In September 2024, old claims that former U.S. President Donald Trump
committed acts of sexual violence against minors in the 1990s reemerged on
social media platforms including X and Reddit, sharing this time alongside a
new meme to illustrating the allegation:

Court documents accusing former U.S. President Donald Trump and the late
billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein of raping a 13-year-old girl
identified as Katie Johnson are often shared by Trump's detractors on social
media.

This allegation has always been supported by by images of court documents
describing graphic rapes allegedly perpetrated by Trump and convicted sex
offender/financier Jeffrey Epstein. Snopes has covered these documents
several times, including when they went viral in July 2024.

The written complaint included graphic accounts of the alleged rapes,
including the claim that Trump refused to wear a condom and instead threw
money at the girl and told her to use it for an abortion.

The case was filed in U.S. District Courts in California and New York. Though
these lawsuits were dismissed or withdrawn, the claims attributed to Johnson
laid the groundwork for, and lent perceived credibility to, other entirely
unsourced rumors that the former president had settled myriad other lawsuits
with underage assault victims, pointing to evidence of an alleged Trump
"pedophilic disorder."