Historic allegation against Trump was revived and allegations upgraded in report released by Judiciary Committee Democrats days before the midterm elections. The White House has strongly denied the claims

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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  • fonix232@fedia.io
    464·
    20 hours ago

    “The opposing candidate is not perfect/only slightly better, so we may as well wallow in shit up to our noses instead of it being only up to our chest”

        • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
          213·
          16 hours ago

          I think people are just sick of Coting for the same thing just different shades. I mean have the demoxrates stood up to trump no they’ve rolled over many times the past two years. I do not expect them to do any better I’d they win the senate. I hope I’m wrong but we well see.

          • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
            111·
            16 hours ago

            There’s a concerted effort on lemmy to discourage votes for democrats. I think it’s obvious why that is.

            Next time if you want to be taken seriously, acknowledge this well known fact, also take a moment to proofread…

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
        164·
        19 hours ago

        In my experience a very large amount of lemmy users support an idea that you should not vote for the democrats because afterwards complatency is too easy while more of Trump may unlock a civil war revolution.

        I highly disagree with it and i dont think it will work out that way. I rather fight facist-lite then cant-wait-for-an-excuse-to-bomb-“woke”-cities-facism but i do understand the logic those “users” apply.

        The real question is, are those users actually real people voicing their personal opinions or are they trolls/bots. Its not a good sign how increasingly vocal they are right in front of a US election and suddenly silent afterwards. Complacent much?

        My suggestion is to vote lesser evil and then the moment they win a No-kings protest, continueing to grill the entire office to make it clear their polical win comes with 0 support from the people.

        • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
          331·
          18 hours ago

          I’ve literally never seen anyone on the threadiverse suggest that you should not vote for Democrats.

          • Enkrod@feddit.org
            121·
            16 hours ago

            Wait here a second.

            There we are, found it.

            There are LITERAL accelerationists here that will tell you that voting is bad, because the system needs to get worse, so it can finally collapse. And they are not a small minority, though a minority they remain. They will gladly sacrifice anyone who dies to a fascist regime on their way to accelerate the collapse.

          • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
            51·
            18 hours ago

            Maybe you are just lucky but most likely its my own fault for enganging to much with these people. They are rarely explicit about it in the first comment.

            • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
              513·
              18 hours ago

              Well personally I find it disgusting to suggest that we shouldn’t hold “our team” accountable simply because the other team is worse.

              • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
                122·
                17 hours ago

                I’ve literally never seen anyone on the threadiverse suggest that we shouldn’t hold them accountable, or that they are “our team” for that matter.

                As i said before. My suggestions is to make it clear that a vote =\= support by large anti fascist protestation the second they get elected.

                • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
                  412·
                  17 hours ago

                  If that’s not what the original comment I replied to was suggesting, then I’m not sure what it was. This whataboutism comes up constantly.

                  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
                    7·
                    16 hours ago

                    Yeah, so you have literally seen zero comments about not voting for Democrats, but everyone is constantly trying to cover for Democrats…

                    Why do you so freely admit to lying like this, honestly? You could do your canvassing without being so insanely obvious about it.

                  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
                    52·
                    17 hours ago

                    Its the pre election timing.

                    Bertlewirth does not appear as a troll/propaganda to me. But i can understand that fonix may have confused them with being such because in many peoples experience there is a huge movement of democrat bashing right before an election that stops just after it. Pretty much the opposite of what it should be.

                    The whatabout facism-lite when we should idealy do everything to stop the facism-hard is one of the reasons many progressives are jumpy right now.