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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  • Nouvellalia@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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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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        I suppose you mean RBG then? Or maybe crooked Hillary? Or sleepy genocide Joe?

        He got a promotion.

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          …Harris’ Zionism…Hillary’s emails…Obama’s drones…Clinton’s philandering…Carter’s malaise…

          All totally accurate and proportionate. Obviously we should let the fascists fix everything.

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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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                  Girl the situation demands it. Do you think I like this two party system? No progressive does. But these are the tools we have right now in the face of an extinction-level event. You know it. I don’t want their fucked up new gilead dystopia for me or anyone I love. I’m motivated by the new Dems they call “radicals” who are like AOC. In my city we worked very hard to get a DSA mayor elected who would work for us, and he actually has, so I know it’s not all bullshit because I’m living it now.

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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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              Yeah that’s about the level of “reasoned argument” I’d expect out of you.

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                You started screeching like a loon immediately. You can’t take the pretend, pretentious academic stance now, booger eater.

                Edit: Sorry, got you confused by the other one.

                For you, I will say “why use many words when one do”, but if you want to pretend like you need more words to comprehend my statement:

                Your black and white thinking, immediately attacking anyone not blindly carrying the party banner with feaux righteousness, is the fascist mindset.

                Do you need academic links that specifically call this out as a sign, or are you at least educated on the topic of fascism enough to understand that it’s basic level information?

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                  Yeah, except I’m not attacking you for “not carrying the party banner”. I’m telling you that what you want the Democrats to do was either (a) illegal or (b) impossible. And you’re pissed at them for failing to break the laws or man or the laws of reality. And yes, the reasoning behind what the Democrats did was laid out in those memos you so decry.

                  It’s not righteousness, it’s incredulity.

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                    Are you really going to sit there and say it was against the laws of man or reality to do anything about trump after he openly led an insurrection? That it was impossible to serve justice with all that epstein evidence?

                    I mean, I’m sure there are people out there dumb enough to believe you, but on its face, without dragging us into confusing minutiae that will allow both sides to come away feeling like they’ve won, your statement is absolutely ridiculous.