The U.S. Department of Justice may file a lawsuit against the entire UC system if a settlement agreement for alleged antisemitism on UC campuses is not reached by Sept. 2.Rahimeen Shah | Staff
President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the university to restore frozen research grant funding — the most the administration has publicly sought from a university in a recent series of settlements.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and others labeled the proposed settlement an “unprecedented assault on academic freedom” in a joint statement released Aug. 8.
This move follows the suspension of $584 million in federal funding to UCLA after the U.S. Department of Justice, or DOJ, announced it found that UCLA was “deliberately indifferent to a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students in violation of the Equal Protection Clause and Title VI” in a July 29 press release.
The UC system may face a lawsuit by Sept. 2 if an agreement is not reached, according to a July 29 DOJ letter to then-UC President Michael Drake. The proposed settlement follows other settlements reached between the Trump administration and Ivy League institutions, including a $50 million settlement with Brown University and a $221 million settlement with Columbia University.
The UC Board of Regents convened an emergency meeting Aug. 11 to discuss “External Funding Litigation and Legal Issues,” according to the meeting agenda. A statement released by UC Senior Vice President of External Relations & Communications Meredith Vivian Turner described the proposed settlement payment as “devastating.”
“UC’s leadership spent recent days evaluating the demand, updating the UC community, and engaging with stakeholders,” Turner said in the statement. “Our focus remains on protecting students’ access to a UC education and promoting the academic freedom, excellence, and innovation that have always been at the heart of UC’s work.”
The joint statement released by Newsom and others claimed the DOJ’s actions “punish” California students and threaten to “cripple life-saving research,” warning that the payment would “devastate” the UC system and “sabotage” innovations that serve the nation.
The UC system contributes $82 billion to the U.S. economy each year, supporting more than 500,000 jobs nationwide, according to the statement.
“Trump has weaponized the Department of Justice to punish California, crush free thinking, and kneecap the greatest public university system in the world,” Newsom and others said in the statement.
Investigations have also been launched into UC Berkeley, whose Chancellor Rich Lyons testified before the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce on July 15 regarding campus’s response to alleged antisemitism. Presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University were previously called to testify before this committee, and their institutions have also faced billions of dollars of federal funding cuts.
Lyons acknowledged during the hearing that the country, as well as UC Berkeley, has seen a “disturbing rise in antisemitism,” stating that it is imperative that his campus works to protect its community from discrimination and harassment.
The university maintains it has taken action to end antisemitism on its campuses through reforms and programs promoting safety and combating “all forms of harassment and discrimination,” according to a UC web page titled “Combating antisemitism”. UC Berkeley has increased funding to the Antisemitism Education Initiative and developed mandatory antisemitism training for first-year students, leaders and residential assistants, according to the webpage.
“Americans across this great nation rely on the vital work of UCLA and the UC system for technologies and medical therapies that save lives, grow the U.S. economy, and protect our national security,” UC President James Milliken said in an Aug. 8 statement responding to the DOJ’s proposed $1 billion settlement.
The former president has brought dehumanizing language into American presidential politics.By Anne Applebaum
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OCTOBER 18, 2024 (TheAtlantic.com)
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Rhetoric has a history. The words democracy and tyranny were debated in ancient Greece; the phrase separation of powers became important in the 17th and 18th centuries. The word vermin, as a political term, dates from the 1930s and ’40s, when both fascists and communists liked to describe their political enemies as vermin, parasites, and blood infections, as well as insects, weeds, dirt, and animals. The term has been revived and reanimated, in an American presidential campaign, with Donald Trump’s description of his opponents as “radical-left thugs” who “live like vermin.”
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This language isn’t merely ugly or repellent: These words belong to a particular tradition. Adolf Hitler used these kinds of terms often. In 1938, he praised his compatriots who had helped “cleanse Germany of all those parasites who drank at the well of the despair of the Fatherland and the People.” In occupied Warsaw, a 1941 poster displayed a drawing of a louse with a caricature of a Jewish face. The slogan: “Jews are lice: they cause typhus.” Germans, by contrast, were clean, pure, healthy, and vermin-free. Hitler once described the Nazi flag as “the victorious sign of freedom and the purity of our blood.”
Stalin used the same kind of language at about the same time. He called his opponents the “enemies of the people,” implying that they were not citizens and that they enjoyed no rights. He portrayed them as vermin, pollution, filth that had to be “subjected to ongoing purification,” and he inspired his fellow communists to employ similar rhetoric. In my files, I have the notes from a 1955 meeting of the leaders of the Stasi, the East German secret police, during which one of them called for a struggle against “vermin activities” (there is, inevitably, a German word for this: Schädlingstätigkeiten), by which he meant the purge and arrest of the regime’s critics. In this same era, the Stasi forcibly moved suspicious people away from the border with West Germany, a project nicknamed “Operation Vermin.”
This kind of language was not limited to Europe. Mao Zedong also described his political opponents as “poisonous weeds.” Pol Pot spoke of “cleansing” hundreds of thousands of his compatriots so that Cambodia would be “purified.”
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In each of these very different societies, the purpose of this kind of rhetoric was the same. If you connect your opponents with disease, illness, and poisoned blood, if you dehumanize them as insects or animals, if you speak of squashing them or cleansing them as if they were pests or bacteria, then you can much more easily arrest them, deprive them of rights, exclude them, or even kill them. If they are parasites, they aren’t human. If they are vermin, they don’t get to enjoy freedom of speech, or freedoms of any kind. And if you squash them, you won’t be held accountable.
Until recently, this kind of language was not a normal part of American presidential politics. Even George Wallace’s notorious, racist, neo-Confederate 1963 speech, his inaugural speech as Alabama governor and the prelude to his first presidential campaign, avoided such language. Wallace called for “segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” But he did not speak of his political opponents as “vermin” or talk about them poisoning the nation’s blood. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps following the outbreak of World War II, spoke of “alien enemies” but not parasites.
In the 2024 campaign, that line has been crossed. Trump blurs the distinction between illegal immigrants and legal immigrants—the latter including his wife, his late ex-wife, the in-laws of his running mate, and many others. He has said of immigrants, “They’re poisoning the blood of our country” and “They’re destroying the blood of our country.” He has claimed that many have “bad genes.” He has also been more explicit: “They’re not humans; they’re animals”; they are “cold-blooded killers.” He refers more broadly to his opponents—American citizens, some of whom are elected officials—as “the enemy from within … sick people, radical-left lunatics.” Not only do they have no rights; they should be “handled by,” he has said, “if necessary, National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.”
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In using this language, Trump knows exactly what he is doing. He understands which era and what kind of politics this language evokes. “I haven’t read Mein Kampf,” he declared, unprovoked, during one rally—an admission that he knows what Hitler’s manifesto contains, whether or not he has actually read it. “If you don’t use certain rhetoric,” he told an interviewer, “if you don’t use certain words, and maybe they’re not very nice words, nothing will happen.”
His talk of mass deportation is equally calculating. When he suggests that he would target both legal and illegal immigrants, or use the military arbitrarily against U.S. citizens, he does so knowing that past dictatorships have used public displays of violence to build popular support. By calling for mass violence, he hints at his admiration for these dictatorships but also demonstrates disdain for the rule of law and prepares his followers to accept the idea that his regime could, like its predecessors, break the law with impunity.
These are not jokes, and Trump is not laughing. Nor are the people around him. Delegates at the Republican National Convention held up prefabricated signs: mass deportation now. Just this week, when Trump was swaying to music at a surreal rally, he did so in front of a huge slogan: trump was right about everything. This is language borrowed directly from Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist. Soon after the rally, the scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat posted a photograph of a building in Mussolini’s Italy displaying his slogan: mussolini is always right.
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These phrases have not been put on posters and banners at random in the final weeks of an American election season. With less than three weeks left to go, most candidates would be fighting for the middle ground, for the swing voters. Trump is doing the exact opposite. Why? There can be only one answer: because he and his campaign team believe that by using the tactics of the 1930s, they can win. The deliberate dehumanization of whole groups of people; the references to police, to violence, to the “bloodbath” that Trump has said will unfold if he doesn’t win; the cultivation of hatred not only against immigrants but also against political opponents—none of this has been used successfully in modern American politics.
