The Rude Pundit: How to Grapple with Having a Child Rapist as President
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11/25/2025
How to Grapple with Having a Child Rapist as President
Funny thing: I hated Dick Cheney, like hated him with a visceral, almost incomprehensible level of hate. And I'll accuse him of all kinds of horrific things, but you know what I'd never say about him? That he himself is a rapist. I'm not saying he didn't cover for those who rape and torture. I'm not saying he isn't sexual assault-adjacent because we saw what happened in Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. I'm simply saying that, despite my loathing of the man, I simply have no basis to say he's a rapist or that he committed any kind of sex crimes. No one was ever reported to have accused him of that. And there are plenty of people I fucking despise who I could say that about. Indeed, if false rape allegations were genuinely, widely used to attack shitty people, you'd think that a whole lot more shitty people would be falsely accused of rape.
I bring this up not to backhandedly compliment Cheney ("nice job not raping, dick"
, but to point out how absolutely fucking perverse it is that anyone would defend Donald Trump by saying that any accusations against him regarding rape and assault are fake (or "fake news," as the dunderheaded like to moan, like they've made some awesome point). First off, Trump is one of the most litigious little bitches ever, and he'd sue anyone who falsely accused him. And then there's the fact that a goddamned jury found him liable for sexual assault of E. Jean Carroll. And then there are sworn depositions stating that he raped or assaulted multiple girls connected with pedophile and sex trafficker and Trump bestie Jeffrey Epstein, let alone all the free-floating allegations and stories of his lechery and violence. And that's all before you get to the tranche of 20,000 documents where Epstein and others talk about what a fucking scumbag Trump is. That doc dump is merely an amuse bouche. Think what that means is in the entree, the actual Epstein files, the documents from the investigation into Epstein that led to his arrest and "suicide," as well as the conviction of his co-pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell, now serving time relaxing on a pillow while being fed grapes by guards in exchange.
As our torrential news cycle moves on to the next thing (the clusterfuck of stupidity over Russia's peace plan for Ukraine or Marjorie Taylor Greene punking out on Congress or the upcoming war with Venezuela for "reasons" or whatever disaster/conflagrations/fresh fuckery occurs while I'm writing this), we're still waiting for the next shoe drop, or, really, the next truckload of shoes to drop now that some version of the Epstein files are going to be released. Whether or not Trump has had his name redacted out of them or if those documents are held back for "national security" or because Trump ordered the Department of Justice to "investigate" Democrats associated with the scandal, one thing is certain: we will likely have to grapple with the idea that the president of the United States is, at best, someone who looked the other way while a close friend and associate ran a sex trafficking ring. Or, as seems likely, is himself a child rapist (and, yes, 15 year-old girls are children - let's not even entertain that weird discussion). The worst case scenario is that Trump himself was involved in trafficking, something that is, sadly, awfully, not outside the realm of possibility.
So what the fuck do we do with that? It's not meant to be a glib question. Think about the implications for, well, everything. We can assume that Republicans in Congress will live in denial or be ordered to do so or be intimidated into doing so, and thus removal from office isn't a possibility. So that means everyone from world leaders to everyday citizens will have to deal with a child rapist. How much shit can we stomach? And what does that say about us if we as a country don't have the will or the energy or, goddamn us, the interest in demanding that we not have a child rapist as president? We've sunk pretty fucking low pretty fucking fast in these last 10 months (sorry, that's how long he's been back in office, even though it feels like forever). Trump and his Republican lackeys have caused massive suffering and massive amounts of deaths. How fucking strong is the camel's back? How much can Trump corrupt everyone around him?
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that was abandoned right before it was suppose to go to court, and there's literally no evidence that "Katie Johnson" even exists as a real-life human being.
The one (from the outlet Jezebel) reporter who actually spoke to someone claiming to be Katie (by phone IIRC) came away afterwards saying she wasn't sure that Katie was a real person (well, not the one described in the complaint, to be more specific).
Don't yell at me, I just report the facts. That case looks like an outright hoax (conducted by a couple of men, to be clear) if you study the known facts closely. And yes I know that a very reputable woman was "her lawyer" but that person was actually just a spokesperson on "Katies" behalf and AFAIK never actually claimed to have met "Katie". I suspect she may have also been taken in by the hoax.
It's CERTAINLY well established that he's a RAPIST, however. To the Rude Pundit: I'd prefer the more accurate framing, which is that he's an adjudicated rapist of one women, who's credibly-accused of sexual assault of varying degrees by 20+ others, and *possibly* even a child rapist.
Hopefully most of you have seen how much I fucking hate that asshole, but also hopefully seen how much I respect "known facts" and "accuracy", so I hope this missive doesn't rub my DU friends the wrong way. We can nail that shithead to the proverbial cross w/o having to resort to any sort of hyperbole, or really even speculation. The fact is, none of the known victims, which at this point number around 10, accused Trump of anything rapey, and that even includes Virginia Guiffre, who absolved him under oath, saying the only place she ever met him was MAL. You will never convince me, with all the brave stuff Giuffre did, that she would have backed down from Trump (and Trump only), in 2015 especially. He wasn't even the official nominee yet at that point.
MHO, fwiw 
There was no discovery and no court-ordered deposition done via the normal process with both attorneys and the plaintiff present, etc. Lawyers wrote the compliant and someone signed it saying they're the victim, along with an explanation why they have to remain anonymous. The court may not even know who this person really was. Honestly I could give you about 10 distinct signs that the case was a hoax if you'd like me to run them all down
To be really clear, I'm not accusing a women of making up a rape, I'm saying I think there isn't even a woman IRL. Just two known-shady (one of them a vocal Republican "never-Trumper" ) men that probably concocted the story, for money, and even possibly to bring down Trump before the election. I wouldn't say that kind of thing lightly because I know how will come off on this board, but I think in this ONE CASE, there's actual signs he was being framed.
Logically this implies it was withdrawn right before court not because a woman feared for her life, but rather because the perps of the hoax chickened out on it once the chips were down and things got real (i.e. the court date arrived).
IMHO, the most objective reading suggests what these two guys (both known purveyors of tabloid trash) were really trying to do was get someone to "buy the story" they were AGGRESSIVELY shopping to media outlets (for up to $1M). Nobody bought it ahead of time like they'd wanted (because their case was unconvincing), so they pulled the plug rather than face a judge with no actual victim.
