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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ITT: People who totally forget how it came to be that the Epstein files are even public, the insane amount of fighting that has gone into this and is still going into it, and who have not read the report itself.
Hint: Here’s the actual report. You should read it.
Or hell, just read the introduction. It details many law enforcement and bipartisan Congressional efforts at all levels, in every way possible, over the span of multiple administrations, to act against the pedophiles in power.
You never asked yourselves that, did you? You have literally never asked yourselves, “How is it I even know about Jeffrey Epstein?” You only know about him BECAUSE a lot of people, Dems and pre-MAGA Republicans alike, did a great deal of something. He was only arrested BECAUSE a lot of people on all sides did a great deal of something.
But these people screeching in this thread ignore all that, and are acting as though a lawfully-acting US president has the power of a dictator and billionaires have none. This too is a flat out lie and distortion of reality. For example, it is well known that Epstein had informants in the FBI: that he even got arrested in 2019 is a miracle in itself. Billionaires pay people, including people in government, while a lawful president has his hands tied by the separation of powers created by the Constitution.
During Trump 1.0, there were still law-abiders in key positions in both the executive and the judiciary that were able to keep him in his lane and out of active investigations, and that’s how it was possible that Donald Trump was president when Epstein was arrested in July 2019: the investigation was run by the Southern District of New York on a local basis without involving DC. They had to work very hard at keeping it hidden entirely until they could make the arrest, and they did.
But you people yelling “No one did anything!” freely ignore all that, and are also very careful not to address the actual report or the evidence in it.
When Biden was president there were still open and active investigations: as a president who kept his oath to the Constitution, it was literally illegal for him to involve himself in them. Trump is NOT a law-abiding president, and he not only shits on his oath, breaking the checks and balances daily, he hired his own personal attorney to be Attorney General of the United States, who still works for the president as a single client.
Stop, and think about that for a second: this present Trump illegality is the exact behavior these people yelling about “nobody does anything!” think Biden should have engaged in. Stop, and consider this. Trump uses the DoJ as his personal lawfare machine and the world screams, but here our esteemed shouty guests are suddenly all for Biden doing exactly that in this thread.
Why?
Because the shouters screaming “Biden did nothing! Dems did nothing!” are only here for the midterms, and it’s self-evident.
But I’m telling you personally, in ANY country, if you want an executive that interferes in the judicial – a balance carefully crafted in the US Constitution by guys who know a fuckton more than internet randos and that is now violated daily by Trump – then you do not want democracy: the stance you advocate is not compatible with a free society, and you’re looking at that play out in reality right now.
So stop with the gaslighting. Outside the corruption of Washington DC, people across the board want the Epstein files to come out, Dem and Republican alike. And the files we do have are a result of bipartisan cooperation to get them out.
No one wants to live in a country where rights only apply to the rich, and the story of Donald Trump’s filthy excesses is exactly that: a tale of how the laws never applied to someone rich enough to slither out of accountability to them.
When you say no one ever did anything, when in fact countless people have been fighting uphill battles for years – as the report demonstrates and even lists – it’s not only a flat out lie, it’s the kind of thing that people say when they don’t really want anything to change.
Happens every election around here. For anyone else, if you’re genuinely interested in who has been doing what, read the report.
That, and there is credible evidence that Vladimir Putin has a thing for little boys. That’s what got Litvinenko killed. Let’s all talk about that too, as long as we’re talking about billionaire pedos and those who will not stop them, because that sick motherfucker is at the very top of the depraved list.
A lot of good stuff here and I agree wholeheartedly until this.
No one wants to live in a country where rights only apply to the rich, and the story of Donald Trump’s filthy excesses is exactly that: a tale of how the laws never applied to someone rich enough to slither out of accountability to them.
There are plenty of people wealthy, rich, and poor that absolutely worship money. They have no problem that money has created a two-tiered society. This is the way it is supposed to be for them and anything else is going against the natural order. Our whole society is infatuated with wealth and we even have terms like “fuck you money” which is the ultimate in freedom for the US.
I wish they wouldn’t wait for the election cycle because the right just thinks it’s a witch hunt.
There is literally no timing, messaging, or amount of evidence that wouldn’t be shot down as a witch hunt.
