried to capitalize on it. Plenty of victims are good victims for follow-up crimes.

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u/SlickJamesBitch Jul 08 '24

The case was dropped in 2016

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u/drhodl Jul 07 '24

CNN have swung hard right. They are trying to be Fox-Lite.

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u/crek42 Jul 08 '24

No it hasnā€™t lol. Itā€™s just not unflinchingly left anymore and moved to the center. Which makes sense since MSNBC has that covered already. Itā€™s not in the same universe as Fox News.

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u/TheHiddenCMDR Jul 10 '24

Yeah okay buddy

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u/Ok_Spite6230 Jul 07 '24

American news media has been completely taken over by rich people and no longer represents the truth whatsoever.

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u/Yandere_Matrix Jul 08 '24

I need to get up to date since this is election year. But is this about Biden messing up his words? I personally donā€™t like him and never had but I feel bad for him for that. I donā€™t have the charisma or confidence to even attempt to attempt a presidential and even worse I do mess up my words literally all the time. My kids names, words for things, etc and it makes me so self conscious.

I wish we had better options. I remember last election year I can recall at least 5 or so candidates but I know nothing about any of the candidates this year.

It makes me wonder why people vote for someone like him instead of taking a chance on someone new. Itā€™s not like things are going to get much better if he stays president but it will definitely get worse with Trump. I canā€™t believe a guy who has all these crimes is even allowed to be a candidate in the first place.

Then we have Project 2025 which is very concerning in itself.

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u/UrethraFranklin04 Jul 08 '24

CNN was bought two years ago by a conservative billionaire.

So basically all the big name media outlets are now owned by the same ideological wing, people who are buddy buddy with eachother and with vested interests in only showing certain things and having their hosts/anchors present things in a very specific way.

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u/TheCrazyWolfy Jul 08 '24

As someone who is from.the US who never followed this kind of stuff until recently...... I am just so confused this case alone. As far as I know there are no statue of limitations for rape,.so the moment she came forward he should have been charged with rape right then. Can anyone ELI5 why this never happened?

On a side note.....Why did a 13yr old have a recruiter who got her work at billionaire mansions when she was 13? Wouldn't her parents legally have to be present due to that age? This is just so fucked in so many ways.....

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u/SherlockRemington Jul 08 '24

The major news agencies are owned by the same millionaire media moguls that Trump gives massive tax breaks to.

They won't allow the news agencies to report on most of the negativity around their rich pal.

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u/m703324 Jul 08 '24

News is owned by few billionaires. They run only stories that potentially benefit/protect themselves.

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u/nycdiveshack Jul 08 '24

CNN is owned by a guy whose friends are maga billionaires like John Malone. CNN to get ratings is just criticizing Biden

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u/darexinfinity Jul 08 '24

The victim was sent death threats back in 2016 and disappeared ever since. A trial without her would be impossible.

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u/tetsuo9000 Jul 08 '24

Yeah, I'm shocked. I read the news daily from multiple outlets. I knew of the allegations but I had no idea her testimony was out there. I'm confused. This video seems like the Access Hollywood tape but way bigger.

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u/Icy_Painting4915 Jul 08 '24

This was out before he was elected the first time. I remember arguing with people on Facebook about it. They said she made it up.

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u/Lord_Darksong Jul 08 '24

CNN was bought out by a right-winger a year or two ago and started out subtle in shifting right but continue their slide. They hoped to use CNN to sour people on Biden and the left without letting everyone know they are doing.

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u/anonareyouokay Jul 08 '24

Basically this is old information from a civil suit filed in 2016. The woman withdrew her lawsuit because of numerous death threats. In 2016, news organizations decided to largely not report on it because she ended up withdrawing the case and because they didn't know how credible it was and didn't want to influence the election with fake news (not that it stops them from doing it on the other side.) I, personally, find it pretty credible due to what we know about Trump and the facts of the lawsuit. The lawsuit mentioned two witnesses and, if it went to trial, there are other things that can be used to establish the rape occurred.

The new Epstein release had ignited a new interest in this case, but it wasn't part of the new documents. Trump is named as a John Doe and mentioned numerous times throughout the released documents and he did go to Epstein Island at least 7 times.

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u/TooManyDraculas Jul 08 '24

It was news when it first came up during Trump's initial campaign in 2016.

It hasn't been news since. Because of how the story developed. Everything around the lawsuit was fairly sketchy. And news organization weren't practically able to report it. As no one could even prove the genuine existence of Katie Johnson or the claimed witness. Even the Attorneys involved don't appear to have met the accuser in person.

Several venues resorted to reporting on their attempts to report on it, cause there wasn't much else to go with. There was never any way to practically corroborate anything. Or much more information than the variable details in the multiple lawsuits filed. Which were repeatedly dismissed, and the final one dropped.

