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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat if the Stormy part of this Cohen raid is so much bigger than Stormy herself?
What if the reason this got sent back to NY and to the Federal SDNY prosecutor is it had to do with KATIE JOHNSON?
Katie's lawsuit said Trump and Epstein had raped her repeatedly when she was 13, and she had two anonymous witnesses that had also offered testimony.
Her attorney, Lisa Bloom, had announced a press conference to take place a few days before the election, where the woman calling herself Katie was going to speak. On the day of the press conference, Bloom suddenly announced she was cancelling it -- because of THREATS that had been made to her client.
What if Cohen -- or a thug on his behalf -- was the one making those threats? What if they forced her to sign an NDA and paid her money? Even though the statute of limitations for the rape had passed (NYC at the time of the alleged rape didn't have an statute of limitation exception for child rapes) if Cohen threatened her in 2016, that would be a serious crime.
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-teen-rape-accuser-cancels-conference/
LOS ANGELES A woman who has filed federal lawsuits accusing Donald Trump of repeatedly raping her two decades ago, when she was 13, abruptly canceled a news conference Wednesday where she was to detail her extraordinary claims against the U.S. Republican presidential nominee.
In the most recent suit, Trumps accuser asserts that while she was exploring a modeling career in 1994, she attended a series of parties at the Manhattan home of prominent investor Jeffrey Epstein. She alleges that during those parties the real estate mogul raped her on several occasions, including one instance in which she says Trump tied her to a bed.
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Jane Doe has received numerous threats today, Bloom told the assembled journalists and TV cameras. She has decided she is too afraid to show her face
She is in terrible fear.
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Trumps accuser also submitted declarations from two other women, both anonymous. One says she worked as a party planner for Epstein, was tasked with getting attractive adolescent women to attend these parties and personally witnessed the Plaintiff being forced to perform various sexual acts with Donald J. Trump and Mr. Epstein.
The other woman says she attended school with Trumps accuser at the time and was told by her about being subject to sexual contact by the Defendants at parties in New York City during the summer of 1994.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)What if it's about Stormy Daniels?
What if it's all about Melania's escape plans?
What if it's about installing sprinklers in Trump Tower?
Patience, pnwmom. All will be revealed to us, the audience. It's all part of the show.
We'll just have to wait for the next installment of "Trump."
(wink)
Have a good evening!
wishstar
(5,269 posts)Certainly all of the NDA payoffs before election would be part of investigation. Sam Nunberg and other witnesses have said that Mueller's team asked if they knew anything about Trump payoffs to women during campaign so it would seem that all of the NDA's were on Mueller's radar, not just the Stormy payoff. However, Katie Johnson was underage at time of her involvement with Trump so if Cohen arranged NDA payoff to her, his actions would involve covering up criminal conduct by Trump rather than just a consensual affair.
mopinko
(70,111 posts)all the hoops that you have to jump through to raid an attorney's office and home.
i have thought about katie many times, tho. i have said several times here that the peepee tape backs up katie's story.
if they started investigating other women who were shut up one way or another, i think this is the one where you start.
TomSlick
(11,098 posts)A search of an attorney's office is a big deal. No way this is about just Stormy, or even mainly about Stormy.