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<\/a><\/p>\nBy Wayne Madsen and Andrew Kreig<\/p>\n
A woman whom Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein allegedly sodomized and raped at the age of 12 along with at least one other underage girl at a midtown Manhattan townhouse in 1994 is alive and trying to maintain obscurity from alt-right operatives who have identified her and her current residence.<\/p>\n
The Wayne Madsen Report (WMR<\/a>) and Justice Integrity Project (JIP) are revealing here for the first time the story of \u201cMaria,\u201d who was identified as such in two 2016 federal civil lawsuits brought against Trump and Epstein by another underage victim of the pair, Katie Johnson (aka, “Jane Doe”).<\/p>\n The product of a month-long investigation that took us to the site of the girl\u2019s kidnapping in Waterbury, Connecticut, this information comes from confidential sources in multiple states. They have been pursuing the \u201cMaria\u201d story since the 1994 incident was first referenced in Johnson\u2019s lawsuits. Johnson dropped the suit after she became the victim of physical threats by individuals who claimed to be Trump supporters, according to her account in court records.<\/p>\n Maria was kidnapped on March 19, 1993, when she was 11-years old from the front of Nash\u2019s Pizza in Waterbury. The girl’s kidnappers were involved in a child trafficking ring that provided abductees to wealthy individuals like Trump and Epstein in Manhattan, according to our information.<\/p>\n Jan. 13 and Jan. 18 Updates:<\/strong><\/em> The Wall Street Journal reported (Trump Lawyer Arranged $130,000 Payment for Adult-Film Star\u2019s Silence<\/em><\/a>) a hush payment just before the 2016 election to porn actress Stormy Daniels to deny an alleged affair in 2006 Regarding the 1993 kidnapping of Maria: The Waterbury Police Department has refused to provide us with a copy of the original police report on her abduction. It defers to Linda Wihbey, the city\u2019s Corporation Counsel.<\/p>\n On December 12, 2017, Wihbey made her views known in a phone call with Andrew Kreig of JIP, as Wayne Madsen listened. She said that she was ready to \u201cwelcome us to Waterbury\u201d until she decided that our investigation was \u201chostile\u201d to her and Waterbury\u2019s interests. These suffered greatly some 17 years ago over a high-profile pedophilia incident involving the city\u2019s Republican mayor.<\/p>\n Waterbury\u2019s stance emerged from our request for the 1993 police report on Maria\u2019s abduction, including any relevant witness statements provided to the police.<\/p>\n The site of \u201cMaria\u2019s\u201d kidnapping in 1993, then known as Nash\u2019s Pizza restaurant, since relocated [WMR photo]<\/em><\/p>\n Things Seemed ‘Strange’<\/em><\/p>\n In 1993, Maria lived with her mother and nine siblings in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in Waterbury, which is nicknamed \u201cThe Brass City\u201d for its once-booming brass and clock factories. It is now suffering from urban blight, like many New England cities with abandoned factories.<\/p>\n Maria, whose father died in 1991, was reportedly abducted just moments after her mother entered the pizzeria while asking Maria to wait outside. The precise circumstances are among the secrets that police are withholding, thus limiting news coverage. The mother died in 2015.<\/p>\n One resident of the kidnapped girl’s close-knit neighborhood told us that the circumstances always seemed strange to the family and neighbors, and yet almost no police or other interest has been apparent for many years. Our source also stated that Maria\u2019s mother always felt that her daughter was alive and, at one time, was in New York City. Another source in Waterbury said that it was the belief by many neighborhood residents at the time of Maria\u2019s abduction that she was kidnapped by a ring operating out of New York. \u201cThose who took her [Maria] were not from Waterbury,\u201d said one longtime Puerto Rican resident familiar with the case.<\/p>\n In the interest of responsible journalism, we are withholding Maria\u2019s actual full name. A June 25, 2010 paper, titled \u201cProtecting victims\u2019 identities in press coverage of child victimization,\u201d which was published by the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, spells out the concerns of releasing the identities of child sex victims without prior precautions being taken. The authors of the paper contend, \u201cWhen the names of child victims and other identifying information appear in the media it can exacerbate trauma, complicate recovery, discourage future disclosures and inhibit cooperation with authorities for the children involved.\u201d<\/p>\n Maria is still listed as a \u201cmissing person\u201d by the Waterbury Police Department. The police missing person notification states that Maria was last seen at the corner of Walnut Street and Walnut Avenue at Nash\u2019s Pizza. It adds that the girl \u201cwas 11-years-old when she went missing.\u201d<\/p>\n Here is a development that proved startling in Maria\u2019s neighborhood, including to at least one family member: She is alive.<\/p>\n Maria has been avoiding any public limelight since the Trump Organization discovered her actual identity, according to our sources. During the 2016 presidential campaign, there was some interest in the Maria story by major corporate media outlets, but they were intimidated by Trump Organization legal threats.<\/p>\n The incident helps illustrate the institutional cowardice and greed of many of the major news organizations and the danger that unprotected whistleblower\/victims face when they share their stories with such journalists. Although the initial reporters and producers are usually very well-intentioned they work for conglomerates whose top executives realize that it\u2019s typically safer not to antagonize the power structure.<\/p>\n The federal government delivers (or withholds) merger and tax In the case of Katie Johnson, she alleged in lawsuits filed in federal courts first in California and then in New York that Trump knew that she was 13-years old when he assaulted and raped her in 1993. Johnson said that it was Trump who initiated contact with her at four different parties at Epstein’s residence in Manhattan. The mansion, shown below in a photo via Google Maps, was owned by the billionaire retailing magnate Les Wexner, who controls such companies as Victoria\u2019s Secret.<\/p>\n Here is Johnson\u2019s account, taken from her most recent lawsuit filed in Manhattan\u2019s federal court:<\/p>\n She said that she was inveigled into the \u201cparty\u201d scene after she was approached by an Epstein party \u201crecruiter\u201d while she was at the New York-New Jersey Port Authority Bus Terminal on 42nd Street in Manhattan. The recruiter suggested that she might become a model if she met the right people at a fashionable party. That was a typical approach used by Epstein\u2019s recruiters, who leveraged his high-level contacts with fashion, modeling, photography, travel, political and entertainment figures to entice girls, tweens and teens, according to court records.<\/p>\n The Johnson lawsuit states that at their fourth encounter at an Epstein party: “Defendant Trump tied Plaintiff to a bed, exposed himself to Plaintiff, and then proceeded to forcibly rape Plaintiff. During the course of this savage sexual attack, Plaintiff loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop but with no effect. Defendant Trump responded to Plaintiff\u2019s pleas by violently striking Plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted.”<\/p>\n According to the suit, Trump told Johnson that if she ever revealed the sexual encounter with Trump, the girl and her family would be “physically harmed if not killed.” Johnson also stated that Epstein periodically reiterated to her Trump’s earlier threat that if she were to “reveal any of the details of his sexual and physical abuse of her or else,” she and her family would be “seriously physically harmed, if not killed.”<\/p>\n Trump Fights Back: All ‘Lies’ and Fake News, He Says<\/em><\/p>\n Trump and his representatives have repeatedly insisted that any woman who alleges that he harassed or sexually assaulted her is lying. The Washington Post, among other outlets, reported that stance in All of the women who have accused Trump of sexual harassment are lying, the White House says<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0 a story published on Oct. 26, 2017.<\/p>\n There are many pundits who will say from their comfortable perches that the withdrawal of this and similar lawsuits means there is nothing further to examine, especially if any flaw can be found or alleged involving the personality of a plaintiff, the supporting witnesses or lawyers. But that blame-the-victim conventional wisdom is being upended by the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements \u2014 and is especially wrong-headed in this case for several important reasons.<\/p>\n More recently in November, The Washington Post published in \u201cPresident Trump and accusations of sexual misconduct: The complete list<\/em><\/a> extensive details of thirteen women (not including those alleging crimes only on social media or those like Katie Johnson who had withdrawn lawsuits) making accusations against him, along with names and details of corroborating witnesses. Wikipedia, under a heading Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations<\/em><\/a>, lists 15 claims as of this writing.