I’m pretty sure Donald Trump could give an oval office address just openly admitting he raped someone, and the right-wing media machine would instantly be telling people why they shouldn’t be upset about it.
Who hasn’t trump raped, really? It honestly seems, given what’s in the Epstein files and in interviews and FBI reports, that every young blonde woman in his circles has either been harassed or raped, because he has a fucked up compulsion and no ability to constrain himself. He thinks all such women not only owe him that, but should be grateful for his disgusting, grubby attention.
He’s like Jabba the Hutt but somehow more disgusting. I think the list of women in his orbit who were not subjected to this shit would be much shorter.
He’s like Jabba the Hutt but somehow more disgusting.
Even Pizza the Hutt is less disgusting.
“Grab them by the pussy. . .”
He admitted to being a sex offender before being elected. It didn’t matter to republicans then, and it won’t now. They’re twisted and depraved if they can continue to support him, with the constant drip drip of allegations. And what we hear about is going to be just the tip of an iceberg of abuse.
It did not help that so many wingers and of course their accomplices in the Murc’s Law Media acted like the problem in that admission of sexual assault was using the word “pussy”.
Of course, since they were already so used to reaching for the “civility” narrative, because donnie said “pussy” instead of some other term, it was so very easy to talk about it as if “ermhagawd, he said the P-WORD!” was what people were actually taking issue with vs. the crimes he was actually admitting to.
It was absolutely infuriating.
I have to assume this is because they also think this is normal, which makes me highly suspicious they’re sex offenders (or want to be) themselves. Why else would they think this is okay? So now, if someone tells me they’re a republican, I recoil because I have to assume that means they’re fine with rape.
Yeah, unfortunately I think that’s a fair assumption. I wouldn’t want a trump supporter around my kids - if I had any. I don’t think they forgive or overlook his sex crimes, I think they endorse them, maybe envy them.
All sides should lob decades old sexual allegations at eachother before every election. The beauty is finding someone to make an accusation is easy, the claims are unfalsifiable and there is no penalty or risk in making the accusation. Democratizatiin of zero cost smearing for all!
Both sides with rape huh? Bold strategy Cotton.
Yea, we forget he is not just a pedo, he is an incestuous pedo
I’d bet some damn good money that that fat orange barrel of syphilis raped his daughter (on many occasions).
There’s a video out there… Can’t remember the show, but they go into her childhood bedroom and she looks visibly shook.
Complete attitude change after memories come back.
Had not seen that, thanks for sharing. The complete tonal and attitude shift is pretty chilling.
It’s a little out of context, but given the mound of rape and child sexual misconduct against orange menace, it’s very telling.
It’s a bad HBO “documentary” from 2003 called Born Rich.
It’s actually a pretty good doc, IMHO.
Also, Ivanka admits to something donnie probably would not have admitted - that donnie was deeply in debt at one point. She says that he points to a homeless person and says they have more money than he does.
To each their opinion, of course.
Born Rich, which originally aired on HBO, is not a good movie. The camera angles are weird, the lighting inconsistent, and the theme never moves beyond “Having money sure is complicated.”
Love the whataboutism in this answer. Doesn’t matter the opinion.
Her reaction alone is impossible to dismiss. She’s obviously traumatized about something here and gets very emotional. If you can’t connect to it I guess you’re a very troubled person. But its just a guess.
I completely agree that the film shows her traumatized in that room, probably related to the fact that her father, the president of the United States, is a child rapist. That has fuck all to do with whether it’s a good film or not, which is what we were discussing lmao
Back all the way the fuck off, homie
“Fully exonorated”? By whom? When? Where?
BTW, you cannot exonorate people like Trump, who never had any honor to start with.
By FBI agents redacting his name from Epstein files. What a time to be an FBI agent, spending all your time trying to cover up for daddy Donald Trump. I am sure they feel really proud of the work they do.
I mean, this is a new low for the FBI but it’s not that much lower than their last low.
fair enough…
By trump. In his muddy, nasty little mind.
We should be more like Burkina Faso and phase out beauty pageants
So are people going to admit that all these beauty pageants are just women having to blow dudes?
an incident alleged to have taken place at New York’s Plaza Hotel in 1993
Children were abused,
The perps get away with it,
Who has the power?
