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Donald Trump, Katie Johnson Allegations: Everything We Know
Published Jul 04, 2024 at 6:38 AM EDT
Updated Jul 04, 2024 at 4:06 PM EDT
By
Khaleda Rahman
National Correspondent
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.
Allegations from a lawsuit that was dismissed in 2016 are circulating on social media.
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