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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    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.

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      “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.

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        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.

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        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.

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          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.

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      I’d bet some damn good money that that fat orange barrel of syphilis raped his daughter (on many occasions).

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        There’s a video out there… Can’t remember the show, but they go into her childhood bedroom and she looks visibly shook.

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            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.

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            Had not seen that, thanks for sharing. The complete tonal and attitude shift is pretty chilling.

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              It’s a little out of context, but given the mound of rape and child sexual misconduct against orange menace, it’s very telling.

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    “Fully exonorated”? By whom? When? Where?

    BTW, you cannot exonorate people like Trump, who never had any honor to start with.

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    Can we start narrowing it down to people whom Trump hasn’t molested? Is that a shorter list yet?

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    an incident alleged to have taken place at New York’s Plaza Hotel in 1993

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      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?

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        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

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          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.

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            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.

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          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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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              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: I acknowledge you 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.

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                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”.

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                  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.

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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    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.

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      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

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    Absolutely on brand for Trump.

    Its just nuts that the WH can just issue a 3 sentence press release and the story barely rates a mention.

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      I mean hate to say it but we don’t. If she came out and aaid OK much more likely but the Democrats being only source.

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        “I hate to say it but we don’t know the fire started here. All we have are the firefighter’s reports about how there was a guy with a campfire here, The guy’s proven record of starting fires, and a statement from a witness saying he did it.”

        Fuck off dude

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          Yeah, you can philosophically argue that we don’t “really” know anything you choose, since there is no way to prove with 100% certainty that the reader isn’t a brain in a jar or in the matrix or an actual simulation.

          But for practical conversations about the real world, fuckin c’mon. The actual president of the actual country I live in is one of the most “accomplished” famous rapists on the planet. And if he isn’t, then he is the subject matter of the greatest psyop in human history.

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          The good thing is to assert that he did it because he’s a scumbag. The correct thing is to preserve the presumption of innocence because that’s a reflection on us and it’s a slippery slope to people picked up on the street for jaywalking and being incarcerated for their healthy valuable organs.

          Being good and being correct can be at odds, but you need to one day understand why that’s okay.

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            In court, sure. This isn’t court and you’re not his lawyer. This is a web forum and it’s fucking wild how people suddenly jump to his defense when hard evidence of yet another rape comes up.

            Gtfoutta here.