Five women accuse Donald Trump of raping or assaulting them in Jeffrey Epstein's presence

House Judiciary Committee Democrats have just published a blistering 52 page report alleging that Donald Trump was a co-conspirator in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring.

The allegations are about as grotesque as anyone who's been paying attention to the Epstein case expected them to be.

These stories are united by time, place, and the distinct factual similarities in how Trump and Epstein pursued, manipulated, and abused these women. With one exception, these accounts of sexual assault and conspiracy involve episodes that took place between 1992 and 1997 in New York City and Palm Beach, at a time when Trump and Epstein were “close friends” and participated in a shadowy subculture organized around young female modeling. Witnesses speak consistently of modeling pageants and parties where young women and girls were forced into predatory situations and routinely taken advantage of, abused, and raped. They give similar accounts of the competitive and sinister relationship between Epstein and Trump and how it was channeled into their shared pursuit of young women. Taken together, the evidence provided by the stories of these 11 women, and the documentary evidence that supports and corroborates their stories, indisputably meets and surpasses FBI’s standard for opening a full investigation: that “activity constituting a federal crime … may have occurred.”

Of the 11 women who tie Donald Trump to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, five of them—Beatrice Keul, Stacey Williams, Jill Harth, Katie Johnson, and a Jane Doe—have directly accused Trump of raping or sexually assaulting them in Epstein’s company or direct physical presence:

This is what Epstein's victims have been hinting at for a very long time now: that not only did Epstein and associate Ghislaine Maxwell not "work alone" to prey on and assault often-underaged women, as Trump's Department of Justice continues to assert, but that Trump himself was an active participant in Epstein's crimes. At least two of Trump's five accusers were minors at the time of the assaults. Other women were able to corroborate Trump's involvement in the trafficking.

And, again, not a damn bit of this is surprising because we've had extensive documentation of Trump's closeness to Epstein since the 1990s, Trump has already been found to have committed rape in one civil case, and Trump's repeated public boasting of his ability to get away with sexual assaults is now infamous.

The report notes that "[t]he record shows that Epstein and Trump, working with other predators like Paolo Zampolli and John Casablancas, exploited the thin veneer of professionalism offered by the 1990s modeling industry to lure victims into their orbit."

These reports do not stand alone, and they are not aberrations. They are remarkably consistent with the extensive public reports of Trump’s sexual misconduct at the time. Other women have accused Trump of a range of sexual misconduct at similar modeling events and parties in New York and Palm Beach—including Trump arranging for pageant contestants as young as 14 to dance for him and his frequent practice of walking into changing rooms while young girls were in a state of undress. Indeed, Trump has acknowledged this lecherous behavior, boasting he could “get away with it” because he owned the pageants in question. In 2005, in the now notorious Access Hollywood recording, Trump bragged that “when you’re a star, [beautiful women] let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy. You can do anything.”5 When asked about this video in a civil deposition, Trump defended this statement, stating that he was one such “star.”

In total, more than 25 different women—some connected to Epstein and many not—have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct.

Trump, who lies about everything all the time, has continually insisted that all of this is made up, there is nothing to see, Epstein had nothing to do with him and so forth. But this isn't a case of one accuser, or two. There is extensive evidence and dozens of witnesses to attest to Trump's assaults, rapes, hush money payments, threats, and the rest of it. This is not a record that can be invented.

Just this much, with no other testimony or witnesses, would be enough to convict anyone in America except for him. And the only reason he's the exception is that he's got an entire Department of Justice now working to hide that evidence.

Despite the specific and credible allegations made against Trump and a decades-long pattern of predatory practices, DOJ keeps repeating the absurd claim it first advanced last summer: that DOJ and FBI lack any evidence to investigate or prosecute any of Epstein’s enablers, accomplices, or co-conspirators. While many individuals benefit from this continued cover-up and refusal to undertake investigative activity, DOJ and FBI’s abject dereliction of duty appears aimed at protecting one individual in particular: the Attorney General’s previous client and now direct boss, President Donald Trump.

As revealed by this Staff Report, documents in the Epstein files show that then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche likely knew about certain survivors’ claims against the President when he traveled to Tallahassee, Florida, to interview Epstein co-conspirator Maxwell in federal prison. The transcript of that meeting shows that on at least three separate occasions, Blanche directed Maxwell not to discuss one individual, Jane, whose report to FBI implicated Donald Trump in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, but whose claims were not yet known to the public. In other words, Attorney General Blanche may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while acting on a mission to protect Trump

Yes, because the Republican Party is the party of rape. They don't try to hide it. Vivek Ramaswamy's grotesque ad using his opponent's viciously abusive mother is part of the pattern; the aggressive protection of figures like Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz is another. One could well argue that MAGA is not just an openly racist retaliation against Americans choosing the nation's first non-white president, but is an openly pro-rape movement by wealthy and not-wealthy misogynists who were threatened with consequences for their actions during the MeToo movement, only to respond with a now-robust we are allowed to assault whoever we want counterclaim.

If five women have come forward to say that Donald Trump raped them just in Epstein's "company or direct physical presence," then we can only imagine how many victims have not come forward.

It's difficult to imagine Trump ever facing consequences. At the very least he should be buried under so many civil suits that he is left penniless, but the man is old enough and rich enough to delay justice for the rest of his sorry rotten existence. For the moment, though, the most conspicuous question the report raises is how all of this testimony linking Trump directly to rapes in Jeffrey Epstein's presence never managed to, supposedly, make it into the Department of Justice's own Epstein documents.

I mean, we all know the answer. It turns out to be what used to be considered only a conspiracy theory: Because Trump's allies hid it, and continue to hide it. There's no goddamn way the entire Justice Department accidentally forgot to mention that at least 11 women have come forward to accuse Trump of being directly involved in Epstein's trafficking and that five of them claim Trump raped them as a direct result of it.

So that would be the first place to start, probably. Hauling in all of these assholes to explain why the supposed "Epstein files" have been excised of the parts that credibly accuse the sitting president of being a violent serial rapist of women and underaged girls.

But I am so done here. It's difficult to put into words how utterly revolting it is that Trump has been able to assemble so damn many rich and loud peers that do not care that he is a rapist, or that he rallied a mob to overthrow the country, or that he is perhaps the most grotesque man the nation has ever produced. It's highly likely that "attorney general" Todd Blanche, in particular, knows damn well that Trump spent a good chunk of his life raping children with Jeffrey Epstein.

It's disgusting, and humiliating, and enraging to know just how much of the country and the media is fine with this. If this case was brought to trial with this evidence, Trump would be in prison right now. Instead he's in the White House, and there are a hell of a lot of people responsible for that happening.