An astonishing revelation involving Lisa Bloom, the lawyer representing women accusing Donald Trump of sexual misconduct prior to the election, revealing that the accusers were offered large sums of money to share their stories regarding Trump.
Lisa Bloom, daughter of notorious sexual assault lawyer Gloria Allred and the attorney also representing one of the accusers of Roy Moore, has been exposed for offering large sums of money to a Trump accuser in order to convince her to come forward. Bloom also made headlines several months ago for defending Harvey Weinstein against his sexual assault accusers until the backlash against her decision became so extreme, and the accusations so horrific, that she was forced to abandon him.
A detailed report from The Hill reveals a series of transactions and exchanges between Bloom and accusers of Donald Trump, which indicated an astonishing amount of focus on money and influencing the 2016 election, rather than supposedly achieving “justice” for the victims of sexual harassment.
A well-known women’s rights lawyer sought to arrange compensation from donors and tabloid media outlets for women who made or considered making sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump during the final months of the 2016 presidential race, according to documents and interviews.
California lawyer Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000, the clients told The Hill.
The women’s accounts were chronicled in contemporaneous contractual documents, emails and text messages reviewed by The Hill, including an exchange of texts between one woman and Bloom that suggested political action committees supporting Hillary Clinton were contacted during the effort.
Another instance of Lisa Bloom offering money to “encourage” an anonymous Trump accuser to come forward involves pressuring her to come forward only a week before the 2016 election day.
And when a potential client abruptly backed out of a pre-election news conference in which she was supposed to allege she was sexually assaulted at age 13, Bloom turned her attention to another woman.
That woman, Harth’s friend, went back and forth for weeks with Bloom in 2016 about going public with an allegation of an unsolicited advance by Trump on the 1990s beauty contest circuit.
“Give us a clear sense of what you need and we will see if it we can get it,” Bloom texted the woman a week before Election Day.
“I’m scared Lisa. I can’t relocate. I don’t like taking other people’s money,” the woman wrote to Bloom.
“Ok let’s not do this then,” Bloom responded. “We are just about out of time anyway.”
The woman then texted back demanding to know why there was a deadline. “What does time have to do with this? Time to bury Trump??? You want my story to bury trump for what? Personal gain? See that ‘s why I have trust issues!!”
The woman told The Hill in an interview that Bloom initially approached her in early October through Harth. She said she considered coming forward with her account of an unsolicited advance by Trump solely to support her friend Harth, and not because she had any consternation with Trump, who ended the advance when she asked him to stop, she said.
The key statement in the above exchange is Bloom’s insistence that the accuser come forward immediately, as it was only a week before election day and “we are just about out of time anyway,” as Bloom stated.
This means that Bloom was all for supporting a so-called victim of sexual misconduct, but only if it could be done within an acceptable timeframe to influence the 2016 election results. Since the accuser was hesitant, saying she doesn’t “like taking other people’s money”, and time was running out Bloom decided to just “not do this then”, favoring instead to abandon the accuser. This also indicates that Bloom’s sole intent in convincing accusers of Trump to come forward was in fact to tarnish Trump’s reputation in the hopes of denying him victory in the 2016 election.
What happened to simply wanting to help women tell their stories and receive “justice” for their alleged pain and suffering at the hands of a man? It appears when you inject money and politics into the issue, doing what is considered morally right is no longer the primary concern, at least where Lisa Bloom is concerned.
Oddly enough the anonymous accuser was encouraged to delete a post from her Facebook account made in 2015 that showed her supporting Donald Trump, as Bloom thought it would prompt questions as to how the accuser could support Trump even though he allegedly sexually harassed her.
“When you have a chance I suggest you delete the August 2015 Facebook post about supporting Trump,” Bloom texted. “Otherwise the reporter will ask you how you could support him after what he did to you. Your call but it will make your life easier.”
The woman declined. “I hate to say it, but i still rather have trump in office than hillary,” the woman texted back. Bloom answered, “Ok I respect that. Then don’t change anything.”
Eventually the two decided the woman’s continued support of Trump was a benefit to her narrative if she went public with her accusations, the messages show. “I love your point about being a Trump supporter too,” Bloom texted on Oct. 14, 2016.
The text messages show the woman made escalating requests for more money.
By early November, the woman said, Bloom’s offers of money from donors had grown to $50,000 to be paid personally to her, and then even higher.
“Another donor has reached out to me offering relocation/security for any woman coming forward. I’m trying to reach him,” Bloom texted the woman on Nov. 3, 2016. Later she added, “Call me I have good news.”
The woman responded that she wasn’t impressed with the new offer of $100,000 given that she had a young daughter. “Hey after thinking about all this, I need more than $100,000.00. College money would be nice” for her daughter. “Plus relocation fees, as we discussed.”
Despite the supposed suffering caused by Donald Trump, the accuser states she would “still rather have Trump in office than Hillary”. Bloom was not discouraged, however, as she later decided the accuser’s support for Trump would be a boom to her accusations when made public, and again offered increasing amounts of money to the accuser, going as high as $100,000. The accuser, apparently encouraged by the increase in money she could gain from publicly accusing Trump, haggled for even more money, using her young daughter as a bargaining chip for more “college money”.
Bloom also intended to profit from her dealings with Trump accusers, offering to sell their story to various mainstream media outlets for large sums of money. Of course, Bloom wasn’t offering the accusers money out of her own pockets, but rather using money from “donors” who shared a collective interest in destroying Donald Trump.
The report from the The Hill includes statements from both Bloom and the anonymous accuser, admitting the transactions and dealings.
In essence, Bloom spared no expense in attempting to “convince” accusers of Trump to go public, especially before election day to ensure the accusations could have a maximum effect on the results. Bloom’s actions also reveal that her primary purpose in digging up accusers of Trump appears to be political in nature and she was receiving vast amounts of financial “donations” from donors who supported her efforts to attack Trump. Although the donor’s identities are not revealed in the report, I suspect they are some of the same wealthy elites who threw millions of dollars at groups and individuals in attempts to prevent Trump from winning the election.
Bloom also intended to profit from her dealings with Trump accusers, offering to sell their story to various mainstream media outlets for large sums of money. Of course, Bloom wasn’t offering the accusers money out of her own pockets, but rather using money from “donors” who shared a collective interest in destroying Donald Trump.
Behind every plot to tarnish, attack or oust Trump from office there appears to be an astonishing level of political influence, money and ulterior motives behind doing what is righteous or moral. And with the recent revelations of political bias in Robert Mueller’s special counsel and the release of text message proving that bias, it appears that the “insurance policies” against Trump winning the election are rapidly falling apart.