But neither has this rhetoric been tried in modern American politics. Several generations of American politicians have assumed that American voters, most of whom learned to pledge allegiance to the flag in school, grew up with the rule of law, and have never experienced occupation or invasion, would be resistant to this kind of language and imagery. Trump is gambling—knowingly and cynically—that we are not.
Mediaite Aug 13, 2025 Anne Applebaum, staff writer for The Atlantic, has covered dictators for decades. In an interview from before the 2024 election with Mediaite’s Press Club, she told host Aidan McLaughlin that Donald Trump’s language mirrored rhetoric from Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. She described a disturbing trend in his authoritarian language — and how it foreshadowed his consolidation of “absolute power” in a second term as president.
“Those who aspired to a role on the council of Tlaxcala, far from being expected to demonstrate personal charisma or the ability to outdo rivals, did so in a spirit of self-deprecation – even shame. They were required to subordinate themselves to the people of the city. To ensure that this subordination was no mere show, each was subject to trials, starting with mandatory exposure to public abuse, regarded as the proper reward of ambition, and then – with one’s ego in tatters – a long period of seclusion, in which the aspiring politician suffered ordeals of fasting, sleep deprivation, bloodletting and a strict regime of moral instruction. The initiation ended with a ‘coming out’ of the newly constituted public servant, amid feasting and celebration.”
“Clearly, taking up office in this indigenous democracy required personality traits very different to those we take for granted in modern electoral politics. On this latter point, it is worth recalling that ancient Greek writers were well aware of the tendency for elections to throw up charismatic leaders with tyrannical pretensions. This is why they considered elections an aristocratic mode of political appointment, quite at odds with democratic principles; and why for much of European history the truly democratic way of filling offices was assumed to be by lottery.”
Describing the diversity of early human societies, the book critiques traditional narratives of history’s linear development from primitivism to civilization. Instead, The Dawn of Everything posits that humans lived in large, complex, but decentralized polities for millennia.
Since the 1970s, at least 25 women have publicly accused Donald Trump of rape, kissing and groping without consent; looking under women’s skirts; and walking in on naked teenage pageant contestants. Trump has denied all of the allegations. He has a history of insulting and belittling women when speaking to the media and on social media,[1][2] and has made lewd comments about women, disparaged their physical appearance, and referred to them using derogatory epithets.[2][3][4]
In October 2016, two days before the second presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, a 2005 “hot mic” recording surfaced in which Trump was heard saying that “when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. … Grab ’em by the pussy.”[5] The incident’s widespread media exposure led to Trump’s first public apology during the campaign[6] and caused outrage across the political spectrum.[7]
In 2025, Trump’s past friendship with Jeffrey Epstein received significant media attention following his administration’s refusal to release files relating to Epstein, despite Trump’s 2024 election campaign promises to do so.[8]
In June 2019, writer E. Jean Carroll alleged in New York magazine that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in 1995 or 1996. Two friends of Carroll stated that Carroll had previously confided in them about the incident. In November 2019, Carroll filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump.[14] Trump called the allegation fiction and denied ever meeting Carroll, despite a photo showing them together at a party in 1987 being published by the magazine.[15][16][17]
In November 2022, Carroll filed a suit against Trump for battery under the Adult Survivors Act. On May 9, 2023, a New York jury in a civil case found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against Carroll, but found him not liable for rape. They awarded Carroll US $5 million in damages.[18] In July 2023, Judge Kaplan stated that the jury had found that Trump had raped Carroll according to the common definition of the word as they had ruled that Trump had forcibly and nonconsensually penetrated Carroll’s vagina with his fingers.[19] New York state’s definition at the time defined rape as solely nonconsensual penetration of the vagina by a penis.[20] A September 2023 partial summary judgment again found Trump liable for defaming Carroll. On January 26, 2024, Trump was ordered to pay Carroll an additional $83.3 million in damages.[21]
Other litigation includes his then-wife Ivana‘s rape claim during their 1990 divorce (she later recanted);[22] businesswoman Jill Harth’s 1997 lawsuit alleging breach of contract and sexual harassment (she settled the former claim and forfeited the latter); and former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos’s claim of sexual misconduct, followed by a 2017 defamation lawsuit after Trump accused her of lying[23] (she withdrew her defamation case in 2021).[24]
The allegations by Ivana Trump and Jill Harth became public before Trump’s presidential candidacy with the rest going public after the 2005 Access Hollywood tape was leaked during the 2016 presidential campaign in which Trump was recorded bragging that a celebrity like himself “can do anything” to women, including “just start kissing them … I don’t even wait” and “grab ’em by the pussy“. Trump denied behaving that way toward women and apologized for the crude language. Many of his accusers stated that Trump’s denials provoked them into going public.
Several former Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contestants accused Trump of entering the dressing rooms of beauty pageant contestants while contestants were in various stages of undress. Trump had already referred to this practice during a 2005 interview on The Howard Stern Show, saying he could “get away with things like that” because he owned the Miss Universe franchise. In October 2019, the book All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator[a] contained 43 additional allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump.[25][26]
Ivana Trump and Donald Trump married in 1977.[22] Ivana stated in a deposition taken in 1990, during their divorce proceedings, that Donald had visited her plastic surgeon following which he had expressed anger and ripped out hair from her scalp.[22] Donald said the allegation was “obviously false”.[33] The book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald Trump (1993), by Harry Hurt III, described the alleged attack as a “violent assault” during which Donald attacked Ivana sexually.[33] According to the book, Ivana later confided to some of her friends that Donald had raped her.[33] In a statement given just before the publication of Hurt’s book, and included in the book, Ivana said:
[O]n one occasion during 1989, Mr. Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our marriage. As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent. I referred to this as a “rape”, but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.[33]
The Trumps’ divorce was granted in December 1990[34] on grounds that Donald’s treatment of Ivana, including his affair with Marla Maples, was “cruel and inhuman”.[35] According to Donald Trump’s lawyer, Jay Goldberg, this was based on Trump’s having been seen in public with Marla Maples in 1990.[34] Their settlement[b] had a confidentiality clause preventing Ivana from discussing the marriage or the divorce.[22][38] In 1992, Trump sued Ivana for not honoring a gag clause in their divorce agreement by disclosing facts about him in her best-selling book, and Trump won a gag order.[39][40][41]
Years later (after Trump began his presidential campaign), Ivana said she and Donald “are the best of friends”.[22] In a July 2015 campaign endorsement, Ivana said: “I have recently read some comments attributed to me from nearly 30 years ago at a time of very high tension during my divorce from Donald. The story is totally without merit.”[42]
Jill Harth (1992)
Jill Harth alleged that Trump assaulted her several times. Harth claimed that in December 1992, while dining with Trump and her then-boyfriend George Houraney, Trump attempted to put his hands between her legs.[22] Harth and Houraney visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in January 1993 for a contract-signing celebration. Trump, according to Harth, offered her a tour before pulling her into the empty bedroom of his daughter Ivanka. “I was admiring the decoration, and next thing I know he’s pushing me against a wall and has his hands all over me. He was trying to kiss me. I was freaking out.” Harth says she desperately protested against Trump’s advances and eventually managed to run out of the room. She and her boyfriend left rather than stay the night, as they had intended.[22] After she became engaged, Harth alleges, Trump began to stalk her.[33]
