According to the Wikipedia page entitled, “Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations,” at least 28 women have accused Trump of sexual assault. This is remarkable when you consider that studies find two-thirds to three-quarters of women who are sexually assaulted in the U.S. choose not to report the crime. And what about women who are assaulted by a man famous for being rich, powerful, and litigious? How do you think that affects the odds the crime is reported?
This addendum to the third installment in our “American Experiment Unraveling” series is written primarily for readers in Brazil. Regardless of political persuasion, everyone in the U.S. is sick and tired of hearing about the sexual crimes and depravity of our president. However, I presume Brazilians have not faced the onslaught of press on this subject that we Americans have had to endure. Thus, you probably don’t know important, sordid details about our president’s criminal history.
Perhaps I’m being overly optimistic. But I’d like to think Brazilians must find it very hard to believe Americans would knowingly elect a rapist to be their president. And also, find it baffling that Trump’s sex crimes and misogyny only seem to have strengthened his popularity with millions of evangelical Christians.
I therefore want to provide more information about our president’s extensive record of sexual assault and deviance (if you can stand it). And also about his longstanding, close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. That way, you’ll be less inclined to think I’m making all this shit up. (Which would be perfectly understandable, given how unreal it is that the U.S. has sunk this low.) Armed with details, you can go online and do some fact-checking yourself. Yes, you too can learn directly from original sources about the wondrous moral turpitude of our president!
But first of all, there is an important aspect of Trump’s character you should know about.
Most men who are unjustly accused of rape will vehemently proclaim their innocence by saying something along the lines of, “How dare you say that! I could never commit such a horrible, violent act against a woman!” But not our president. No, not the chosen one. Not The Orange One. He is too clever to fall into that trap. When Donald J. Trump is accused of sexual assault, he will angrily demand to see a photograph of the victim – a photo taken the year of the alleged crime. After glancing at it, he will smirk and loudly exclaim, “God, is she ugly! I would never rape such a pathetic dog! Look, I don’t mean to offend or disrespect anybody. But honestly, she is just not my type. It’s inconceivable that I could’ve raped this unfortunate creature. She doesn’t turn me on! I wouldn’t have been able to get an erection.”
Another clever tactic Trump and his followers use is known as the “Time Travel Defense.” During the 1980s and 1990s, when Trump was in his prime assaulting women, he was also becoming famous as a New York real-estate and tabloid buffoon. Trump Tower opened in 1983, and his best-selling, ghost-written book, The Art of the Deal, was published in 1987. As a result, some of Trump’s victims confided at the time, to friends or family, that they had been sexually assaulted by a well-known, public figure. These confidants are still around. They remember vividly when their best friend or loved one told them about suffering this traumatic violation. When you see so many Trump victims verify their stories in this manner, it’s hard not to believe he’s guilty.
However, in the MAGAverse, facts and shared reality are mere inconveniences that can easily be overcome. Trump didn’t know any of these ugly, skanky women! He never met them! Okay, maybe that does look like a photo of the two of them together. But so what? He was famous even back then, and often posed for photos with strangers. These women are all part of a Democrat conspiracy to destroy Trump’s presidency! What’s that? You say he assaulted many of these women years before he entered politics? Well, then obviously these women were transported back in time, so that they could create contemporary witnesses and make their lies more believable.
Trump most recently employed the Time Travel Defense last year, when he denied taking part in The First Fifty Years – a scrapbook containing praise and fond reminiscences of Jeffrey Epstein, personally written by his friends. Ghislaine Maxwell compiled the book in 2004 as a gift to celebrate the milestone of Epstein’s 50th birthday. At Ghislaine’s request, Trump submitted a one-page, signed paean to his buddy that featured the drawing of a naked girl, along with typed text. His contribution brazenly celebrated Epstein’s pedophilia. In an attempt at humor, he alluded to Jeffrey’s need to experience three orgasms per day – morning, noon, and evening. It was this need that forced Epstein to abuse three girls per day. (Apparently, molesting the same child all day long wouldn’t work.) As Trump gleefully said in his birthday note, “May every day be a wonderful secret.”
Once again, this was obviously a hoax accomplished via time travel. Trump doesn’t do drawings. It was an imposter who gave Ghislaine that drawing of a girl in mid-adolescence with small, budding breasts, the way Jeffrey likes them. The imposter also forged the signature, which experts confirm is consistent with Trump’s handwriting.