<\/p>\n Second,<\/strong> the vulnerability of sex abuse victims in their early teens from poor families requires special attention. Nowhere is that more poignant than in the case of the girl \u201cMaria.\u201d Police reports say that she was kidnapped at age 11 from her own neighborhood and, to all outward appearances, then disappeared off the face of the earth. In sum, the track record and power of these two particular defendants requires a deeper look at the allegations, particularly in light of the lessons learned from the #MeToo harassment and assault revelations this past fall regarding other powerful predators.<\/p>\n A Deeper Look<\/em><\/p>\n So, we return to the allegations in the \u201cJane Doe\u201d (aka Katie Johnson) lawsuit despite the practice of pundits, lawyers, trolls, fanatics and thugs, many well-paid or fanatically ideological, using their varied skills to claim that there\u2019s nothing to see or know. You be the judge, based on these lawsuit claims:<\/p>\n On July 23, 2016, “Joan Doe,” a classmate of Johnson during the 1994-1995 school year, signed an affidavit avowing that Johnson had told her during the summer of 1994 about the sexual assaults by Epstein and Trump.<\/p>\n Another witness, \u201cTiffany Doe,\u201d signed an affidavit in support of Johnson’s suit on June 18, 2016. Tiffany Doe stated that she had been hired in 1990 by Epstein when she was 22 to “provide entertainment” for his various “guests.” She further stated that Epstein hired her in 1991 as a “party planner” to, among other duties, entice “attractive adolescent women” to attend Epstein’s parties. Tiffany Doe stated that she personally witnessed Trump’s sexual assault and rape of Johnson during four encounters.<\/p>\n Johnson also stated in the suit that Trump told her that she “shouldn\u2019t ever say anything if she didn\u2019t want to disappear like Maria, a 12-year-old female that was forced to be involved in the third incident” with Trump. Johnson said she had not seen \u201cMaria\u201d after the third sexual encounter with Trump. Tiffany Doe said that she witnessed Johnson and 12-year old \u201cMaria\u201d perform oral sex on Trump.<\/p>\n Vendetta Against Puerto Rico?<\/em><\/p>\n There\u2019s a larger story here. Trump’s psychopathy of disinterest in Puerto Rico and its post-Hurricane Maria problems may stem in part from Maria’s roots in Puerto Rico. Trump\u2019s addled ego may have reacted when Puerto Rico was struck by Hurricane Maria. It could well have reminded him that a victim whom he knew as Maria knows details that could very well bring down him and his administration.<\/p>\n The Trump administration\u2019s extreme disinterest in Puerto Rico\u2019s recovery \u2014 especially in comparison to post-hurricane rescue efforts for continental U.S. sites this fall \u2014 has been reported by many news organizations, including last week, for example, in\u00a0 After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico Faces Indifference<\/em><\/a>. The national media reported it visually by showing his contemptuous hurling of paper towels to Islanders at a photo op soon after the disaster.<\/p>\n Waterbury’s Secrets<\/em><\/p>\n In terms of solving the 1993 kidnapping, Waterbury Corporate Counsel Wihbey did reveal to us that about four or five years ago \u2014 she said \u201caround 2012 or 2013\u201d \u2014 there was some interest by \u201claw enforcement\u201d and \u201ca few journalists\u201d in the Maria missing person police report from 1993. Wihbey told us that the case remains under \u201cactive\u201d investigation even though it has been a dormant \u201ccold case\u201d for several years. Originally, spokespersons for Waterbury Police Chief Vernon Riddick Jr. expressed no real opposition to releasing the police report, claiming that all that was needed was the chief\u2019s concurrence.<\/p>\n Waterbury\u2019s Democratic Mayor Neil O\u2019Leary may continue to have good reason to be concerned about public interest in the abduction of Maria to provide sex for pedophiles like Trump and Epstein in New York.<\/p>\n Waterbury Mayor Neil O’Leary, center, was a witness in a high-profile Freedom of Information complaint in 2013 by Connecticut journalist and author Andy Thibault, right.<\/em><\/p>\n O\u2019Leary was the Waterbury police chief (as shown below) when now-imprisoned Republican Mayor Phil Giordano (nicknamed Connecticut Gov. John Rowland, center, a former Waterbury assemblyman later imprisoned on corruption charges, and then Waterbury Mayor Philip Giordano, at right, meet in October 2000 at the exclusive Burning Tree Country Club in Greenwich, Connecticut.<\/em><\/p>\n According to federal court records: The trysts between Mayor Giordano and the children took place over nine months in 2000 and 2001 in the mayor\u2019s office, his official car, his home, a friend\u2019s home, and his private law office. Giordano paid Jones $40 to $60 per visit. Giordano made special requests for the two girls on days when he knew they were off from school.<\/p>\n During 2000, Giordano, a former U.S. Marine and state assemblyman representing Waterbury, was the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate against then-Democrat Joe Lieberman. Giordano, married to an attractive heiress, also made no secret of his Mafia Connections<\/em><\/p>\n It is not known how long Giordano [pictured above right in police mug shot] was using his mayoralty and other political influence to arrange for sexual encounters with girls. In 1993, when Maria was abducted, Giordano had been a Republican state representative for Waterbury. Giordano\u2019s mob-linked friend, Joseph Pontoriero, owner of Worth Construction Company, Inc. of Bethel, Connecticut, was also tied to a Mafia syndicate\u2019s numerous concrete-pouring construction contracts in Manhattan and Atlantic City, New Jersey. Pontoriero provided Giordano with $8,300 in designer clothing and a $12,000 loan for a minivan in return for Waterbury contracting favors, federal authorities showed.<\/p>\n According to several major biographies, Trump grew his businesses while maintaining relationships with Mafia chieftains Anthony \u201cFat Tony\u201d Salerno (shown at right), the Genovese family crime underboss, and Paul Castellano, chief of the Gambino family. The Genovese and Gambino organizations, named after leaders in their heyday, have historically been the most powerful and dangerous of the New York City metro region\u2019s five Mafia families. The construction firms they controlled, including S & A Concrete, poured concrete for Manhattan\u2019s Trump Tower, Trump Plaza, and other Trump building projects in New York and Atlantic City. Trump\u2019s Atlantic City construction projects also involved Philadelphia and South Jersey Mafia chief Nick \u201cLittle Nicky\u201d Scarfo, who was regarded as vengeful and murderous at a level reaching psychotic proportion.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s association with Mafia bosses resulted from intermediary services provided by the infamous mobbed-up lawyer Roy Cohn (shown at left), someone also known for his prurient sexual interests involving young men. Cohn, who represented leaders in both the Genovese and Gambino mobs, died in 1986 from complications from AIDS. Before that, however, as Trump\u2019s business attorney, friend and mentor, Cohn made the right \u201cintroductions\u201d for Trump in the organized crime underground of the New York City area, including Connecticut.<\/p>\n It is very likely that Trump\u2019s focus on girls and young women involved compromising him with \u201cfavors\u201d that were provided by mob elements in New York and elsewhere, such as Waterbury. And, considering Waterbury\u2019s current obfuscation on providing official information on Maria\u2019s abduction and Giordano\u2019s mob ties and pedophile problems, concerned citizens might reasonably demand answers regarding basic information about the kidnapped girl \u2014 as well as how those secrets relate to the city\u2019s troubled past and current politics.<\/p>\n In Waterbury, federal authorities broke up the massive corruption scheme and documented Giordano\u2019s compulsive sex obsession with teens and pre-teens. Meanwhile, Waterbury authorities apparently proceeded in an oblivious manner that, in the most charitable interpretation, resembled the acumen of Inspector Clouseau in the movies.<\/p>\n Eventually, the Italian Mafia would introduce Trump to the even more nefarious Russian Jewish mob, which was nestled around Brighton Beach, also known as \u201cLittle Odessa,\u201d in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n WMR has reported extensively that it was from these quarters that Trump would be introduced to the money-laundering services of shady Eastern European, mostly Jewish, gangsters. These included Felix Sater, David Bogatin, Vyachelsav Ivankov, and the most dangerous mobster of them all \u2014Semion Mogilevich. These mobsters specialized in not only money laundering, but the other big threat to Trump\u2019s presidency \u2014 sex trafficking, including of underage girls. WMR’s findings are summarized in a visual relationship chart<\/a> of “Trump-Kushner-Sater-Manafort Global Syndicate Road Map” showing persons and entities that was first published last spring and is updated.<\/p>\n Epstein\u2019s \u201cLolita Express\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Trump\u2019s pedophile problems also extend to his Mar-a-Lago private estate and club in Palm Beach, Florida. In 2005, when a Florida mother accused Trump\u2019s \u201cgood friend\u201d Epstein with having her underage daughter \u201cMary\u201d strip down and \u201cmassage\u201d Epstein for $300, a barrage of subsequent civil lawsuits was brought against the billionaire investor, who started out his career as a seventh-grade teacher at the exclusive Dalton School in Manhattan from 1973 to 1975.