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[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Donald Trump is a rapist.

The Story the American System Doesn’t Want You to Hear
A thirteen-year-old girl accused a man of rape. Not just any man, but a billionaire. A man who would go on to hold the most powerful office in the world. It should have stopped him. It should have mattered, but it didn’t.
In 2016, as Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency, a woman using the name Katie Johnson filed a lawsuit claiming that, at age 13, she had been raped multiple times by Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at one of Epstein’s parties at his New York City apartment. She was a child in a room with two of the most dangerous men in the country. She came forward. She tried. The case was withdrawn—not because she lied or because her story fell apart, but because she was terrified. Lisa Bloom, her attorney, confirmed that Katie received threats. Not warnings or gossip, but threats. She was supposed to hold a press conference and be heard. Instead, she disappeared. She disconnected her phone. Her story didn’t die because it was untrue. It died because she was alone.
How Many Times Have We Seen This Before?
Katie Johnson was not the first. She will not be the last.
Sixteen women have publicly accused Donald Trump of sexual assault or misconduct. One said he raped her in a dressing room. Another said he forced himself on her when she was a child. Others said he groped them, kissed them without consent, grabbed them in pageant dressing rooms. He denied every single one, and he called them liars. He said they were making it up for attention and then ran for president. He won.
E. Jean Carroll came forward decades after Trump raped her in a department store dressing room. The world laughed. He called her a liar. A jury found him guilty of sexual abuse, but it didn’t matter. He still walked free. Bill Cosby’s victims spent years screaming into the void before anyone listened. Harvey Weinstein silenced his accusers with money and threats. The Catholic Church buried thousands of child abuse cases. Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ran an international trafficking ring that catered to the most powerful men in the world. They went down, but their clients walked free.
Larry Nassar was trusted with the bodies of young girls—Olympians, gymnasts, children—while he molested them under the guise of medical treatment. They told their coaches, trainers, and officials. Nobody wanted to hear them. The institution and money were more important. By the time Nassar was finally held accountable, hundreds of girls had already been abused.
Jerry Sandusky was a legend at Penn State. He molested young boys for decades. People knew. A man saw him rape a child in the showers and told his superiors. Nothing happened. The program was worth too much. The coach was too valuable. The child was a footnote.
The pattern repeats itself—victims come forward, their voices are questioned, and the powerful walk away unscathed.
The Names, The Stories, The Silence
Kristin Anderson sat in a Manhattan bar in the 1990s when a man next to her reached up her skirt and touched her vagina through her underwear. She turned and recognized the man as Donald Trump.
E. Jean Carroll met Trump in a department store in 1995 or 1996. She described him pushing her into a dressing room, forcing his fingers inside her, then his penis.
Rachel Crooks was a 22-year-old receptionist in 2005 when she met Trump in an office building. He grabbed her, pulled her in, and kissed her on the mouth.
Jessica Leeds sat next to Trump on a plane in the early 1980s. He kissed her, groped her chest, and reached up her skirt. She moved to another seat in coach. “He was like an octopus,” she said.
Summer Zervos was an Apprentice contestant in 2007. She met Trump at a Beverly Hills hotel to discuss a job opportunity. Instead, he grabbed her breasts, kissed her, and tried to lead her into a bedroom.
Temple Taggart McDowell was Miss Utah USA in 1997. Trump kissed her without consent on two separate occasions.
Four other women said Trump walked in on them while they were undressing at pageants. Buzzfeed reported three more women confirmed the pageant stories but refused to go public.
The allegations span decades, from the early 1980s to 2013. The stories follow the same pattern—Trump is accused of forcing himself on women—groping them, kissing them without consent—only to deny every allegation, dismiss his accusers as liars, and claim they are politically motivated
This is how the system works. This is how men like Trump win.
Power and Silence: How the System Protects Its Own
Trump didn’t need to prove his innocence. He only needed time. He dragged the case out, making it too difficult to pursue, and let the system work in his favor. This is what he has always done. A man who used lawsuits as weapons, who crushed his enemies in court, who buried his mistakes with money and threats. A child did not stand a chance.
The powerful do not have to answer for their sins. The system was built for them.
Trump bragged about grabbing women. Nothing happened. Dozens of women accused him of assault. Nothing happened. A child accused him of rape, and the case vanished before it could even begin.
Had we listened to Katie Johnson, had we listened to any of them, maybe we would not be here now. Trump didn’t rise in spite of these accusations; he rose in a system that proved power could erase them. His ability to face multiple allegations without consequence only reinforced his authority.
The American Double Standard
The U.S. government condemns foreign dictators for human rights abuses but lets its own elite operate without consequence. It calls out corruption abroad but allows billionaires to buy their way out of justice. It punishes nations for failing to protect their citizens but lets its own children be silenced, erased, and ignored.
How does a country that lets the rich escape accountability claim to stand for democracy? How does a nation that refuses to believe survivors call itself a defender of freedom?
America calls itself a beacon of justice. Justice for whom?
If We Don’t Change, This Will Keep Happening
This is not just about one man. There will always be another Trump. Another Epstein. Another Cosby. Another Weinstein. Another Sandusky. Another Nassar. Another name added to the list of powerful men who used power as a shield while their victims carried the weight alone.
If the justice system cannot hold them accountable, then what hope is there for anyone else?
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[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: The New York Times just confirmed reports that Donald Trump's Justice Department tried to cover up reports that indicated Donald Trump assaulted a minor in the 1980s. Wow.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: A whistle-blower at the U.S. Postal Service said Trump officials were defying court orders with a “secretive, rushed” effort affecting voting by mail. https://t.co/ZBoklOtvrQ

