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A resurfaced tweet about Katie Johnson's 2016 lawsuit against Donald Trump has reignited outrage online, amassing over 7 million views. Johnson had alleged Trump raped her in 1994 when she was just 13 at a party hosted by Jeffrey Epstein. Although the case was dropped before the election, allegedly due to death threats, it included supporting affidavits and briefly resurfaced before being withdrawn again. Now, with Trump under scrutiny for past ties to Epstein and backlash from his own supporters demanding transparency, the debate over the 'Epstein Files' is back in full force.
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