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Fact Check: Do papers allege Trump and Epstein took part in sexual assault?

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -20% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The documents on Wednesday night revealed the names of several prominent celebrities and politicians, including Trump.
50% : "Jeffrey said, 'Great, we'll call up Trump and we'll go to' -- I don't recall the name of the casino, but -- 'we'll go to the casino,'" Sjöberg said, according to her testimony.
33% : However, among the online commentary surrounding the documents' release, was an unrelated set of papers that went into graphic detail about an alleged sexual assault naming Trump.
33% : Newsweek has reached out to a media representative for Trump for comment.
31% : Later, when asked if she ever massaged Trump, Sjoberg twice responded that she never had.
30% : "The anonymous plaintiff -- identified only as "Katie Johnson" in an initial legal filing that was dismissed in California, and "Jane Doe" in two subsequent legal filings in New York -- said that she was raped by Trump during a party hosted by the now-deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein at his New York City apartment.
29% : Included on that list were two former presidents: Trump and Bill Clinton.
27% : The ClaimA post on X, formerly Twitter, by user @CarmenGranddau1, posted on January 4, 2024, said: "How Trump and Epstein savagely raped a 13 year old girl together."The post included a screengrab of a court document that includes graphic detail alleging rape and sexual assault by Trump and Epstein.
24% : In the third and final lawsuit, filed in September 2016, Doe alleged she had numerous sexual encounters with Trump and Epstein at the latter's parties and said she was also raped by Epstein.
19% : "They have nothing to do with Wednesday's unsealed court documents, which mentions Trump but contains no allegations of wrongdoing.
9% : For context, a lawsuit was filed against Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election and included claims that Trump raped a woman when she was 13 years old in 1994.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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