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Donald Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office that the New York Times is "the enemy of the people" because he disagrees with their criticism of him.

This is how authoritarian dictators speak.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail. (Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth’s Pentagon—the department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in March, May, June, and October.)
In other pricey food purchases, the government decided to drop $15.1 million for ribeye steak (again, just in September), $124,000 for ice cream machines, and $139,224 on 272 orders of doughnuts.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

This New York Times Sunday headline says it all in just a few words. Businesses and customers in other countries will find new suppliers. They just won’t be in our country or employ our workers. Major long term economic shift against U.S.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: PAYBACK! Journalist Maggie Haberman hits Trump right where it hurts by going on TV after his attack and bluntly declaring: “There is no polling where this President is popular."

This is going to prompt another Truth Social meltdown...

"Let's put it that way," Haberman added after dropping her pitch-perfect soundbite. “And there is no polling where he is not in trouble on the issue of affordability."

Haberman, who writes for The New York Times, made the remarks during an appearance on CNN’s “The Source” with Kaitlan Collins. The anchor had just brought up a stunning CNN poll that shows Trump with a net approval rating of -32 points. The Republican Party has a similarly awful net favorability rating of -21 points.

"I will note that, repeatedly, the word 'affordability' was used at his Oval Office event today on healthcare, despite him repeatedly saying it’s a hoax," said Haberman. "This is the kind of thing that Republicans who are in these districts that are embattled do not want to be dealing with."

These are undeniable facts that Haberman has presented. Trump is underwater with the American people because his disastrous Iran War has devastated the global economy and he seems completely uninterested in finding solutions. Instead, he's fixated on his ballroom and renaming bodies of water.

It's not the content of Haberman's remarks that is most noteworthy, it's the fact that she boldly went on television so soon after Trump launched a deeply deranged attack against her. Last Friday, he penned a lengthy Truth Social post calling her "Maggot Hagerman" and smeared her reporting as fake news. He even insulted her physical appearance, calling her "an unattractive person both inside and out."

A lot of reporters would have recoiled from the spotlight after being targeted by the most powerful, vindictive man in the world. Instead, Haberman continues to report the facts, even those that are sure to enrage the President.

Please ❤️ and share if you stand with Maggie Haberman!

[VoteVets @votevets]

Since Pete Hegseth has taken over the Pentagon, he's fired a stunning share of its most experienced leaders. More than 250 combined years of military experience have been fired, forced out, or sidelined. Those who are left answer only to loyalty, not the mission. Find out who they are and why they were removed:

Gen. C.Q. Brown Jr:
The second Black officer to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and a combat fighter pilot with 3,100+ flight hours. He was fired in February 2025, just 16 months into a four-year term over concerns of “DEI.”

