Donald Trump Rape Accuser Cancels News Conference Over ‘Numerous Threats’

“She has decided she is too afraid to show her face,” lawyer Lisa Bloom says of woman who claims she was 13 years old at time of alleged incident

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A woman who has accused Donald Trump of raping her when she was 13 years old has decided not to appear at a scheduled news conference to discuss the charges.

“Jane Doe has received numerous threats today as have all the Trump accusers that I’ve represented,” attorney Lisa Bloom said before a throng of reporters. “She is living in fear, she has decided that she is too afraid to show her face. She has been here all day, ready to do it, but unfortunately she is in terrible fear. So we’re going to have to reschedule.”

A lawsuit filed in April in California claims Trump and financier Jeffrey Epstein made the plaintiff, listed in court documents as “Katie Johnson,” a sex slave in 1994 when she was 13 years old.

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