Now granted, many people in the MAGAverse will take issue with my assertion that Trump has been “convicted of rape.” So please allow me to explain how this statement is accurate. In 2023, a jury of his peers found Trump guilty of raping the writer, E. Jean Carroll. He attacked her in 1996 inside a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan. Trump was never in danger of going to jail as a result of this trial. When he raped Carroll, New York State had a five-year limitation for criminally prosecuting this class of crime. Because that period had expired long ago, Trump was sued and tried through a civil federal jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The trial took place over several weeks in May 2023 and required nine days in court. The evidence was so overwhelming that the jury only needed three hours to deliberate and unanimously find the scumbag guilty as charged. They awarded Ms. Carroll $5 million, including $2.02 million in compensatory and punitive damages for sexual battery and $2.98 million in compensatory and punitive damages for defamation.
In order to find Trump guilty on the defamation charge, the jury had to determine that he had publicly accused Ms. Carroll of lying about the rape. And of course that she was telling the truth, because Trump had indeed raped her. This was an easy call. Before the trial began, Trump had gone on social media to say that Ms. Carroll’s accusation was a “complete con job” and a “hoax and a lie.” He did not know who this crazy lady was, but given how ugly she is, she was definitely “not my type.”
Now I’ve got to come clean here about one thing, but I think you’ll agree it doesn’t really matter. If you want to get technical about it, the jury did not find Trump guilty of rape, but rather guilty of “sexual abuse.” In fact, Trump countersued Ms. Carroll over this technicality. When the guilty verdict was announced, Carroll was understandably elated. While leaving the courthouse, she told news reporters and cameramen she had been completely vindicated. The jury had rapidly found Trump raped her, just like she said he had. So, being the consummate asshole that he is, Trump immediately filed a defamation counterclaim against Carroll. His law suit basically argued, “You can’t say I raped you! The jury only found me guilty of sexually abusing you.”
But here’s the thing. In order to find Trump guilty of “sexual abuse,” the original trial judge instructed the jury that it had to determine Trump physically penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina. Trump’s countersuit was thrown out of court – dismissed in a matter of weeks. In his ruling on the dismissal, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote that in finding Trump guilty of sexual abuse, the trial jury had found he “forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll’s private sexual parts with his fingers.”
So that we can avoid using legalese, allow me to translate the judge’s ruling into common, everyday English. What Judge Kaplan told the president of the United States was basically this: “You dumb son of a bitch! I don’t care if you raped Ms. Carroll with your little, pudgy fingers or your penis. Either way, you raped her. And she has every right to call you a rapist!”
Now it’s true that most of sexual assaults Trump has committed fall short of rape. They are usually of the type where he surprises his victims, catching them completely unawares. He’ll be talking to a woman or walking beside her, when nobody else is around. Suddenly, he lunges! Using his corpulence, he pins his victim against the wall and begins to grope, while kissing her and forcing his tongue down her throat. (Sorry to place that disgusting image in your head.)
This is exactly how Trump assaulted Natasha Stoynoff in December 2005. Ms. Stoynoff was a reporter for People Magazine. She was interviewing Donald and his third wife, Melania, at Mar-a-Lago in order to write an article about the upcoming first-year anniversary of their marriage. (So, not only was Melania in the house when Trump assaulted Stoynoff, but she was also about six months pregnant with their son, Barron.) You can go online and read the astounding article Ms. Stoynoff wrote about her ordeal, which People published in its issue dated October 12, 2016.
As of today, we know for sure that Trump raped at least two women: Ms. Carroll, and his first wife, Ivana.
In 1990, Mrs. Ivana Trump swore under oath in a divorce deposition that Donald had raped her the year before in a fit of rage. His fury was caused by his experience undergoing cosmetic surgery. He had just had a scalp reduction to cover up a bald spot, and liposuction to reduce the appearance of a double chin. Ivana had recommended the plastic surgeon. Donald didn’t like the way he looked, he thought the doctor had botched the job, and he was in pain recovering from the surgery. So to retaliate, he yanked a handful of hair out of Ivana’s head, and violently and painfully raped her. (It had been more than 16 months since the two of them last had consensual sexual intercourse. So this was obviously not just a case of “marital relations” that became upsetting or rough.) In December 1990, a judge granted Ivana an uncontested divorce on grounds of Donald’s “cruel and inhuman treatment.”
This marital rape (which was a criminal act under New York State law) came to light as a result of the book, The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, written by Harry Hurt III. (Hurt reports Donald screamed at Ivana, “Your fucking doctor has ruined me!”). In 1993, Trump learned that the book was about to be published, and that it would expose him as a rapist. On the eve of publication, he pressured his ex-wife to write an exculpatory statement about the rape, and his lawyers pressured the publisher, W. W. Norton, to include it in the book. The first print run of the book had already been completed. So if you have a first-edition copy, you will see that the statement is on a sheet of paper pasted into the book. In later editions, the statement appears as a footnote.
