Johnson claimed that Trump violently raped her when she was 13 at a 1994 orgy hosted by Jeffrey Epstein — the billionaire who was convicted in 2008 of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution and has been accused of having sex with more than 30 underage girls.

Johnson said Trump had sexual contact with her at four of those parties, including tying her to a bed and violently raping her in a “savage sexual attack.” The lawsuit said Johnson “loudly pleaded” with Trump to stop, but that he responded by “violently striking Plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted.”

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    I’m not from the US but even that kinda offended me. To say that there has never been democracy in the US, clearly judged by your very narrow view of history is incredibly ignorant.

    How old are you?

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      The US has always been a representative republic. For much of that time, it was representative of only a fraction of a fraction of the whole population.

      how old are you?

      "Uh… uh… eyes dart to the side 21 gulps.

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        That’s an ignorant, illiterate and pedantic puerile answer.

        That whole “republic” bullshit is…bullshit.

        The USA, as of today, is a FAILED democracy.

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          What point in history would you pin as American government being representative of it’s population. It was failed from the start.

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          That’s an ignorant, illiterate and pedantic puerile answer.

          Baby’s first thesaurus?

          That whole “republic” bullshit is…bullshit.

          The USA, as of today, is a FAILED democracy.

          An argument I’m sure you’ll support in your next replies.

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        Saying that the US isn’t a democracy because it’s a representative republic is like saying a shape isn’t a rectangle because it’s a square.

        We aren’t a direct democracy. But in a representative republic power still stems from the people voting (ostensibly). Demoi (δῆμοι) meaning “peoples” and kratos (κράτος) meaning “power,” we get “democracy.” Power from the people.

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        And how are those representatives chosen, perhaps in some elections like in, I dunno, a representative democracy

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        Democracies will most likely always have flaws, I think it makes more sense to compare it to other systems in the same historical context than to apply a current vision of what a democracy should be.