Lawyer for Trump Sex Accuser, 13, Demands President Testify Under Oath
Source: Daily Beast
Updated Apr. 9 2026 8:18PM EDT / Published Apr. 9 2026 6:53PM EDT
The lawyer for a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a child is calling on the president to testify under oath.
Lisa Bloom represents the woman who claimed that Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Trump in 1984, when she was about 13 years old. An FBI report released as part of the Epstein files revealed the woman told interviewers in 2019 that Trump had forced her to perform a sexual act on him.
She claimed Trump then punched her on the side of her head after she allegedly bit the s--t out of his penis. Trump has denied the accusations. Bloom, in a statement to the Daily Beast, referenced Melania Trumps shocking press statement, where she denied having any knowledge of Epsteins crimesor any relationship with the disgraced financier.
While Melania Trump seems primarily concerned about her own reputation today, she does call for congressional hearings. We agree, said Bloom. And the man who is mentioned probably more than anyone else in the Epstein files should be subpoenaed to testify: Donald Trump. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawyer-for-donald-trump-sex-accuser-13-demands-president-testify-under-oath/
bucolic_frolic
(55,305 posts)dave99
(24 posts)everyonematters
(4,182 posts)I believe it was originally reported by someone else in the files anomalously. This could be a big deal.
jfz9580m
(17,277 posts)And that is saying something.
I dont think it is the same as these:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/06/23/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit/
I looked up the Epstein survivors recently trying to parse some of my own behaviours out of a hunch I have from personal experience as well as from cursory inspections of analyses by experts who actually care the real way about womens issues.
It is that women (including me) act out more (excessive swearing, alcohol or substance overuse, dysfunctionality, anger and self destructive behaviour) in response to sexual harassment, assault, stalking etc especially when that is coupled (as I have seen) with systems which switch between turning a blind eye or worse retaliating with vile moral policing, malicious scrutiny and attacks on ones character, sanity or credibility masked as concern about mental wellness. The worst is justification of obviously predatory monitoring as concern about self harm.
It is so perverse and counter-intuitive. How can policies or strategies that are likelier to make women more depressed, feel more degraded be portrayed and sold as harm prevention? I am pretty sure that is not how experts who truly help women behave.
Those are usually decent people who are gentler and let women come to them more non-intrusively. Unlike the idiots who assume guilt in the screwed over party, actual experts tend to get that it is common for women to be ambivalent a lot and vacillate between wanting to move on and forget about it versus pushback knowing as one does that odds are it is no use.
There is this totally sleazy and malicious systemic rear covering gambit where you are doubly screwed over when abusive practices are used as an excuse to promote/force a cottage industry of surveillance, testing etc.
The most insulting part is the canned statements after, by systems like those once the gig is up.
wnylib
(26,138 posts)HE will stall, file numerous objections all the way to the SC, and they will rule that the president cannot be forced to testify.
FakeNoose
(41,801 posts)So what penalties can the court threaten him with? He doesn't give a rat's ass.
Whip-poor-will
(313 posts)Damn dam's breaking
Subpoena FBI tapes starring trump destroy him slowly, very slowly
With trump it will be the biggest bustiest fall from grace ever
twodogsbarking
(18,889 posts)UpInArms
(55,044 posts)Where have I heard that?
Wasnt that one line used as an impeachable offense?
BumRushDaShow
(170,238 posts)Ilsa
(64,411 posts)cognitively or neurologically mature.
karynnj
(60,994 posts)Summed up as hinging on the meaning of is.
Polybius
(21,938 posts)But lying under oath is a weak thing to impeach a President for, as you can see now.
70sEraVet
(5,505 posts)That's why he's building a Maralago-style bunker under the White House -- he's planning to NEVER LEAVE!
travelingthrulife
(5,246 posts)70sEraVet
(5,505 posts)incansources.weebly.com/the-sapa-inca.html
King_Klonopin
(1,385 posts)I have to accept the fact that he will be dead before he ever has to face justice for anything illegal/immoral/evil
he has done. I would pray for his health if I knew he would stand trial and be convicted of ANYTHING. But, as it is . . . .
Ilsa
(64,411 posts)tunnels and hallways shut, cut comms, let him live forever in the bunker with no contact, no access to military.
Wednesdays
(22,721 posts)Give him screens and controls that appear official. But in reality are fake and AI-driven. Let him think he's in control of the world, while the real world goes on normally without him. Let him live out the rest of his days in a kind of solitary delusion-driven prison.
Ilsa
(64,411 posts)ground. But, I don't like that he'd feel so great about having outsmarted the world. I think he deserves to feel some panic. God knows, the world has had plenty of panic already.
Wednesdays
(22,721 posts)He'd be panicking in his little bubble, while the world goes on as normal.
Ilsa
(64,411 posts)AI media rip him to shreds!
bluestarone
(22,254 posts)But man i would love to watch public hearing wit the accuser and her lawyer BOTH ask the questions. God, she would know the right questions to ask.
Bayard
(29,844 posts)Too bad that little girl didn't bite his pecker off. I hope she prevails in her lawsuit.
EuterpeThelo
(379 posts)the lawsuit was dropped in 2016 just minutes before she was going to hold a press conference due to the death threats she'd received, so I don't think this is an active suit anymore. Though I certainly understand her very legitimate fear, I wish there was some way she could still pursue it.
BumRushDaShow
(170,238 posts)Now there appears to be class action suits and/or multiple victims represented by different lawyers.
Here is something about this lawyer -
By Amelia Gentleman
Mon 2 Feb 2026 00.00 EST
Last modified on Mon 2 Feb 2026 10.59 EST
(snip)
Bloom, the California-based lawyer who has specialised in representing victims of sexual misconduct cases for 40 years, is acting for 11 of Epsteins victims. In December, she launched new proceedings against the FBI on behalf of eight of her clients, which argue that the organisation failed to investigate credible reports of Epsteins sexual misconduct involving minors going back as far as 1996. Had the FBI acted with due diligence, the complaint argues, hundreds more women could have been protected from abuse.
(snip)
So she may be part of this group represented by this lawyer now.
lostincalifornia
(5,399 posts)to come forward.
If there are witnesses to this they also need to come forward.