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wnylib

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75. I do not EVER minimize sex crimes
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 10:21 AM
23 hrs ago

Last edited Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:00 AM - Edit history (1)

I have been an advocate for domestic violence and rape survivors. I have been in hospitals with them while they were examined with a rape kit. I have been in courtrooms when survivors of domestic violence and of rape testified.

I got involved in doing that because I am a domestic violence survivor who faced death threats and 5 actual attempts. To this day, I don't know how I survived and got out alive, since the threats and attempts continued - got worse - after I left him. I have had nightmares over it. But I also had supportive help from friends.

When I was 20 and a close friend was 19, my friend was kidnapped by an escaped felon when she was shopping, taken to another state and raped multiple times. She managed to escape and called police who ridiculed her accusations, claiming that she made it all up. She called her parents, who contacted the FBI. The FBI verified the description of her attacker as a wanted man. When he was caught, she had to relive it in testimony. Meantime, the police who had ridiculed her released to the media their beliefs about her complaint. That version was broadcast and printed along with her name and address. Her father got retractions by threatening to sue. Her employer fired her.

So, no, I do not EVER minimize accusations of sexual assault or violence.

It is true that allegations from multiple survivors make allegations more credible. Not proof, but definitely credible. Definitely calls for an investigation in which Trump would have to answer questions under oath. That is what I have been advocating for. Why do you then claim that I am minimizing accusations?

You said that there have been hundreds of accusations. I might be missing some things in the news, but I have heard that Trump's name appears over a thousand times in the Epstein files. But only two actual accusations have been found as far as I know. I think that more accusations could turn up in an investigation.

So why are you minimizing the need for an investigation since that is what I am advocating for while you accuse me of minimizing the accusations?


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