Harth filed a lawsuit in 1997 in which she accused Trump of non-consensual groping of her body, among them her “intimate private parts”,[43][44] and “relentless” sexual harassment.[45] The suit was withdrawn after Houraney settled with Trump for an undisclosed amount in a lawsuit that claimed Trump had backed out of a business deal.[22][46] She still claims to have been sexually assaulted,[22] and although he was never violent with her, she says his actions were “unwanted and aggressive, very sexually aggressive”.[33]
Following the incident, Harth said she received “a couple years of therapy”. In 2015, she contacted Trump’s campaign to get a job as a makeup artist and sell her men’s cosmetic product line. She later said, “Yes, I had moved on but had not forgotten the pain [Trump] brought into my life. I was older, wiser. Trump was married to Melania and I had hoped he was a changed man.”[47] She worked at one of Trump’s rallies as a makeup artist. Of the experience, she said: “I’m a makeup artist. The guy is a mess, OK? He really needed my services, and I’m a makeup artist that needs a job. Why would, if I was on friendly terms, why wouldn’t I try to get that job?”[33]
Harth’s lawsuit was first published in February 2016 by LawNewz.com.[48] Her case was first published in May 2016[33] in The New York Times article “Crossing the Line”.[49] Trump characterized her story in the Times as “false, malicious and libelous” and said he “strongly denies the claims”.[33] Harth stood by her charges in a July 2016 interview with The Guardian.[46] In October 2016, she said that, if sued by Trump, she intends to counter-sue.[50]
Katie Johnson/Jane Doe (1994)
In April 2016, an anonymous woman using the pseudonym “Katie Johnson” filed a lawsuit in California accusing both Trump and Jeffrey Epstein of forcibly raping her when she was 13 years old at underage sex parties at Epstein’s Manhattan residence in 1994.[51][52] The case was dismissed the following month. A second version of the lawsuit was filed in New York in June by the same woman as “Jane Doe” claiming to have been raped and sexually assaulted by the pair at four 1994 parties when she was 13.[53][54] The lawsuit was refiled in September,[55] and on November 2, Doe was scheduled to appear at a press conference at the office of Lisa Bloom before abruptly canceling; Bloom said Jane Doe had received multiple threats.[56][57]
“I loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop, but he did not,” Jane Doe wrote in a formal declaration accompanying her recent suits. “Defendant Trump responded to my pleas by violently striking me in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted. … Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened me that, were I ever to reveal any of the details of Defendant Trump’s sexual and physical abuse of me, my family and I would be physically harmed if not killed.”[54]
A July investigation by The Guardian said that the lawsuits appeared to be organized by Norm Lubow, “who has been associated in the past with a range of disputed claims involving celebrities including OJ Simpson and Kurt Cobain.”[59] Another prominent promoter of Doe’s accusation was conservative, Never-Trump activist Steve Baer.[51][60][61] Doe identified Trump from his TV show The Apprentice years after the attacks.[52]
On November 4, 2019, writer E. Jean Carroll filed a lawsuit against Trump, accusing him of defamation by claiming she lied about him raping her in 1995 or 1996. Carroll had first publicly disclosed the alleged sexual assault by Trump in June and said Trump’s reaction had directly harmed her career and reputation.[14] Carroll said she was filing this lawsuit on behalf of each woman who has faced harassment, assault, or belittlement.[62] Trump stated that her allegation was a promotion strategy for her book titled What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, where she discloses details about the alleged assault. The White House Press Secretary responded to the lawsuit claiming it was “frivolous” and that the story was fake, “just like the author”.[63]
In September 2020, the Justice Department argued that Trump had acted “within the scope” of the presidency when he called Carroll a liar, moved the case from a state court (which had recently denied Trump’s motion to delay the case) to federal court, and sought to take over his defense. During the discovery phase, Trump could have been required to testify and to provide a DNA sample. Attorney general Bill Barr cited the Westfall Act as allowing the Justice Department to defend federal employees against civil liability for acts conducted in the normal course of their duties. Barr stated the White House had requested the Justice Department action and noted that taxpayers would pay any judgment should Carroll win the case.[64][65][66][67][68] Since government employees largely enjoy immunity from defamation suits, the Justice Department argued that Trump had spoken in his official capacity as president.[69] On October 27, federal judge Lewis Kaplan rejected that argument and allowed the suit to proceed and consider Trump’s actions to be by a private citizen[70]—not an officer of a federal agency (as the Justice Department claimed), as Trump was occupying an office defined in the Constitution, which was a separate category.[71] On November 20, Kaplan ordered Trump’s prior private attorneys to resume representing him in the case.[72] On November 25, the Department of Justice appealed Judge Kaplan’s ruling in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.[73]
In June 2021, the Justice Department argued in a court brief that it should substitute itself as the defendant in the case because Trump had acted as a federal employee.[74]
Carroll filed a second lawsuit against Trump in November 2022 that renewed her claim of defamation due to additional statements Trump made and expanded her claim to battery under the Adult Survivors Act, a New York law that allows sexual-assault victims to file civil suits beyond expired statutes of limitations.[75] The trial for E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump began on April 25, 2023, in federal court at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.[76][77] On May 9, after deliberating for less than three hours, a jury of six men and three women in Manhattan federal court unanimously found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her by calling her a liar, rejecting his denial of the allegations, though they did not find Trump liable for rape. The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages.[78]
A September 2023 partial summary judgment found Trump liable for defaming Carroll through his statements he made in 2019. A trial held January 16–26, 2024 awarded an additional $83.3 million in damages to Carroll.[79]
Trump filed a countersuit against Carroll, but the judge dismissed the case and wrote that Carroll’s accusation of “rape” is “substantially true”.[80]
The $5 million judgement against Trump “for defamation and sexual abuse” was upheld on appeal on December 30, 2024.[81]
Summer Zervos (2007)
Summer Zervos was a contestant on the fifth season of The Apprentice, which filmed in 2005 and aired in 2006.[82][c] Subsequently, she contacted Trump in 2007, about a job after the show’s completion, and he invited her to meet him at The Beverly Hills Hotel. Zervos has said that Trump was sexually suggestive during their meeting, kissing her open-mouthed, groping her breasts,[82] and thrusting his genitals on her.[84] She also said that his behavior was aggressive and not consensual.[83] Zervos was represented by attorney Gloria Allred,[85] and later by Beth Wilkinson and Moira Penza, with whom she chose to end the case in 2021.[86]
John Barry, her cousin and a Trump supporter, has said Zervos talked to her family and friends about Trump, promoting his candidacy and stating how Trump had helped her out in her life. Barry said that during the presidential primary campaign, Zervos invited Trump to her restaurant, and he declined.[85][87] In October 2016, the Trump presidential campaign released an email by Zervos, sent to Trump’s secretary in April 2016, in which she stated: “I would greatly appreciate reconnecting at this time. He will know my intentions are genuine.” Zervos said she had intended to confront Trump and give him the “opportunity to clear the air”. On April 21, she sent another email to Trump’s assistant which she asked to be forwarded to Trump, in which she stated: “I have been incredibly hurt by our previous interaction.”[87]
On January 17, 2017, Zervos filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump, arising from his statement that she had lied about the allegations.[88][89]Marc Kasowitz is defending Trump in the case.[90] Zervos has filed a subpoena for “all documents concerning any woman who asserted that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately”.[91] On March 21, 2018, a New York Supreme Court judge decided to allow a defamation lawsuit against the President to go forward.[92][93][94] On June 4, 2018, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Schecter ruled that Trump must be deposed by January 31, 2019.
