A solicitor for murder? No one should put it past him. For ex.
Jeffrey E.? Ivana T.? Katie Johnson? [13 yo] Dr. Harold Bornstein {suddenly. no reason]
Vote Out the Vermin Abuser of Women.
Kristin Anderson - Early 1990s. Story in the Washington Post on October 14, 2016.
Anderson says she was in a Manhattan bar with friends when the person next to her reached up her skirt and touched her vagina through her underwear. She says she turned and recognized the person as Donald Trump.
E. Jean Carroll - late 1995 or early 1996. Story in NY Magazine June 21 and expected in upcoming book.
Carroll describes running into Trump in a department store, where she says he recognized her for her widely-read advice column. Carroll says they went into a dressing room after Trump asked for her advice on a present - lingerie - for another woman. Inside, she alleges that he shoved her against a wall, "forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway -- or completely, I'm not certain -- inside me." A senior White House official stated to NY Magazine, calling the accusation "a completely false and unrealistic story."
Rachel Crooks - 2005. Story in The New York Times on October 12, 2016.
A 22-year-old receptionist at the time, Crooks said Trump gave her an unwanted kiss on the mouth after meeting him in 2005.
"Jane Doe" aka "Katie Johnson" - 1994. Lawsuit filed June 2016, refiled October 2016 as reported by Buzzfeed and others, then dropped in November 2016.
Jane Doe is an unnamed plaintiff who has also gone by "Katie Johnson" in legal papers. She claims she was repeatedly raped by Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at Epstein's New York City apartment in 1994, when she was 13 years old. A witness, also given a pseudonym — "Tiffany Doe" — said she recruited "Jane Doe" and others. Doe, using the name "Johnson," gave an interview to the Daily Mail in which she said she did not know who Trump was at the time of the alleged attack but identified him later when she saw him on television. It is not known why she withdrew the lawsuit. She has not spoken publicly or withdrawn her rape allegation since then.
Jessica Drake - 2006. Story made public at a news conference on October 22, 2016.
While working as an adult film actress, Drake says Trump invited her to the room where he was staying in Lake Tahoe. In the room, she says he grabbed, hugged, and kissed her and two other women who accompanied her without permission. Later, she alleges that Trump called her and pressed her to return to his room, offering $10,000 at one point. Drake says she declined.
Jill Harth - 1992-1993. Story in The New York Times on October 9, 2016.
A Florida businesswoman who partnered with Trump and later dated him. Harth alleged that he groped her under the table at dinner with her boyfriend, then repeatedly got her alone, and it would turn into a "wrestling match." She sued Trump for breach of contract, sexual harassment, and at one point attempted rape. She settled, and then in 1998, dated Trump.
Cathy Heller - 1997. Story in the Guardian on October 15, 2016.
At a Mother's Day brunch for Mar-A-Lago club members' families in 1997, Heller alleges that when she was introduced to Trump, he grabbed her and tried to kiss her on the lips. Heller says she leaned back to avoid him, and then he kissed her on the side of her mouth. CNN has reported that Heller is a Democratic donor.
Ninni Laaksonen – 2006. Former Miss Finland. Story in Ilta-Sonomat on October 27, 2016. In English in the Telegraph.
Laaksonen told Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat that Trump "squeezed her butt" as she and other pageant contestants stood next to him for a publicity photo, ahead of an appearance on The Letterman Show.
Jessica Leeds - Early 1980s. Story in The New York Times on October 12, 2016.
Leeds says she sat next to Trump in first class on an airplane and that he kissed her, groped her chest, and reached up her skirt, leading her to move back to coach. "He was like an octopus," she told The New York Times. In a NY Post report published October 14, 2016, a British man whose interview was arranged by the Trump campaign said that he was on the flight, that Leeds' account is false, and he remembers Leeds acting inappropriately.
Mindy McGillivray - Jan. 24, 2003. Story in the Palm Beach Post on October 12, 2016.
Working as an assistant to photographers at Mar-a-Lago in 2003, McGillivray charges that Trump nudged or grabbed her from behind.
Jennifer Murphy - 2004. Story in Grazia on October 12, 2016.
A former Miss USA and "The Apprentice" contestant, Grazia says that Trump kissed her on the lips after walking her to the elevators following a meeting in New York, which he said was to discuss a possible job.
Cassandra Searles - 2013. Made the story public in a Facebook post in early 2016.
Miss Washington 2013, Searles wrote on Facebook, "He probably doesn't want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room."
Natasha Stoynoff - December 2005. Story on People.com on October 12, 2016.
Stoynoff was a celebrity reporter covering Trump for People Magazine. She alleges that Trump assaulted her while she was at Mar-a-Lago interviewing him and Melania Trump for a story about their first anniversary. She alleges Trump took her to a private room, pushed her against the wall, and aggressively kissed her. Stoynoff also says a staffer told her Trump was waiting for her the next day at a massage appointment.
Temple Taggart McDowell - 1997. Story in the New York Times, May 14, 2016.
McDowell, who was Miss Utah USA 1997, charges that Trump suddenly kissed her without her consent on two separate occasions.
Karena Virginia - 1998. Story made public at a news conference on October 20, 2016.
Virginia says that while she was waiting for a ride following the U.S Open tennis tournament, Trump walked up to her, grabbed her arm, and touched her breast.
Summer Zervos - 2007. Story made public in a news conference on October 14, 2016.
