General Discussion

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