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Miles Archer

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Wed Oct 16, 2019, 04:26 PM Oct 2019

Trump teen rape allegation resurfaces, Ronan Farrow claims Nat'l Enquirer tried to protect him

A mid behind-the-scenes details of his explosive reporting on Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct, Ronan Farrow's new book Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators claims that American Media Inc. (AMI), the former publisher of the National Enquirer, tried to help Donald Trump bury allegations he raped a teenager in 1994.

Farrow claims in the book that AMI CEO David Pecker was in close contact with Trump when the rape allegations were made public in a 2016 lawsuit, and that then-National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard assured Trump's personal lawyer at the time, Michael Cohen, "that they would track down the woman with the rape allegation and see what they could do about her." An AMI spokesperson told Newsweek Tuesday that Farrow's claims are "completely untrue."

AMI has been accused in the past of purchasing potentially damaging stories about Trump in order to keep them from becoming public—a practice known in the industry as "catch and kill." Last December, AMI admitted that in 2016 it made a $150,000 payment "in concert" with Trump's election campaign to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who allegedly had an affair with Trump a decade earlier. The publisher made the pact with McDougal "in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election," the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

At the crux of the lawsuit filed against Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election were claims that Trump raped a woman when she was 13 years old in 1994. At the time, Trump's lawyer Alan Garten responded to the lawsuit saying that the allegations are "categorically untrue."

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-teen-rape-allegation-national-enquirer-ronan-farrow-jane-doe-1465652
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Trump teen rape allegation resurfaces, Ronan Farrow claims Nat'l Enquirer tried to protect him (Original Post) Miles Archer Oct 2019 OP
Sheesh Faux pas Oct 2019 #1
I have always known in my gut, this story was real. dewsgirl Oct 2019 #2
I have no doubt he's raped multiple women and girls. Garrett78 Oct 2019 #3
He went backstage at teen beauty pageants to "INSPECT THE MERCHANDISE." Miles Archer Oct 2019 #5
He'd get numerous life sentences if he were ever tried and found guilty of even half his crimes. Garrett78 Oct 2019 #6
Our local library has 122 holds on 15 copies of this book eleny Oct 2019 #4
I don't believe it any more than I believe Mme. Defarge Oct 2019 #7

eleny

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4. Our local library has 122 holds on 15 copies of this book
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 04:36 PM
Oct 2019

We're just a western suburb of Denver, Colorado. Not a huge population but a heck of lot of requests.

I'm sure that they'll be ordering more copies and also secure the audio and digital copies as well as a large text size version, too. It's how they roll when there's so much interest. I so love our library system.

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