<\/p>\n In a 2002 interview with New York Magazine, Trump said of his friend Epstein, \u201cI’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it \u2014 Jeffrey enjoys his social life.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s 15-year relationship with Epstein put the alleged rapes of Katie Johnson and Maria well within the timeframe of their friendship.<\/p>\n One victim, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, claimed that she was 15 when Epstein\u2019s chief procurer of young girls, Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late newspaper press lord and Mossad operative Robert Maxwell, recruited her into \u201cservice\u201d while she was a towel girl at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n Some of the girls were 14-years-old at the time of Epstein\u2019s alleged assaults at these venues: his Palm Beach El Brillo Way mansion (which is just a mile away from Mar-a-Lago), Epstein\u2019s private Little Saint James Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, his private Boeing 737, and his huge ranch in New Mexico. The other \u201cJane Does\u201d in the civil cases against Epstein were identified in court documents with the initials of “L.M.,” “E.W.,” and “M.J.”<\/p>\n Under the Bush administration, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alexander Acosta (shown at right), arranged a sweetheart plea deal for Epstein, who pleaded guilty to state charges of solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitution. The billionaire pervert served merely 13 months of a nighttime-only sentence in a minimum-security wing of the Palm Beach County prison for his felony guilty plea of soliciting prostitution from a minor. The New York Post reported (Massage Maven out of prison<\/em><\/a>) that Epstein was permitted to have a mistress whom Epstein had described as his “sex slave” visit him in jail 67 times.<\/p>\n Most shocking, Epstein was spared from any further Florida or federal charges. The non-prosecution agreement was approved by Acosta in coordination with Epstein\u2019s high-powered legal team, which included Florida attorneys Jack Goldberger and Roy Black, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz and former President Clinton’s Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who was dean of Pepperdine School of Law beginning in 2004.<\/p>\n And, in yet another free ride for those VIPs who were present at Epstein\u2019s orgies with underage girls, Acosta\u2019s plea deal stipulated that neither Florida nor the federal government would charge anyone else for having sex with underage females. Normally, sweetheart plea deals are to encourage small fry to rat out higher-ups, not to protect everyone except one miscreant receiving a slap on the wrists.<\/p>\n The honest police in West Palm Beach were so outraged by the sellout that they risked firing by anonymously posting on the web details (redacted to remove names) of the shocking specifics of Epstein\u2019s crimes against the girls, who were primarily of junior high and high school age. WMR has inspected the court record in criminal and civil cases, and identified 104 separate \u201cJane Doe\u201d victims of Epstein and his ring in one case alone.<\/p>\n Trump ultimately rewarded Acosta for his \u201cdeal\u201d with Epstein by nominating him last year to become U.S. Secretary of Labor. Acosta was approved on a near-party line vote. Most Democrats were too timid to grill him on the Epstein plea deal.\u00a0 Republicans touted his Hispanic and \u201claw enforcement\u201d backgrounds. From this Trump post where Acosta serves as the supposed watchdog over the employment rights of workers, the Labor Secretary continues to serve as an ostensibly decent public servant and rare minority face in the Trump cabinet.<\/p>\n U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta, with his hand on a Bible and surrounded by family members, is sworn into office by Vice President Michael Pence last year.<\/em><\/p>\n What’s Next?<\/em><\/p>\n Let’s think about the high stakes involved and the apparent lack of sustained scrutiny and public disclosure despite the #MeToo movment.<\/p>\n In this instance, the trail of Trump\u2019s and Epstein\u2019s pedophile sexual assaults on young girls is a long one. It extends from the greater Palm Beach area in Florida to Manhattan and, we believe, at least as far north as Waterbury, Connecticut. In most instances, substantial evidence points to law enforcement investigations that have been stymied by government cover-ups, witness intimidation, and monetary pay-offs to victims.<\/p>\n And now there are two new factors: One is an array of zealots, trolls and thugs determined to attack vulnerable victims, particularly to protect President Trump, the leader of their alt-right movement. Also, we see that an entire U.S. territory, Puerto Rico, is suffering from continued storm damage, loss of life and lack of normal federal rescue efforts \u2014 and perhaps it’s at least in part because an addled but vengeful Trump conflates a 12-year old Puerto Rican girl whom he knew as Maria with the devastating hurricane of the same name.<\/p>\n To be continued\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n Editor’s note: The column above was updated in several respects, including a corrected date of Maria’s abduction, which was on March 19, 1993, not the date of March 20 originally listed in one official report.<\/em><\/p>\n Updated Coverage:<\/strong><\/p>\n Justice Integrity Project, Trump\u2019s multiple sex scandals endanger U.S. national security<\/em><\/a>, Andrew Kreig and Wayne Madsen, Jan. 24, 2018.\u00a0 Recent claims that Donald Trump paid hush money before the 2016 election to porn star Stormy Daniels to cover up a 2006 affair underscore far more sinister events.<\/p>\n Such a payoff would show not simply Trump\u2019s low morals and high arrogance \u2014 but also his propensity for outright crime in ways potentially damaging to the United States and many of its residents.<\/p>\n These grim possibilities are especially relevant to our recent expos\u00e9 \u201cWelcome to Waterbury,\u201d which drew on 2016 lawsuit allegations that Trump and his billionaire friend Jeffrey Epstein in 1993 raped \u201cMaria,\u201d age 12, and \u201cJane Doe,\u201d age 13, also known as Katie Johnson, in a New York City luxury townhouse then being used by Epstein).<\/p>\n The Wayne Madsen Report (WMR)\u00a0 (and concurrently at Justice Integrity Project), New information emerges in “Maria” story<\/em><\/a>, Wayne Madsen and Andrew Kreig, Feb. 15, 2018. New information has emerged in the joint WMR\/Justice Integrity Project investigation of the “Maria” case. As we previously reported, Katie Johnson alleged in federal law suits that Donald Trump and his friend, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, raped her, when she was 13, and a 12-year old girl \u2014 only identified as “Maria” \u2014 in New York in 1994. Our investigation discovered that Maria, 11 years of age at the time, was abducted from Waterbury, Connecticut in March 1993.<\/p>\n Contact the authors Andrew Kreig and Wayne Madsen<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The non-partisan Justice Integrity Project (JIP) and the Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) each have exposed wrongdoing by prominent leaders of both major U.S. political parties and their administrations.<\/p>\n Here are inks to sections on the JIP website showing official probes of the Trump Administration<\/a> and also a #MeToo section<\/a> of noteworthy harassment, assault and blackmail\/extortion news stories. Each section includes original reports by JIP at right, plus at left a separate archive of other major U.S. stories and commentaries since Jan. 1, 2018.<\/p>\n Immediately below that are releveant Trump-Epstein-related columns from the subscription-only WMR website, which are excerpted here with permission. Below that is a section of additional materials about allegations regarding Trump and Epstein, as well as the City of Waterbury<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n June 20<\/p>\n Wayne Madsen Report (WMR), Investigation \/ Commentary: Trump is a serial child abuser; efforts to force him to stop are ineffective<\/a><\/em>, Wayne Madsen (shown at left), June Court filings and witness accounts show that Donald Trump is nothing more than a serial child abuser. This antipathy toward children has taken on many forms over the decades and it includes mental, physical, and, in some cases, sexual abuse.<\/p>\n Jan. 9<\/p>\n Wayne Madsen Report (WMR), Welcome to Waterbury: The city that holds secrets that could bring down Trump<\/em><\/a>, Wayne Madsen and Andrew Kreig, Jan. 9, 2018 (Reprinted above with permission). A woman who was allegedly sodomized and raped at the age of 12 along with at least one other underage girl by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at Epstein\u2019s midtown Manhattan townhouse in 1993 is alive and trying to maintain obscurity from alt-right operatives who have identified her and her current residence.<\/p>\n Jan. 11<\/p>\n Down With Tyranny, Welcome To Waterbury: The City That Holds Secrets That Could Bring Down Trump<\/em><\/a>, Guest post by Andrew Kreig and Wayne Madsen, Jan. 11, 2018 (republished)<\/p>\n Jan. 16<\/p>\n American Freedom Radio, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump<\/em><\/a>, interview of Wayne Madsen and Andrew Kreig by Pearse Redmond, host of the Porkins Policy Review and an expert on the Epstein pedophilia case and its larger importance, Jan. 16, 2018 (120 mins.).