Trump's Sexual Violence

In the final days of this election cycle, Trump's victims are asking us to hear their stories one last time before it's too late.

Trump has already proven that he could rape someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single vote.

As New York judge Lewis A. Kaplan made clear in 2023, the jury in the civil case brought against Trump by E. Jean Carroll found that "Mr. Trump forcibly penetrated Ms Carroll’s private sexual parts with his fingers" which, although not fitting the legal definition of 'rape' under New York law, meant that, "Mr. Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms. Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York penal law."

Trump's mid-90s assault on E. Jean Carroll occurred across the street from Trump Tower at the Bergdorf-Goodman department store. Yesterday, former model Stacey Williams described a 1993 attack that took place in Trump Tower itself, after she was led into Trump's clutches by his longtime partner-in-sex-crimes Jeffrey Epstein.

As The Guardian reported:

Williams, who is 56 and a native of Pennsylvania... revealed details about the alleged encounter on a call on Monday organized by a group called Survivors for Kamala... The Zoom call featured actor Ashley Judd and law professor and academic Anita Hill, among others. Survivors for Kamala also took out an ad in the New York Times this week, signed by 200 survivors of sexual and gender violence, which was meant to serve as a reminder that Trump has been found liable for sexual abuse in a court.

Williams told The Guardian yesterday that Trump's violent assault on her felt like it was part of a "twisted game" played with his sex trafficker friend Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein, who had smiled as the assault took place, later berated Williams angrily for allowing the attack to happen. "I felt so humiliated and so sick to my stomach," she says.

Trump's decades-long history of rape and violent assault were already back back in the spotlight this election season thanks to a new series of ads recently released by George Conway's Anti-Psychopath PAC.

In one ad, Amy Dorris describes how Trump attacked her in 1997 at the US Open. In another, journalist Natasha Stoynoff tells how Trump assaulted her at Mar-a-Lago in 2005 in the midst of a People magazine photo shoot. In another, Jessica Leeds describes a 1979 airplane assault and a subsequent run-in with Trump in which he recognized her and called her "that c--t from the airplane."

Keeping his sex crimes local

Trump is a man who famously likes to sleep in his own bed, which may explain why he committed most of his Epstein-related sex crimes not on "Epstein Island" but within a few blocks of his Trump Tower penthouse on 5th Avenue or at Epstein's Palm Beach home, located practically next door to Mar-a-Lago on Palm Beach's Predator's Row.

As the 2024 election approaches, Trump's history of sexual violence, like his fascism, is supposedly "baked in" to the calculations being made by voters. Sometimes it seems that Trump's sex crimes only make "Christian" Republicans love him more.

The mainstream media hasn't helped. As with the threat of Trump's fascism, they have done an appalling job at putting the pieces together regarding Trump's known history as the perpetrator of dozens of sex crimes.

We know for sure that Trump was a frequent guest at Epstein's homes in New York and Florida over a multi-year period in which young girls were being groomed and raped. That Epstein had at least 14 phone numbers for Trump. That Trump flew on Epstein's jet at least seven times.

We know that one Epstein accuser alleged Trump had sex with "many" Epstein girls. We know that Trump did, indeed, visit Epstein's NY mansion on regular occasions because in 2000, a porter who worked next door told a UK newspaper: "I often see Donald Trump and there are loads of models coming and going, mostly at night. It’s amazing." We know that the 51-year-old Trump began an affair with one of Epstein's teenage victims after she turned 20 in 1997.

We know that Bill Barr's dad introduced Epstein to Manhattan society. And that Bill Barr broke a series of promises to keep Epstein safe—and oversaw a "perfect storm" of security lapses to leave him dead in a cell with injuries never-before-seen in a suicidal hanging.

We know that after getting his own "massage" at Epstein's house, future Trump impeachment lawyer Alan Dershowitz negotiated the (later ruled illegal) sweetheart 2007 deal with future Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta that protected Epstein's friends from prosecution.

We know that Epstein's brother and Ghislaine Maxwell separately told people that Epstein had dirt on Trump that would destroy him. We know from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial that Trump-appointed FBI director Chris Wray allowed "CDs and hard drives" to disappear "as authorities waited on a warrant to seize them."

We also know that the worst sex crime allegations against Trump—including the alleged 1994 rape of then-13-year-old Katie Johnson—occurred during Ivanka's teenage years, a period in which Trump was not shy about publicly expressing his incestuous lust for her.

We know that by the time Ivanka was turning 15 in 1996, the sex-crazed Trump was not just attacking women in public places, he was also abusing his power as the owner of Miss Teen USA to creep into the dressing room to catch the contestants naked.

We know Trump has befriended and defended known rapists, pedophiles and sex predators for decades. In recent interviews, a seemingly tired and apparently senile Trump has once again spoken fondly of his longtime BFF Jeffrey Epstein and even lamented the way his buddy Harvey Weinstein got "schlonged" for his sex crimes.

If Trump's relationship with Epstein had been investigated the way the UK media handled the accusations against Prince Andrew, there's no doubt that public perceptions of Trump's history of sexual violence would be different.

In the final days of this election cycle, we can't expect the media to give the story the coverage it has long-deserved.

But hopefully, a few more voters will give some consideration to the experiences of "The Strange Sorority" of Trump accusers who were profiled recently in The New York Times.

Will anyone listen?

In the words of Natasha Stoynoff: "We feel like, ‘One more time, and this should do it,’ but so far, it never does it. Maybe this will be the one."

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