罗南·法罗的新书在幕后详细报道了他对哈维·韦恩斯坦被指控的不当性行为的爆炸性报道捉迷藏:谎言、间谍和保护捕食者的阴谋声称美国媒体公司，前《国家问询报》试图帮助唐纳德·特朗普掩盖他在1994年强奸一名青少年的指控。
法罗在书中声称，当强奸指控在2016年的一场诉讼中被公之于众时，AMI首席执行官大卫·派克与特朗普有着密切的联系，然后-《国家问询报》编辑迪伦·霍华德向特朗普当时的私人律师迈克尔·科恩保证，“他们会追踪那个被指控强奸的女人，看看他们能为她做些什么。”急性心肌梗塞发言人告诉记者新闻周刊周二法罗的说法“完全不真实”
急性心肌梗塞过去的被告购买关于特朗普的具有潜在破坏性的故事，以防止它们被公之于众——这种做法在业内被称为“捉迷藏”去年12月，艾米承认2016年，特朗普的竞选团队向前者“一致”支付了15万美元花花公子模特凯伦·麦克道戈，据称他十年前与特朗普有染。美国检察官办公室称，出版商与麦克杜格尔达成协议，“是为了确保这名妇女在2016年总统选举前不公开对该候选人的破坏性指控”。
在2016年总统选举前对特朗普提起的诉讼的核心是声称特朗普在1994年强奸了一名13岁的女性。当时，特朗普的律师艾伦·加滕回答诉讼称指控“绝对不真实”
2019年10月3日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在佛罗里达州乡村沙龙·莫尔斯表演艺术中心签署了一项关于医疗保险的行政命令后离开。
匿名原告——最初仅被认定为“凯蒂·约翰逊”法律备案这在加州被驳回，“无名女尸”在随后纽约的两份法律文件中称，她在现已去世的恋童癖杰弗里·爱泼斯坦在特朗普纽约公寓举办的派对上被特朗普强奸。在第三场也是最后一场比赛中诉讼Doe声称她在特朗普和爱泼斯坦的派对上与他们有过多次性接触，并说她也被爱泼斯坦强奸了BuzzFeed新闻当时有报道。
在这起诉讼的耸人听闻的细节中，无名氏声称特朗普将她绑在床上，“强行强奸”她，并威胁她和她的家人，如果她告诉任何人这起袭击事件，她将受到身体伤害，如果不是死亡的话。“我知道特朗普和爱泼斯坦知道我13岁，”无名氏在一份宣誓书中写道。
法罗声称，在2016年9月提起诉讼后，追究者编辑霍华德和特朗普律师科恩经常联系。(科恩是被判三年监禁去年12月，他因向麦克道戈尔和成人电影明星斯托米·丹尼尔斯支付封口费而被指控违反竞选财务条例。)
“没有机会相信这个故事，”法罗写道，他声称艾米酋长派克——特朗普的老朋友——是在诉讼提起后才发现的。
法罗说，霍华德现在是AMI的首席内容官，他试图利用他的影响力说服丽莎·布鲁姆放弃她的委托人，丽莎·布鲁姆是一名同意代表无名女尸的代理律师。
2016年11月，就在总统选举前几天，布鲁姆突然宣布与无名氏举行记者招待会取消说Doe在收到死亡威胁后变得害怕。两天后，能源部首席律师托马斯·麦格尔，归档驳回这个案子。从那以后就再也没有无名氏的消息了。
和...说话新闻周刊星期二，布鲁姆说追究者编辑“确实告诉我他认为无名女尸缺乏可信度...这不是她要求另一名律师放弃她的案子的原因。”
“在我们收到无数死亡威胁，我的律师事务所网站和电子邮件遭到黑客攻击后，她不想继续前进，”布鲁姆补充道。
布鲁姆还表示，她没有代表能源部与AMI达成任何协议。“我免费代表多伊女士，从来没有讨论过金钱或和解问题，因为我坚信，鉴于唐纳德·特朗普当时正在竞选总统，她的指控应该公开。”
霍华德的律师保罗·特威德说新闻周刊*“我们建议霍华德先生在现阶段不要对这本书发表进一步评论，同时考虑他在适当司法管辖区的所有法律补救措施。”
急性心肌梗塞发言人说:“法罗先生的叙述是由来自可疑来源的未经证实的指控驱动的，虽然这些故事可能是戏剧性的，但它们完全是不真实的。”
TRUMP TEEN RAPE ALLEGATION RESURFACES, RONAN FARROW CLAIMS NATIONAL ENQUIRER TRIED TO PROTECT HIM IN NEW BOOK
Amid behind-the-scenes details of his explosive reporting on Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct, Ronan Farrow's new book Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators claims that American Media Inc. (AMI), the former publisher of the National Enquirer, tried to help Donald Trump bury allegations he raped a teenager in 1994.