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 2006, he published a three-part series on the WMR website revealing for the first time that then-U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, shown at right, was a gay pedophile who had assaulted students as a high school wrestling coach before being forced out and campaigning in Illinois as a Republican advocate of family values. A decade later, Hastert, the longest-serving GOP speaker in U.S. history, was federally indicted and then imprisoned on federal charges arising from cover-up money that he was paying to hide those assaults. <\/em><\/p>\n Madsen has written many such reports on the WMR site naming names to document how powerful entities use pedophilia and other hidden sex scandals to install, blackmail or otherwise influence high-ranking government officials.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n Wayne Madsen Report (WMR), Trump has the real “Pizzagate” scandal on his tiny hands<\/em><\/a>, Wayne Madsen, Dec. 18, 2017. (Subscription required; excerpted with permission.)<\/p>\n On December 15, Donald Trump, Jr. raised eyebrows when he “liked” a tweet sent by far-right conspiracy monger Mike Cernovich citing a New York Times op-ed calling pedophilia a mental illness and not a crime. The 2014 article was written by Rutgers University Assistant Law Professor Margo Kaplan.<\/p>\n Kaplan argued in her op-ed that “about half of all child molesters are not sexually attracted to their victims.” That argument might have some merit if half of the children assaulted by pedophiles did not experience some form of sexual abuse. However, that is far from the case. Pedophiles attracted to children are not merely taking them to baseball games, county fairs, or the movies.<\/p>\n Cernovich’s and Trump Jr.’s endorsement of pedophilia as a mental disorder rather than criminal predation by adults on children came after the revelations that Alabama GOP failed Senate candidate Roy Moore had been charged by several women claiming the disgraced former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice had sexually harassed them when they were in their teens.<\/p>\n Cernovich’s defense of pedophilia is all the more ironic since it was Cernovich who helped concoct and disseminate a libelous false story about Hillary Clinton, two pizza restaurants in Washington, DC, and former White House chief of staff John Podesta being involved in a child trafficking ring involving pizzerias, pizza-oriented code words, and child torture chambers. After the fake story was amplified by the lunatic rantings of nutrition supplement salesman Alex Jones, Edgar Welch, a 28-year old man from North Carolina, shot up Comet Ping Pong in northwest Washington with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Welch believed that children were being held and tortured in the basement of the pizza restaurant, even though there is no basement. The accusations against Comet Pizza and another nearby pizzeria were groundless and they resulted in an on-air and written retraction by Jones.<\/p>\n It appears that Cernovich’s idea for the pizza story was derived, in part, from his cousin’s Cerno’s 1898 pizza restaurant in Kewanee, Illinois. However, the phony story about pizzerias and pedophilia has another, much more sinister, beginning….<\/p>\n April 24<\/p>\n Although there was absolutely nothing to the tale of pizzerias and pedophiles, an actual network of pedophiles in the Trump campaign has emerged.<\/p>\n The Trump campaign pedophile story begins on March 9, 2017, with Oklahoma Republican state senator Ralph Shortey checking into a Super 8 Motel in Moore,<\/p>\n Oklahoma. Shortey was not alone. Entering the room with him at 12:30 am was a 17-year old teenage boy. Shortey was arrested and charged with three felonies: engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1000 feet of a church, and transporting a minor for prostitution.<\/p>\n Shortey, a six-year veteran of the state senate, resigned after his arrest. Shortey was the chairman of the Trump campaign in Oklahoma and was chief among Trump’s campaign officials in the state to organize Trump’s appearance at the Oklahoma State Fair. Police were tipped off about Shortey and the boy by a relative requesting a “welfare check” on the minor.<\/p>\n After the police “got Shortey,” the Republican Party tried to remove the photographs and postings from Facebook and Twitter, but to no avail. The Internet never forgets.<\/p>\n Feb. 17<\/p>\n Feb. 8<\/p>\n Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton (top, l to r), with George W. Bush, Obama and Trump below (Wayne Madsen Report graphic)<\/em><\/p>\n National Human Trafficking Awareness Day is observed annually on January 11<\/a>. Beginning in 2010, by Presidential Proclamation<\/a>, each January has been designated National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Following the start of National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, with the help of non-government organizations, National Human Trafficking Day began and is observed annually on January 11.<\/em><\/p>\n Jan. 19<\/p>\n Washington Post, In this #MeToo, moment, let\u2019s not forget abused children<\/em><\/a>, Adam Rosenberg and Joyce Lombardi, Jan. 19, 2018. In this #MeToo and #TimesUp moment, just as we\u2019ve been shocked by the abuse, we are also disturbed by the enablers, the seemingly good people who either knew or strongly suspected that something foul was afoot but chose not to act.<\/p>\n It is utterly human for otherwise good people to look away and to give themselves a dozen reasons (such as disbelief and self-interest) for doing so. This is especially true \u2014 and damaging \u2014 in cases of child abuse. Unfortunately, predators do not stop until they have to. And that is precisely why every state requires adults, especially front-line workers such as teachers and nurses, to report suspected child abuse.<\/p>\n Even when they don\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n Adam Rosenberg is executive director of the Baltimore Child Abuse Center. Joyce Lombardi is director of government relations and legal services at the Baltimore Child Abuse Center.<\/em><\/p>\n Huffington Post, Dylan Farrow: Woody Allen Sexually Abused Me While I Played With Toys<\/em><\/a>, Hayley Miller, Jan. 18, 2018. The filmmaker\u2019s adopted daughter leveled molestation allegations in her first TV interview. Dylan Farrow is opening up about what she says was sexual abuse by her adoptive father, filmmaker Woody Allen, when she was 7 years old.<\/p>\n In her first TV interview, Farrow, 32, alleged Allen sexually assaulted her in the Connecticut home of actress Mia Farrow, her adoptive mother.<\/p>\n \u201cI was taken to a small attic crawl space,\u201d Farrow said in an interview with \u201cCBS This Morning\u201d that aired Thursday. \u201cHe instructed me to lay down on my stomach and play with my brother\u2019s toy train that was set up, and he sat behind me in the doorway. And, as I played with the toy train, I was sexually assaulted.\u201d<\/p>\n She continued: \u201cAs 7-year-old, I would say he touched my private parts. As a 32-year-old, he touched my labia and my vulva with his finger.\u201d Allen has denied the allegation.<\/p>\n 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n July 7<\/p>\n Epstein Arrest, Trump Connection<\/em><\/p>\n Mr. Epstein, 66, had avoided federal criminal charges in 2007 and 2008 in a widely criticized plea deal whose lenient terms continue to roil the Justice Department and are facing new scrutiny in the #MeToo era.<\/p>\n Before the plea deal, Mr. Epstein, a former hedge-fund manager, had been friendly with Donald J. Trump, former President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.<\/p>\n He pleaded guilty to lesser state charges of soliciting prostitution, served 13 months in a county lockup and registered as a sex offender. His jail arrangement allowed him to get out of the Palm Beach County Stockade six days a week to work out of his office.<\/p>\n Wayne Madsen Report (WMR), Epstein busted by feds at New Jersey airport<\/em><\/a>, Wayne Madsen, July 8, 2019 (subscription required). Epstein, who, according to a joint report by WMR and the Justice Integrity Project in Washington, allegedly raped a 12-year old girl named Maria and a 13-year old, Katie Johnson, the latter a pseudonym, has been charged by federal prosecutors in New York with one count of sex trafficking and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.<\/p>\n Secret UK View Of Trump Revealed<\/em><\/p>\n Palmer Report, Opinion: Donald Trump gets slam dunked by UK Ambassador to the United State<\/em><\/a>s, Bill Palmer, July 7, 2019. The Daily Mail published secret memos in which UK Ambassador to the United States Kim Darroch used words like \u201cinept\u201d and \u201cinsecure\u201d and \u201cincompetent\u201d to describe Trump. The Daily Mail is a tabloid, but the UK government has since confirmed to CNN that the leaked memos are in fact the real thing. So now what?<\/p>\n This incident serves as the latest reminder that Donald Trump is so uniquely and cartoonishly bad at this, America\u2019s allies have been placed in a no-win situation when it comes to trying to work with him or work around him. On the other hand, America\u2019s enemies have had little problem figuring out how to use Trump\u2019s ineptness and idiocy to gain a leg-up on the United States.