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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5946536" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-katie-johnson-allegations-sexual-assault-case-dismissed-1921051[/URL]&quot;<a href="https://www.politico.com/friend/?id=00000158-267d-dda3-afd8-b67d3bc00000" target="_blank">That lawsuit</a>, filed in federal court in Riverside, California, in April 2016, named Trump and Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, as defendants. It claimed the men held Johnson as a &quot;sex slave&quot; in 1994 when she was 13 and forced her to perform sex acts.A judge dismissed the case in May that year, ruling that the complaint didn&#039;t raise valid claims under federal law, Politico reported at the time.&quot;<hr />&quot;Another version of the lawsuit was filed in June, but reportedly withdrawn months later. A third version of the suit—with the plaintiff going by &quot;Jane Doe&quot;—was filed in September 2016, accusing Trump of rape. That suit was also dropped months later.&quot;<hr />&quot;Trump&#039;s accuser had been expected to appear at a news conference in early November 2016, but her attorney, Lis Bloom, said she had received threats and was too afraid to show up. Doe&#039;s attorney, Thomas Meagher, then filed a notice to dismiss the case, without providing an explanation. The woman hasn&#039;t been heard from since.Alan Garten, Trump&#039;s then-lawyer, dismissed the woman&#039;s allegations as &quot;categorically untrue&quot; at the time. &quot;It is completely frivolous. It is baseless. It is irresponsible,&quot; Garten <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-dropped-230770" target="_blank">told Politico</a>.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5946536, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-katie-johnson-allegations-sexual-assault-case-dismissed-1921051[/URL] "[URL='https://www.politico.com/friend/?id=00000158-267d-dda3-afd8-b67d3bc00000']That lawsuit[/URL], filed in federal court in Riverside, California, in April 2016, named Trump and Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, as defendants. It claimed the men held Johnson as a "sex slave" in 1994 when she was 13 and forced her to perform sex acts. A judge dismissed the case in May that year, ruling that the complaint didn't raise valid claims under federal law, Politico reported at the time." [HR][/HR] "Another version of the lawsuit was filed in June, but reportedly withdrawn months later. A third version of the suit—with the plaintiff going by "Jane Doe"—was filed in September 2016, accusing Trump of rape. That suit was also dropped months later." [HR][/HR] "Trump's accuser had been expected to appear at a news conference in early November 2016, but her attorney, Lis Bloom, said she had received threats and was too afraid to show up. Doe's attorney, Thomas Meagher, then filed a notice to dismiss the case, without providing an explanation. The woman hasn't been heard from since. Alan Garten, Trump's then-lawyer, dismissed the woman's allegations as "categorically untrue" at the time. "It is completely frivolous. It is baseless. It is irresponsible," Garten [URL='https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-dropped-230770']told Politico[/URL]." [/QUOTE]

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