A former contestant on "The Apprentice," Zervos alleges that Trump told her he wanted to discuss a possible job, but alone in a Beverly Hills Hotel bungalow, grabbed her breasts, kissed her, and tried to lead her into a bedroom.
PAGEANT CONTESTANTS ALLEGING TRUMP WALKED IN WHILE THEY WERE DRESSING
Mariah Billado - 1997 Miss Vermont Teen. Story in Buzzfeed on October 12, 2016.
Tasha Dixon - 2001 Miss Arizona. Story in CBSLA on October 11, 2016.
Victoria Hughes - 1997 Miss New Mexico Teen. Story in Buzzfeed on October 13, 2016.
Bridget Sullivan - 2000 Miss New Hampshire. Story in Buzzfeed, May 18, 2016.
Buzzfeed on October 12, 2016, reported that three other anonymous sources from the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant confirmed Billado and Hughes' story.
OTHER ALLEGATIONS OF IMPROPER CONDUCT
Lisa Boyne - Summer 1996. Story in The Huffington Post on October 13, 2016.
Boyne alleges that at a group dinner, Trump and other men forced women to walk over the table to leave their seats and that Trump looked up the women's skirts and commented on their underwear and genitalia.
Ivana Trump – 1989. Accusations in an early 1990s court deposition, made public in The Daily Beast on July 27, 2015. Ivana disavowed stories of rape in a 1993 book and further commented on July 28, 2015.
The mother of three children with Trump, Ivana Trump, charges that Trump "violated their bond of love" in a 1989 incident, which she has not described further in public. She wrote that her reported words charging her ex-husband with "rape" in a deposition were figurative, that stories about a rape are "totally without merit," and she " did not mean rape in the criminal sense." She is under a confidentiality agreement and cannot discuss her marriage publicly without approval from Donald Trump.
1. A+ should go to Malcolm Nance et al who have been all over the Krasnov story.
2. A corollary should be to ask the Daily Mail to answer the rhetorical question whether Trump admitted that Musk stole Pennsylvania in 2024?
Maybe the Daily Mail can tackle:
“In December 2024, I was personally involved in an NSA‑authorized forensic audit of the 2024 election. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won—by a wide margin. Trump lost dramatically. There are multiple layers of complexity to this cover‑up, including transnational organized crime syndicates that extend far beyond the United States and our elections. To that point, I work in the human trafficking sector, which intersects with the stolen election(s) and has ties to Trump and Epstein—not to President Biden, Vice President Harris, or Governor Walz, but to the Democrats and other allied interests responsible for burying the audit.”
— Adam Zarnowski, ex-CIA agent and author of Jörmungandr
3. Thom -- we are a minority party. Please ask REPUBLICAN members of Congress to comment. IMHO Epstein is Trump's achilles heel. NYT finds that Trump is mentioned over 5,000 times, but redacted in the materials submitted.
Russian Propaganda Concerns: Some Republican lawmakers, such as House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner and House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, have stated that Russian propaganda has "infected" a portion of the party's base and is being echoed on the House floor.
Ukraine Aid/Russia Policy: Republican senators have urged the Trump administration to resume intelligence sharing with Ukraine and have expressed concerns about pausing military assistance. Others have pushed for a hard line on Russia while defending Trump's broader foreign policy.
Internal Divisions: There is a noted divide, with some traditional Republicans criticizing the direction of the party regarding Russia, while others, often identified as MAGA Republicans, support the current leadership.
A key observation in this post is the through-line from Epstein to Manafort, both leading back to Putin. The two of them work different sides of the same corrupt street, and America is a legal paradise for oligarchs. So not only can it have happened here, it was inevitable.
There is proof that many of our oligarchs (Tech Bros and Crypto Creeps) worked directly with Putin.
The honey-traps started this, but working with a foreign leader to ruin America is going to be the end of it. Take the House and we have the means to expose every damn bit of it.
"Congressional committee chairpersons possess significant authority to initiate investigations and hold hearings without direct, explicit "blessing" or approval from party majority leaders. While chairs work within the broader framework of their party’s agenda, they have independent discretion over their committee's schedule, hearing topics, and, in many cases, the issuance of subpoenas."-AI Overview
Have to develop a record. Mueller was more than half way.....
He failed to develop the record, although Manafort was convicted....A jury convicted Manafort on eight felony counts, including five counts of filing false tax returns, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of failing to report foreign bank accounts. He was found to have hidden over $55 million in offshore accounts and defrauded banks to obtain $20 million in loans. Manafort also pleaded guilty to two felony counts in a second case: conspiracy to defraud the United States (related to illegal lobbying and money laundering) and conspiracy to obstruct justice through witness tampering.
Khanna and Garcia sy they will depose virtually everyone involv ed in the Epstein files...need subpoena power.
It has been obvious for years now - Donald Trump works for Vladimir Putin. It's the elephant in the room that everyone pretends not to see. Donald Trump is destroying the United States from within. Donald Trump is America's suicide. What a monstrous gift Americans have given to Putin.
So, my dear sir, why are we having to read this from you instead of the “major” dailies that call themselves investigational reporters??!! I will definitely contact my US Senators but what “leverage” do I or any citizen of NorthCarolina have over them to stand up in Congress and call attention to this traitorous conduct? What did we do to the Rosenbergs ?
Just when you thought you could not be more shocked! With Trump, everything leads back to Moscow. Here is damning evidence in support of that. Everyone should contact their representatives to demand they sign on to the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act. Not mentioned in this stunning article is the role of AG Bill Barr. It was Barr’s dad who hired Epstein to teach high school despite not having a college degree or credential to teach. It was Barr who as AG oversaw the federal prison system when Epstein “committed suicide.” This is the greatest scandal in history.