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n Accused repeat pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, left, with Donald Trump in a 1990s photo at Mar-a-Lago held up last weekend by a protester (Getty images)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSorry for interrupting your little rally in Duluth,\u201d activist and comedian Sam Spadino (shown in a screenshot from the rally) wrote in an open letter to Trump for the Minneapolis \u2013 St. Paul alternative weekly City Pages. \u201cMy friend and I just wanted to ask you a question, and figured in person was the best way to do it since you\u2019re a busy guy, and no \u2018fake news\u2019 reporters have brought it up lately.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy question, in case you missed it on the sign, is \u2018Who is Jeffrey Epstein?’\u201d he continued. \u201cYou answered the question once in the October 28, 2002 issue of NY Magazine, saying: \u2018I\u2019ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He\u2019s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it: Jeffrey enjoys his social life.’\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you said that \u2018he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side,\u2019 did you mean younger than 16?\u201d Spadino continued. \u201cDid you know that at least one of his victims was 14 years old?\u201d<\/p>\n He went on to detail Epstein\u2019s insidious resume: a billionaire who, as The Daily Beast pointed out after the Duluth, MN rally, has been accused of \u201ca pedophile ring of dozens of underage girls, whom he groomed and then loaned out to powerful friends.\u201d He was charged in Florida and spent 13 months in prison there for \u201cProcuring Any Person Under Age Of 16 For Prostitution,\u201d and is considered a Level Three sex offender in the state due to his likelihood for re-offending.<\/p>\n Though Epstein has also been connected to other famous men (and alleged abusers and assaulters) including Kevin Spacey, Woody Allen and Bill Clinton, Spadino noted that \u201cnone of them were named in a lawsuit together, like [Trump was], in Jane Doe v. Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein, filed in New York in June 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat lawsuit goes into great detail about what you and your buddy were allegedly up to with two female children \u2018on the younger side,’\u201d he wrote of the suit detailing the two powerful mens\u2019 alleged assault of a girl who was 13 years old at the time.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery time Jeffrey comes up I have more questions, but the only response you gave me was in the form an insult,\u201d Spadino wrote. \u201cI know seeing a picture of yourself next to a convicted pedophile is probably not a great look for someone who has recently been putting immigrant kids in cages, but I expected a better comeback from you than a \u2018cut your hair, hippie\u2019 knockoff. Weak.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am glad you mentioned my \u201cman-bun\u201d however,\u201d he wrote, because \u201cthis story would have gotten no press if you had just held your tongue.\u201d<\/p>\n Jan. 21<\/p>\n Washington Post, What should scare us about Trump\u2019s porn star scandal<\/em><\/a>, Molly Roberts, Jan. 21, 2018 (print edition). It\u2019s not the sex, it\u2019s the secrecy.<\/em><\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal reported last Friday that a lawyer for Donald Trump paid an adult-film actress $130,000 one month before the 2016 election in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with the then-candidate 10 years earlier.<\/p>\n Adult performer Jessica Drake accused Trump of offering her $10,000 for sex the same year he allegedly slept with Daniels, and she claims she can\u2019t say more because of a nondisclosure agreement. And, according to a separate Journal story from just four days before the election, the company that owns the Trump-friendly National Enquirer awarded a former Playboy centerfold model $150,000 for the rights to her story of an affair with Trump in, yes, 2006 again. Then, the tabloid quashed it.<\/p>\n The problem here isn\u2019t Trump\u2019s repeated ethical lapses alone, although they do induce a certain squeamishness. The problem is the possibility of blackmail against a presidential team willing to pay big to cover up misbehavior.<\/p>\n New York Times, Congressman Combating Harassment Settled His Own Misconduct Case<\/a><\/em>, Katie Rogers and Kenneth P. Vogel, Jan. 21, 2018 (printed edition). Rep. Patrick Meehan, a Pennsylvania Republican who has taken a leading role in fighting sexual harassment in Congress, used thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to settle his own misconduct complaint after a former aide accused him last year of making unwanted romantic overtures to her, according to several people familiar with the settlement.<\/p>\n As a member of the Ethics Committee, Mr. Meehan was tasked with being a part of the solution. The panel has initiated investigations into sexual misconduct claims against at least four congressmen in recent months. Two have resigned: Trent Franks, Republican of Arizona, and John Conyers Jr., Democrat of Michigan. The other two, Blake Farenthold, Republican of Texas, and Ruben Kihuen, a freshman Democrat from Nevada, remain in office but have said they will not seek re-election.<\/p>\n Jan. 20<\/p>\n By Friday, the magazine InTouch published what it said was a previously unpublished 2011 interview with Daniels (shown with Trump in a publicity photo) in which she describes having sex with Trump in 2006, when he was newly married to Melania Trump, who is now first lady.<\/p>\n What’s perhaps most notable about the interview is how many of the details deal with things that weren’t and aren’t widely known about Trump.<\/p>\n Jan. 19<\/p>\n \u201cYou know, Howard, she\u2019s got the kind of a body and makeup where, about one day after the baby, it\u2019s going to be the same as it was before,\u201d Trump said during an appearance on Stern\u2019s show on Dec. 7, 2005.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re giving her one day?\u201d Stern asked.<\/p>\n \u201cOne or two,\u201d Trump replied.<\/p>\n Vox, Stormy Daniels: Donald Trump\u2019s alleged porn star affair and hush money scandal explained<\/em><\/a>, Dylan Matthews, Jan. 19, 2018. In July 2006, Donald Trump allegedly had a \u201csexual encounter\u201d with adult film star Stormy Daniels (shown with Trump in file photos) following a celebrity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe, and, the month before the 2016 presidential election, reportedly sent her a $130,000 payment through his lawyer as hush money to keep the matter private.<\/p>\n But this is Donald Trump we\u2019re talking about. When the Journal blockbuster landed, it was competing for space with Trump\u2019s labeling of Haiti, El Salvador, and seemingly all countries of Africa as \u201cshithole\u201d countries, ongoing congressional negotiations around the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program, and the Journal\u2019s own bizarre interview with Trump and his subsequent claims that the Journal mis-transcribed his statements about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n If anyone is capable of somehow making an affair with a porn star into a non-story, it\u2019s Donald Trump.<\/p>\n By the following week, Trump\u2019s physical health exam and attempts to evade a government shutdown were dominating political news.<\/p>\n Other reports have suggested that multiple news outlets, including Fox News and Slate, had the story before the 2016 election and didn\u2019t report or publish it. And Daniels might not be the only woman Trump silenced with a nondisclosure agreement.<\/p>\n Jan. 18<\/p>\n Washington Post, Why are we only now hearing of a porn star\u2019s tale about Trump?<\/em><\/a> Paul Farhi, Jan. 18, 2018 (print edition). Journalists said they held back on a story that Stormy Daniels had allegedly had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006 because they couldn\u2019t independently corroborate key elements of the account, including in one instance from Daniels herself. Several journalists surely knew who Stormy Daniels was in 2016, and it probably wasn\u2019t because they\u2019d seen her in one of the many porn films she\u2019d made.<\/p>\n Yet no one went with the story.<\/p>\n Mother Jones reports that during a May 2009 \u201clistening tour\u201d of Louisiana when considering a run for Senate, Daniels compiled a list of potential campaign contributors, all of whom came from contacts in her cell phone, and one of whom was Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Upon receiving this list, one consultant expressed surprise that Trump\u2019s number was in Daniels\u2019 cell phone. Another consultant named Andrea Dub\u00e9, who confirmed the veracity of this exchange to Mother Jones, replied: \u201cShe says one time he made her sit with him for three hours watching \u2018shark week.\u2019 Another time he had her spank him with a Forbes magazine.\u201d<\/p>\n Jan. 17<\/p>\n Pornography was a political hot button topic from the 1960s until the 1990s, when changes in censorship law and new technologies like video recording made erotic imagery much more pervasive. Along with opposing abortion and gay rights, being anti-porn was one of the key organizing principles of the religious right.<\/p>\n It\u2019s easy for liberals to decry the hypocrisy of Republicans, the putative party of family values, embracing Trump as its avatar.