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Former Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul has accused Donald Trump of raping her at New York's Plaza Hotel in November 1993. Her allegations are detailed in a new report released by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee investigating Trump's connections to Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking network. The White House categorically denies the accusations.
According to the report, Keul was 24 years old when she was invited to participate in a beauty competition organized by people associated with Trump. During a luncheon at the Plaza Hotel, which Trump owned at the time, he allegedly approached her and promised assistance obtaining a US visa and admission to New York University. Shortly afterward, Epstein reportedly made similar offers, including an invitation to Mar-a-Lago.
Later that day, Keul says she was invited to Trump's hotel suite. Believing the meeting could help her career and education, she agreed. According to her testimony, Trump grabbed her from behind and violently raped her, tearing her dress and leaving her bleeding and bruised. She described the alleged assault as brutal.
Keul claims Trump subsequently repeated his promises of assistance and pressured her to remain silent, telling her, “The show must go on.” She returned to Switzerland, declined another Trump-sponsored competition and reportedly rejected further offers from Trump months later.
The congressional report alleges that Trump, Epstein and others used beauty competitions involving women and girls aged 16 to 22 as opportunities to approach potential victims. Investigators point to similarities between Keul's account and testimony describing how Epstein used promises of education, modeling careers and financial support to recruit vulnerable young women.
Trump has not been criminally charged in connection with Keul's allegations. White House spokesperson Lauren Bis rejected the report, calling the accusations false and politically motivated. She insisted Trump had expelled Epstein from Mar-a-Lago and denied any Epstein-related wrongdoing by the president.
The report also revisits allegations made by four other women who accused Trump of rape or sexual assault in accounts connected to the Epstein investigation. Their allegations concern incidents dating from the mid-1980s through the 1990s and had previously appeared in media interviews or FBI records.
Trump's history of sexual misconduct allegations includes the case of writer E. Jean Carroll. In May 2023, a federal civil jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Manhattan department store during the 1990s and subsequently defaming her. The jury awarded approximately $5 million in damages. Trump denied wrongdoing and challenged the verdict.
Another section examines Paolo Zampolli, a longtime Trump associate and former State Department official. According to FBI records cited by the committee, Zampolli arranged visas for young models, including one woman who later alleged that Epstein raped her. Zampolli also faces separate allegations of drugging and raping model Victoria Drake in 2023, which remain contested.
The report further challenges Zampolli's claim that he introduced Melania Trump to Donald Trump in 1998. It cites accounts suggesting Epstein arranged their introduction, although these competing claims have not been conclusively established.
On October 26, Representative Jamie Raskin called for an independent special counsel to investigate Epstein's alleged accomplices and possible concealment of evidence by the Justice Department.
Released shortly before the November elections, the report has intensified scrutiny of Trump's past relationships and allegations of sexual misconduct. Its claims remain disputed and require independent examination.
The central question is whether America's justice system can investigate allegations against its most powerful political figures without interference, favoritism or fear.
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Charles Kushner, a New Jersey real-estate developer and the father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared, became the U.S. Ambassador to France in 2025. Introducing himself to the French public in a social-media video, he said that he knew “a limited amount about France.” He does not speak French; he has never lived abroad. He served time in federal prison for illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering. The last crime, a blackmail scheme that involved hiring a prostitute to seduce his sister’s husband, suggests a dubious approach to conflict management. Yet Trump saw fit to hand him one of the most coveted posts in American diplomacy, the seat once held by Thomas Jefferson and by Benjamin Franklin, stewarding the relationship with America’s oldest ally.
Since taking up his post, Kushner has earned a reputation for meddling in domestic French politics at sensitive moments. “I don’t see how he can possibly affect the opinions of the French government by regularly irritating them,” the president of the American Academy of Diplomacy said. Lauren Collins reports on Charles Kushner’s Ambassadorship and a new cohort of MAGA diplomats who are underqualified for their posts and overeager to impress the boss back in Washington: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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This Iranian woman is going viral for setting the record straight on Iranians: “Iranians are not Muslim. We all hate Islam after 47 years of Islamic regime. Under Sharia… I would be killed for dressing like this. We’re peaceful people.”