Heidi Sigmund Cuda (Bette Dangerous) has a great piece out just this morning on removing Trump and Putin from power by going to the International Criminal Court (ICC). What are we waiting for? It is all laid out in these two articles and in innumerable reports, books, and articles. Guilt is not in question. There is no doubt about the crimes, the conspiracies, and the collusion. The facts confront us every single day in the statements, headlines, and actions taken in opposition to the Constitution, democratic values, and morality. They are at their most vulnerable point and begging to be prosecuted.
With the whole hearted support of 40% of America, he has effectively shredded the Constitution, our rule of law, our international alliances ,,betrayed and subdued or attempted to subdue our friends and allies, turned the world against us, sold us out to rich Arabs., covered up crimes, enriched himself, and is waging war on his own citizens.
Here is a sample, of the law protecting us /s
Federal agents were told last Wednesday that they have a broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal ICE memo reviewed by the New York Times. The change expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people that they suspect are undocumented, rather than targeted enforcement operations in which they set out to arrest a specific person. Hamed Aleaziz and Charlie Savage report.
A federal judge on Saturday denied a request by the state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to temporarily block a surge of federal immigration agents. “There is evidence that ICE and CBP agents have engaged in racial profiling, excessive use of force, and other harmful actions,” the judge said. However, she found that the state officials’ arguments that the state was being punished or treated unfairly by the federal government were insufficient to justify blocking the surge altogether. Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney, and Gregory Svirnovskiy report for POLITICO.
Not over. There will be a trial where witnesses will be called. Documents produced. The burden of proof was on the people making the accusation, the Minnesota AG, and they coudn't provide proof.
What is a TRO anyway. It is TEMPORARY.It does not stop the action, it may give time for the party seeking it to provide more evidence of personal harm, but it also provides the offender more time to provide a defense. The typical TRO lasts about 14 days, sayz AI.
Trump has ignored TRO's, so who is going to enforce them?
Here is a solution. File in a state court, have the state court order a halt and when violated have the State Police arrest the offenders. More realistically, since the offences have taken place in Hennepin County, Mary Moriarty, the county prosecutor should have filed charges, and an arrest warrant.
Uh, this was not a TRO Daniel, it was a federal judge denying a TRO.
federal judge on Saturday denied a request by the state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to temporarily block a surge of federal immigration agents. “There is evidence that ICE and CBP agents have engaged in racial profiling, excessive use of force, and other harmful actions,” t
YOU DON"T PAY ATTENTION. Wasn't a full hearing. Burden was on the state. They have to show irreparable and immediate harm to get a TRO. Not so much to get a permanent injuction, which may be still available.
Oh I am paying attention, and there is ample evidence of harm, from arrests of children, the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the use of tear gas and spraying of pepper spary into the faces of peaceful, non violent demonstrators.
You make excuses because this a case that rebuts your defense of judges.
I am not quick to misjudge the Dems, but I am quick to call them out for lack of spine and/or complicity. Bear in mind the Epstein files contain names of Prominent Democrats as well.
Here is your expertise, the system you are defending
"Justice for us, the law for the rest" encapsulates a critique of a two-tiered justice system, where, as described by critics, those with power, wealth, or political connection (the "us") receive favorable treatment or immunity, while the general population (the "rest") is subjected to the full, often punitive, force of the law.
As regards the Pretti shooting, DOJ is opening a civil rights investigation.
Now tell me how that goes? The regime investigating itself. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel investigating Tom Homan? Yeh Right.
As regards this: U.S. District Judge Katherine M. Menendez (appointed by
Biden) denied Minnesota's request for a temporary restraining order to stop the federal "Operation Metro Surge" immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities on January 31, 2026. She ruled that the state, Minneapolis, and St. Paul did not meet the burden of proof to immediately halt the operation.
With the Video's of the killing of Good and Pretti and all of the violence, Minnesota did not meet the burden of proof.
In fucking credible..
I may not know jack, but that is irrelevant and immaterial, what I do know is the evidence of my own eyes, and that is that the judicial system isn't working, for us, for Trump and the oligarchs it works just fine.
"Justice for them, the law for us" you will defend the system because you are a part of it, it is your identity.
You'll defend it until they load us onto box cars., because you are the resident expert and everybody should follow you..
Not me Baniel. Results sway me, not bull shit and excuses. And I don't see any results, except that we are sinking deeper evry day into a totalitarian quicksand., because th system that you promote, no longer exists.
This is so big that, like January 6th, most Americans simply cannot believe it. And that's the problem.
I'm glad you picked up on the United Nations being in deep financial trouble, due in part to the US not paying its dues. The organization has its problems but does a lot of good for peacekeeping, and the specialized agencies that too few know about (World Health, Maritime, Civil Aviation, Telecommunications, etc.) set standards and collect the data that makes international systems connect and work smoothly. Naturally Trump pulled out of many of them, and good luck preparing for the next pandemic.
So what replaces all this? Well, waiting in the wings is the Board of Peace. And if that really comes in we've got the world Orwell envisioned, with Eurasia (Russia) and Eastasia (China). It's not quite "1984"--there are next level players like Japan, India and Brazil, and the EU will exist in some form, but close enough. And as the board's chairman his impeachment (or end of term) as president is meaningless. The Donald will be The King, at least in his own mind.
