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  • The Story Of The Other Young Girl Donald Trump & Jeffrey Epstein Were Accused Of Raping Is A Tragic Mystery – Perez Hilton

    The Story Of The Other Young Girl Donald Trump & Jeffrey Epstein Were Accused Of Raping Is A Tragic Mystery – Perez Hilton

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    You may have recently heard of Katie Johnson. Though it’s gotten almost no coverage in the media landscape obsessed with the fact Biden is old, her horrifying story is at least being shared now.

    Katie (not her real name) is a woman who filed a lawsuit in 2016 in which she claimed Donald Trump and a then mostly unknown to the public Jeffrey Epstein had raped her when she was just 13 years old. It’s a truly disgusting story. You can read more HERE.

    Katie Says

    But something which goes somewhat overlooked in that story is the other little girl. See, in Katie’s legal filing from April 2016 she says she was “forced to engage in an unnatural lesbian sex act with her fellow minor and sex slave” — Maria Doe — in front of Trump for his “sexual enjoyment.” Afterward “both minors were forced to orally copulate Defendant Trump by placing their mouths simultaneously on his erect penis until he achieved sexual orgasm.” The complaint adds:

    “After zipping up his pants, Defendant Trump physically pushed both minors away while angrily berating them for the ‘poor’ quality of their sexual performance.”

    It’s horrifying this should have happened to 13-year-old Katie. But she says Maria was even younger — just 12 years old!

    Obviously the story was largely dismissed in 2016… but given what we know about Epstein and his underage sex trafficking ring now it all seems much more plausible. Hell, we’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop when it comes to a few key men known to have been close associates with the billionaire pedophile. And it turns out it may have dropped years ago before anyone knew they were looking for it.

    Related: Trump & Friends Tried To Bury Accusations He Raped A 13-Year-Old, Says Ronan Farrow!

    Katie allegedly dropped her lawsuit to protect herself, claiming she and her family’s lives had been threatened by Trump and Epstein. Just before going public with her identity she got too scared and basically vanished. She remains a bit of a mystery — all we have is her legal filings. But perhaps an even bigger mystery is this Maria Doe. She didn’t even come forward with her own accusations. Who was she?

    Maria’s Story

    Well, here’s where it gets really tricky. There is a report out there which claims to have identified Maria as a child kidnapping victim… something which makes sense if she was a “sex slave” to Epstein at just 12 years old. But be warned, we’re kind of going down the rabbit hole here. This investigation was a partnership between a political watchdog group called the Justice Integrity Project and an independent reporter named Wayne Madsen. Madsen is actually known as a conservative conspiracy theorist, having once been connected to Alex Jones, though the two reportedly had a falling out. So take this all with a healthy dose of skepticism… Unlike Katie’s legal filing, this is not a firsthand account but rather investigative reporting which has not been corroborated by larger outlets. (Though to be fair, we don’t know if it’s even been looked at by larger outlets.)

    According to this report, Maria was abducted from Waterbury, Connecticut when she was just 11 years old. They claim this child, the same one who would end up in that NYC town house with Epstein and Trump, was first reported missing by her mother on March 20, 1993. She was allegedly last seen the day before, talking with a man who was later IDed as a Colombian national who went by the nickname “Papito.” Little Daddy, for those who don’t habla.

    The Waterbury Police Department‘s report says the tween was last seen outside of Nash’s Pizza, a popular eatery in the Puerto Rican neighborhood where she lived. Wait, sorry, not an actual real pizzagate?? Not exactly… Madsen and the Justice Integrity Project don’t point fingers at the restaurant — instead they say she was kidnapped by men involved in a trafficking ring like ones you might see straight out of the movies, taking little girls off the street for wealthy and powerful men.

    It seems literally unbelievable… until you remember what we know to be true about what Epstein was doing. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t seem all that farfetched anymore…

    So if they’re right, somehow this little girl was trafficked and ended up held by Epstein — and was sexually abused by the future President of the United States. Just a rotten sentence we wish we didn’t have to even think about.

    The Mayor of Waterbury

    An interesting link to all this… Does the name of the city sound familiar? Waterbury, Connecticut? No reason why it might to most, but it just might if you’re from the general area… or extremely knowledgeable on the subject of America’s worst political scandals of all time…

    A man named Philip Giordano was elected mayor of Waterbury in 1995, just a couple years after Maria’s disappearance. He was also the Republican Party’s candidate for Senate in 2000 against Joe Lieberman. He lost that race, however, and instead of joining Congress continued to serve as Mayor until 2001.

    Wait, so he started after Maria was abducted?

    So… No reason it should be considered a connection… except for the coincidence he left office in disgrace when he was ARRESTED. See, Mayor Giordano was under investigation for municipal corruption, something about kickbacks, self-dealing, and working with the local mafia. Crazy stuff. But the craziest part is, during the investigation the FBI found something else — phone records and photos with a prostitute… and her 8-year-old daughter and 10-year-old niece. He had apparently paid the drug-addicted woman to let him have sexual contact with these two little girls.

