Former Miss Switzerland Accuses Trump of Rape – The Tuesday AM Quickie 10/27/26
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Former Miss Switzerland Says Trump Raped Her at Beauty Pageant After Hanging Out With Epstein
Trump raped a former beauty pageant contestant in 1993, then told her to keep quiet because “the show must go on” and promised to get her into NYU, according to a report the Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee released yesterday, which AFP, HuffPost and the Miami Herald covered. Major outlets severely downplayed the news, if they covered it at all, including the NYT, which dedicated just six paragraphs to it and did not mention the new rape allegation. Not long ago, this would have been a catastrophic story for a sitting president. But now, after a decade of Trumpism and MAGA and the normalization of their pro-rape ideology; after the avalanche of misogyny we’re living under day in, day out; after the destruction of reproductive healthcare, criminalization of abortion, and a male supremacist movement that seeks to erase women from public life and subjugate them in private, here we are.
The 53-page report says five women have accused Trump of rape or sexual assault “while in the company” of fellow rapist Jeffrey Epstein, and that the FBI and Department of Justice shut down investigations and withheld evidence to protect him. They are calling for Attorney General Todd Blanche to appoint an independent special counsel to investigate and for the administration to fully cooperate with state and foreign prosecutors that are requesting evidence.
The new rape allegation is from former Miss Switzerland, Beatrice Keul, who two years ago said she had rejected Trump’s sexual advances. Now she says Trump in fact raped her so violently that he left her bruised and bleeding, an attack he perpetrated at his Plaza Hotel in Atlantic City during the 1993 American Dream Pageant after they had spent time together with Epstein.
“Keul described the rape as ‘brutal.’ Following the assault, according to Keul’s report, Trump sat her on the edge of the bed, repeated his promises to arrange for a visa and NYU admission, and made her promise she would keep quiet, saying, ‘[T]he show must go on.’”
The White House defended Trump, who once said he could “grab women by the pussy” because “when you’re a star, they let you do it,” and claimed the report was nonsense put forward by “crazed” Democrats.