The evidence supporting the claim that Trump raped a 13 year old Katie Johnson is flimsy at best. The sum total of this evidence comes down to Johnson’s statement that “Trump did it”. The only supporting evidence is a sworn affidavit from an anonymous person known only as Tiffany Doe, which other lawyers have said that “no lawyer in his right mind would sign off on that kind of statement”. Furthermore, Johnson claims she didn’t know who Trump was until she saw him on The Apprentice which ran from 2004 - 2015. Somewhere between 10 and 20 years after the incident, and a year before the presidential election, Johnson appears to have had a revelation on who her abuser was.
Upon the revelation of who her abuser was, instead of reporting any crimes to the police, FBI, or even a lawyer, Johnson instead relayed her story to Steve Baer (a loud Anti-Trumper) who, instead of contacting authorities, produced a video of Johnson recounting her experience. In 2015 Norm Lubow then became involved as he attempted to sell the video to various media outlets for $1million. Only after the video failed to sell did someone, with very poor legal knowledge, submit a claim in California.
This lawsuit failed, after which media outlets like Revelist and Jezebel contacted Johnson’s team and eventually interviewed Johnson (Revelest) and Lubow (Jezebel). Both journalists left the interviews “confused and doubtful”. Jezebel furthermore claims to have been harassed by Lubow and to have received false texts claiming to have come from Johnson. Furthermore, the subsequent lawsuits contained information describing events Virginia Roberts had previously detailed in her journals, or simply didn’t happen such as the large sex orgies discredited by Miami-Dade Police Detective Fisten.
After dropping the case in 2016, claiming she feared for her safety, Johnson then gave an interview to The Daily Mail and provided them unblurred publicity shots which clearly revealed her face but she still maintained the pseudonym Katie Johnson. This might be considered an odd decision considering her concerns over her physical safety.
The accusations in the Johnson vs Trump/Epstein lawsuit must be weighed against the other available evidence concerning Trump, his association with Epstein, and his involvement with the Epstein case.
Trump had known Epstein since 1989 however the closeness of his relationship is unknown. Trump is alleged by Epstein’s brother to have flown on the “Lolita Express” at least once, however flight logs, which are available for all of Epstein's aircraft, fail to indicate Trump ever flew with Epstein. The only available evidence showing a relationship between Trump and Epstein is Epstein’s address book which lists 14 different contact numbers for Trump, and a message pad indicating Trump had attempted to contact Epstein on 4 occasions in or around 2004.
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