<\/p>\n But there is no real hypocrisy here. The core value is patriarchy, which can take different forms. There is an older patriarchy which wears the mask of chivalry, and offers women protection in exchange for submissiveness.<\/p>\n But the age of chivalry is no more. We now have raw patriarchy, which asserts its rights through naked displays of power. And the president, with his porn star mistresses, his boasting of sexual assaults, and even his phallic tweets about the size of his nuclear button, is the perfect leader for conservatives\u2019 post-chivalric world.<\/p>\n Washington Post, Opinion: Staffers at The Hill press management about the work of John Solomon<\/em><\/a>, Erik Wemple\u00a0 Jan. 17, 2018. A group of newsroom staffers at The Hill have complained to management about stories written by John Solomon, the publication\u2019s executive vice president of digital video. The complaints were launched in December when Solomon and reporter Alison Spann broke a story under this headline: \u201cExclusive: Prominent lawyer sought donor cash for two Trump accusers.\u201d<\/p>\n The gist of Solomon and Spann\u2019s story: Prominent California lawyer Lisa Bloom worked to secure payments for women who \u201cmade or considered making sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump during the final months of the 2016 presidential race.\u201d The story cited \u201cdocuments and interviews,\u201d plus the on-the-record explanations by Bloom herself.<\/p>\n The story impressed the conservative media world. Fox News host Sean Hannity called it a \u201cbombshell report,\u201d while conservative websites aggregated away.<\/p>\n A New York Times story two weeks later noted that accuser-financing arrangements weren\u2019t invented for the Trump era: Paula Jones\u2019s harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton received funding from the Rutherford Institute.<\/p>\n The Hill, Adult film star: Trump cheated with me<\/em><\/a>, Rebecca Savransky, Jan. 17, 2018. A former adult film star in the past claimed that President Trump had sex with her in 2006, when he was married to first lady Melania Trump.<\/p>\n In Touch published excerpts from an interview Wednesday it conducted in 2011 with Stormy Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford. In the excerpts, Daniels talks about a sexual encounter she says she had with Trump in 2006.<\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Trump arranged a six-figure payment to Daniels to keep her from discussing a sexual encounter with Trump. A White House official declined to comment to the Journal about the payment, but said that the allegations of the interaction between Trump and Daniels were \u201cold, recycled reports, which were published and strongly denied prior to the election.\u201d<\/p>\n Jan. 13<\/p>\n New York Times, Porn Star Was Reportedly Paid to Stay Quiet About Trump<\/em><\/a>, Megan Twohey and Jim Rutenberg, Jan. 13, 2018 (print edition). A lawyer for President Trump orchestrated a $130,000 payment to a pornographic-film actress in October 2016 to prevent her from going public with claims of a consensual sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.<\/p>\n The reported payment came shortly before the presidential election and as the actress, Stephanie Clifford, 38, was discussing sharing her account with ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America\u201d and the online magazine Slate, according to interviews, notes and text messages reviewed by The New York Times.<\/p>\n Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, said on Friday that in a series of interviews with Ms. Clifford in August and October 2016, she told him she had an affair with Mr. Trump after meeting him at a 2006 celebrity golf tournament.<\/p>\n Daily Beast, Trump Accuser Jessica Drake Has an NDA Preventing Her from Talking About Donald Trump<\/em><\/a>, Marlow Stern and Aurora Snow, Jan. 13, 2018. The porn star came forward to accuse then-candidate Trump of sexual misconduct in October 2016.<\/p>\n \u201cJessica\u2019s NDA blankets any and every mention of Trump, so she\u2019s legally unable to comment,\u201d her publicist informed The Daily Beast. \u201cJessica signed a non-disclosure agreement after her allegations of misconduct, and she can\u2019t do as much as peep his name publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n The White House has not yet responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n In late October 2016, Drake became the 14th woman to accuse then-candidate Trump of sexual misconduct. At a public press conference, Drake, flanked by her attorney Gloria Allred, claimed that after she met Trump in July 2006 at Nevada\u2019s American Century Celebrity Golf Championship, where she was working a promotional booth on behalf of the adult film company Wicked Pictures, he made a pass at her. Trump\u2019s wife, Melania, had recently given birth to their son Barron at the time.<\/p>\n She alleged that Trump later called her and asked, \u201c’What do you want? How much?\u201d and then offered her $10,000 for sex. \u201cThis is not acceptable behavior for anyone, much less a presidential candidate,\u201d Drake said at the presser.<\/p>\n Jan. 12<\/p>\n Palmer Report, Analysis: Donald Trump propositioned three different porn actresses for extramarital sex in the same weekend<\/em><\/a>, Bill Palmer, Jan. 12, 2018. Earlier today, the Wall Street Journal reported that Donald Trump had consensual sex with porn actress Stormy Daniels at a Lake Tahoe event in 2006, and that he later paid her during the election to keep it quiet. Another porn actress, Jessica Drake, previously accused Trump of inappropriately touching her and unsuccessfully offering her $10,000 for sex during that same event. Now a third porn actress says Trump propositioned her for sex during that same weekend.<\/p>\n Daily Beast, Porn Star: Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels Invited Me to Their Hotel Room<\/a>,<\/em> Alana Evans. Marlow Stern and Aurora Snow, Jan. 12, 2018. \u2018I ended up with Donald in his hotel room. Picture him chasing me around his hotel room in his tighty-whities,\u2019 Stormy Daniels told fellow porn star.<\/em><\/p>\n The Daily Beast had also been in protracted talks with Daniels about arranging an interview after three sources \u2014 including fellow porn star Alana Evans \u2014 told The Daily Beast that Daniels and Trump were involved. She ultimately backed out on Nov. 3, just five days before the 2016 election.<\/p>\n Cohen on Friday did not address the alleged payout to Daniels but provided the following statement to The Daily Beast: \u201cThese rumors have circulated time and again since 2011. President Trump once again vehemently denies any such occurrence as has Ms. Daniels.\u201d The attorney also provided a letter dated Jan. 10, 2018, allegedly signed by Daniels, that denied any \u201csexual and\/or romantic affair\u201d with Trump or the receipt of any \u201chush money\u201d from Trump.<\/p>\n Business Insider, Steve Bannon suggests Trump’s lawyer ‘took care’ of ‘a hundred’ women during the presidential campaign<\/em><\/a>, Eliza Relman, Jan. 12, 2018. Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former top strategist, alleged in journalist Michael Wolff’s tell-all book (Fire and Fury<\/em>) about the Trump White House that the president’s longtime attorney, Marc Kasowitz, “took care” of 100 women during the presidential campaign.<\/p>\n This apparently off-hand remark may take on new significance after The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that another lawyer for the president, Michael Cohen, sent $130,000 to a porn star just weeks before the 2016 presidential election to keep her silent about an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump.<\/p>\n Wall Street Journal, Trump Lawyer Arranged $130,000 Payment for Adult-Film Star\u2019s Silence<\/em><\/a>, Michael Rothfeld and Joe Palazzolo, Jan. 12, 2018. Agreement just before election required woman to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, people familiar with the matter say.<\/p>\n A lawyer for President Donald Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film star a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n Michael Cohen, who spent nearly a decade as a top attorney for the Trump Organization, arranged payment to the woman, Stephanie Clifford, in October, 2016 after her lawyer negotiated the nondisclosure agreement with Mr. Cohen, these people said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy are we having all these people from s–thole countries come here?\u201d the President reportedly griped during an Oval Office meeting Thursday afternoon.\u00a0Advocacy group leaders called Trump\u2019s comments \u201cracist\u201d but chose not to focus on his latest attack on immigrants. \u201cHow does one even react to that?\u201d said Ninaj Raoul, co-founder of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees (HWHR,) told the Daily News Thursday.<\/p>\n \u201cI think these are all distractions from the real issues around immigration,\u201d Raoul said. \u201cI just think there is only right thing to do and I think a lot of this name calling is just a distraction as the President has done on other issues. It comes almost daily,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Jan. 11<\/p>\n Down With Tyranny, Welcome To Waterbury: The City That Holds Secrets That Could Bring Down Trump<\/em><\/a>, Guest post by Andrew Kreig and Wayne Madsen, Jan. 11, 2018 (republished).