Wednesday, December 27, 2017

An update to matters we had reported in December 2015

Wayne Madsen ReportDecember 22-25, 2017 — Trump’s Puerto Rico psychopathy

When it comes to the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States where the residents are all U.S. citizens, Donald Trump maintains an extreme psychopathy. Trump’s volatile and manipulative behavior toward Puerto Rico and its people has been on full display. This includes Trump’s misogynistic post-Hurricane Maria treatment of the mayor of San Juan to his colonialist attitude toward Puerto Rican manufacturers now faced with an effective 12.5 percent tariff on goods “exported” to the U.S. mainland.

Trump is ambivalent, at best, toward the plight of Puerto Ricans faced with no electricity until May 2018 and lives of Puerto Ricans left homeless by Maria and who now exist day-to-day in Florida motels with questions about how long the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will continue to pick up the tab…

But there is a deeper psychopathy with Trump when it comes to Puerto Rico. This manic reaction to Puerto Rico stems from Trump’s involvement, with New York billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, with a child sex trafficking operation in Manhattan in 1993.

Trump admitted to New York magazine in October 2002 that by 1994, he had known Epstein for seven years. Trump told the magazine in a telephone interview: “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy . . . He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” Epstein was criminally charged in 2005 after a Palm Beach mother claimed that Epstein paid $300 to her 14-year old daughter for sex. Epstein pleaded guilty of soliciting sex from a 14-year old girl and received a light prison sentence and a non-prosecution agreement from Alex Acosta, the U.S. Attorney for southern Florida who was rewarded by Trump by being named his Secretary of Labor.

In a lawsuit filed by Jane Doe, later identified as Katie Johnson, it was charged that Trump knew that 13-year old Johnson was that age when he allegedly assaulted and raped her in 1993. Johnson said it was Trump who initiated contact with her at four different parties at Epstein’s residence in Manhattan. The suit states that at their fourth encounter at an Epstein party: “Defendant Trump tied Plaintiff to a bed, exposed himself to Plaintiff, and then proceeded to forcibly rape Plaintiff. During the course of this savage sexual attack, Plaintiff loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop but with no effect. Defendant Trump responded to Plaintiff’s pleas by violently striking Plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted.”

Johnson claimed that at two parties, Epstein raped her, once, after she had been raped by Trump. During the second encounter with Epstein, Johnson stated that Epstein raped her “anally and vaginally despite her loud pleas to stop.” She stated that Epstein attempted to strike her on the head “with his closed fists,” while he angrily screamed at that he [Epstein], rather than Trump, should have been the one who took the girl’s virginity.

According to the suit, Trump told Johnson that if she ever revealed the sexual encounter with Trump, the girl and her family would be “physically harmed if not killed.” Johnson also stated that Epstein periodically reiterated to her Trump’s earlier threat that if she were to “reveal any of the details of his sexual and physical abuse of her or else,” she and her family would be “seriously physically harmed, if not killed.”

After filing her first complaint against Epstein and Trump in California on April 26, 2016, Johnson said she began receiving threatening phone calls on her cell phone from blocked numbers.
On July 23, 2016, “Joan Doe,” a classmate of Johnson during the 1994-1995 school year, signed an affidavit avowing that Johnson told her during the summer of 1994 about the sexual assaults by Epstein and Trump.

Tiffany Doe signed an affidavit in support of Johnson’s suit on June 18, 2016. Tiffany Doe stated she was hired in 1990 by Epstein, when she was 22, to “provide entertainment” for his various “guests.” In 1991, Tiffany Doe was hired by Epstein as a “party planner” to, among other duties, entice “attractive adolescent women” to attend Epstein’s parties. Tiffany Doe stated she personally witnessed Trump’s sexual assault and rape of Johnson during four encounters.

Johnson also stated in the suit that Trump told her that she “shouldn’t ever say anything if she didn’t want to disappear like Maria, a 12-year-old female that was forced to be involved in the third incident” with Trump. Johnson said she had not seen Maria after the third sexual encounter with Trump. Tiffany Doe said she witnessed Johnson and 12-year old Maria perform oral sex on Trump.
WMR has succeeded in identifying “Maria,” who is still alive. Although our investigation is still in progress, we can report that Trump’s psychopathy involving Puerto Rico likely revolves around the fact that “Maria” hails from Ponce, Puerto Rico. A psychotic like Trump obviously was mentally triggered when Puerto Rico was struck by Hurricane Maria, a reminder that a 12-year old girl who he raped and knew as Maria, someone who is now 37, has in her possession the details that could very well bring down Trump and his administration. Trump has good reason to fear Puerto Rico, a storm and a woman named “Maria,” and a history of sexual assaults, not only of adults, but of children.

Like the young girl Cosette in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, “Maria,” which is not her actual name, could be the most important Puerto Rican in the history of the United States, an individual born in abject poverty who is in a position to help oust a despotic American president.

This story is receiving some corroboration from as unlikely a source as Steve Bannon…

International Business TimesSteve Bannon raises sexual misconduct claims against Donald Trump involving 13-year-old girl