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Ah, the “both sides are evil” shills have shown up I see.
Shills?
Epstein’s Lolita Express was full of bOtH SiDeS. You’ll never stop hearing that, because it will always be true. Face the facts.
Fine, let’s assume you are correct (and they are equal in number). Who is covering it up right now?
I mean, the dude in charge. There’s no reason to expect the people not in charge to do anything different once they’re in charge, is the point. If you want that not to be the case, you’ll have to do something other than hope.
Donald Trumps personal lawyer is in charge now. Don’t you pay attention?
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But genocide!
Because they are?
Ok, now the elected officials will do something about it? Right? Right?
What do you want them to do? The DOJ works for the pedophiles.
We decided that Democrats don’t deserve votes and should be the minority party. They have no power to do anything but write memos. Why are we suddenly pissed they’re not doing more after we stopped then from being able to do more?
Democrats controlled the DoJ when Biden was in office for four years.
Did they do anything? No. They insisted that the investigation of a man dead for 10 years was ongoing.
Translation: Fuck you voters, we love Epstein, too
The Biden administration slow-rolled the prosecution of Trump because they wanted to avoid any semblance of it being a political prosecution. That was a mistake, because there was no way for them to avoid the accusation of politicization, and failing to act quickly allowed Trump to retake the White House and overtly politicize the justice department.
Though it pains me, and this opinion will undoubtedly be unpopular, I disagree that it was a mistake for Biden to avoid making Trump’s prosecution a priority.
Obviously in hindsight it was a tactical error to allow American voters to re-take the wheel, but in principle the decision to not expedite a trial in order to conclude before the election expressed faith in the public to not screw up.
In technical terms he was acting as a jus post bellum democratic leader, not a responsible-government technocrat, pragmatic tactician, or revolutionary.
So it’s easy to say in hindsight “it’s a pity that he did not stab that vile creature when he had a chance!” But trust in others you claim to represent is never a mistake, even when that trust turns out to be misplaced.
Biden should have domed that motherfucker the very instant the supreme court released the decision about anything the president does being legal as long as it’s an official act. Fuck appearances, show them how bad it can be when an executive gets unhinged. Clean house and then get legislation written to plug the holes so he can sign off on it before a corrupt candidate gets the reins again. But no, let’s let Trump back in instead. That’s WAY better.
Cooler heads will remember that SCOTUS carved out the exclusive right to determine what actually qualifies as “official”
TLDR assassinating Trump would have only given magats a martyr.
Fighting that out in court wouldn’t bring back the dead and Biden is so old that there’d have been few consequences to him regardless.
But it was never in him. By letting the prosecution play out, and trusting the public he promised to represent, he acted as a faithful democratic leader. Wartime leaders like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln deliberately stepped aside to allow boring democratic leaders like Biden to facilitate reconciliation after conflict.
In this case, the tactical error was letting the public re-take the wheel, assuming they had learned their lesson and were now smart enough to not be fooled by the same fascist conman.
Making that decision for them might have thwarted the carnage, but more likely would have only postponed it allowing a significantly more competent and disciplined fascist administration to be granted power 4 years later.
Official act. No insurrectionists can run for president.
Truth. When you’re the only ones playing by the supposed rules of decorum, are there really any rules of decorum?
The DOJ was not under political control until Trump decided it should be. Again, I get that Republican brainrot has convinced you that open corruption is normal and good, but Democrats generally follow the laws.
What did they do about trump and the Epstein files before they lost all seats of power?
Hmmmm
Checks notes, ahh, I see, wrote memos.
Fuck off Fox News.
The 117th Congress (Jan 2021–Jan 2023) was the last technical majority and it was only a majority if you considered Harris’ vote as a tie breaker, totally ignoring the fact that a few Democrats weren’t even Democrats after some combination of brain damage and bribes, so really a SOLID Republican controlled Congress through and through.
I suppose you mean RBG then? Or maybe crooked Hillary? Or sleepy Joe? Fuck outta here with your both sides ass. We’re all busy right now fixing what you busted.
I suppose you mean RBG then? Or maybe crooked Hillary? Or
sleepygenocide Joe?He got a promotion.