Adm. Lisa Franchetti: The first woman ever to lead the Navy and to sit on the Joint Chiefs; she'd commanded a destroyer and a carrier strike group. She was relieved the same day as Brown, with no explanation given. CNN reported Hegseth had once dismissed her as a "DEI hire."

Gen. Randy George:
The Army's top uniformed officer and a career infantryman who served in the Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Hegseth asked him to take immediate retirement in April 2026, more than a year before his term was up. No public reason was given.

Gen. Christopher Donahue:
Commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, a West Point grad and former Delta Force commander best known as the last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan in 2021. He was pushed into early retirement after Hegseth blocked an effort to extend his career while he was building the Army's new drone unit based on lessons from Ukraine. That unit is now being phased out.

Gen. Timothy Haugh:
Director of the NSA and head of U.S. Cyber Command, with more than 30 years in Air Force intelligence. He was fired in April 2025 with no official explanation — shortly after far-right activist Laura Loomer pressed Trump to remove him as "disloyal." Haugh denied any disloyalty.

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse: Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. He was ousted in August 2025 , catching agency staff off guard, after the DIA's early assessment found U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear sites had only set the program back by months, a finding that reportedly angered Trump. The Pentagon never gave an official reason.

Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield:
The U.S. military representative to the NATO Military Committee. The Pentagon relieved her in April 2025 citing a "loss of confidence in her ability to lead." She had been singled out online as supposedly "woke" in part over a 2015 Women's Equality Day presentation on gender equality.

Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore:
Chief of the Navy Reserve, with more than 30 years of service, including as deputy commander of the Sixth Fleet. She was relieved of duty in August 2025 with no public reason given. Now she’s running for Congress in South Carolina’s 1st district.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Bessent: “We struck a tinker toy radar, no biggie”

Iran: “They struck a wedding, killed 5 including a child, injured dozens more”

NY Times: *confirms it*👇🏽

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

The Trump White House has put into place a series of mechanisms to fix or invalidate the midterm elections. Congress will not save us. The courts will not save us. Our only hope — should the election be rigged or stolen — is nationwide strikes. Our only hope is to cripple the machinery of commerce and government, although this militancy will be met with savage state repression.

Otherwise, we are doomed. There will be no exit.

If the measures advocated by the Trump administration are implemented, emergency powers will be invoked to assert unprecedented federal control over voting. Federal agents will seize election materials. They have already seized ballots from previous elections.

The U.S. Postal Service will only send ballots to those included on federally approved eligibility lists drawn from state voter rolls. These rolls, subject to citizenship checks, will deny election-mail services entirely in states that refuse the administration’s demands for voter data.

Federal troops and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — with $113.5 billion in additional funding allocated by Congress through September 2029 — will be deployed to or near polling stations which have a traditional Democratic Party majority. Those branded as “anti-capitalist” and “anti-Christian” or charged with belonging to antifa will be intimidated or blocked from voting.

Trump told The New York Times in January he regretted not directing the National Guard to seize voting machines after the 2020 election. Trump not only wants to abolish mail-in ballots – Democrats vote by mail in higher numbers than Republicans – but voting machines and tabulators which allow election boards to post results on election night.

Trump and his supporters in Silicon Valley are acutely aware that the level of their corruption and disdain for democracy — unlike anything seen in U.S. history — makes them vulnerable if they lose power. They have no intention of allowing this to happen no matter how egregious the constitutional violations. They seek to extinguish the last vestiges of democracy. They believe, as PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel wrote in 2009, that “freedom and democracy” are not “compatible.”

Theil is sweeping up all our information gleaned from government tax, medical and law enforcement records. This information is being delivered to databases that can be exploited for state control and profit. Thiel and his coterie of technocratic billionaires are implementing the agenda he envisioned 16 years ago: to make technology an “alternative to politics.”

Read my full column, "The Next Election May be Our Last", at Substack — link below.

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 Pennsylvania House passes bill allowing child sex abuse victims to sue their abusers.