Is the scope of this treasonous corruption so wide as to be untouchable? Trump and his oligarch pals continue to win - incinerating democracy - at every turn, aided by complicit and/or ignorant elected “public servants”, sundry members of the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation, and a deeply corrupt and subversive corporate media. Those who need to grow spines clearly can’t; they must be replaced by genuine leaders who demonstrably already have them.
I've been saying all this for years, even posting that Trump was laundering Russian money through DeutscheBank using his real estate empire, if you can call it that.
I am always skeptical of Daily Mail stories. Like the NY Post, they have a history of embellishing tales to encourage readers to draw conclusions that may later be denied to avoid suits.
This latest tale indicates that our government is quite corrupt and always has been. Justice in Trump's case has been elusive, to say the least. Thom beautifully points out that justice is often derailed by lots of little venial sins, not by gigantic mortal sins. That makes it harder to see the big picture/plot. That is how all spies work. That is how Smith's prosecutions were always a day late and a dollar short. At least today, the corruption of the MAGA administration is out in the open, brazen even. So we can see for ourselves that the Bannons, Johnsons, Bondi's etc. are all part of the same sleeze. It also underscores how unlikely justice will be done.
In the pre-depression era, I am sure it was corrupterer than today :-). That is how our grandparents all went broke. 2008 should have been a wakeup call, but it is clear now that it was not, as we flirt with metals and crypto using very artificial intelligence.
I don't think Silent Cal or Hoover got rich...or were personally involved. I come from the land of the people who ran the country -- Andrew K. Mellon. He won Gulf Oil in a card game. I knew lawyers who worked for him and the Phillips people who stole oil leases from the natives in Oklahoma....
But Trump may be the greatest grifter of all time. A modern Atilla the Hun.
An excellent summary. This information has been available for a long time. I am astounded that intelligent people can ignore this information. In my youth, Red scare & anti communism were at a fever pitch. How can people embrace such a corrupt & obvious traitor?
Chairpersons do NOT need the Majority Leaders to investigate or hold hearings.....
Great Report, especially for those that haven't kept up with TRump/Putin over the years. What does he have on TRump---ALL of this. It's proof that goes back decades, at least a room full of it that Putin got when he became the head of state. He is the Russian spymaster that M. Gessen said in "Man Without A Face" that he wanted to be from the time he was twelve.
As for what we can do, TAKE THE HOUSE. There will be no choices on the part of Jefferies or Schumer after the committees do their job. Impeachment it is. Help get out the vote. See you in the streets.
Nice summary and not surprising. Anyone who worked in Eastern Europe from around 1990 has seen similar structures of developing influence and Kompromat. Even one of the political parties in Germany has had its issues.
Getting this into the open is important. Now the question must really turn to how to deal with the issues.
While Putin is an authoritarian and we know how much Trump admires authoritarians, this article fails the journalistic integrity test on every level. This is extremely problematic because you are shifting the focus of your brainwashed allegiants who also believe that Joe Biden's dementia was a MAGA hoax and the Genocide in Gaza is irrelevant or "so yesterday" to Putin when he is not at all the central issue we need to address to reverse our downward spiral. And even if Trump had some sort of "partnership" with Putin, or some obligation to him due to the Epstein files, which almost all journalistic sources have proven is untrue (see: the debunked Russiagate conspiracy that you continue to cling to), why didn't you call out Biden for being in cahoots with Netanyahu which had far more drastic and concrete consequences than the Putin/Trump conspiracy that you and Rachel Maddow embrace. The Epstein files merely prove that the depravity of the unaccountable ruling class knows no bounds or party lines, but we already knew that. Where is your outrage at Democrats continuing to fund ICE, and their participation in its expansion over the past 22 years? Or for contributing to the passage of everything Trump wants? Checking multiple sources in European, Ukrainian and Indian new sites, there is no evidence of any sources or validity to the KGB agent you cite as saying the Trump project was going on for decades in Russia. You likely don't recall that the night after Bernie Sanders won by a landslide in Nevada in the 2024 primary, the Washington Post ran a front page headline that Putin was very pleased about Bernie's victory and looked forward to working with him. Sounds just like you Thom. NPR made the story their lead headline. Then after Obama called all the other Democratic nominees ordering them to drop out of the primary, the story vanished. There was no evidence at all to support the post story, but Red Scare propaganda still works on liberals. Here is one of twenty articles failing to corroborate any concrete evidence for the Guardian's story that you cite as evidence. You have helped to create an army of uninformed, amygdala-driven liberals who are making terrible choices that have us fighting for our lives in the streets of Chicago (and elsewhere). https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/13/fact-checking-online-claims-that-donald-trump-was-recruited-by-the-kgb-as-krasnov
A++ Mr. Hartmann, simply outstanding.
Donald? He is a spy. Period. End of story.
Oh, and a likely Kiddie Rapist.
A solicitor for murder? No one should put it past him. For ex.
Jeffrey E.? Ivana T.? Katie Johnson? [13 yo] Dr. Harold Bornstein {suddenly. no reason]
Vote Out the Vermin Abuser of Women.
Kristin Anderson - Early 1990s. Story in the Washington Post on October 14, 2016.
Anderson says she was in a Manhattan bar with friends when the person next to her reached up her skirt and touched her vagina through her underwear. She says she turned and recognized the person as Donald Trump.
