So, does anyone around here know how we go about persuading the major media — the NYT, WaPo, Time, Newsweek, CNN, MSNBC, etc. — to stop ignoring a potential bombshell bigger than the “grab them by the pussy” tape?
Here are the salient facts:
- Donald Trump has been credibly accused of raping a thirteen-year-old girl in 1994 in a lawsuit filed in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York.
- There are two witnesses who corroborate the alleged victim’s story, one of whom says she was an eyewitness to the rape itself (which took place at one of infamous billionaire child rapist Jeffrey Epstein’s sex parties), and the other a former high school classmate of the alleged victim who will testify that the alleged victim told her about the rape shortly after it occurred.
- Judge Ronnie Abrams has decided there is enough to move forward with the case, and set a hearing for December to determine whether the suit should go to trial or a settlement procedure.
- Donald Trump almost never settles, and he really can’t afford to be seen settling this, so if the suit is not dismissed there probably will be a trial, unless he can claim sovereign immunity as President — which didn’t work for Bill Clinton.
Whether or not the accusation is true, the fact that the suit has been filed and will be heard in court, not dismissed without a hearing, is newsworthy. It it is unimaginable that if this same suit had been filed with the name “William Jefferson Clinton” instead of “Donald J. Trump” as the first defendant, so few people would know it exists. In that case, Hatefart, WingNutDaily, The Drudge Distort, and all the rest of the scurrilous far-right media would be reporting it as gospel, Faux Noise would be JAQing off for all they were worth, and the mainstream, so-called “liberal” media would feel duty bound to report on it as well since the fact that the right wing media were talking about it would be a story in itself.