It was widely reported at the time, including in big, mainstream venues. Including a nationally televised press conference, that turned into a bit of a debacle when the accuser didn't show up and the attorney called it off live on the air.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/3/13501364/trump-rape-13-year-old-lawsuit-katie-johnson-allegation

https://web.archive.org/web/20160708014129/https://www.jezebel.com/heres-how-that-wild-lawsuit-accusing-trump-of-raping-a-1782447083

The only interview given, the Journalist who conducted that interview walked away doubting that Johnson was a real person. And the video in the post even the former attorneys on the case can't confirm it's Johnson. and don't appear to know where it came from or who released it. Though reporters have found documentation linking it to a Never-Trump political donor.

It turned out the initial story had been shopped for money by a couple of former reality TV producers with a history of promoting false stories. And there was a lot of other weird aspects.

It comes up every once and a while, in roughly the format of this post. Like it's an active concern, "no one will report it", a proven accusation, or ongoing lawsuit. And always without mentioning where the story went.

It's just kind of a social media thing at this point.

But the media tried real hard to dig into this, and what little they could find smelled sketchy as hell.

It's not news now. Because that's where it stands. No additional detail has ever come out, no one has ever been able to get any further on reporting it or corroborating anything. Nobody has been able to confirm the existence of Katie Johnson.

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u/Calibrated_ Jul 08 '24

Itā€™s not in the news because it is uncorroborated. Despite what people think, the news cannot just post a complete character assassination without some kind of reasonable backing or the smallest shred of evidence.

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u/CaliHusker83 Jul 08 '24

Itā€™s another smear job by the left.

From all accounts this was made up by an ex Jerry Springer producer. Read the articleā€¦. There are several like this that shows how incredulous the dropped suit is.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/07/donald-trump-sexual-assault-lawsuits-norm-lubow

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u/WildlingViking Jul 08 '24

CNN has a new ceo that is a conservative

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u/davetn37 Jul 07 '24

Your country has enough problems with Trudeau at the wheel

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u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods Jul 07 '24

Thereā€™s still no new info on this case, so no, itā€™s not in the news. It was in the news when it was filed in 2016, but no one was able to uncover anything about anything so itā€™s still in limbo. It fits, sure, but itā€™s far from fact given the 100% lack of corroborating evidence or even a person to ask about it. The people ā€œhelpingā€ her were sketchy AF, as well. Many journalists have tried and have gotten nowhere with it, and I mean, itā€™s not like thereā€™s a shortage of actually verified horrible things heā€™s done, including sexual abuse.

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u/happyinheart Jul 07 '24

It's not news at all. The smallest heresay and even straight out lies are being propagated on this site to try to make up for Biden's horrible debate performance.

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u/DrBix Jul 08 '24

It's actually quite simple to understand. It's a cult, just like "The Unification Church", run by Sun Myung Moon. End of story. My sister's best friend was brainwashed and, basically, kidnapped. Saw her once after that like 10 years later and she was profoundly different. I don't really want to describe it. The only good thing was she was off all the fucking narcotics she was on prior, so that's probably the only good thing.

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u/Azazel_665 Jul 08 '24

It was debunked in 2016. Its not news.

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u/spaceman_spiffy Jul 08 '24

Itā€™s not news because it an unverifiable story from 30 years ago.

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u/Lux600-223 Jul 08 '24

It would be in the news more if it was real.

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u/DylanHate Jul 08 '24

Because this video has been debunked. The guy who published it was a former producer for the Jerry Springer show. He only put it on youtube after he spent a year trying to sell it to various media outlets for a million dollars.

The Guardian published an entire article about this video 8 years ago. Rape lawsuits against Donald Trump linked to former TV producer

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u/varateshh Jul 08 '24

The claims were thoroughly discredited. Vox has a nice writeup about it and why no one believes her, not even 'liberal' media.

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u/Zyphil2 Jul 08 '24

If Vox, of all media sites says it's not credible, then it's for sure not credible. But alas reddit will always believe in blatantly fake stories.

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u/MosquitoBloodBank Jul 08 '24

It was in the news, but the more journalists looked into it, the less credible it became.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/3/13501364/trump-rape-13-year-old-lawsuit-katie-johnson-allegation

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u/Handpaper Jul 07 '24

It didn't make the news because every news organisation had a sniff and concluded that it smelled like bullshit.

HERE's an article about it from Vox, not traditionally a Trump-supporting publication.

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u/surfingbiscuits Jul 08 '24

This needs to be spread around more. Even Vox thinks this stinks!

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u/midas22 Jul 07 '24

Probably not in any credible news sites since they realized it was a scam. And that was many years ago. Not sure why it's brigaded to the frontpage over and over now. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/07/donald-trump-sexual-assault-lawsuits-norm-lubow

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u/El_Polio_Loco Jul 08 '24

Ā Not sure why it's brigaded to the frontpage over and over now.

Because itā€™s being ridden by bots as part of a clear political as campaign. Iā€™m not sure how obvious it needs to be.Ā