This is the abhorrent mentality of Stoneage men - disgusting vile misogynistic thinking fuelled by religious dogma…
She was born in Iran and built her life in Afghanistan a woman's rights activist with a voice that frightened the men around her.
So her ex-husband threw acid on her face.
In the hospital, after the surgeries, she sat with her head shaved doctors had taken skin from her scalp to rebuild her face. She was still bandaged, still bleeding, still healing.
But her son was not by her side. He was living with his father. And his father set the condition: if you want to talk to your son, you will do it on a video call so I can see what you've become.
She accepted. She needed to hear her child's voice.
On that call, her ex-husband looked at her destroyed face and smiled. He said: "Look at you. You've become like a monster. You'll never dare go out in public again people will be terrified when they see you. I dare you. I dare you to go out and talk about women's rights."
He thought he had broken her. He thought that face was the end of her.
He was wrong.
Every scar on her face became a sentence in her speech. They took her beauty so she took his fear and turned it into courage. Today she walks in public with her head high, and she speaks about women's rights louder than ever.
He wanted to bury her in shame. Instead, he gave the world a witness.
That is why I invited her to our Freedom gala in Poland to dedicate to her the Medal of Freedom I received. Because she is the symbol of resilience itself: the symbol of every woman whose face was burned but whose voice could not be silenced.
Thank you, Poland for opening your doors, for giving visas to my delegation of women from Iran, Afghanistan, and Cameroon.
We are about to start a global women's rights movement and we will go together, all of us, to the German Parliament very soon.
This time, I invited 10 women. In Berlin, we will invite more dissidents.
@FahimaSarfaraz
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Russia executed Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Hulyaipole direction, spokesman for the "South" group of forces said.
They received an order to "finish off" the wounded man and "immediately eliminate" the prisoners. The crime is likely to involve soldiers from the 38th motorized rifle brigade.
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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy just went on TV and made clear that Donald Trump is abandoning Ukraine. Just weeks after Don Jr's wedding paid for by a Russian oligarch, this happens. The corruption is astounding.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly pissed after asking his staff why his Truth Social feed is suddenly full of complaints about gas prices, inflation, and the Iran War, and one staffer explained that, without millions of Russian bots, he was finally seeing real people's posts.
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Today, Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia. As of now, sadly, twelve people have been confirmed killed, including three children. My condolences to all their families and loved ones. Another fourteen people have been injured, and two of them are in critical condition – the doctors are fighting to save their lives. The status of twelve more people who may have been there is still being verified. All emergency services are at the scene, and search-and-rescue operations are underway. Overnight, thirteen of our regions came under attack. Residential buildings, infrastructure, and railway facilities have been damaged.
Last night confirmed once again that in Russia, they take any easing of pressure to mean they can keep fighting, to mean they can keep dropping bombs on cities. Different signals are needed. Russia must understand that it needs to stop the war, and for that to happen, Russia must feel its losses. Right now, it is our long-range capabilities that are ensuring this. And we will respond to Russian strikes. I thank everyone who is helping.
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This is incredible. 81-year-old Eric Clapton played the original electric version of “Layla” a few days ago after years of not performing it. What a treat!
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In a remarkable act of self-sabotage, Green party members have passed a motion declaring that ‘Zionism is racism’ by 1022 to 813 votes.
This motion, grotesquely passed on Simchat Torah – the Jewish holiday on which Hamas carried out the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust – makes the Greens the first party of electoral significance in the UK, and possibly in Europe, to adopt extremist, racist views as policy.
This could end their ambition to enter mainstream British politics.
The motion goes well beyond criticising Israeli policy – it adopts a radical view that denies Jewish right to self-determination and reinvents Zionism as a ‘European settler-colonial’ project.
✍️ Limor Simhony Philpott
Article | spectator.com/article/polans…