As of September 9, 2018, Trump was to provide written answers under oath in the defamation lawsuit.[95]
On March 14, 2019, a New York appeals court rejected President Trump’s argument that the Constitution makes him immune from state lawsuits, clearing the way for a defamation suit.[96][97] On November 2, 2019, Trump agreed to submit to questioning under oath by January 31, 2020.[98]
In January 2020, a New York intermediate appellate court put the defamation lawsuit on hold, until a New York court of appeals could decide the fate of the case. The case hold meant that the January 31, 2020, deadline for Trump to testify was also put on hold.[99]
In February 2021, following Trump’s defeat in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Zervos refiled the lawsuit, arguing that Trump can no longer make the legal argument that presidential immunity protects him from litigation, as he is no longer president. On March 30, 2021, the New York state Court of Appeals ruled in her favor.[100] Trump was instructed to provide a deposition by December 23, 2021.[101] On November 12, Zervos withdrew from the case. Her attorneys said that Trump did not pay her to withdraw and that she “has secured the right to speak freely about her experience”.[86]
Alva Johnson (2016)
On February 25, 2019, Alva Johnson filed a lawsuit against Trump, alleging he had forcibly kissed her at a rally in Florida in August 2016 while she was working on his 2016 presidential campaign.[102] Johnson said two people—including Pam Bondi, then the attorney general of Florida—saw the kiss, but both denied seeing it.[103] According to an interview with Teen Vogue, Johnson decided to stop working for the Trump campaign after the media started covering the Access Hollywood tape. She declared sick days until she could speak to a lawyer.[104] In addition to the “unwanted sexual attention”, the lawsuit also alleges that Johnson was “a victim of race and gender discrimination through unequal pay”.[104][105] In response, White House press secretarySarah Huckabee Sanders called the lawsuit “absurd on its face”.[103]
On June 14, 2019, the trial court dismissed the complaint without prejudice to allow Johnson to plead a count for battery without any descriptions of Trump’s other alleged acts of sexual battery, and to provide necessary details regarding claims of discrimination.[106][107][108] On September 4, 2019, Johnson filed a notice that she was not filing an amended complaint, ending the lawsuit.[106] Johnson decided to drop the lawsuit because she was “facing a judge who openly questions whether the kiss is worthy of a federal lawsuit and has determined that Mr. Trump’s history of such behavior is not relevant, and I’ve endured ongoing threats to my safety.”[109]
The New York Times May 2016 story
In May 2016, The New York Times published the article “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved with Women in Private”. For the article, Times reporters Michael Barbaro and Megan Twohey conducted 50 interviews with women who had known Trump socially, during their professional career, or while modeling or competing for a beauty pageant title.[49]
Their accounts—many relayed here in their own words—reveal unwelcome romantic advances, unending commentary on the female form, a shrewd reliance on ambitious women, and unsettling workplace conduct, according to the interviews, as well as court records and written recollections. The interactions occurred in his offices at Trump Tower, at his homes, at construction sites and backstage at beauty pageants. They appeared to be fleeting, unimportant moments to him, but they left lasting impressions on the women who experienced them.
Other women interviewed for the story, a few of whom had worked for Trump, stated they had not received unwanted advances and “they had never known Mr. Trump to objectify women or treat them with disrespect.” Jill Martin, a vice president and assistant counsel at the company, said Trump was supportive of her and her role as a mother. Laura Kirilova Chukanov, a Bulgarian immigrant and 2009 Miss USA pageant contestant, said Trump helped her make connections for a documentary she was working on about her home country.[49]
Rowanne Brewer Lane, Trump’s former girlfriend, was quoted at length in the article and was featured in the opening anecdote. Following the article’s publication, Brewer Lane accused The New York Times of taking her quotes out of context and said she was “flattered” and not insulted by Trump. Trump spokesperson Barry Bennett responded to the story by stating: “They talked to 50 women and managed to put seven or eight in the story. Over half of them had great things to say. The one that had great things to say, they twisted it and called her debased which is not how she feels.” The New York Times defended the story and said Brewer Lane was “quoted fairly, accurately and at length”.[110]
Recording controversy and second 2016 presidential debate
Billy Bush was recorded having “an extremely lewd conversation about women” with Trump in 2005.
Two days before the second 2016 presidential debate, the 2005 Access Hollywood tape was released, which records Trump’s having “an extremely lewd conversation about women” in which he described being able to kiss and grope women because he was “a star”: “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it, you can do anything … grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”[111] Many attorneys and media commentators have said Trump’s statements described sexual assault.[d]
On October 7, Trump released a video statement in which he stated, “I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize.” He called the development a distraction and attempted to deflect attention to the Clintons, and in particular sexual assault scandals involving Bill Clinton. Republican critics called on him to withdraw from the presidential race.[111]
During the second debate, Anderson Cooper asked Trump if he understood that he had bragged about sexually assaulting women. Cooper used the Justice Department’s sexual assault definition to include “any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient”.[121][122] Trump denied having said that he had sexually assaulted women.[122][123] He claimed the comments were merely “locker room talk“, then, after being asked three times whether he had ever kissed or groped any person without consent, he said “no I have not”.[123] Several of his subsequent accusers said this was the moment at which they were motivated to come forward.[124][125][126]
Public allegations since 2016
Jessica Leeds (1980s)
In the early 1980s, Leeds was a businesswoman at a paper company on a flight from the Midwest, returning to New York. A flight attendant offered her an empty seat in the first-class cabin next to Trump. Leeds alleged that about 45 minutes after takeoff, Trump lifted the armrest and began touching her, grabbing her breasts, and tried to put his hand up her skirt. “He was like an octopus,” she said. “His hands were everywhere. It was an assault.”[124][127] Leeds said she had sent a letter containing her allegations to the editor of The New York Times.[when?][33][124] Her story was printed by The New York Times in October 2016, along with the account from Rachel Crooks.[124]
Trump spokesman Jason Miller responded to the allegation calling it “fiction”. Miller stated the charges were politically motivated “for this to only become public decades later in the final month of a campaign for president should say it all”. Trump publicly threatened to sue the Times over the newspaper’s publication of the allegation, and demanded a retraction.[128][129] The Times rejected Trump’s retraction demand,[129][130] and Trump never followed through on his threat to take legal action against the company.[131] An alleged witness to the case who claimed he saw “nothing untoward” upon the flight was former British Conservative county councillor from Gloucestershire, Anthony Gilberthorpe. Gilberthorpe has previously made false allegations against politicians.[132]
Kristin Anderson (1990s)
On October 14, 2016, The Washington Post reported an allegation by Kristin Anderson.[133] Anderson said that Trump groped her beneath her skirt in a Manhattan nightclub in the early 1990s. An aspiring model at the time of the alleged incident, Anderson told the story to her friends, and decided to come forward after reading accounts of other women who had done so.[133] Anderson believed the alleged assault occurred at the China Club, a Manhattan nightclub that Newsday referred to as “Donald’s Monday-night nest” due to his alleged habit of picking up women there.[133]
Williams told The Guardian that Trump and Epstein had been “really, really good friends and spent a lot of time together.”[134] In 2017, Epstein had told journalist Michael Wolff that he had been Donald Trump’s “closest friend for 10 years”.[137]
Lisa Boyne (1996)
On October 13, 2016, The Huffington Post reported an allegation by Lisa Boyne.[138] Boyne said Sonja Morgan (then Sonja Tremont) invited her to a dinner with Trump, modeling agent John Casablancas, and five or six models. Boyne alleged that Trump made the models walk across the table, looked under their skirts, and described if they were wearing underwear. Morgan told The Huffington Post that the dinner took place with those participants, did not recall lewd behaviour by Trump, and said: “But I have been known to dance on tables.” Boyne said she called her roommate Karen Beatrice that night to inform her about the incident. The Huffington Post contacted Beatrice, who denied any such call.[138]
Cathy Heller (1997)
On October 15, 2016, The Guardian reported an allegation by Cathy Heller that she was grabbed and kissed by Donald Trump two decades earlier.[139] Heller said that, in 1997, she met Trump when she attended a Mother’s Day brunch with her children, her husband, and her husband’s parents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Her parents-in-law were members of Mar-a-Lago. Heller was introduced to Trump, who became angry when she avoided a kiss. He then “grabbed” her and, when he tried to kiss her, she turned her head. Trump kissed her on the side of the mouth “for a little too long” and then he left her.[139][140]