<\/p>\n Jan. 10<\/p>\nThe original tip came to WMR, which can report exclusively that a Waterbury girl, \u201cMaria,\u201d was the 12-year old alleged to have been a child rape victim of Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, shown at right. The crimes allegedly occurred at a midtown Manhattan mansion then owned by Epstein\u2019s friend Les Wexner, a billionaire retailing mogul.<\/p>\n<\/strong>with the married Trump. This 2016 time period was about the time that Katie Johnson withdrew her lawsuit. Among follow-ups, the New York Daily News published a cover story focused on an alleged comment Trump made referencing his daughter. Also, the Washington Post wrote, Why are we only now hearing of a porn star\u2019s tale about Trump?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\nWaterbury<\/a> (shown in a photo via Wikimedia) reported 110,000 in population at the last census and is located 77 miles northeast of New York City.<\/p>\nThat would be in this case a litigious billionaire Trump, who now influences, if not controls, a vast \u201claw enforcement,\u201d national security and broadcast federal regulatory apparatus.<\/p>\napprovals, for example, scrutiny over a host of other legal and regulatory issues, plus discretionary grants that can be vital to local authorities, particularly those with financial struggles like Waterbury. Beyond that, monied interests in the power structure have fostered private goons and trolls \u2014 sometimes equipped with the trappings of legitimate law enforcement or journalism \u2014 who can seek out whistleblowers, victims and reporters alike to set them up for vicious legal or extra-legal reprisals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nJohnson (shown in a screenshot with her face obscured) claimed that at two parties Epstein raped her once after she had been raped by Trump. During the second encounter with Epstein, Johnson stated that Epstein raped her “anally and vaginally despite her loud pleas to stop.” She stated that Epstein attempted to strike her on the head “with his closed fists,” while he angrily screamed that he [Epstein], rather than Trump, should have been the one who took the girl’s virginity.<\/p>\nAfter filing her first complaint against Epstein and Trump in California on April 26, 2016, Johnson said that she began receiving threatening phone calls on her cell phone from blocked numbers. She refiled in New York. A courtroom hearing was scheduled for mid-December 2016 in federal court for the Southern District of Manhattan. U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams [pictured at right] said that she was requiring Epstein and Trump to appear before her in the Johnson lawsuit, an unusual requirement for a pre-trial hearing, especially in a civil case. Because of the threats, Johnson pulled her lawsuit just prior to the 2016 presidential election and no hearing occurred.<\/p>\nFirst,<\/strong> there is substantial evidence that Epstein and Trump are notorious sexual predators and billionaire litigants who use threats and the legal system to their advantage. Epstein is a convicted pedophile who targeted junior high and high school girls, as described below. Epstein was required to register as a convicted sex offender [pictured at left]. Trump has long been notorious as a lecher, telling ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View\u201d in 2006, \u201cI’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”<\/p>\nAfter underage sexual abuse allegations began surfacing during the failed campaign of GOP Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, Ivanka Trump (shown on her Twitter portrait) said of Moore, \u201cthere\u2019s a special place in hell for people who prey on children. She added, \u201cI\u2019ve yet to see a valid explanation and I have no reason to doubt the victims\u2019 account.\u201d Bannon, who supported Moore\u2019s campaign, replied to Trump\u2019s daughter in a December 2017 interview with Vanity Fair, \u201cWhat about the allegations about her dad and that 13-year-old?\u201d Bannon was referring, of course, to Katie Johnson.<\/p>\nWihbey is pictured above at a Connecticut Freedom of Information hearing defending Waterbury\u2019s insistence on retaining secret documents in another matter. It involved the details of a largely secret arrangement whereby Waterbury taxpayers paid former Republican Connecticut governor and ex-con John Rowland, a former Waterbury state assemblyman and congressman after he had been imprisoned on a federal political corruption charge in 2004.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u201cPedo Phil\u201d) was arrested by the FBI as part of their investigation of payoffs to the mayor by Mafia building contractors. During court-authorized wiretaps of Giordano\u2019s phones, the FBI became aware that the mayor was paying a female Puerto Rican prostitute named Guitana (\u201cGigi\u201d) Jones for sex with her 10-year old niece and 8-year old daughter. Giordano and Rowland were once close political allies and Rowland\u2019s cozy relationship with Mayor O\u2019Leary has raised eyebrows in Connecticut.<\/p>\n<\/p>\ndesire to become the vice president of the United States. In 2003, Giordano was sentenced to 37 years in a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona after his conviction of violating the civil rights of the two female children, using interstate devices (cellphones) to arrange the meetings, and conspiring with Jones to supply the children for sexual purposes.<\/p>\nTrump’s Genius<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/em>Helping to confirm the importance of this illicit network was former Trump Chief Strategist Steven Bannon\u2019s remark quoted by author Michael Wolff in the\u00a0Fire and Fury<\/em> best-seller that Trump and his associates are highly vulnerable to money laundering charges in Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s ongoing probe.<\/p>\nPalm Beach police detectives led by Det. Joe Recarey and the FBI built up a criminal case against Epstein that soon involved over 100 \u201cJane Does\u201d who accused the Palm Beach resident Epstein, a member of Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago club, with sexual assault.<\/p>\nGiuffre said that the adjoining photo of her with Maxwell and Prince Andrew of Britain’s royal family when she was 17 illustrates the time when she was being trafficked. Epstein, Maxwell and Buckingham Palace denied improprieties, and Giuffre settled a lawsuit against Epstein.,<\/p>\nThe Sweetheart Deal Protecting Pervert Pedophiles
\n<\/em><\/p>\nIronies abound. Clinton and Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom’s royal family were among Epstein’s social circles. The former president while involved with Clinton Foundation activitiestook many documented flights on Epstein’s luxury airplane, although no abuse claims have yet surfaced against him. Starr (shown in a portrait) would go on to become chancellor of Baylor University, where he would intone on the importance of moral instruction for college students, as we reported in the 2015 column Moralist Ken Starr Explains His Help For Billionaire Pervert Jeffrey Epstein<\/em><\/a>. However, a massive sex scandal in football player recruitment, whereby students reported being raped after serving as hostesses for prospective student athletes, festered under his nose and would ultimately cost him his job,<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\nJIP Editor’s Note On Additional Research, Resources<\/h3>\n
WMR Column, Follow-ups On ‘Welcome To Waterbury’ Above<\/h3>\n
20, 2018 (subscription required). Wayne Madsen is an investigative reporter, syndicated columnist, author and former Navy intelligence officer once temporarily deputized by the FBI to help investigate pedophilia by a fellow Navy officer.<\/em><\/p>\nBBS Radio \/ John Barbour’s World Radio Show, Implications of ‘Welcome To Waterbury’\u00a0 Scandal<\/em><\/a>, Host John Barbour, Jan. 22, 2018. Film maker and five-time Emmy Award winner John Barbour (shown at right), creator and co-star of the nation’s top-rated prime time television show Real People<\/em> in the 1970s, interviews authors Wayne Madsen and Andrew Kreig about their story about Donald Trump.<\/p>\nEarlier WMR Alerts On Trump, Epstein, Pedophiles, ‘Fake News’<\/h3>\n
Investigative reporter Wayne Madsen (shown at left) is a widely published journalist and author. He edits the Wayne Madsen Report, appears frequently as a broadcast commentator, and has published 15 books. Previously, he worked 14 years as a Navy Intelligence officer, including a year as an NSA analyst. He later worked as chief scientist with a major defense contractor and as a privacy expert at a think tank. When Madsen was in the Navy, the FBI named him to be a temporary special FBI agent to help follow up his tip that his commanding officer, later imprisoned, was sexually assaulting underage victims. <\/em><\/p>\nWayne Madsen Report (WMR), It’s Trump that has the real “Pizzagate” problem<\/em><\/a>, Wayne Madsen, April 24, 2017. During the 2016 presidential campaign, disreputable websites attempted to tie Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff to a fantasy tale about a network of pedophiles who trafficked in child sex slaves using, of all things, pizzerias. Members of Donald Trump’s inner circle trafficked in the “Pizzagate” myth using such social media networks as Twitter.<\/p>\nWayne Madsen Report (WMR), Labor pick Acosta part of Epstein-Trump underage sex crime cover-up<\/em><\/a>, Feb. 17, 2017. Alexander Acosta, President Trump’s pick to replace failed nominee Andrew Puzder as Labor Secretary, has his own political baggage stemming from his actions as U.S. Attorney for Southern Florida in the sweetheart plea deal involving billionaire pederast Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\nWayne Madsen Report (WMR), Trump’s Jane, Tiffany, and Joan Doe problem<\/em><\/a>, Wayne Madsen (shown in a screeshot from a TV appearance), Feb. 8, 2017. President Trump has a problem hanging over his head. During the presidential campaign, Trump and his phalanx of attorneys pressured a California woman to drop her lawsuit against Trump and convicted Palm Beach, Florida pederast Jeffrey Epstein for sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nChild-Trafficking, Abuse (General News, Commentary)<\/h3>\n
