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   He also has a 13 year-old son. The American people wonder how many times   
   Trump has raped him in the ass this year?   
      
      
      
   When Does America Reckon with the Gravity of Donald Trump’s Alleged Rapes?   
   In light of the new legal scrutiny of Jeffrey Epstein, it’s time to re-   
   examine all the sexual misconduct allegations against the president.   
      
   BY LAURA BASSETT   
      
   July 11, 2019   
   Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at MaraLago in 1997   
      
   Davidoff Studios Photography/Getty Images   
   For more than a decade, it’s been no secret that multimillionaire hedge-   
   fund manager Jeffrey Epstein trafficked, molested, and raped dozens of   
   underage girls. And yet, until his arrest last week, it seemed as if he   
   might escape with little more than a slap on the wrist because he’s rich   
   and well-connected.   
      
   In 2007, federal prosecutors prepared a 53-page indictment that could have   
   put Epstein in prison for life for the sex trafficking of minors. Instead,   
   Epstein served only thirteen months for solicitation—during which he was   
   allowed to leave and work from his office for 12 hours a day, six days a   
   week—thanks to a sweetheart plea deal brokered by Alex Acosta, then a   
   federal prosecutor in Florida and now Trump’s secretary of labor.   
      
   Acosta is now under fire for helping the wealthy pedophile escape federal   
   prosecution. Amid growing calls for Acosta to resign, and at President   
   Donald Trump’s urging, he defended his handling of the case in a press   
   conference on Wednesday, arguing that “we live in a very different world”   
   for sex-abuse victims than we did a decade ago and that a lenient plea   
   deal resulting in any jail time at all was the best he could have hoped   
   for at the time. The implication is that perpetrators are actually held to   
   account now, regardless of their money or power; that the Me Too movement   
   has forced the nation to reckon, finally, with how many men are allowed to   
   get away with sexual harassment, abuse, and rape in a system indifferent   
   to the lives of victims.   
      
   So, then, when is America going to reckon with the alleged serial sexual   
   abuser in the White House? Donald Trump has not only been accused of rape   
   and sexual misconduct by more than 20 women over the past several decades,   
   but he regularly uses his power to threaten survivors who come forward and   
   to protect and promote men who abuse women.   
      
   Many are hoping the Epstein trial will also implicate some of his powerful   
   friends, including Trump. The world’s most privileged pedophile was known   
   to hang out with the likes of Bill Clinton, Woody Allen, Prince Andrew,   
   celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and, yes, the president, sometimes   
   giving them rides on his infamous private child-sex-abuse plane, nicknamed   
   the “Lolita Express.” Trump, who now claims he's "not a fan," in 2002   
   called Epstein a “terrific guy” who "likes beautiful women as much as I   
   do, and many of them are on the younger side."   
      
   And Trump's connections to Epstein's sex trafficking may go beyond merely   
   superficial. In 2016, “Jane Doe” filed a lawsuit against Trump alleging a   
   “savage sexual attack” in 1994, when she was 13 years old, in which he   
   tied her to a bed at Epstein’s house, raped her, and struck her in the   
   face. The account was corroborated by a witness who claimed to have seen   
   the child perform sexual acts on both Trump and Epstein.   
      
   Just as he has a patten of sexual predation, Trump also seems to have a   
   pattern of threatening victims who come forward. Jane Doe alleged in the   
   lawsuit that Trump told her she shouldn’t ever say anything if she didn’t   
   want to “disappear like Maria,” a 12-year-old girl who had also been   
   abused along with her. Jane Doe dropped the lawsuit in November 2016, days   
   before Trump’s election, after her attorney, Lisa Bloom, cited “numerous   
   threats” against her client. (Trump denied the allegations, and Bloom   
   declined to comment for this story.)   
      
   Even if the Epstein proceedings fail to produce evidence against Trump,   
   there is enough already in the public record—including words recorded out   
   of his own mouth—to substantiate a shockingly prolific history of sexual   
   misconduct. The first rape allegation against him was by his ex-wife   
   Ivana, who in a deposition in the early 1990s described a violent assault   
   by her husband in 1989 in which he pulled out fistfuls of her hair and   
   jammed himself inside her. She clarified while he was running for   
   president in 2015—and while under a gag order that prevents her from   
   discussing her marriage with Trump without his approval—that the alleged   
   rape was not in a “criminal sense.” What she, likely coached by Trump’s   
   team, seemed to be implying is that a man has a right to sex with his   
   wife, regardless of his level of violence or her protestations (all 50   
   states have laws against non-consensual sex, or rape, within a marriage).   
      
   Even though Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer,   
   claimed that "you cannot rape your spouse,” he was so invested in   
   squashing the story that he dramatically threatened a Daily Beast reporter   
   who was writing about the incident that same year. “I will make sure that   
   you and I meet one day while we’re in the courthouse. And I will take you   
   for every penny you still don’t have. And I will come after your Daily   
   Beast and everybody else that you possibly know,” Cohen said. “So I’m   
   warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to   
   you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?”   
      
   The allegations have piled up against Trump for almost 40 years now.   
   Businesswoman Jessica Leeds told The New York Times that in the 1980s, he   
   grabbed her breasts and reached up her skirt on an airplane without her   
   consent. “He was like an octopus,” she said. “His hands were everywhere.”   
      
   In total, and not counting the young Jane Doe who rescinded her lawsuit,   
   more than 20 women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct so far, and   
   many of them have produced witnesses and corroborators. Five have produced   
   at least two witnesses. He denies all of the allegations, but his own   
   recorded statements suggest he does regularly engage in this pattern of   
   behavior.   
      
   Trump infamously boasted to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush in 2005 that   
   he can grope women whenever he wants because he’s famous. “When you’re a   
   star, they let you do it,” he said. “You can do anything. Grab ’em by the   
   pussy.”   
      
   Perhaps the slow drip of information and accusations against Trump has had   
   a numbing effect on public opinion, and the sexual misconduct has been   
   further buried by the national security crises that seem to be occurring   
   on a weekly basis. The New York Times didn’t even consider it front-page   
   news last month when prominent writer E. Jean Carroll became the third   
   person to accuse the sitting president of rape. (Trump responded that he   
      
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