Heller’s husband and children, who were present during the event, have corroborated her account. In the summer of 2015, the members of Heller’s mahjong group heard Heller’s account of the 1997 incident; this was not long after Trump announced his candidacy.[141] She decided to go public after seeing the second presidential debate on October 9, 2016. Heller is a registered Democrat, and public supporter of Hillary Clinton.[139]
Trump campaign spokesperson Jason Miller said Heller’s account is “false” and “politically motivated”.[141]
Temple Taggart McDowell (1997)
In May 2016, The New York Times reported allegations by Temple Taggart McDowell.[142] McDowell, who was Miss Utah USA in 1997, accused Trump of unwanted kisses and embraces that left McDowell and one of her chaperones so uncomfortable, according to McDowell, that she claimed she was instructed not to be left in a room alone with him again. According to McDowell, a chaperone had accompanied her to Trump’s office.[142] At the time, McDowell was 21 and was known as Temple Taggart.[33] This incident occurred in Trump’s first year of ownership of the Miss USA contest.[33]
McDowell told her story initially to The New York Times in May 2016[142] which was published in the “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private” article.[49] She had not intended to speak publicly about the incidents again, but she received numerous calls recently due to the “Crossing the Line” article and felt, as a mother, that it is essential to share a message about unwanted advances: “You have the right to say no. You have the right to get out of there. You have the right to leave, and you have the right to make them feel uncomfortable if they’re making you feel uncomfortable,” she said. Trump said he did not know her and denied McDowell’s claims.[142] He also told The New York Times he is “reluctant to kiss strangers on the lips”.[33]
Taggart McDowell said she is a Republican and did not come out with the allegation in order to support Hillary Clinton.[143]
Amy Dorris (1997)
Former model Amy Dorris said in September 2020 that she and her boyfriend, Jason Binn, attended the 1997 U.S. Open with Donald Trump, who Binn had described as his best friend. She alleges that Trump groped and kissed her without her consent at the event:
She accused Trump of forcing his tongue down her throat, touching her all over her body and holding her in a grip from which she could not escape, while ignoring her pleas to stop. ‘His hands were very gropey and all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything,’ she said, recalling how she used her teeth to try to force his tongue out of her mouth. ‘I felt trapped.’ … ‘It felt like there were tentacles on me that I couldn’t rip off,’ she said. ‘I was trying to get his arms off of me and they would not come off because I wasn’t strong enough.’[144]
The Guardian confirmed that she told her mother and a friend in New York immediately after the incident and that she had told her therapist and several other friends about it over the years. Trump denied the allegation via his lawyers.[145] Former top model Caron Bernstein stated that her husband was the New York friend and that Dorris had told her about the assault in 2008.[146]
Karena Virginia (1998)
At an October 2016 press conference with attorney Gloria Allred, yoga instructor and life coach Karena Virginia said that in 1998 Trump grabbed her arm and touched her breast. Virginia, who was 27 years old at the time, was waiting for a ride after the US Open in Queens, New York.[147] She said Trump, whom she had not met previously, approached her with a small group of other men, while commenting on her legs, then he grabbed her right arm. Virginia continued, “Then his hand touched the right side of my breast. I was in shock. I flinched. ‘Don’t you know who I am? Don’t you know who I am?’—that’s what he said to me. I felt intimidated and I felt powerless.”[147]
Trump campaign spokesperson Jessica Ditto responded to the allegation with a statement reading in part, “Discredited political operative Gloria Allred, in another coordinated, publicity seeking attack with the Clinton campaign, will stop at nothing to smear Mr. Trump.”[148]
Karen Johnson (early 2000s)
In Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy’s book All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator, Karen Johnson alleged that she attended a New Year’s Eve party at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, where Trump grabbed her by her genitals, pulled her behind a tapestry, and forcibly kissed her. Johnson also alleged that days after the incident, Trump repeatedly called her (without her giving him the phone number), offering to fly her to meet him, which she rejected. The book states that Johnson told a friend about the incident years before Trump ran for president.[149][150]
Mindy McGillivray (2003)
In an October 2016 article by The Palm Beach Post, Mindy McGillivray stated that in January 2003, when she was 23 years old, she was groped by Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate.[33][126] She said, “All of a sudden I felt a grab, a little nudge. I think it’s [my friend Ken Davidoff’s] camera bag, that was my first instinct. I turn around and there’s Donald. He sort of looked away quickly.”[33] Ken Davidoff, a photographer, corroborated McGillivray’s account, saying he remembered her pulling him aside moments after the alleged incident to say “Donald just grabbed my ass!”[126]
McGillivray said she “chose to stay quiet”[123] and never reported the incident to authorities. She had shared details of the incident only with close family and friends until she heard Trump deny such behavior during the second presidential debate on October 9, 2016.[126]Hope Hicks, Trump’s press secretary, said McGillivray’s allegations lacked “any merit or veracity” and were untruthful.[123]
Ken Davidoff’s brother, Darryl Davidoff, said he was also present at the time at Mar-a-Lago and that in his opinion McGillivray is lying.[151][152] According to Darryl: “I do not believe it really happened. Nobody saw it happen and she just wanted to be in the limelight.”[151][e]
Rachel Crooks (2005)
In 2005, Rachel Crooks was a 22-year-old receptionist at Bayrock Group, a real estate investment and development company in Trump Tower in Manhattan. She says she encountered Trump in an elevator in the building one morning and turned to introduce herself. They shook hands, but Trump would not let go. Instead, he began kissing her cheeks, then directly on the mouth.[124][127] “It was so inappropriate,” Crooks recalled in an interview. “I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that.”[127] Her story was printed by The New York Times in October 2016, along with that of Jessica Leeds.[124] Trump has disputed Crooks’ claims,[33] writing on Twitter, “Who would do this in a public space with live security cameras running?”[153] Crooks is a public supporter and donor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.[127]
Natasha Stoynoff (2005)
Canadian author and journalist Natasha Stoynoff, who wrote for People magazine and, previously, the Toronto Star and Toronto Sun, went to Trump’s Florida estate in December 2005 to interview him and his wife, Melania. While there, Trump gave Stoynoff a tour of the Mar-a-Lago estate. She says that during this tour, he pushed her against a wall and forced his tongue into her mouth.[33][123]
Stoynoff described the alleged episode, “We walked into that room alone, and Trump shut the door behind us. I turned around, and within seconds he was pushing me against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat … I was stunned. And I was grateful when Trump’s longtime butler burst into the room a minute later, as I tried to unpin myself.”[125] Stoynoff composed herself and conducted the interview,[33] after which she said Trump repeatedly told her, “We’re going to have an affair, I’m telling you.”[123][125] Melania was also interviewed for that article.[125]
Trump sent out a tweet on October 13, 2016, in which he said it had not happened and wondered why she had not mentioned the event in her People article of 2005.[33] Stoynoff responded that she had become angry when Trump denied assaulting women during the presidential debate and was triggered by the release of the Access Hollywood recording in early October. Until that point, she said, she had conflicting emotions common among victims of assault, combined with embarrassment and confusion. J.D. Heyman, People‘s deputy editor, said: “It was disorienting for her. She felt a great deal of worry and distress about it. Then she felt angry.”[154]
That same day, Melania’s lawyer demanded an apology from People magazine, stating that Melania did not say some or all of what was quoted in the People article by Stoynoff published on October 12, 2016; Melania specifically denied Stoynoff’s claim that she’d run into her on Fifth Avenue following the article’s publication.[155] In an interview with Anderson Cooper that aired October 17 on CNN, Melania again denied having crossed paths with Stoynoff on Fifth Avenue, as stated in Stoynoff’s article. The following day, People published the account of Liza Herz. Herz said she witnessed the sidewalk encounter between Stoynoff and Melania Trump; Herz’ account corroborated that of Stoynoff.[156]
On October 18, People produced six corroborating witnesses who said Stoynoff had recounted the incident to them around the time it occurred.[156] The six witnesses were: “two editors from People, Mary Green and Liz McNeil; a professor of journalism, Paul McLaughlin; a co-worker; and two personal friends of Ms. Stoynoff”.[157]