Ivana’s statement is basically a “non-denial denial” about how Donald raped her. (Hurt thinks she complied with Trump’s demand to write a statement because they were still negotiating the financial settlement of the divorce.) Ivana writes that she never meant to imply Donald had raped her in “a literal or criminal sense.” Nevertheless, she describes Donald’s violent-but-noncriminal rape as follows: “As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent.”
Did Trump Also Rape Children, and Does it Matter if He Did?
Of course, the million dollar question is: During all those years the president regularly partied with Jeffrey, did he rape any of the hundreds of girls whom Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, had recruited and groomed? You know, all those underage girls who were constantly present at his properties in New York, Florida, New Mexico, Paris, and his island in the Caribbean. It is an established fact that Jeffrey and Ghislaine would order girls to sexually service their friends and business associates. The bedrooms of Epstein’s mansions were equipped with cameras and recording equipment, and he surreptitiously filmed these sexual encounters.
In the U.S., the age of sexual consent varies by state and ranges between 16 and 18 years old. In New York it is 17 years-old, and in Florida it is 18 years old. So if Trump had sex with victims younger than that, he committed unlawful statutory rape – even if the girls were willingly servicing him at the behest of Epstein.
So did the president rape children? Does it matter if he did? Not to me. To quote from the movie This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984), when it comes to my disgust and contempt for Trump – and the way he treats women – the dial is already turned up to eleven! However, there is one bizarre aspect of the MAGAverse that is very pertinent to this matter – a perverse proclivity many Brazilians may not know about. Millions of Trump’s followers, as well as right-wing, religious Americans in general, share a fetishistic obsession with the sexual abuse of children. (They like to think they oppose it.) We don’t have the time or space here to get into the truly wacko QAnon conspiracy movement. But suffice it to say, many people in the MAGAverse spend much of their waking life concocting outlandish stories about how elite Democrats and Jews are running child sex trafficking rings.
Well, okay. Here’s the conspiracy, described in a nutshell: QAnon is essentially a subcult for the most deranged idiots within the larger cult of MAGA. QAnon cultists believe that because Donald Trump is the second coming of Jesus Christ in human form, he and only he is capable of destroying the “global cabal of Satan-worshiping, cannibalistic pedophiles” – which, by the way, includes Hillary Clinton – who are bent on achieving world domination.
Speaking of movies, as I often do, you may be interested to know that the MAGA movement has spawned an entirely new genre of American film that has come to be called “Christian thrillers.” These are religious, moralistic movies that often feature action heroes who rescue children from child sex-trafficking rings. The villains exploiting the children are stand-ins for the “woke” communist Democrats who hate Trump.
The film that best exemplifies this genre is Sound of Freedom (Alejandro Monteverde, 2023). It stars the actor Jim Caviezel. He plays an American federal agent who quits his job in order to single-handedly rescue a girl being held captive, deep within the jungles of Columbia. According to user reviews on IMDB.com, many people who went to see this movie were astonished to find themselves surrounded by burly, grown men wearing MAGA hats, who wept audibly throughout the film. The choking sobs reach a crescendo when Mr. Caviezel’s character is asked why he is so passionate about rescuing children from sexual slavery. In the film’s most powerful moment, he replies, “Because God’s children are not for sale.”
This B-movie, produced with a budget of just $14.5 million, came out of nowhere to become one of the biggest box office hits of the year. It raked in $184 million in the U.S. and Canada, and $251 million worldwide. Its appeal within the MAGAverse was such that Trump hosted a private screening of the film at his Bedminster golf club. The attendees included people like Steve Bannon, Jared and Ivanka, the star of the film Mr. Caviezel, and Trump’s “spiritual advisor,” Paula White-Caine. She led a prayer before the film began.
(My apologies for continuing so long on this tangent, but here’s why.) Now, I would be remiss if I failed to let Brazilian readers know that they will soon be able to see a new piece of shlock from the folks who have turned this genre into a gold mine. Yes, an American Christian thriller made especially for Brazilian audiences! The film is named Dark Horse, and it is a docudrama about Jair Bolsonaro who is played by – you guessed it – Jim Caviezel. Although the film is an American-Brazilian co-production (and, bizarrely, has been written and filmed entirely in English), the funding comes entirely from Brazil.
