Jeffery Epstein's former accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell sat for a video deposition with members of Congress on Monday but refused to talk.
Rep. Walkinshaw on Trump: "He could rule out clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell, the monster. He could rule out a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the monster. The question for all of us today is: Why hasn't he done that, and why won't he do that?"
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"Disgusting. We live in the worst timeline. I hate what we have allowed ourselves to collectively become by electing this crazy piece of [sheet].
#3 | Posted by Alexandrite"
In 2016, BuzzFeed News reported that five former contestants from the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant"including then-Miss Vermont Teen USA Mariah Billado"claimed Trump entered the dressing room while they were in various stages of undress. Some of the contestants were reportedly as young as 15 at the time. According to Billado, Trump said, "Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before."'When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.'
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Trump showed us who he was many times. And the American people showed everyone who we are when we elected him in 2016. Before doubling down a few years later to re-elect the adjudicated rapist pedo.
@#6 ... In 2016, BuzzFeed News reported that five former contestants from the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant"including then-Miss Vermont Teen USA Mariah Billado"claimed Trump entered the dressing room while they were in various stages of undress. Some of the contestants were reportedly as young as 15 at the time. According to Billado, Trump said, "Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before." ...
More on that ...
Donald Trump had a habit of walking into the dressing rooms of teen beauty queens
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... As owner of the Miss Teen USA pageant franchise, Donald Trump felt entitled to walk into the dressing rooms of aspiring young beauty queens.
Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant told BuzzFeed that Trump would often show up in their dressing room unannounced while the contestants, some as young as 15, were changing.
"I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, Oh my god, there's a man in here'," Mariah Billado, former Miss Vermont Teen USA, told BuzzFeed reporters. She remembers Trump's response " that he said something along the lines of "Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before."
Tasha Dixon, the former Miss Teen Arizona, competed in the 2001 Teen USA pageant. She was 18 at the time and remembers how Trump would "come strolling right in" when girls were "half-naked, changing into [their] bikinis... some girls were topless. Other girls were naked," according to an interview with the CBS station in Los Angeles.
"There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing," Dixon said. She said that was most of the girls' first introduction to Trump. She said that Trump's behavior put her and the other pageant contestants in a "very physically vulnerable position," and that his entrance was usually accompanied by "the pressure of the people that worked for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him, get his attention."
Trump apparently considered access to the women's changing rooms one of the perks of owning the beauty pageant franchises MissUniverse and Miss Teen USA, which he bought in 1996. ...
@#7 ... an interview with the CBS station in Los Angeles. ...
Former Beauty Queen: Contestants Were Forced To Greet Trump Even When Not Fully Dressed (October 2016)
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... As Miss Arizona, Tasha Dixon, then 18, competed in the Miss USA pageant, which was owned by Donald Trump for 19 years, along with the Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA pageants.
"Our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half naked changing into our bikinis," Dixon recalled. "He just came strolling right in. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless. Other girls were naked."
She said she and her fellow contestants were put in an awkward position when "the owner come waltzing in when we were naked or half naked in a very physically vulnerable position and then to have the pressure of the people that worked for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him, get his attention."
Dixon's account is seemingly supported by the Republican presidential nominee himself in a 2005 broadcast on the "The Howard Stern Show." That audio recording was re-released last weekend.
Here is a sample of what was said on the show on April 11, 2005:
Trump: "I'll go backstage before a show and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else. And you know, no men are anywhere. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant. And therefore, I'm inspecting it. You know I'm inspecting it. I want to make sure everything is good."
Stern: "You're like a doctor."
Trump: "Is everyone OK? You know they're standing there with no clothes. Is everybody OK? And you see these incredible looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that."
Dixon has strong opinions about what she thought was Trump's motivations. ...
Biden could have cleared or convicted Trump.... What a bullschitt excuse.
#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds
And that's why Trump has no choice but to pardon a convicted pedophile in exchange for her telling everyone exactly what Trump wants them to hear.
And since when do you care about criminal convictions? Trump, the adjudicated rapist, was convicted of 34 felonies. And that was after he admitted his own guilt, according to Trump, after refusing to take the stand in his own defense.
Donald Trump Pleads the Fifth After Saying Only Guilty People Do
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