Trump’s former butler at Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Anthony Senecal, was asked about the 2005 incident in which Stoynoff alleged that the butler had “burst in” on Trump while she was pinned down by him; Senecal denied it ever happened, stating that as a butler “I don’t burst in. I knock, then I go in, usually after someone says ‘come in’,” further alleging “And when I went in, there was nothing strange about where she was standing.”[158][159] According to Senecal, the alleged incident took place in an old massage room with windows all around which made it unsuitable to grope anyone since there was no privacy.[158]
Juliet Huddy (2005 or 2006)
In early December 2017, the reporter Juliet Huddy said Trump kissed her on the lips while they were on an elevator in Trump Tower with Trump’s security guard in 2005 or 2006. Regarding this incident, Huddy said “I was surprised that he went for the lips. But I didn’t feel threatened … Whatever, everything was fine. It was a weird moment. He never tried anything after that, and I was never alone with him.”[160][161]
Jessica Drake (2006)
On October 22, 2016, Jessica Drake and attorney Gloria Allred held a news conference in which Drake accused Trump of having sexually assaulted her by grabbing tightly in a hug and kissed her and two acquaintances nearly ten years prior. Drake, an adult film actress and sex education advocate, said she met Trump at her company’s booth during a charity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe in 2006. Drake claims she was invited to meet with Trump, who was married at the time, at his hotel suite; she was “uncomfortable going alone” and brought two friends. Describing the meeting with Trump, Drake recounted that “He grabbed each of us tightly, in a hug and kissed each one of us without asking permission.”[162] Drake said she and her friends left the suite after 30–45 minutes. Shortly thereafter, Drake claims she received phone calls from Trump or his associate, requesting that she join him in his suite for $10,000, and offering to fly her on his jet back to Los Angeles. She said she declined his offers.[162]
During the news conference, Drake said, “I am not looking for monetary compensation. I do not need additional fame … I understand that I may be called a liar or an opportunist but I will risk that in order to stand in solidarity with women who share similar accounts.”[162][163] During the news conference, Gloria Allred held up a picture showing Trump and Drake standing together at the time.[162]
In response to Drake’s allegations, the Trump campaign stated that her story is “false and ridiculous”, that “[t]he picture is one of thousands taken out of respect for people asking to have their picture taken with Mr. Trump” but Trump did not know Drake and “would have no interest in ever knowing her”, and that the story was “just another attempt by the Clinton campaign to defame a candidate”.[164] Donald Trump appeared to dismiss the significance of the accusation because of Drake’s line of work, saying, “Oh, I’m sure she’s never been grabbed before.”[165][166]
Ninni Laaksonen (2006)
On October 27, 2016, a local Finnish tabloid, Ilta-Sanomat, reported an allegation by Ninni Laaksonen, Miss Finland 2006.[167] Laaksonen appeared with Trump on the Late Show with David Letterman on July 26, 2006.[168] Laaksonen claims that before they went on the air, Trump grabbed her buttocks. As Laaksonen describes the interaction: “He really grabbed my butt. I don’t think anybody saw it but I flinched and thought: “What is happening?”[168] Someone later told Laaksonen that Trump liked her because she looked like his wife, Melania, when she was younger.[169][170][171]
Laaksonen revealed her account to a local Finnish tabloid, Ilta-Sanomat, which had contacted her regarding the level of professionalism involved in Donald Trump’s handling of his employees within the Miss Universe pageant. The story was published on October 27, 2016.[167]
Cassandra Searles (2013)
In October 2016, Rolling Stone and NPR reported Trump fondled Cassandra Searles, Miss Washington USA of 2013, without her consent during the Miss USA pageant of that year.[33][172] In June 2016, Searles wrote that Trump invited her to his hotel room.[33]Yahoo! News published an article in June 2016[33] stating that Searles had made Facebook postings that accused Trump of making unwanted advances. She said he was “continually” groping her buttocks and had asked her to go “to his hotel room”.[33][172][173] Searles also asserted that Trump had “treated us like cattle”.[173] Trump and his campaign have not specifically responded to Searles’ allegations.[33]
Allegations of underage sex parties
On October 25, 2016, allegations were made by two men stating that Trump had attended and partaken in sex parties filled with underage minor females as young as 15 years old who were induced with promises of career advancement.[174] Illegal drugs were also alleged to have been provided to the minors.[175]
One man was identified as model and actor Andy Lucchesi, while the other was identified as a fashion photographer who spoke on condition of anonymity. Both men claim to have been acquaintances of Trump during that decade, which one described as his “Trump days”.[174]
Lucchesi, for his part, claimed that he saw Trump engage in sexual activity with the girls but did not witness him taking illicit drugs. Regarding the age of the girls, Lucchesi said he himself never specifically asked about their ages, only remarking of the attendees “a lot of girls, [aged] 14, look 24.”[176]
Pageant dressing room visits
Trump owned the Miss Universe franchise, which includes Miss USA and Miss Teen USA, from 1996 to 2015.[142][172] In a Howard Stern interview in 2005, he said he made a practice of walking into the contestants’ dressing rooms unannounced while the women were undressed:
I’ll go backstage before a show, and everyone’s getting dressed and ready and everything else. …You know, no men are anywhere. And I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant. And therefore I’m inspecting it. … Is everyone OK? You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. And you see these incredible-looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that. But no, I’ve been very good.[172][177]
In that interview, Trump declined to say whether he had slept with any contestants, saying, “It could be a conflict of interest”. Stern then imitated a foreign contestant (“Mr. Trump, in my country, we say hello with vagina”), and Trump jokingly responded, “Well, you could also say, as the owner of the pageant, it’s your obligation to do that.”[178][172]
Miss Teen USA contestants (1997)
Mariah Billado, Miss Vermont Teen USA, is one of five women to mention such a dressing room visit incident in 1997.[179] Billado said of the visit: “I remember putting on my dress really quick, because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here.’ Trump, she recalled, said something like, ‘Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.'”[33] Billado recalled talking to Ivanka, Trump’s daughter, who responded “Yeah, he does that.”[33] Victoria Hughes, Miss New Mexico Teen USA, also said Trump did conduct a dressing room visit, and that the youngest contestant there was 15.[179] The dressing room had 51 contestants, each with their own stations. Eleven girls said they did not see Trump enter the dressing room, though some said it was possible that he had entered while they were somewhere else, or that they did not notice.[127][172][180]
Trump’s campaign stated the allegations of his entering the dressing room “have no merit and have already been disproven by many other individuals who were present”.[181]
Bridget Sullivan (2000)
In 2000, Bridget Sullivan was Miss New Hampshire USA. As she prepared for a television broadcast, Trump allegedly walked into the dressing room. She told BuzzFeed he was coming to wish the contestants good luck, but they “were all naked”. Some contestants that night do not remember his entering while the ladies prepared and other contestants mentioned that they had no negative experiences with Trump. A spokesman for Trump said Sullivan’s claims were “totally false”.[33]
Tasha Dixon (2001)
Tasha Dixon, Miss Arizona USA 2001, told a CBS affiliate in Los Angeles that in 2001, “[Trump] just came strolling right in. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless, other girls were naked.” She said that having been walked in on when the women had little or no clothes put them in a “very physically vulnerable position, and then to have the pressure of the people that work for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him …” Another contestant, Miss California USA 2009 Carrie Prejean Boller, told the same CBS affiliate it was wrong to paint Trump that way.[182] Trump’s response, provided through spokeswoman Jessica Ditto, is that: “These accusations have no merit and have already been disproven by many other individuals who were present,” and Ditto adds that she believes there is a political motivation behind the accusation.[33]
Unnamed contestants (2001)
An unnamed Miss USA contestant said that in 2001 Trump walked into her dressing room unannounced while she and another contestant were undressed. She told The Guardian Trump “just barged right in, didn’t say anything, stood there and stared at us. … He didn’t walk in and say, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry, I was looking for someone.’ He walked in, he stood and he stared. He was doing it because he knew that he could.” Another contestant told The Guardian the contestant had spoken to others of this event at the time.[33]
Samantha Holvey (2006)
On October 14, 2016, Samantha Carol Holvey, Miss North Carolina USA 2006, related that “Trump’s conduct was ‘creepy’ around the women participating but he never made an advance toward her.” She also said that before pageant events, Trump had “moved into areas where she and other contestants were getting ready”, and that she had “never been around men that were like that”.[183]