    Giordano was ultimately convicted of 14 federal counts of using his phone to solicit sex from two minors. He was sentenced to 37 years — apart from all the municipal corruption stuff. After that he faced state charges. Back in Connecticut he pleaded no contest to 4 counts of first-degree sexual assault and 4 counts of conspiracy to commit sexual assault. He got another 18 years for that, though they’re to be served concurrently.

    He’s still in prison, thankfully.

    Look, this is probably all a coincidence. A Republican president accused of raping a 12-year-old girl who happens to have been abducted from a town which, right after, had a Republican mayor who ended up being a convicted pedophile? We’re not saying it’s all part of some vast conspiracy, some huge ring of child molesters, but… Well, we know there was an underage sex trafficking ring. And while Epstein may be dead, and Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison, NO ONE ELSE has faced any consequences or been fully confirmed as a participant. We may not want to believe it, but we know for a fact there are many big names in business and politics who were involved. And frankly, the fact the news isn’t leading with this every night is kind of crazy… right?

    Where Is Maria?

    One last thing… though maybe the most important… What happened to Maria after all this??

    We hope she’s living a happy life somewhere, healed and moved on. We don’t know how naive that hope may be, but that’s what we’d like to believe. The problem is…

    As part of Katie Johnson’s lawsuit against Trump and Epstein, she found a corroborating witness. Tiffany Doe came forward as well, admitting to working for Jeffrey Epstein as a “party planner” — the one who first convinced Katie to attend his parties. (This started when Tiffany was just 22, so we may be talking about another trafficking victim being promoted here. She does say she started out “being paid to entertain various guests.”)

    Tiffany backs Katie’s story completely, saying she “personally witnessed the sexual encounters” described. She adds something Katie doesn’t mention about Maria though.

    In her sworn testimony she says she “personally witnessed” Trump and Epstein “physically threaten the life and well-being” of Katie. But she remembers something specific Trump told the 13-year-old:

    “I personally witnessed Defendant Trump telling the Plaintiff that she shouldn’t ever say anything if she didn’t want to disappear like the 12-year-old female Maria, and that he was capable of having her whole family killed.”

    JFC. He’s implying Maria was killed. What in the actual f**k. You can read Tiffany Doe’s entire declaration HERE btw.

    So it’s possible the reason Maria never came forward is that she couldn’t… because he made her “disappear”?? This is… a whole other level of scary from a guy we were already terrified of. If this is true, it suddenly makes sense why Katie chose to drop her suit and run away, back into anonymity.

    Of course, one other person could have testified against Trump here… Unfortunately before Jeffrey Epstein could be prosecuted and turn on all his co-conspirators in the sex trafficking ring, well… he died in police custody. It was reported a suicide, though no one has really believed that for five years.

    Seems like we’ll never know what really happened to Maria. A 12-year-old girl. A sixth grader, ffs.

    If you or someone you know has experienced sexual violence and would like to learn more about resources, consider checking out https://www.rainn.org/resources. 

    [Image via MEGA/WENN/NYC Sex Offender Registry/Connecticut Department of Correction.]

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  • Mass. marijuana shops pay towns hefty fees. Why that might change. – Medical Marijuana Program Connection

    Mass. marijuana shops pay towns hefty fees. Why that might change. – Medical Marijuana Program Connection


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  • Column: Pedophile panic and coming political violence. What the Paul Pelosi case revealed

    Column: Pedophile panic and coming political violence. What the Paul Pelosi case revealed

    A unicorn costume, a hammer and a belief that pedophiles are using public schools to destroy democracy: The trial of David DePape for attacking Paul Pelosi was strange and disturbing.

    But take away the costume and the hammer, and the reasoning for DePape’s vicious attack is alarmingly mainstream — pedophile panic.

    By that, I mean the outrageous effort not just by hate-mongering conspiracy theorists to frame LGBTQ+ individuals as deviant and dangerous, lumping them in with criminals who sexually abuse children. But also a cynical bid by some politicians, clergy and grifters to do the same.

    Anti-LGBTQ+ attacks are everywhere, both physical and political. Hysteria about pedophiles, driven by conspiracy theories, has trampled truth.

    As DePape explained it on the stand, he is concerned about “groomer schools,” where teachers are “queering the students, pushing transgenderism to confuse children about their identities to make them more vulnerable to abuse and Marxist indoctrination.”

    Sound familiar? It could have been a quote from a Huntington Beach City Council meeting, a Republican presidential rally or a debate on the floor of the Florida Legislature, where the controversial “don’t say gay” bill last year was described by an aide to Gov. Ron DeSantis as an “anti-grooming” law.

    The quote is, in fact, DePape’s summary of what he learned from right-wing podcaster James Lindsay about one of DePape’s top targets, a professor of feminist theory and queer studies whose house seemed, to DePape, too difficult to break into. So he went to Pelosi’s brick mansion instead.

    When a San Francisco jury came back with a guilty verdict against DePape, it was hardly a bombshell. It is fact that DePape smashed a hammer into Pelosi’s skull, a brutal act caught on camera and uncontested even by his own lawyers.

    What was lost with the quickness of the in-an-out, no-surprises trial — and what should be chilling to any supporter of civil rights — was the defense team’s argument about why DePape created his elaborate plot, which was going to involve donning the unicorn costume while interrogating the victim’s wife, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, about government corruption, and, you guessed it, pedophiles.