It looks and smells like a B-movie, but it turns out Dark Horse is the most expensive Brazilian film ever made! According to Bolsonaro’s son, Flávio, the film cost around $16 million U.S. dollars. However, journalists have uncovered shady financing schemes that indicate the film’s budget could be as high as $24 million. Either way, that’s way more than the previous record holder, Ainda Estou Aqui (Walter Salles, 2024). That film (which is awesome) had a $9 million production budget and ended up winning the Oscar for Best International Film.
Now that Caviezel has played both Jair Bolsonaro and Jesus Christ (The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson, 2004), he needs to complete the trifecta. Yes, it’s destined that he tackle the role of The Holy Manchild. Just imagine! The movie will make a fortune! It’ll be an epic, inspirational tale of the “poor little rich boy” from Queens who miraculously emerges from the cesspool of reality television to achieve greatness – even divinity. Along the way, our hero experiences persecution, lawfare, near-death experiences (literal and figurative), and resurrection. In the end, he triumphs over his enemies and is rewarded with an orgasmic epiphany of sadistic, godlike retribution.
Publicizing the Truth About Trump’s Relationship With Epstein
Okay. So you see where I’m going here. Maybe like me, you think, “So what if Trump raped children? It’s bad enough the sick bastard raped adults!” However, the president’s decade-long bromance with Jeffrey Epstein is the most powerful weapon we have to fight him and MAGA, and see whether it’s possible to salvage our democracy.
As a result of his brazen self-dealing, thievery, and total lack of ethics, Trump is indisputably the most corrupt president ever – not just in the 250 year history of the United States, but also among all leaders of Western industrial democracies since World War I. Unfortunately, for the tens of millions of Americans who regard Trump to be “the chosen one” – who are thrilled by his anger, racism, and self-pity – this massive, unprecedented corruption is a non-issue. They don’t even care when they, themselves, are swindled by Trump!
According to recently released financial disclosure reports, in 2025 President Trump made at least $635 million in royalties connected with sales of the $TRUMP meme coin. Hundreds of thousands of idiots bought these digital tokens (which don’t exist in physical form, yet somehow still bear his image) right after they were released. At the time, demand caused the cost of a single token to spike at around $74. The price has since fallen by 98 percent. Today you can buy a $TRUMP meme coin for about one dollar and sixty-nine cents. It is estimated that loyal inhabitants of the MAGAverse collectively lost more than $3 billion dollars by “investing” in this invisible, patriotic keepsake.
It’s hard to break through with Americans who’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid for so many years. However, the saga of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell seems to provide the most promising means to do so. Even if evidence doesn’t emerge proving Trump raped children, for many, many years he knew about, and helped enable, the despicable crimes of his best friend. And here’s a fact that’s under-reported: Just by knowing and doing nothing, Trump committed a crime. Under Florida State law, his failure to report child abuse is a misdemeanor offense. Finally, Trump has made it crystal clear that he has no concern or empathy whatsoever for the 1,000+ victims of Jeffrey and Ghislaine (including girls who were on his own payroll, and who they recruited from Mar-a-Lago). One would hope this simple fact might cause a few of his millions of followers – a few of all those holy warriors battling child sex trafficking – to begin to feel some buyer’s remorse.
If we lived in a sane world, what is already widely known and documented about Trump’s association with Epstein would be sufficient to destroy him politically.
One Hopeful Sign: Marjorie Taylor Greene (?!)
The most encouraging evidence that Trump’s longstanding friendship with Epstein poses significant danger to the MAGA movement can be found in the political freak show that is Marjorie Taylor Greene. Greene is the wealthy owner of a family construction business in Georgia who became nationally famous as a far-right Republican politician, conspiracy theorist, and worshipful, combative ally of Donald Trump. Ms. Green is relatively new to politics. She burst upon the scene in 2020 by spending $1 million of her own money to win a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Over the past year, Ms. Greene has reluctantly experienced a startling political metamorphosis. She has gone from being one of Trump’s closest, most fervent supporters to become perhaps his worst enemy. As a result – to the happy surprise and disbelief of all us liberals – this nutcase is now helping lead the righteous effort to expose Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, seek justice for his victims, and see that his accomplices, fellow predators, and enablers get all that they deserve!
I assume Brazilians who don’t avidly follow American politics are probably unfamiliar with this notorious firebrand and rabble-rouser. I’d therefore like to take some time and introduce you to Marjorie Taylor Greene. Her story, and her rapid rise and fall within the MAGAverse, is emblematic of how debased civic life and public affairs have become in Trump’s America.
