It does not begin with Jeffrey Epstein. It begins with a woman named Jill Harth, who in 1997 filed a lawsuit alleging Donald Trump sexually assaulted her. Her account is detailed in a 28-page complaint, a public document. Trump’s response, then and consistently for decades after, was to call the accuser a liar.
Harth would be the first of 25 women to publicly level allegations of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump. The accusations span from the 1970s to the mid-2000s and include groping, forcible kissing, and rape. The responses followed a script: denial, followed by a concerted effort to discredit, shame, and intimidate.
This is not a political scandal. It is a behavioral pattern. The strategy is not legal defense; it is a social and rhetorical firewall. By branding every accuser a liar, a cost is imposed—a tax on truth-telling calculated in public humiliation and professional jeopardy. The goal is to make the story about the woman’s credibility, not the man’s conduct.
The evidence of this pattern exists outside of he-said-she-said. It is corroborated by the 2005 Access Hollywood tape, on which Trump is heard describing the act of sexual assault. It was validated in a federal courtroom in 2023, where a jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll. The jury saw the pattern and rendered a verdict.
The 25 accusations are the prologue. They are the established, public record that forms the essential context for any subsequent allegation. To examine the closed networks of
Jeffrey Epstein, without first acknowledging this open pattern of conduct, is to ignore the foundational evidence.
The story is in the pattern itself—its longevity, its consistency, and the systematic method by which it has been shielded from consequence. The 25 women are the source material.
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