80 Republicans voted no.

[Caitlin of County Kerry @lynn_of_cait]

House Republicans just cancelled the last two weeks of September to avoid voting on the Epstein Files Transparency Act until after midterms

Just days ago Mike Johnson called Thomas Massie stupid for saying this would happen
#EpsteinFiles #CostofCorruption

[BigBlueWaveUSA2026® 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇦 @BigBlueWaveUSA]

Trump just ordered Mike Johnson to shut down the House Of Representatives before Thomas Massie's new #EpsteinFiles bill gets 218 signatures. Trump is terrified of naming the names in the last half of the #EpsteinFiles
Release the #TrumpEpsteinFiles NOW!!!

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Under Biden, America built factories.

Under Trump, it's mostly building data centers.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Guy stealing billions from you and running your bills up for his ego while he plays golf thinks you’re lazy

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Just a reminder that Jonathan Ross, the man who shot Renee Good in the face multiple times and then called her a fucking bitch, has not been indicted or has faced any criminal charges.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

There’s no legitimate purpose for ICE to have this information.

There are a ton of nefarious ones, though.

[jezz @JezziiB]

Blaming James Talarico for China owning so much farmland when Republicans have had full control of Texas government for 30 years is beyond insane.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Texas is funny. Republicans have been in total control for 30 years, and they always run on how they'll fix things.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Some of Ken Paxton's scandals so far:

—Offered an admitted child molester one day in jail after he repeatedly raped a young boy
—Impeached by his own party on 20 counts of corruption, bribery, abuse of public trust, and obstruction of justice
—Owns at least 15 homes across the nation worth $9 million, despite a government salary of $153k
—Accepted $77,000 from men who allegedly sexually assaulted women, exposed themselves to children, and appear in the Epstein Files
—Spent July 4th, 2026, and America's 250th birthday in London
—Fled to Utah during Texas's deadly 2021 winter storms, which killed 246 people, a disaster in which Paxton was "responsible for overseeing key aspects of the state's response"
—Only Texas official to be impeached by his own party in nearly 50 years
—Net worth increased 7,000% since taking office
—Failed to disclose he secretly purchased real estate worth millions in Hawaii, Florida, and Utah, a direct violation of Texas ethics rules
—Accepted $448,000 from data center industry executives and PACs
—Bankrolled by the family who attempted to buy Jeffrey Epstein's "Lolita Express" private jet, and the family who bought Epstein's Zorro Ranch
—Said the Uvalde shooting, in which 21 children and teachers were murdered, was part of a "plan" by "God"
—Owns a $1.6 million luxury home in Oklahoma with a private chef, masseuse, and housekeeping
—Voted against a Texas program that spent billions on cancer research
—Allegedly committed voter fraud using a false address in 6 different elections
—Protected a laboratory that tortured and killed over 400 puppies
—Charged with felony securities fraud shortly after taking office over allegations he misled investors, resulting in additional SEC charges
—Fled his own home to avoid being served with a subpoena
—Illegally appointed attorney to conduct weaponized investigation
—Reported to the FBI by his own top deputies, who alleged he was abusing his office to benefit a close friend and donor
—Currently charges families an average of $750/night to stay at his luxury Oklahoma home
—Terminated the four senior deputies who reported his misconduct to law enforcement
—Used taxpayer funds as attorney general to benefit a friend
—Took a luxury vacation to Iceland after being exposed for releasing a child molester
—Has a secretive personal fortune of $100,000 to $1 million every 18 months from a hospital cellphone tower
—Owns a $750,000 luxury home in Florida, advertised as a place to live "a true Florida lifestyle"
—Celebrated forcing women out of Texas for life-saving reproductive care
—Offered a plea deal to a child sex abuser that failed to register him as a sex offender in Texas, letting him back on the streets
—Conducted a sham investigation of his own whistleblower complaints
—Owns four luxury homes and land in Utah worth over $2 million
—Wasted taxpayer money in an effort to delay his own trial
—Staff attempted to obstruct his Texas House investigation by reportedly threatening witnesses
—Cost Texans over $6.6 million in his court judgment for retaliating against whistleblowers
—His own lawyer refused to endorse him, and endorsed James Talarico instead