House Democrats report Keul’s rape allegation against Trump

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have published a staff report detailing Beatrice Keul’s allegation that Donald Trump raped her in 1993, a claim the White House denies and that has not been adjudicated in court. Keul, a model and former Miss Switzerland, told Democratic committee staff that the alleged assault took place in a hotel suite during a pageant visit to the United States. The report places the encounter in November 1993, when she was 24, and identifies the hotel as the Plaza in Manhattan. One account in the reporting gives a different location, Atlantic City; other accounts identify the Manhattan hotel, so the precise location is not consistent across the material. According to the report’s summary of Keul’s account, she met Trump at a press luncheon for the American Dream Pageant. She said he offered to help arrange a U.S. visa and admission to New York University through modeling agent Paolo Zampolli. She also said Jeffrey Epstein approached her at the event, introduced himself as Trump’s close friend and offered to arrange travel and accommodations. Keul told investigators that a Trump representative later invited her to a suite, where Trump grabbed her...