Ms. Greene rocketed to national prominence the moment it became clear she was going to be a member of Congress. Because she was running to represent the highly conservative 14th congressional district of Georgia, that moment came when she won the Republican primary, in June 2020. Her victory immediately drew the attention of her idol, Donald Trump. He fired off the following tweet: “Congratulations to future Republican Star Marjorie Taylor Greene on a big Congressional primary win in Georgia against a very tough and smart opponent. Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up - a real WINNER!”
Few new members of Congress become nationally-known the moment they are elected. Ms. Greene’s meteoric rise was due to just one thing – she was a voluble proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory. In 2020, the QAnon cult was at the height of its influence; some 40 million American adults believed some aspect of the conspiracy. However, amongst all those idiots, Greene was the only one who had managed to get elected to Congress – hence all the attention and publicity. Even O Globo ran a story about her.
Congresswomen Greene adhered to all the political stances and policy positions you might expect. Of course, she was certain Trump had won the 2020 U.S. presidential election. When she arrived on the floor of the House to take her oath of office, in January 2021, she was wearing a facemask that proclaimed “TRUMP WON” in large capital letters. She gave credence to numerous 9/11 conspiracy theories. For example, the attacks were not organized by terrorists, but by the U.S. government. That “so-called plane?” It never really crashed into the Pentagon. You want to know something else that was probably staged by the government? Four of the most recent, widely publicized mass shootings. According to Greene, Democrats arranged the massacres to “persuade the public to want gun control.”
However, Ms. Greene was much more than your ordinary Republican who ticked off the usual boxes for an angry, devout Trump follower. Her fame was also due to the inventiveness, ebullience, and passion she brought to the MAGA movement. Greene not only subscribed to the usual right-wing conspiracy theories – she invented her own delusions. In 2018 when California was experiencing its worst, most deadly wildfire season in history, she speculated that the fires may have been started by laser beams fired from outer space – laser satellites controlled by Jewish bankers.
The following year, in one of her most infamous stunts, she arranged to have herself filmed on Capitol Hill while she chased after and harassed the teenage survivor of a mass school shooting. (Yes, this was one of the shootings Greene thought was likely orchestrated by the “deep state.”) The teen, David Hogg, had become an advocate of gun control after a gunman killed 17 classmates and teachers at his high school in Florida. He was visiting the U.S. Capitol to meet with lawmakers. You can still find the video on YouTube. As Hogg and his companions walk outside, Greene relentlessly trails behind him, shouting taunts and trying to goad him into engaging with her. Admirably, Hogg manages to ignore her.
In 2024, Greene traveled to New York City to support Trump by attending his criminal hush-money trial. (FYI, This was the trial about the $130,000 he illegally paid to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election – the hush money to keep his affair with the porn star, Stormy Daniels, secret.) Once again, a jury of peers rapidly and unanimously found him guilty on all 34 felony counts, enabling Trump to make history as the first U.S. president to be a convicted felon. (Oh yeah, I forgot to mention – as you might guess, the U.S. has also never had a president who is a convicted rapist.)
After the verdict, Greene told the press: “The Democrats and the fake news media want to constantly talk about, ‘Oh, President Trump is a convicted felon.’ Well, you want to know something? The man that I worship is also a convicted felon. And he was murdered on a Roman cross.”
So I ask you. How can it be that this woman is the same Marjorie Taylor Greene who, just last month, made the following statement? During a July 2026 interview with Brandon Straka, she said:
“I got a phone call from President Trump. I’ll never forget. I was in my office in the Rayburn Building. He was at the White House and he called me up, wanted me to take my name off the discharge petition. I said, ‘Mr. President, these women were raped as teenage girls. I’ve heard their stories. I’ve watched them cry. I’ve seen their bodies shaking out of control. These women deserve justice, and the American people deserve transparency, and this is exactly what we campaigned on. . . I’m not taking my name off this discharge petition.’
He goes on to tell me that his friends will get hurt. He says, ‘People you know, Marjorie, in West Palm Beach. People you know are going to get hurt.’ And I’m sitting there going, if these are your friends and you’re telling me that I have to take my name off to protect your friends because they’re in the Epstein files? I’m sorry. That’s a line I’m not willing, that’s a line in the sand. I’m not crossing that one. Sorry. I’m not defending rapists for you, Mr. President. No thank you. I’m not defending pedophiles for you, Mr. President. Absolutely not.
And so I told him no. And it was not a good conversation. And that was our last phone call.”
(To be continued . . . )