    It wasn’t conventional politics. It wasn’t even aimed at Nancy Pelosi. The powerful San Francisco Democrat was somewhere down a list that included the mother of DePape’s two sons, Tom Hanks, George Soros, Hunter Biden and performance artist Marina Abramovic.

    DePape was propelled by the hyper-drive conspiracies that have bled out from internet chat rooms onto streets and into school boards — amped-up paranoia about threats not just to the white Christian values that some perceive as intrinsic to our country’s identity, but to the safety of our children.

    “It’s not just that she’s a pedo-activist. It’s that she wants to turn all the schools into pedophile molestation factories,” DePape said of the queer studies professor he was targeting.

    “She wants to destroy children’s sense of identity because it’s her opinion that this will lead them to grow up dysfunctional and unhappy. And if they’re dysfunctional and unhappy, they will be maladjusted to society, hate society, and want to become communist activists,” he said.

    Those kind of beliefs, ugly and untrue, can no longer be considered extreme, or extremism.

    Take, for example, this commentary from earlier this year by Jonathan Butcher, a fellow at the ultraconservative and ultra-influential Heritage Foundation:

    “For parents, rejecting radical gender theory is a matter of protecting their children. The rest of us, though, should reject queer theory’s attempt to gain control of the next generation,” he wrote.

    Or the mugshot meme Donald Trump posted not too long ago insinuating that pedophiles were out to get him.

    Or Trump’s recent sit-down interview with conservative activists Moms for America, in which he lamented that the “indoctrination programs” at public schools are “out of control” and promised quickly to end them if elected.

    Jared Dmello, an expert on extremism and an incoming senior lecturer at University of Adelaide in Australia, told me that mainstream politics is “driving an anti-LGBTQ ideology.”

    Where once conspiracy was relegated to dark corners, it now has a symbiotic relationship with the mainstream, he said, each building off whatever “evidence” or current events play into the narrative with such speed and force that the sheer amount of information makes it seem like it must be true.

    “The whole goal is to introduce so much chaos into the atmosphere that it’s hard to distinguish what is fact from fiction,” he said.

    Mission accomplished.

    A recent Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) poll on threats to American democracy found 59% of Republicans think that what children are learning in school is a critical issue facing the United States. A 2022 poll by USC found that while roughly 60% of Democrats support teaching high school students about gender identity, gay and transgender rights or sexual orientation, only about 30% of Republicans feel the same.

    Of course, parents have good reasons to be concerned about public schools, especially in the wake of the pandemic when teachers are burned out, budgets are tight and students are coping with sky-high levels of mental health challenges.

    But Joan Donovan, an expert in disinformation and a professor at Boston University, told me that while violence remains rare, vigilantes such DePape aren’t the lone wolves we like to believe. She said violence, whether by individuals or groups, is going to increase as the 2024 election nears.

    “I wish it were the case that they were fringe, but they do seem to represent a larger sentiment online,” she said. “Of course taking action in the form of assaulting or attempting to murder people is in and of itself horrendous, but if you look at the kind of discourse that emboldens these people, it’s the natural outcome.”

    Support for political violence has increased over the past two years, with nearly a quarter of Americans now agreeing that “because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.” That comes from the recent PRRI poll on threats to American democracy.

    That percentage has increased from 15% in 2021.

    But get ready for it: 41% of Republicans who like Trump agreed violence may be necessary, and 46% of Trump supporters who believe the election was stolen also believe violence may be an answer. That’s nearly half.

    By all accounts, DePape was just a lonesome loser, unremarkable and peaceful, until he started delving into conspiracy theories during the pandemic. Living in a Bay Area garage that didn’t even have a bathroom, he spent his free time — hours every day — playing video games while listening to conspiracy podcasters pushing what we were then calling QAnon.

    I won’t go so far as to say he was a victim, but he was a vessel for a fire hose flow of propaganda, holding it all in until doing nothing seemed unconscionable. He is accountable for his violence, but it is clear he has lost the ability to parse truth from that swamp of what he calls research.

    Somewhere along his journey, DePape began believing that a secret cabal of so-called elites was ruling the world and participating in a cult that sexually abused children.

    That’s how DePape came up with his list of targets — most of those on it are somewhere in QAnon lore — a set of conspiracies that QAnon expert and Michigan State University professor Laura Dilley told me “absolutely are endemic now.”

    At its core, the political turmoil caused by these falsehoods is not much different from the satanic panic that ruled in the 1980s, driven by discomfort with more women joining the workforce and leaving their children in day care. Then, too, conservatives vilified the LGBTQ+ community to fuel fear that children were in danger and American society was on the brink of collapse.

    And Donovan points out that even the KKK focused on children and education in the 1920s, with the same arguments about American values.

    So none of this is new.

    But we are capable of not repeating the past. Hate and conspiracy aren’t normal. They aren’t American values, to be debated as valid political positions.

    David DePape was fighting an enemy conjured by lies. That enemy may not be real, but the danger of those lies is.

    Anita Chabria

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