…Harris’ Zionism…Hillary’s emails…Obama’s drones…Clinton’s philandering…Carter’s malaise…
All totally accurate and proportionate. Obviously we should let the fascists fix everything.
totally ignoring the fact that a few Democrats weren’t even Democrats after some combination of brain damage and bribes, so really a SOLID Republican controlled Congress through and through.
It’s always something isn’t it? In all the decades I’ve been voting, dem btw, they always have a neat little excuse.
“Eraw we’d totally fix everything and give you all healthcare and eat the rich but jOe mAnChIn!” Has been the call of dem excuses for almost two generations that I know of personally. It’s always a different scapegoat ofc.
Fuck off fox news
Ok baby doll, keep your head in your ass. Or in the ass of the Washington Post or whatever center right bullshit rag you suckle. I’ll keep voting blue while also being honest about where their help, and the good they will do for us, stops.
Here we stand in the final hours of an election with thousands of potential voters here to read your “it’s pointless the democrats are just as bad” but I’m sure you’re not that solipsistic or dense. Maybe you just love how boot tastes.
Edit: after reading your history, I acknowledge you likely mean well. Please learn to be “honest” in a non-destructive way by venting your frustrations in appropriate settings. Teachers shouldn’t bitch about students outside the teachers’ lounge. Frustrated Dem voters shouldn’t pretend D = R in public, even for that delicious moment of revenge, because other humans have to pick up the tab when you wreck the fucking bus.
you just love how the boot tastes
You are putting words into my mouth because you have no argument otherwise.
If the Dems lose, it’s because of the shit they do, or don’t, not because of some powerless person you decided to take your anger at them out on under a lemmy comment.
But if I were to wrongly place blame in these comments, it would be at your aggressive bullshit. You sound like a cop, trained on “college talkin”.
I’m not trying to attack you. Having read your history, I’m pretty sure you are well-meaning. But everyone, including you, would benefit tremendously if you would learn to consider the impact of the ideas you repeat based on when, where, and around whom you repeat them. If you need to vent frustration with other activists, there are more fitting places than public forums.
Yes, and also prosecuted the surviving accomplice.
Now I understand that you’d prefer Democrats to be just as openly corrupt and criminal as Republicans, but unfortunately for you the Democrats still do follow laws, even when those laws mean that the Epstein files remain sealed by court order.
Of course, that court order was lifted in 2025 and a law was passed specifying their release. Republicans, being much more willing to openly break the law, chose to not release them.
The only woman? Yeah, she was always going to be the scapegoat. A woman in a crime ring or a poc in a white man’s ring, is a pressure release valve.
There are dozens and dozens of people they could have also been prosecuting. If not hundreds. But all they needed for their little legitimacy play is one. single. solitary. woman. For decades and decades and thousands of rapes and billions in money laundering and god knows what else.
Follow the law? I guess the law doesn’t say anything about being one of the actual hundreds of rapists or facilitating money laundering or anything. Jfc you’re drunk on their bullshit.
Many people have been prosecuted, not just maxwell.
Of course none of those prosecutions have been advertised on Fox News, so I’m guessing you haven’t heard of them. And, of course, since enough people bought into your bOtH sIdEs bullshit, most of those prosecutions have been quietly pardoned or dropped by Republicans.
Congratulations! If I genuinely thought you gave a fuck about the pedophilia, I’d say you played yourself. But I’m guessing you don’t really give a fuck about that, and just want to blame Democrats and defend trump.
Jfc you sound like a fascist
Yeah that’s about the level of “reasoned argument” I’d expect out of you.
Give me an alternative then.
There isn’t one. That’s why we vote Democrat, duh
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They did… They released a memo. What, is that not GOOD ENOUGH??
Can we start narrowing it down to people whom Trump hasn’t molested? Is that a shorter list yet?
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.
In Wag the Dog they only pretended to start a war.
And before the 2016 election he fired off probes to HILARY’S EMAILS which was a literal nothing-burger…
…then HUNTER’S LAPTOP which was an absolute fabrication.
But documented undeniable proof that someone who has been found guilty of rape, has documented history of rape and being a pedo, and openly bragged about sexually assaulted women…yeah that’s just a baseless witch hunt
But wait – Hillary had shared recipes for prosciutto. Prosciutto!!!