More than a year after Trump was elected president, and after many high-profile men, such as Harvey Weinstein, had lost their jobs because of sexual harassment allegations, Holvey wrote: “You can’t work in Hollywood if you’re a sexual predator, but you can become the commander-in-chief?” She then related how Trump made her feel very uncomfortable at the 2006 Miss USA pageant: “He eyed me like a piece of meat. I was shocked and disgusted. I have never felt so objectified. I left the meet-and-greet hoping that this would be my one and only encounter with him.” She also described how he had come backstage unannounced, with Melania Trump: “I was shocked—again—by this violation of our personal space. What was he doing, coming backstage when we were still getting dressed?”[184]
For around 15 years, Trump maintained a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, and those who knew them at the time said they would frequently hit on and compete for young women. Trump and Epstein met sometime around 1990 when Epstein bought a mansion two miles north of Mar-a-Lago which Trump had purchased five years earlier in 1985. In 1992, NBC News cameras saw the two partying with a group of Buffalo Bills cheerleaders.[8] Trump invited NBC News to film a party he threw for himself and Epstein at Mar-a-Lago, where they joined various NFL cheerleaders. NBC News revealed footage of the party in July 2019, showing Trump, Epstein and the cheerleaders. At one point during the video, Trump grabbed a woman around her waist, pulled her against his body, and patted her buttocks. At another point, Trump appears to tell Epstein: “Look at her, back there … She’s hot.”[185][186][187] Also during the footage, Trump was seen dancing with a crowd of young women and whispering in Epstein’s ear.[8]
Months later, Trump and Epstein held a “calendar girl competition” where Trump and Epstein were the only guests according to George Houraney who arranged the event.[8] In 1997, Jill Harth dropped a sexual misconduct lawsuit against Trump from the “calendar girl competition” where she alleged Trump took her into a bedroom and forcibly kissed and fondled her, and restrained her from leaving. Trump and Epstein were also spotted at a 1997 Victoria’s Secret “Angels” party in Manhattan.[8]
Court records showed that Trump flew on Epstein’s private jet at least seven times over four years in the 1990s.[8]
A 2002 article in New York magazine quoted Trump talking about Epstein: “I’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, Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”[189] In a 2017 recording, Epstein stated that he was “Donald’s closest friend for ten years.”[190][191]
The two had a falling out in 2004.[8] They reportedly became rivals when they both wanted to purchase the same oceanfront mansion in Florida. In another account, they parted ways when Epstein made advances towards the daughter of a Mar-a-Lago member.[192]Luke Broadwater reports for The New York Times that no evidence exists that Trump and Epstein communicated after 2004.[193]
Post-friendship lawsuits
A federal lawsuit filed in California in April 2016 against Trump and Jeffrey Epstein by a California woman alleged that the two men sexually assaulted her at a series of parties at Epstein’s Manhattan residence in 1994 when she was 13 years old. The suit was dismissed by a federal judge in May 2016 because it did not raise valid claims under federal law. The woman filed another federal suit in New York in June 2016, but it was withdrawn three months later, apparently without being served on the defendants. A third federal suit was filed in New York in September 2016.[194][195]
The two latter suits included affidavits by an anonymous witness who attested to the accusations in the suits, asserting Epstein employed her to procure underage girls for him, and an anonymous person who declared the plaintiff had told him/her about the assaults at the time they occurred. The plaintiff, who had filed anonymously as Jane Doe, was scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles press conference six days before the 2016 election, but abruptly canceled the event; her lawyer Lisa Bloom asserted that the woman had received threats. The suit was dropped on November 4, 2016. Trump attorney Alan Garten denied the allegations, while Epstein declined to comment.[196][54][197]
2025 developments
According to a post published by Elon Musk on June 6, 2025, as part of the Trump–Musk feud, Trump appeared in the files related to Jeffrey Epstein. He stated it was the real reason why the files have not been made public.[198] Trump’s relationship with Epstein received significant media attention in 2025 due to the unwillingness of the Trump administration to release files relating to Epstein, despite Trump’s earlier promises to do so during the 2024 campaign.[199] Trump received significant amounts of blowback from the media, the public, and even many of his supporters for this decision. While Trump has attempted to distance himself from Epstein and downplay their association, some of the MAGA movement’s most fervent supporters have grown increasingly vocal in demanding the release of Epstein-related files, leading to visible fractures within his support base.[200][201][202]
After U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and other Trump officials had for months teased the imminent release of incendiary information (the “Jeffrey Epstein client list“) from FBI records of the investigation into Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, Bondi stated in a memo released in July 2025 that there was no evidence that Epstein had such a list or that he had blackmailed prominent individuals. The memo also confirmed that Epstein had committed suicide while in custody.[203] The announcement caused an uproar among some of Trump’s most fervent supporters who had bought into the conspiracy theory that Epstein was at the center of “a cabal of powerful men and celebrities, largely Democrats” and that the government had covered it up.[204] In social media posts, Trump said the continuing demands for release of the files were a hoax perpetrated by Democrats, and that his supporters pressing for release were “stupid”, “foolish”, and “past supporters”.[205][206]
On July 17, 2025, The Wall Street Journal published a story about Trump sending a “bawdy” letter to Epstein in 2003 celebrating his 50th birthday. The letter was collected by Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, for a leather-bound photo album sometime before 2006, and was among the documents examined by the Justice Department who investigated Epstein and Maxwell years ago. The letter, which bared Trump’s signature, featured several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, apparently hand-drawn in a heavy marker. The Wall Street Journal described Trump’s “squiggly” signature below the woman’s waist as mimicking pubic hair. The letter concluded: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret”.[207] On July 18, Trump filed a libel lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal in the Southern District of Florida for two counts of defamation for $10 billion each, for a total of $20 billion dollars, calling the story “false, defamatory, unsubstantiated, and disparaging”.[208]
On July 29, 2025, when answering a follow-up question from a reporter regarding the nature of the pair’s falling out, Trump noted that Epstein had hired away spa attendants at Mar-a-Lago. When asked if one of the spa attendant’s was Virginia Giuffre, Trump stated: “I think so. I think that was one of the people. He stole her.”[209]
Other incidents
In a 1998 interview with Chris Matthews, two years before his 2000 presidential campaign, Trump said that his history with women could prove to be an issue in the event of a future presidential campaign, saying “Can you imagine how controversial I’d be?…You think about (Bill Clinton) with the women. How about me with the women? Can you imagine?”[210]
CNN posted a video in 2016 describing various sexually suggestive comments that Trump has made publicly about his daughter Ivanka.[211]
Trump’s top strategist, Steve Bannon, said that Trump lawyer “Marc Kasowitz ‘took care’ of 100 women during the [2016] presidential campaign”.[212]
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Meet the next Mayor of New York City — Zohran Mamdani! I often live on the street where he’s standing in this clip below. Take 30 seconds and watch him tell the evildoers — i.e., the corrupt Landlords — what he’s going to do to them:
That’s right. This is the 33-year old candidate whom the majority of New Yorkers voted for in the June Primary! In a landslide!
Mamdani — the Democratic Socialist! (Sorry, I just like shouting “BOO!!!” at the filthy rich every now and then because the only word that scares them more than “TAXES!!!” or “TAP WATER!!!” is “SOCIALISM!”)
And Mamdani’s a Muslim! Who rightly calls what Israel is doing “a genocide.” He wants the US to stop funding and arming it. He supports — as does most of the world — the international boycott, divestment and sanctioning of Israel for its war crimes.
And now, for the part that the media has buried:
Here in this place, the city so nice they named it twice(!), New York, New York — the largest Jewish city in the world outside of Israel — the latest polls show Mr. Mamdani is poised to win the Jewish Vote in a landslide come November. According to a poll last week by Zenith Research, 43% of all Jewish voters are voting for Mamdani.
Only 26% say they would vote for Cuomo who, after losing the Primary, is now running as an independent.
In fact, almost one-quarter of all Orthodox Jewish voters plan to vote for Mamdani.
In July, Cuomo was recorded at a private event at a synagogue admitting and lamenting how badly he had lost to Mamdani, saying:
“I would wager that in the primary, more than 50% of the Jewish people voted for Mamdani.”
