EXCLUSIVE: Trump lawyer calls 'rape' lawsuit a HOAX and says there's no proof accuser exists as he claims her address and phone number are fakes and 'clearly there's some kind of collusion going on'
Donald
Trump's attorney told DailyMail.com on Friday that a lawsuit claiming
Trump raped a 13-year-old girl at billionaire pedophile Jeffrey
Epstein's notorious 'sex parties' appears to be a hoax.
Trump
had already 'categorically' denied the claims but attorney Alan
Garten's statement signals that the Trump campaign is eager to swat down
the allegation before it gains any more traction.
'The
allegations are not only categorically false, but disgusting at the
highest level and clearly framed to solicit media attention or, more
likely, are politically motivated,' Garten told DailyMail.com in a
statement. 'To be clear, there is absolutely no merit to these claims
and, based on our investigation, no evidence that the person who has
made these allegations actually exists.'
In
a followup telephone interview, Garten cited a litany of specific
indications that the lawsuit is a hoax perpetrated by 'someone with some
level of legal background.'
The
address listed on the lawsuit exists, he said, but 'there is no
indication or record that that person' named as the lawsuit plaintiff
'ever resided there. So we believe it is a false address.'
He
also said the phone number listed on the lawsuit papers rings to
voicemail and publicly available records tie it to another person.
'There is no record that the phone number is tied to the person who has made these allegations,' he said.
'We believe that this person does not exist.'
The
suit details claims made by a woman named as 'Katie Johnson,' with a
home address named as what turned out to be an empty, foreclosed
property at 'Twentynine Palms' in California.
Neighbors
told reporters that the home has been empty since the death of its
owner, David Stacey, last October. The property went into default soon
after and on April 11 – just 15 days before the lawsuit was filed – the
bank officially foreclosed.
Alan Garten, Donald Trump's corporate
attorney at the Trump Organization, spoke exclusively to DailyMail.com
and swatted down the allegations in a salacious lawsuit filed Thursday
against the Republican presidential front-runner
Garten
rattled off a list of indications in the lawsuit that suggest it was
not filed by an indigent woman acting on her own behalf, but that it was
drafted by someone who 'clearly has some legal background.'
The
suit details claims made by a woman named as 'Katie Johnson,' who says
her net worth is $278, leading her to request a waiver of the filing
fees.
'This
is not a "pro se" filing,' Garten told DailyMail.com, referring to the
legal term for someone who petitions a court without an attorney.
'This
was written on legal paper with margins and line numbers. It's properly
captioned. It has no typos. It has footers. It cites statutes.'
'This
has all the hallmarks of being drafted by someone with some level of
legal background,' he said, 'and 'this was filed to not leave
fingerprints.'
'I mean, there's a section titled "material witnesses!" This is not someone with $278 to her name.'
He suggested that the lawsuit filer pleaded poverty 'because unless you pay in cash, the filing fee traces back to someone.'
'It
seems like there's a lot more to this story than some random person.
Clearly there's some kind of collusion going on here,' Garten insisted.
In
California as in most states, anyone can file a lawsuit with a court –
whether or not they are a lawyer or a named plaintiff. No identification
is required.
But
most suits are filed by lawyers who put their names on the legal
papers, and the ethics requirements of their law licenses generally
prevent the kind of shenanigans Garten suggested.
Trump,
the Republican presidential front-runner, told DailyMail.com on
Thursday night that the allegations were 'disgusting at the highest
level' after he was accused of raping and sexually assaulting a minor in
a bombshell $100 million lawsuit.
The
suit claims Trump took Johnson's virginity and alleges that the
Republican presidential hopeful and financier Epstein treated her as a
'sex slave' during an 'horrific' four-month period in 1994.
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