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The most shocking never-disproven Epstein-connected, child rape accusations against Trump [1]
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Date: 2025-09-14
I recently came across Katie Johnson’s former case against Trump and Epstein in 2016 alleging that they raped her when she was 13 years old.
To this day, Ms. Johnson’s shocking videotaped account stands apart for her specific and horrific accusations that Trump and Epstein raped her in New York City during the early 1990s when she was a 13-year-old girl caught up in Epstein’s child sex-trafficking ring and orgies that he hosted. In her videotaped account, Ms. Johnson also describes how Trump used racist slurs and tropes.
Ms. Johnson withdrew her case in November 2016 because she felt intimidated and was in fear of her safety. According to a podcast by Ed Opperman, a private investigator who worked on the case and the media, Ms. Johnson became spooked by a denial-of-service attack, which Mr. Opperman describes as “state level,” that took down their websites the day of a planned press announcement.
Although Ms. Johnson has received media criticism for initially receiving financial backing from two disreputable figures (one right- and one left-wing), after bringing her case in California ultimately Ms. Johnson moved her case to New York where she was represented by Lisa Bloom, who has represented clients like Janice Dickinson against Bill Cosby, Mischa Barton in a revenge porn case, and multiple women in the firing of Bill O'Reilly from Fox News.
In addition to her representation by Lisa Bloom (Gloria Allred’s daughter), Ms. Johnson’s claims appear as if they may be credible given Trump’s extensive, and growing, history of sexual misconduct, and:
Trump’s prior friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and others like Jean-Luc Brunel and John Casablancas,
the sworn supporting statement of a key witness for Ms. Johnson,
the scrutiny the case received from the media whose reporting did not debunk the allegations, and
Trump’s lifestyle and fascination with young girl models in the 1980s and 1990s.
The case is notable for its setting in a period that predates the subject matter of much of the recent reporting about Trump and Epstein. Could this be part of why Trump recently accused Clinton of visiting Epstein’s island 28 times, thereby changing the focus away from the location and timeframe of New York City, including his then-owned Plaza Hotel, and Palm Beach in the early 1990s?
In sum, Ms. Johnson’s shocking case as a potential window into Trump’s alleged grave crimes involving Epstein during the early 1990s deserves more attention in the effort to release the Epstein files. Someone named MetaStar Tara already has published this helpful website, for example. President Trump’s supporters, who Republicans have fed conspiracy theories about Epstein (some of which may turn out to be true), and Democrats alike deserve to see the full contents of the government’s files.
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