E. Jean Carroll - late 1995 or early 1996. Story in NY Magazine June 21 and expected in upcoming book.
Carroll describes running into Trump in a department store, where she says he recognized her for her widely-read advice column. Carroll says they went into a dressing room after Trump asked for her advice on a present - lingerie - for another woman. Inside, she alleges that he shoved her against a wall, "forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway -- or completely, I'm not certain -- inside me." A senior White House official stated to NY Magazine, calling the accusation "a completely false and unrealistic story."
Rachel Crooks - 2005. Story in The New York Times on October 12, 2016.
A 22-year-old receptionist at the time, Crooks said Trump gave her an unwanted kiss on the mouth after meeting him in 2005.
"Jane Doe" aka "Katie Johnson" - 1994. Lawsuit filed June 2016, refiled October 2016 as reported by Buzzfeed and others, then dropped in November 2016.
Jane Doe is an unnamed plaintiff who has also gone by "Katie Johnson" in legal papers. She claims she was repeatedly raped by Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at Epstein's New York City apartment in 1994, when she was 13 years old. A witness, also given a pseudonym — "Tiffany Doe" — said she recruited "Jane Doe" and others. Doe, using the name "Johnson," gave an interview to the Daily Mail in which she said she did not know who Trump was at the time of the alleged attack but identified him later when she saw him on television. It is not known why she withdrew the lawsuit. She has not spoken publicly or withdrawn her rape allegation since then.
Jessica Drake - 2006. Story made public at a news conference on October 22, 2016.
While working as an adult film actress, Drake says Trump invited her to the room where he was staying in Lake Tahoe. In the room, she says he grabbed, hugged, and kissed her and two other women who accompanied her without permission. Later, she alleges that Trump called her and pressed her to return to his room, offering $10,000 at one point. Drake says she declined.
Jill Harth - 1992-1993. Story in The New York Times on October 9, 2016.
A Florida businesswoman who partnered with Trump and later dated him. Harth alleged that he groped her under the table at dinner with her boyfriend, then repeatedly got her alone, and it would turn into a "wrestling match." She sued Trump for breach of contract, sexual harassment, and at one point attempted rape. She settled, and then in 1998, dated Trump.
Cathy Heller - 1997. Story in the Guardian on October 15, 2016.
At a Mother's Day brunch for Mar-A-Lago club members' families in 1997, Heller alleges that when she was introduced to Trump, he grabbed her and tried to kiss her on the lips. Heller says she leaned back to avoid him, and then he kissed her on the side of her mouth. CNN has reported that Heller is a Democratic donor.
Ninni Laaksonen – 2006. Former Miss Finland. Story in Ilta-Sonomat on October 27, 2016. In English in the Telegraph.
Laaksonen told Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat that Trump "squeezed her butt" as she and other pageant contestants stood next to him for a publicity photo, ahead of an appearance on The Letterman Show.
Jessica Leeds - Early 1980s. Story in The New York Times on October 12, 2016.
Leeds says she sat next to Trump in first class on an airplane and that he kissed her, groped her chest, and reached up her skirt, leading her to move back to coach. "He was like an octopus," she told The New York Times. In a NY Post report published October 14, 2016, a British man whose interview was arranged by the Trump campaign said that he was on the flight, that Leeds' account is false, and he remembers Leeds acting inappropriately.
Mindy McGillivray - Jan. 24, 2003. Story in the Palm Beach Post on October 12, 2016.
Working as an assistant to photographers at Mar-a-Lago in 2003, McGillivray charges that Trump nudged or grabbed her from behind.
Jennifer Murphy - 2004. Story in Grazia on October 12, 2016.
A former Miss USA and "The Apprentice" contestant, Grazia says that Trump kissed her on the lips after walking her to the elevators following a meeting in New York, which he said was to discuss a possible job.
Cassandra Searles - 2013. Made the story public in a Facebook post in early 2016.
Miss Washington 2013, Searles wrote on Facebook, "He probably doesn't want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room."
Natasha Stoynoff - December 2005. Story on People.com on October 12, 2016.
Stoynoff was a celebrity reporter covering Trump for People Magazine. She alleges that Trump assaulted her while she was at Mar-a-Lago interviewing him and Melania Trump for a story about their first anniversary. She alleges Trump took her to a private room, pushed her against the wall, and aggressively kissed her. Stoynoff also says a staffer told her Trump was waiting for her the next day at a massage appointment.
Temple Taggart McDowell - 1997. Story in the New York Times, May 14, 2016.
McDowell, who was Miss Utah USA 1997, charges that Trump suddenly kissed her without her consent on two separate occasions.
Karena Virginia - 1998. Story made public at a news conference on October 20, 2016.
Virginia says that while she was waiting for a ride following the U.S Open tennis tournament, Trump walked up to her, grabbed her arm, and touched her breast.
Summer Zervos - 2007. Story made public in a news conference on October 14, 2016.
A former contestant on "The Apprentice," Zervos alleges that Trump told her he wanted to discuss a possible job, but alone in a Beverly Hills Hotel bungalow, grabbed her breasts, kissed her, and tried to lead her into a bedroom.
PAGEANT CONTESTANTS ALLEGING TRUMP WALKED IN WHILE THEY WERE DRESSING
Mariah Billado - 1997 Miss Vermont Teen. Story in Buzzfeed on October 12, 2016.
Tasha Dixon - 2001 Miss Arizona. Story in CBSLA on October 11, 2016.
Victoria Hughes - 1997 Miss New Mexico Teen. Story in Buzzfeed on October 13, 2016.
