Nancy Grace: "How did you meet Jeffrey Epstein?"

Katie Johnson Lawsuit: https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf

A viral post on social media is circulating a court document with allegations of sexual assault against former president Donald Trump made in a legal filing that was dismissed almost a decade ago.

The post alleges that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for this year's presidential election, "forced" young girls to "perform lesbian sex acts." It has amassed more than 17 millions views on X, formerly Twitter, since Monday, and has been shared more than 34,000 times.

Some X users appeared to believe that the document is a recent filing. The post was shared after about 150 pages of transcripts related to a 2006 grand jury investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's rape and sex trafficking of teenagers was released to the public on Monday.

However, the document included in the X post isn't connected to those papers, but actually comes from a lawsuit filed in the months leading up to the 2016 election by an anonymous plaintiff using the name "Katie Johnson."

That lawsuit, 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.

Another version of the lawsuit was filed in June, but reportedly withdrawn months later.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.

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 told Politico. "I won't even discuss the merits because it gives it credibility that it doesn't deserve."

A Trump spokesperson has been contacted for comment via email.

DailyBeastie.Com: In 2019 during the first Trump administration Trump U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr refused to recuse himself from the DOJ Epstein sex trafficking case and subsequently decided not to subpoena, investigate, prosecute or disturb members of the Epstein Child Sex Trafficking Ring.

Why didn't Barr go after the men who paid exorbitant amounts of money to have sex with underage girls?

We can speculate that Barr did not want to identify, investigate and prosecute the sexual predators of the Epstein Child Sex Trafficking Ring because Barr received benefits as a result of refraining from prosecuting these wealthy, elite sexual predators.

Today's Epstein narrative in July of 2025 is, "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!"

Most Americans want to know the names of the sexual predators and want them to be held to account, but NO CAN DO.

DailyBeastie.Com contends that neither the DOJ nor a U.S. District Judge will order the release of DOJ closed criminal case files, as DOJ criminal case files and information are generally not ever publicly released.

Enraged readers need to realize that the USS JUSTICE sailed away back in 2019 when Bill Barr decided not to hold members of the Epstein Child Sex Trafficking Ring to account and was perfectly content and satisfied to convict Maxwell and Epstein without disclosing the names of the members of the Epstein Child Sex Trafficking Ring.

Trump was most likely a card-carrying founding member of The Ring and did not want to investigate Sex Ring members then or now.

Trump will spend the remainder of his presidency trying to avoid discussion or changing the subject every time anyone asks Trump when will he release the Epstein client list?

Trump ordered Pam Bondi to seek the release of Epstein grand jury transcripts which will NOT contain any client member list.

In fact, Bondi requested the entire transcript as if she were ordering a pizza until the judge informed Bondi that the DOJ must be specific about what they are requesting and be specific about the justification for seeking such information.

Donald Trump will have to wear the Epstein Child Sex Trafficking Ring around his neck like a boat anchor until he leaves office in 2028 or until he exits office prior to 2029.

Unfortunately Democrats are too spineless, worthless and weak to prosecute Trump and his co-conspirators for the dozens and dozens of felonies they have committed during Trump's first and second terms.

The bottom line is that wealthy child molesters and child sex ring operators will continue to conduct international and local child sex trafficking rings as they buy power and safety from prosecution and will continue to rape girls with impunity.

By MICHAEL BALSAMO -- Published 8:38 AM MDT, November 22, 2019

ABOARD A US GOVERNMENT AIRCRAFT (AP) — Attorney General William Barr said he initially had his own suspicions about financier Jeffrey Epstein’s death while behind bars at one of the most secure jails in America but came to conclude that his suicide was the result of “a perfect storm of screw-ups.”

In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said his concerns were prompted by the numerous irregularities at the New York jail where Epstein was being held. But he said after the FBI and the Justice Department’s inspector general continued to investigate, he realized there were a “series” of mistakes made that gave Epstein the chance to take his own life.

“I can understand people who immediately, whose minds went to sort of the worst-case scenario because it was a perfect storm of screw-ups,” Barr told the AP as he flew to Montana for an event.

Barr’s comments come days after two correctional officers who were responsible for guarding the wealthy financier when he died were charged with falsifying prison records. Officers Tova Noel and Michael Thomas are accused of sleeping and browsing the internet — shopping for furniture and motorcycles — instead of watching Epstein, who was supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes.

Epstein took his own life in August while awaiting trial on charges he sexually abused girls as young as 14 and young women in New York and Florida in the early 2000s.

His suicide cast a spotlight on the federal Bureau of Prisons, which has been plagued by chronic staffing shortages and outbreaks of violence. The indictment unsealed this week against the officers shows a damning glimpse of safety lapses inside a high-security unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

But the indictment also provided new details that reinforce the idea that, for all the intrigue regarding Epstein and his connections to powerful people, his death was a suicide — as the city’s medical examiner concluded — and possibly preventable.

A lawyer for Thomas, Montell Figgins, said both guards are being “scapegoated.”

The attorney general also sought to dampen conspiracy theories by people who have questioned whether Epstein really took his own life, saying the evidence proves Epstein killed himself. He added that he personally reviewed security footage that confirmed that no one entered the area where Epstein was housed on the night he died.

Epstein was placed on suicide watch after he was found July 23 on his cell floor with bruises on his neck but was taken off the heightened watch about a week before his death, meaning he was less closely monitored but still supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes. He was required to have a cellmate, but he was left with none after his cellmate was transferred out of the MCC on Aug. 9, the day before his death, the indictment said.

Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell when the guards went to deliver breakfast. One of the guards told a supervisor then that they hadn’t done their 3 a.m. or 5 a.m. rounds, according to the indictment.

The Justice Department is still investigating the circumstances that led to Epstein’s death, including why he wasn’t given a cellmate.

“I think it was important to have a roommate in there with him and we’re looking into why that wasn’t done, and I think every indication is that was a screw-up,” Barr said. “The systems to assure that was done were not followed.”

Epstein’s death ended the possibility of a trial that would have involved prominent figures and sparked widespread anger that he wouldn’t have to answer for the allegations.

Even with his death, federal prosecutors in New York have continued to investigate the allegations against Epstein. Barr, who has vowed to aggressively investigate and bring charges against anyone who may have helped Epstein, said investigators were making good progress in the case.

“They are definitely pushing things along,” Barr said. “I’ll just say there is good progress being made, and I’m hopeful in a relatively short time there will be tangible results.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Monday called on Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to step down for what she called an “unconscionable agreement” with Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged earlier with sex trafficking in New York City federal court.

Acosta, who was a U.S. attorney in Miami back in 2008, helped Epstein secure a plea deal that resulted in an 18-month sentence. He served 13 months. The deal was criticized as lenient because he could have faced a life sentence.

Pelosi said in a tweet late Monday that Acosta’s agreement with Epstein was kept from his “young victims” and prevented them from seeking justice. She said Trump was aware of the background when Acosta was appointed.

Acosta negotiated a deal that resulted in two state solicitation charges—a felony—and resulted in county jail. There were no federal charges. The Washington Post reported that Epstein was allowed to work from his office six days a week. The alleged victims were not told about the deal, the report said.

The Miami Herald called the allegations back then “stomach-turning.” They included allegations that the wealthy financier lured dozens of troubled girls to an estate in Palm Beach and had sex with them. The paper’s editorial called the allegations a “Ponzi scheme,” because he would allegedly use new girls to recruit more.

BILL CLINTON KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT EPSTEIN'S 'TERRIBLE CRIMES,' EX-SPOKESMAN SAYS

The Herald’s editorial said that in 2008, Acosta kept the alleged victims out of the process and failed to "even inform them of his lenient plea deal with Epstein. In February, U.S. Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that Acosta’s office broke the law by not telling Epstein’s victims of the sweetheart deal. In contrast, [U.S. Attorney Geoffrey] Berman, has issued a public call for women to contact his office to help him build his sex-trafficking case against Epstein.”

Acosta has defended the plea deal as appropriate under the circumstances, though the White House said in February that it was “looking into” his handling of the deal.

Epstein, the 66-year-old hedge fund manager, was charged in a newly unsealed federal indictment with sex trafficking and conspiracy during the early 2000s. He could get up to 45 years in prison if convicted. Prosecutors alleged that Epstein, who was arrested on Saturday, preyed on "dozens" of victims as young as 14.

Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., told Fox News that Epstein’s initial sentence was “absurd” and said it is not a time "for people to say, ‘oh, is a Republican or Democrat going to be implicated?’ Every American should stand on the side of those little girls."

Two White House officials told The Washington Post that Trump does not have plans to force out Acosta.

Epstein has pleaded not guilty.

The 'Epstein-Barr' Problem of New York City's Dalton School

Jerry Lambe July 13th, 2019

Before he became an enigmatic billionaire with a notorious predilection for underage girls, a 21 year old Jeffrey Epstein taught math and physics at the prestigious Dalton School on New York City's Upper East Side and developed a reputation for partying with students and focusing a lot of his attention on female pupils.

Reports Friday from the New York Times and the Huffington Post detail Epstein's brief tenure at the Dalton School, which has produced several famous alumni including Christian Slater, Claire Danes, Chevy Chase, and Anderson Cooper, where his behavior with the school's teenage girls seared a lasting impression into the memories of former students.

Epstein, who was charged last week by federal authorities in the Southern District of New York with sex trafficking with sex-trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex-trafficking, was a 20 year old college drop-out when he was hired to teach at Dalton—possibly by the school's headmaster Donald Barr in the mid 1970s.

Donald Barr was the father of current United States Attorney General William Barr, who is currently overseeing Epstein's prosecution.

According to at least one former student, Dalton alums have long joked about a Barr connection to the Epstein hire.

"The joke has been [that] this is the Epstein-Barr problem at Dalton, said Harry Segal, a 1974 graduate who is now a senior lecturer at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College, in an interview with the Huffington Post. Epstein-Barr is a type of herpes virus best known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis.

Scott Spizer, who graduated in 1976, said that Epstein was most remembered for his "persistent attention" on teenage girls in the hallways, recalled a night when the young educator showed up at a party where Dalton students were drinking.

"I can remember thinking at the time, 'This is wrong,'" Spizer said in an interview with the New York Times.

"It was weird," said Paul Grossman, a 1978 Dalton graduate who remembered students talking about Epstein's attendance at the party in school. "Everyone talked about it," he said to the Times.

Another speaking on the condition of anonymity due to fear of reprisal from Epstein told the Times that Epstein made multiple attempts to spend time with her away from the school. She also specifically recalled reporting Epstein's advances toward another female student to the school's headmaster (after Donald Barr had left the position).

Peter Branch, who took over as headmaster after Donald Barr, said that he could not recall anything untoward about Epstein's conduct with students, telling the Times he was terminated simply because "he was a young teacher who didn't come up to snuff. So, ultimately, he was asked to leave."

Epstein eventually landed at the now-defunct investment firm Bear Stearns.

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