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<\/em>New York Times, Jeffrey Epstein, Billionaire Long Accused of Molesting Minors, Is Charged<\/em><\/a>, Patricia Mazzei and William K. Rashbaum
\nJuly 7, 2019 (print ed.). Jeffrey E. Epstein, a billionaire New York financier long accused of molesting dozens of girls, was arrested on Saturday and charged with sex trafficking by federal prosecutors, an extraordinary turn of events in a long and sordid criminal case. Mr. Epstein, right, who was charged with sex trafficking, had avoided federal criminal charges a decade ago in a widely criticized plea deal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nDarroch is a professional diplomat, so it\u2019s literally his job to pretend in public that an idiot like Donald Trump is not an idiot. He\u2019s the last person who would publicly criticize Trump, no matter how he felt. These memos reveal that he felt compelled to document Trump\u2019s idiocy in private, while discussing with his government how to deal with Trump. Darroch may or may not lose his job over this leak, as it could be difficult for him to continue interfacing with the U.S. government now that it\u2019s been exposed that he thoroughly insulted the President of the United States. But to be clear, Darroch was just doing his job.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nRaw Story, Protester targeted by Trump for his ‘long hair’ calls him out again for palling around with a pedophile<\/em><\/a>, Noor Al-Sibair, June 25, 2018. The man-bunned protester singled out by Donald Trump for his hairstyle at a rally in Minnesota on June 20 has spoken out against the president once again for his known ties to billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/em><\/p>\nA married father of three, Mr. Meehan<\/a>, 62, had long expressed interest in the personal life of the aide, who was decades younger and had regarded the congressman as a father figure, according to three people who worked with the office and four others with whom she discussed her tenure there.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nWashington Post, The case for taking the Trump-Stormy Daniels saga seriously<\/a><\/em>, Aaron Blake\u200b, Jan. 20, 2018 (print edition). It’s salacious, yes. But the story seems to have gone beyond tabloid fluff and it\u2019s worth asking some very serious questions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nWashington Post, \u2018I\u2019ll give her a week\u2019 to lose the baby weight, Trump said of Melania, months before alleged tryst with porn star<\/em><\/a>, Callum Borchers, Jan. 19, 2018. Seven months before an alleged tryst with porn star Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump told radio host Howard Stern that he would give his pregnant wife, Melania (shown at a 2017 Inaugural ball), a couple of days \u2014 or maybe a week \u2014 to regain her model figure after giving birth.<\/p>\nThat claim, first reported on January 12, 2018, by the Wall Street Journal, is explosive enough to conceivably topple just about any other politician. Infidelity, and attempts to cover up infidelity, ended the careers or forced the resignations of former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards (left), former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Republican Sen. John Ensign, and Republican Gov. Robert Bentley of Alabama(below right), just to name a few from the past decade.<\/p>\nThe Stormy Daniels scandal, however, continues to mount. On Wednesday, the celebrity news magazine In Touch published an interview with Daniels conducted in 2011 in which she says she had an affair with Trump, including sex after that golf event. Subsequent reporting by the Wall Street Journal revealed that Trump attorney Michael Cohen set up shell companies through which to make the $130,000 payment to Daniels.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe adult-film actress (shown in a New York Daily News cover with a reported quotation from Trump referencing his daughter) was on the radar of a number of mainstream news outlets in the waning days of the presidential campaign. Reporters from ABC, Fox News, the Daily Beast and Slate.com were pursuing a potentially explosive story: that Daniels had allegedly had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006, only months after Trump\u2019s wife, Melania, had given birth to their son, Barron.<\/p>\nMediaite, Stormy Daniels Reportedly Spanked Trump With A Copy of Forbes Magazine<\/em><\/a>, Rachel Dicker, Jan. 18, 2018. In the wake of a Wall Street Journal article that alleges Trump lawyer Michael Cohen paid off porn star Stormy Daniels (shown with Trump in a screengrab) to keep quiet about a 2006 sexual encounter with now-president Donald Trump, several other stories about Daniels\u2019 rendezvous with Trump have surfaced \u2013 including one account that she spanked Trump with a copy of Forbes.<\/p>\nNew Republic, The Triumph of Porn Over Social Conservatism<\/em><\/a>, Jeet Heer, Jan. 17, 2018. Why Trump’s alleged affairs with erotic stars aren’t hurting him on the right. Trump\u2019s ascendency over the Republican Party marks a little noticed, but real shift in American politics: Social conservatives, who once led the crusade against smut, have made their peace with a porn-saturated culture.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\nIn 1997, Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell spoke for many social conservatives when he told CNN, \u201cpornography hurts anyone who reads it, garbage in, garbage out. I think when you feed that stuff into your mind, it definitely affects your relationship with your spouse, your attitude towards life, morality.\u201d But today, Jerry Falwell\u2019s son, Jerry Falwell Jr., is one of Donald Trump\u2019s biggest supporters. (In 2016, he was photographed at Trump\u2019s office in front of a framed copy of a Playboy cover featuring Trump.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u201c[The sex] was textbook generic,\u201d Daniels said. \u201cI actually don\u2019t even know why I did it, but I do remember while we were having sex, I was like, \u2018Please, don\u2019t try to pay me.\u2019 \u201d Daniels told the publication in 2011 that after the encounter, Trump (shown in an Apprentice publicity photo) kept saying: \u201c \u2018I\u2019m gonna call you, I\u2019m gonna call you. I have to see you again. You\u2019re amazing. We have to get you on The Apprentice.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/em><\/p>\nShe told him that Michael D. Cohen, a lawyer for Mr. Trump (and shown in a screen grab), had agreed during the presidential campaign to pay her the $130,000 if she kept the relationship secret, Mr. Weisberg said, adding that Ms. Clifford had told him she was tempted to go public because the lawyer was late in making the payment and she feared he might back out of their agreement.<\/p>\nThe Daily Beast was informed late Friday that porn star Jessica Drake (shown with Trump in a previous publicity photo published by The Daily Beast) is not allowed to discuss President Donald J. Trump on account of a non-disclosure agreement she signed barring her from any such talk. NDAs are often deployed as part of settlements to silence accusers.<\/p>\nAlana Evans is confirming to the Daily Beast that Trump and Daniels (shown in a New York Daily News front page story on Jan. 13, 2018) had sex during that lake Tahoe event. How does she know? She was also at the event, and they called her on the phone and asked her to join them for a threesome (link<\/a>). Evans declined the offer. She says that she spoke with Daniels the next day, and Daniels confirmed that sexual activity did take place between them. This stands in direct contrast to the statement produced by Trump\u2019s attorney today, supposedly written and signed by Daniels, which disputes that any of it occurred.<\/p>\n“Look, Kasowitz has known [Trump] for twenty-five years. Kasowitz has gotten him out of all kinds of jams,” Bannon reportedly said. “Kasowitz on the campaign – what did we have, a hundred women? Kasowitz [shown below at left] took care of all of them.”<\/p>\nNew York Daily News, Politicians, advocacy groups react to Trump blasting Caribbean and African immigrants from \u2018s–thole countries<\/em><\/a>,\u2019 Megan Cerullo, Jan. 12, 2018 (print edition). Social media erupted Thursday after President Trump slammed protections for immigrants from \u201cs–thole countries\u201d in the Caribbean and Africa, while some leaders chose to ignore his controversial remarks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nWashington Post, Trump\u2019s history of making offensive comments about nonwhite immigrants<\/em><\/a>, Eugene Scott, Jan. 12, 2018 (printed edition). This is not the first time that Trump’s remarks about immigrants, refugees and their homelands have raised eyebrows.<\/p>\n