Bridget Sullivan - 2000 Miss New Hampshire. Story in Buzzfeed, May 18, 2016.
Buzzfeed on October 12, 2016, reported that three other anonymous sources from the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant confirmed Billado and Hughes' story.
OTHER ALLEGATIONS OF IMPROPER CONDUCT
Lisa Boyne - Summer 1996. Story in The Huffington Post on October 13, 2016.
Boyne alleges that at a group dinner, Trump and other men forced women to walk over the table to leave their seats and that Trump looked up the women's skirts and commented on their underwear and genitalia.
Ivana Trump – 1989. Accusations in an early 1990s court deposition, made public in The Daily Beast on July 27, 2015. Ivana disavowed stories of rape in a 1993 book and further commented on July 28, 2015.
The mother of three children with Trump, Ivana Trump, charges that Trump "violated their bond of love" in a 1989 incident, which she has not described further in public. She wrote that her reported words charging her ex-husband with "rape" in a deposition were figurative, that stories about a rape are "totally without merit," and she " did not mean rape in the criminal sense." She is under a confidentiality agreement and cannot discuss her marriage publicly without approval from Donald Trump.
1. A+ should go to Malcolm Nance et al who have been all over the Krasnov story.
2. A corollary should be to ask the Daily Mail to answer the rhetorical question whether Trump admitted that Musk stole Pennsylvania in 2024?
Maybe the Daily Mail can tackle:
“In December 2024, I was personally involved in an NSA‑authorized forensic audit of the 2024 election. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won—by a wide margin. Trump lost dramatically. There are multiple layers of complexity to this cover‑up, including transnational organized crime syndicates that extend far beyond the United States and our elections. To that point, I work in the human trafficking sector, which intersects with the stolen election(s) and has ties to Trump and Epstein—not to President Biden, Vice President Harris, or Governor Walz, but to the Democrats and other allied interests responsible for burying the audit.”
— Adam Zarnowski, ex-CIA agent and author of Jörmungandr
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/ex-cia-whistleblower-the-nsa-audited
We knew there was Russian interference as early as September. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2024_United_States_elections
3. Thom -- we are a minority party. Please ask REPUBLICAN members of Congress to comment. IMHO Epstein is Trump's achilles heel. NYT finds that Trump is mentioned over 5,000 times, but redacted in the materials submitted.
Russian Propaganda Concerns: Some Republican lawmakers, such as House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner and House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, have stated that Russian propaganda has "infected" a portion of the party's base and is being echoed on the House floor.
Ukraine Aid/Russia Policy: Republican senators have urged the Trump administration to resume intelligence sharing with Ukraine and have expressed concerns about pausing military assistance. Others have pushed for a hard line on Russia while defending Trump's broader foreign policy.
Internal Divisions: There is a noted divide, with some traditional Republicans criticizing the direction of the party regarding Russia, while others, often identified as MAGA Republicans, support the current leadership.
This is such a coverup for so many years.
I hope congress doesn’t fall into another McCarthy area and start witch burning innocent people.
Moral outrage from “ex”-MAGA’s decide that’s the new tactic—get rid of liberals by accusing every one on their hit list of being a spy.
A key observation in this post is the through-line from Epstein to Manafort, both leading back to Putin. The two of them work different sides of the same corrupt street, and America is a legal paradise for oligarchs. So not only can it have happened here, it was inevitable.
There is proof that many of our oligarchs (Tech Bros and Crypto Creeps) worked directly with Putin.
The honey-traps started this, but working with a foreign leader to ruin America is going to be the end of it. Take the House and we have the means to expose every damn bit of it.
"Congressional committee chairpersons possess significant authority to initiate investigations and hold hearings without direct, explicit "blessing" or approval from party majority leaders. While chairs work within the broader framework of their party’s agenda, they have independent discretion over their committee's schedule, hearing topics, and, in many cases, the issuance of subpoenas."-AI Overview
Have to develop a record. Mueller was more than half way.....
He failed to develop the record, although Manafort was convicted....A jury convicted Manafort on eight felony counts, including five counts of filing false tax returns, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of failing to report foreign bank accounts. He was found to have hidden over $55 million in offshore accounts and defrauded banks to obtain $20 million in loans. Manafort also pleaded guilty to two felony counts in a second case: conspiracy to defraud the United States (related to illegal lobbying and money laundering) and conspiracy to obstruct justice through witness tampering.
Khanna and Garcia sy they will depose virtually everyone involv ed in the Epstein files...need subpoena power.
It has been obvious for years now - Donald Trump works for Vladimir Putin. It's the elephant in the room that everyone pretends not to see. Donald Trump is destroying the United States from within. Donald Trump is America's suicide. What a monstrous gift Americans have given to Putin.
So, my dear sir, why are we having to read this from you instead of the “major” dailies that call themselves investigational reporters??!! I will definitely contact my US Senators but what “leverage” do I or any citizen of NorthCarolina have over them to stand up in Congress and call attention to this traitorous conduct? What did we do to the Rosenbergs ?
Just when you thought you could not be more shocked! With Trump, everything leads back to Moscow. Here is damning evidence in support of that. Everyone should contact their representatives to demand they sign on to the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act. Not mentioned in this stunning article is the role of AG Bill Barr. It was Barr’s dad who hired Epstein to teach high school despite not having a college degree or credential to teach. It was Barr who as AG oversaw the federal prison system when Epstein “committed suicide.” This is the greatest scandal in history.