Farrow claims in the book that AMI CEO David Pecker was in close contact with Trump when the rape allegations were made public in a 2016 lawsuit, and that then-National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard assured Trump's personal lawyer at the time, Michael Cohen, "that they would track down the woman with the rape allegation and see what they could do about her." An AMI spokesperson told Newsweek Tuesday that Farrow's claims are "completely untrue."
AMI has been accused in the past of purchasing potentially damaging stories about Trump in order to keep them from becoming public—a practice known in the industry as "catch and kill." Last December, AMI admitted that in 2016 it made a $150,000 payment "in concert" with Trump's election campaign to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who allegedly had an affair with Trump a decade earlier. The publisher made the pact with McDougal "in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election," the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
At the crux of the lawsuit filed against Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election were claims that Trump raped a woman when she was 13 years old in 1994. At the time, Trump's lawyer Alan Garten responded to the lawsuit saying that the allegations are "categorically untrue."
US President Donald Trump leaves after signing an executive order regarding Medicare at Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center October 3, 2019, in The Villages, Florida.
The anonymous plaintiff—identified only as "Katie Johnson" in an initial legal filing that was dismissed in California, and "Jane Doe" in two subsequent legal filings in New York—said that she was raped by Trump during a party hosted by the now-deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein at his New York City apartment. In the third and final lawsuit, Doe alleged she had numerous sexual encounters with Trump and Epstein at the latter's parties and said she was also raped by Epstein, as BuzzFeed News reported at the time.
Among the lurid details of the lawsuit, Jane Doe alleged Trump tied her to a bed, "forcibly raped" her and threatened her and her family with physical harm, if not death, if she told anyone about the assault. "I understood that Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein knew that I was 13 years old," Jane Doe wrote in an affidavit.
Farrow alleges that after the suit was filed in September 2016, Enquirer editor Howard and Trump lawyer Cohen were in contact frequently. (Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison last December on charges including campaign finance violations for his part in hush payments to McDougal and adult film star Stormy Daniels.)
"There was no opportunity to buy this story," Farrow writes, claiming that AMI chief Pecker—a longtime friend of Trump's—only found out about the lawsuit after it was filed.
Still, Farrow says, Howard, now chief content officer at AMI, tried to use his influence to convince Lisa Bloom, a power attorney who agreed to represent Jane Doe, to drop her client.
In November 2016, just days before the presidential election, Bloom suddenly announced a press conference with Jane Doe had been canceled, saying Doe had become frightened after receiving death threats. Two days later, Doe's lead attorney, Thomas Meager, filed to dismiss the case. Jane Doe has not been heard from since.
Speaking to Newsweek Tuesday, Bloom said that while the Enquirer editor "did tell me he thought Jane Doe lacked credibility ... that wasn't the reason she asked her other attorney to drop her case."
"After we received numerous death threats and my law firm's website and emails were hacked, she did not want to go forward," Bloom added.
Bloom also said that she did not enter any agreements with AMI on Doe's behalf. "I represented Ms. Doe for free and there was never any discussion of money or settlement as I strongly believed her allegations should be made public given that Donald Trump was running for president at that time."
Paul Tweed, an attorney for Howard, told Newsweek: "We have advised Mr. Howard to make no further comment regarding the book at this stage, while all his legal remedies in appropriate jurisdictions are being considered."
An AMI spokesperson said: "Mr. Farrow's narrative is driven by unsubstantiated allegations from questionable sources and while these stories may be dramatic, they are completely untrue."
