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September 4, 2025
Our Predatory POTUS
Our Predatory POTUS
By his own admission, Trump is a sexual predator. Victims and the courts agree. There is a preponderance of evidence that minors are among the victims. That a majority of voters have ignored this fact for a decade speaks to how far off course we are as a country.
[This story was updated on September 10 to include recent developments.]
What voters knew, or should have known, prior to electing Trump in 2016:
- In her divorce deposition, Ivana Trump stated the Donald had ripped out hair from her scalp.
- Over a dozen women had accused Trump of sexual assault including rape.
- Trump had bragged about walking in on Miss Universe candidates in their dressing room "standing there with no clothes."
- Seven Teen USA contestants reported that Trump had entered their dressing room while the contestants, many of whom were minors as young as 15, were in various states of undress.
- In an Access Hollywood tape, Trump had bragged about "grabbing women by the pussy" without their consent.
- Trump had greeted a 10-year-old girl on an escalator, exclaiming, "I'm going to be dating her in about 10 years, can you believe it?"
- Among a series of lewd comments during a Howard Stern interview, Trump had said he has no "age limit," though 12 was too young, and had sexualized his own daughter, praising the size of her breasts and approving of Stern calling her a "piece of ass."
- True to form, Trump attacked his victims on social media and in the press.
What voters knew, or should have known, prior to electing Trump in 2024:
- A jury had found Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll and defaming her by calling her a liar. During the trial, several women testified that Trump had assaulted them as well.
- Trump's defense in the E. Jean Carroll matter, that she was "not my type," was discredited when he confused photos of E. Jean Carroll with his ex-wife Marla Maples.
- Trump had been convicted of 34 felony crimes related to falsification of business records while making hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
- Trump's close personal friend Jeffrey Epstein, who had been convicted of soliciting prosecution in 2008, was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges involving minors when he died in his prison cell in 2019.
- Jeffrey Epstein's wife, Ghislaine Maxwell, had been convicted of sexual abuse of minors.
What voters know, or should know, in September 2025:
- Attorney General Pam Bondi privately informed Trump in May 2025 that his name appears in Department of Justice records related to Jeffrey Epstein, the "Epstein files."
- Trump said Epstein had "stolen" girls (minors) working at his Mar-A-Lago spa, which led to their falling out.
- After promising to release the Epstein files, Trump has done an about face and is refusing to release them, calling the matter a "Democrat hoax." Democrats and some Republicans have demanded release of the files. Meantime, victims of Jeffrey Epstein have spoken out in public.
- House Speaker Mike Johnson speculates that Trump's name appears in the Epstein files because he was an FBI Informant. The White House denies that Trump was an informant.
- Congress obtains some Epstein material from his estate. In it, they find a homemade birthday greeting from Trump to Epstein, previously described by the Wall Street Journal. Trump had denied that the greeting existed and filed a $10B lawsuit against the WSJ in response to the story. Trump has doubled down, claiming the greeting, found in a bound volume, is a fake.
Lisa Phillips, an Epstein victim, says survivors will "compile the names."
Let's connect the dots. Donald Trump is a convicted felon and an adjudicated rapist. Trump said he walked into a dressing room where pageant contestants were naked. Miss USA Teen contestants say he walked into a dressing room full of girls as young as 15. Trump says he feels entitled to touch and violate women when and how he wishes with impunity. Over 20 women say he has done exactly that.
The one remaining question is whether Trump would draw a distinction between a 19-year-old and a 15-year-old object of his depravity.
Trump's sexual misconduct, his grave fear of the Epstein files becoming public, and his tyrannical mindset have yielded direct threats to members of Congress who insist that the the files be released. The White House has called their actions a "hostile act." The DOJ has attempted to give Republican members of Congress cover by releasing a small amount of heavily redacted material.
Of special note is Marjorie Taylor Greene's complete break with the White House on the Epstein matter. Heretofore a passionate supporter of everything Trump, Greene may have done such a good job of selling the notion of a vast network of sexual predators running the world that her constituents will not be quieted by pushback, even when it comes from Trump himself.
One thing is clear. On the issue of sexual predation alone, no one with a working brain and heart can possibly think Trump is qualified to lead our democratic republic. That he won in 2024, and that he continues as president without mass protest, is a testament to the skill of Trump's propagandists, the aversion to or inability of US voters to gather information, and the capacity of the human mind to hold contradictory beliefs without discomfort.
Sources:
Wikipedia, Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations
People, Teen Beauty Queens Say Donald Trump Walked in on Them Changing When They Were as Young as 15
Wikipedia, Criminal trial of Donald Trump in New York
US Department of Justice, Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Conspiring With Jeffrey Epstein To Sexually Abuse Minors
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