Heidi Sigmund Cuda (Bette Dangerous) has a great piece out just this morning on removing Trump and Putin from power by going to the International Criminal Court (ICC). What are we waiting for? It is all laid out in these two articles and in innumerable reports, books, and articles. Guilt is not in question. There is no doubt about the crimes, the conspiracies, and the collusion. The facts confront us every single day in the statements, headlines, and actions taken in opposition to the Constitution, democratic values, and morality. They are at their most vulnerable point and begging to be prosecuted.
We don't recognize the ICC.
How convenient for so many.
IMHO can get civil judgments against them in foreign jurisdictions (check out in rem jurisdiction) and execute on them, where bound by treaties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-u4d6Zwdns&t=5s Trump is a KGB asset
With the whole hearted support of 40% of America, he has effectively shredded the Constitution, our rule of law, our international alliances ,,betrayed and subdued or attempted to subdue our friends and allies, turned the world against us, sold us out to rich Arabs., covered up crimes, enriched himself, and is waging war on his own citizens.
Here is a sample, of the law protecting us /s
Federal agents were told last Wednesday that they have a broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal ICE memo reviewed by the New York Times. The change expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people that they suspect are undocumented, rather than targeted enforcement operations in which they set out to arrest a specific person. Hamed Aleaziz and Charlie Savage report.
A federal judge on Saturday denied a request by the state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to temporarily block a surge of federal immigration agents. “There is evidence that ICE and CBP agents have engaged in racial profiling, excessive use of force, and other harmful actions,” the judge said. However, she found that the state officials’ arguments that the state was being punished or treated unfairly by the federal government were insufficient to justify blocking the surge altogether. Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney, and Gregory Svirnovskiy report for POLITICO.
A TRO is a one sided procedure.
Not over. There will be a trial where witnesses will be called. Documents produced. The burden of proof was on the people making the accusation, the Minnesota AG, and they coudn't provide proof.
What is a TRO anyway. It is TEMPORARY.It does not stop the action, it may give time for the party seeking it to provide more evidence of personal harm, but it also provides the offender more time to provide a defense. The typical TRO lasts about 14 days, sayz AI.
Trump has ignored TRO's, so who is going to enforce them?
Here is a solution. File in a state court, have the state court order a halt and when violated have the State Police arrest the offenders. More realistically, since the offences have taken place in Hennepin County, Mary Moriarty, the county prosecutor should have filed charges, and an arrest warrant.
Uh, this was not a TRO Daniel, it was a federal judge denying a TRO.
federal judge on Saturday denied a request by the state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to temporarily block a surge of federal immigration agents. “There is evidence that ICE and CBP agents have engaged in racial profiling, excessive use of force, and other harmful actions,” t
YOU DON"T PAY ATTENTION. Wasn't a full hearing. Burden was on the state. They have to show irreparable and immediate harm to get a TRO. Not so much to get a permanent injuction, which may be still available.
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Oh I am paying attention, and there is ample evidence of harm, from arrests of children, the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the use of tear gas and spraying of pepper spary into the faces of peaceful, non violent demonstrators.
You make excuses because this a case that rebuts your defense of judges.
It's what is placed in evidence. Irreperable harm is tough to proove without expert testimony. Can't expect the judge to make a mental leap.
This is more proof you don't know jack.
They didn't even release the names of the Pretti shooter until Thursday. Can't arrest anyone until you know the identity.
You are so quick to [mis] judge the Dems ....
I am not quick to misjudge the Dems, but I am quick to call them out for lack of spine and/or complicity. Bear in mind the Epstein files contain names of Prominent Democrats as well.
Here is your expertise, the system you are defending
"Justice for us, the law for the rest" encapsulates a critique of a two-tiered justice system, where, as described by critics, those with power, wealth, or political connection (the "us") receive favorable treatment or immunity, while the general population (the "rest") is subjected to the full, often punitive, force of the law.
As regards the Pretti shooting, DOJ is opening a civil rights investigation.
Now tell me how that goes? The regime investigating itself. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel investigating Tom Homan? Yeh Right.
As regards this: U.S. District Judge Katherine M. Menendez (appointed by
Biden) denied Minnesota's request for a temporary restraining order to stop the federal "Operation Metro Surge" immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities on January 31, 2026. She ruled that the state, Minneapolis, and St. Paul did not meet the burden of proof to immediately halt the operation.
With the Video's of the killing of Good and Pretti and all of the violence, Minnesota did not meet the burden of proof.
In fucking credible..
I may not know jack, but that is irrelevant and immaterial, what I do know is the evidence of my own eyes, and that is that the judicial system isn't working, for us, for Trump and the oligarchs it works just fine.
"Justice for them, the law for us" you will defend the system because you are a part of it, it is your identity.
You'll defend it until they load us onto box cars., because you are the resident expert and everybody should follow you..
Not me Baniel. Results sway me, not bull shit and excuses. And I don't see any results, except that we are sinking deeper evry day into a totalitarian quicksand., because th system that you promote, no longer exists.
What exists are fading echo's.
This is so big that, like January 6th, most Americans simply cannot believe it. And that's the problem.
I'm glad you picked up on the United Nations being in deep financial trouble, due in part to the US not paying its dues. The organization has its problems but does a lot of good for peacekeeping, and the specialized agencies that too few know about (World Health, Maritime, Civil Aviation, Telecommunications, etc.) set standards and collect the data that makes international systems connect and work smoothly. Naturally Trump pulled out of many of them, and good luck preparing for the next pandemic.