The way we win — and the way Mamdani won — is with a class-based economic message that promises affordable housing, a livable wage, no one goes hungry and there are free buses like they have in Boston, Baltimore, Savannah, Missoula, Albuquerque, Tucson, Raleigh, Richmond and two dozen other U.S. cities. Imagine in the town or city where you live if someone like this was your Mayor.
And why not!
I swear there is a Zohran Mamdani where you live. She is personable, inspiring, smart, a hard worker and an organizer who will bring out the vote. You need to find that person and get them to run. Or maybe you’re that person!
Whatever the case, we’ve been exposed to so many pathetic politicians over the years, that this section of our brains, when it hears the word “candidate,” it sees a picture of Mitch McConnell or Eric Adams or Kristi Noem.
The Truth is, when a competent progressive runs for office, they often win. That’s because most of the voting public already takes the liberal or progressive position on most issues (read the facts here). In the rural town where I spend much of my time, in the 2016 Democratic Primary, Bernie not only won the state of Michigan, he won my town by a vote of 65% for Sanders and 33% for Clinton. I can swear there aren’t more than 6 people locally who would call themselves a “socialist.”Upgrade to paid
Many of you would be surprised by how well you’d do if you ran. And if not you, then convince the beloved coach of the high school girls basketball team to run! Or a hometown hero who saved the community swimming pool! Or that Iraq War vet who came back and told the people at his church “Bush lied to us. There were no weapons of mass destruction. And Saddam had ZERO to do with 9/11!” Your neighbors admired his honesty and courage. They’d all vote for him.
But back to New York City. Mamdani isn’t the Mayor yet. He has to win the General Election in November. The ultra rich are forming a dozen PACs and have already raised millions of dollars to stop Mamdani at all costs. The old guard of the Democratic (“We Lose Elections!”) Party have refused to endorse Mamdani — even though he won the DEMOCRATIC primary! Chuck Schumer. Hakeem Jeffries. Governor Kathy Hochul. Senator Hillary Clinton. President Bill Clinton. Not one of them has endorsed him. Proving once again how out of touch they are and begging to lose more races next year. It’s absolutey disgusting to see these Democratic “leaders” trying to crush Mamdani’s candidacy. The New York Times announced last year that they would no longer endorse candidates in local elections — but then they decided that Mamdani was such a threat that, just days before the election, they endorsed the idea that no one should vote for him — a desperate attempt to defeat him with no chance for him to respond. It backfired. If anything, it told New Yorkers that the elites were trying to protect their wealth, the high rents they collect from the working and middle class, their immoral tax cuts for themselves — all by snookering the voters into fearing the Muslim candidate. Since his overwhelming primary victory, the media has run one story after another snidely attacking Mamdani with false predictions that the wealthy will soon flee the city and businesses will move to… New Jersey? The local media has tried to scare the Jewish community into believing that they will be less safe with Mamdani — who’s been endorsed after the primary by numerous rabbis and Jewish Voice for Peace. What’s driving them crazy is that the vast, vast majority of young people are not only voting for him, they are knocking on the doors of hundreds of thousands of voters. Never before have this many young adults voted. They’ve had enough.
So, I’m doing what I can to help him. If you want to get involved, go here. He began his campaign with nothing. He initially polled at just 1%! Nobody knew who he was (he’s been a State Assembly member for 5 years) — and now he’s got much of the city behind him.
And get this: He’s only been an American citizen for 7 years! Haha! Yes, this is the candidate who won the Primary! By a record margin for the city’s modern era. I’m guessing he’ll be victorious in November. Many who were full of despair, and stayed home on Election Day last year (thus handing Trump the election), have now been reinvigorated, and fired up due to candidates like Zohran Mamdani.
The country has been in shock after 7+ months of Trump back in the White House. The only way for the majority of the country to take control again is for people like you to rise up, get involved and perhaps either run — or find someone to run — for office. An unknown 33-year old, smart as a whip, born in Uganda, decided he was one of those people.
And now please watch Zohran Mamdani two more times:
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday launched a scathing new attack on his top rival in the race, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
In a video posted on social media, Mamdani briefly ran through Cuomo’s history of scandals during his tenure as New York’s governor and then proceeded to inform viewers about what Cuomo’s been up to ever since he resigned in disgrace in 2021.
“In 2022, Cuomo started Innovation Strategies, LLC, to ‘represent individuals and corporations in a variety of matters’—definitely not vague!” Mamdani said sarcastically. “Last year, it raked in more than half a million dollars. Who paid for Cuomo’s services? He refuses to say.”
Mamdani then walked through assorted reports about Cuomo’s post-gubernatorial work life and declared their findings “troubling.”
“In April, Bloombergrevealed that Cuomo advised a cryptocurrency exchange based in the Seychelles as it faced federal investigation,” he said. “Then in May, Politicoreported that Cuomo failed to disclose $2.6 million in stock options to the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board. His excuse? The stocks were technically owned by Innovation Strategies, LLC, of which he’s the sole proprietor.”
After that, Mamdani pointed to a New York Timesreport about Cuomo working with real estate investor Andrew Farkas on a marina project in Puerto Rico. He then revealed Farkas also happened to previously partner with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on similar projects in the Caribbean.
Mamdani wrapped up his video by suggesting Cuomo is a bottomless well of scandals and then challenging the former governor to prove him wrong.
“If my friend, the disgraced former governor of New York feels that’s unfair… release your client list!” he said, as the ad flashed a hashtag across the screen that read, “Release the Cuomo List.”
Mamdani back in June scored an upset win in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary over Cuomo, who subsequently launched an independent bid in a crowded race that also includes incumbent Mayor Eric Adams and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.
Recent polls have shown Mamdani with a significant lead over all of his rivals, with Cuomo only coming within striking distance if all other non-Mamdani candidates exit the race.
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Demonstrators protest the Trump administration’s attack on Social Security in downtown Detroit, Michigan on April 19, 2025.
(Photo: Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images via AFP)
“Bureau of Labor Statistics data is what determines the annual cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security benefits,” said Rep. John Larson. “It should alarm everyone when a yes-man determined to end Social Security is installed in this position.”
U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to replace the top labor statistics official he fired earlier this month has called Social Security a “Ponzi scheme” that needs to be “sunset,” comments that critics said further disqualify the nominee for the key government role.
During a December 2024 radio interview, Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni said it is a “mathematical fiction” that Social Security “can go on forever” and called for “some kind of transition program where unfortunately you’ll need a generation of people who pay Social Security taxes, but never actually receive any of those benefits.”
“That’s the price to pay for unwinding a Ponzi scheme that was foisted on the American people by the Democrats in the 1930s,” Antoni continued. “You’re not going to be able to sustain a Ponzi scheme like Social Security. Eventually, you need to sunset the program.”
Trump's choice for the Commissioner of the Bureau Labor Statistics called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" in an interview:
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Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), one of Social Security’s most vocal defenders in Congress, said Antoni’s position on the program matters because “Bureau of Labor Statistics data is what determines the annual cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security benefits.”
“It should alarm everyone when a yes-man determined to end Social Security is installed in this position,” Larson said in a statement. “I call on every Senate Republican to stand with Democrats and reject this extreme nominee—before our seniors are denied the benefits they earned through a lifetime of hard work.”
Trump announced Antoni’s nomination to serve as the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) less than two weeks after the president fired the agency’s former head, Erika McEntarfer, following the release of abysmal jobs figures. The firing sparked concerns that future BLS data will be manipulated to suit Trump’s political interests.
Antoni was a contributor to the far-right Project 2025 agenda that the Trump administration appears to have drawn from repeatedly this year, and his position on Social Security echoes that of far-right billionaire Elon Musk, who has also falsely characterized the program as a Ponzi scheme.
During his time in the Trump administration, Musk spearheaded an assault on the Social Security Administration that continues in the present, causing widespread chaos at the agency and increasing wait times for beneficiaries.
“President Trump fired the commissioner of Labor Statistics to cover up a weak jobs report—and now he is replacing her with a Project 2025 lackey who wants to shut down Social Security,” said Larson. “E.J. Antoni agrees with Elon Musk that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme and said that middle-class seniors would be better off if it was eliminated.”
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