So what replaces all this? Well, waiting in the wings is the Board of Peace. And if that really comes in we've got the world Orwell envisioned, with Eurasia (Russia) and Eastasia (China). It's not quite "1984"--there are next level players like Japan, India and Brazil, and the EU will exist in some form, but close enough. And as the board's chairman his impeachment (or end of term) as president is meaningless. The Donald will be The King, at least in his own mind.
Is the scope of this treasonous corruption so wide as to be untouchable? Trump and his oligarch pals continue to win - incinerating democracy - at every turn, aided by complicit and/or ignorant elected “public servants”, sundry members of the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation, and a deeply corrupt and subversive corporate media. Those who need to grow spines clearly can’t; they must be replaced by genuine leaders who demonstrably already have them.
Dems plan to depose ever person named in the docs. Sunshine may be the best disinfectant.
I've been saying all this for years, even posting that Trump was laundering Russian money through DeutscheBank using his real estate empire, if you can call it that.
I am always skeptical of Daily Mail stories. Like the NY Post, they have a history of embellishing tales to encourage readers to draw conclusions that may later be denied to avoid suits.
This latest tale indicates that our government is quite corrupt and always has been. Justice in Trump's case has been elusive, to say the least. Thom beautifully points out that justice is often derailed by lots of little venial sins, not by gigantic mortal sins. That makes it harder to see the big picture/plot. That is how all spies work. That is how Smith's prosecutions were always a day late and a dollar short. At least today, the corruption of the MAGA administration is out in the open, brazen even. So we can see for ourselves that the Bannons, Johnsons, Bondi's etc. are all part of the same sleeze. It also underscores how unlikely justice will be done.
Don't think it was ever THIS corrupt.
In the pre-depression era, I am sure it was corrupterer than today :-). That is how our grandparents all went broke. 2008 should have been a wakeup call, but it is clear now that it was not, as we flirt with metals and crypto using very artificial intelligence.
I don't think Silent Cal or Hoover got rich...or were personally involved. I come from the land of the people who ran the country -- Andrew K. Mellon. He won Gulf Oil in a card game. I knew lawyers who worked for him and the Phillips people who stole oil leases from the natives in Oklahoma....
But Trump may be the greatest grifter of all time. A modern Atilla the Hun.
An excellent summary. This information has been available for a long time. I am astounded that intelligent people can ignore this information. In my youth, Red scare & anti communism were at a fever pitch. How can people embrace such a corrupt & obvious traitor?
Chairpersons do NOT need the Majority Leaders to investigate or hold hearings.....
Great Report, especially for those that haven't kept up with TRump/Putin over the years. What does he have on TRump---ALL of this. It's proof that goes back decades, at least a room full of it that Putin got when he became the head of state. He is the Russian spymaster that M. Gessen said in "Man Without A Face" that he wanted to be from the time he was twelve.
As for what we can do, TAKE THE HOUSE. There will be no choices on the part of Jefferies or Schumer after the committees do their job. Impeachment it is. Help get out the vote. See you in the streets.
Actually, we've been fighting to get subpoena power.
That accusation about Jeffries and Schumer is BS.
I think you can connect the dots and get the picture...
Thanks for compiling the corruption into a comprehensible whole. The article has the makings of a fine indictment.
Nice summary and not surprising. Anyone who worked in Eastern Europe from around 1990 has seen similar structures of developing influence and Kompromat. Even one of the political parties in Germany has had its issues.
Getting this into the open is important. Now the question must really turn to how to deal with the issues.
While Putin is an authoritarian and we know how much Trump admires authoritarians, this article fails the journalistic integrity test on every level. This is extremely problematic because you are shifting the focus of your brainwashed allegiants who also believe that Joe Biden's dementia was a MAGA hoax and the Genocide in Gaza is irrelevant or "so yesterday" to Putin when he is not at all the central issue we need to address to reverse our downward spiral. And even if Trump had some sort of "partnership" with Putin, or some obligation to him due to the Epstein files, which almost all journalistic sources have proven is untrue (see: the debunked Russiagate conspiracy that you continue to cling to), why didn't you call out Biden for being in cahoots with Netanyahu which had far more drastic and concrete consequences than the Putin/Trump conspiracy that you and Rachel Maddow embrace. The Epstein files merely prove that the depravity of the unaccountable ruling class knows no bounds or party lines, but we already knew that. Where is your outrage at Democrats continuing to fund ICE, and their participation in its expansion over the past 22 years? Or for contributing to the passage of everything Trump wants? Checking multiple sources in European, Ukrainian and Indian new sites, there is no evidence of any sources or validity to the KGB agent you cite as saying the Trump project was going on for decades in Russia. You likely don't recall that the night after Bernie Sanders won by a landslide in Nevada in the 2024 primary, the Washington Post ran a front page headline that Putin was very pleased about Bernie's victory and looked forward to working with him. Sounds just like you Thom. NPR made the story their lead headline. Then after Obama called all the other Democratic nominees ordering them to drop out of the primary, the story vanished. There was no evidence at all to support the post story, but Red Scare propaganda still works on liberals. Here is one of twenty articles failing to corroborate any concrete evidence for the Guardian's story that you cite as evidence. You have helped to create an army of uninformed, amygdala-driven liberals who are making terrible choices that have us fighting for our lives in the streets of Chicago (and elsewhere). https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/13/fact-checking-online-claims-that-donald-trump-was-recruited-by-the-kgb-as-krasnov
Donald Trump is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.