Dec 15, 2017 · Attorney Lisa Bloom sought to line up paydays for women accusing Trump of sexual misconduct: report | Fox News. POLITICS. Published December 15, 2017 6:09pm EST.
Ms. Bloom’s compensation included arranging for one woman to have her mortgage paid off and another payment of $750,000 for a woman who decided not to come forward. Ms.
Dec 17, 2017 · Bloom, the daughter of activist Attorney Gloria Allred who initially defended Harvey Weinstein against sexual assault allegations earlier this year and was publicly shamed by anti-Trump comedian Kathy Griffin, represented four women considering launching allegations against Trump last year. Two of the women went public, while the other two declined.
Dec 18, 2017 · Claims that attorney Lisa Bloom paid Donald Trump accusers to come forward during the 2016 presidential election are based on a report that appeared in The Hill on December 15, 2017. Controversy unfolded when The Hill reported that Lisa Bloom, whose law firm represented two women who went public with charges against Donald Trump, talked to donors …
Jan 02, 2018 · Harth told us the fact that Bloom set up a GoFundMe account which raised $2,317 on her behalf and arranged for a donor to pay off her mortgage does not affect the veracity of …
The women’s right Attorney worked behind the scenes to operate a scheme in which potential accusers, regardless of their merits, would be given money in order to go to the press with their dubious stories. Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, ...
Democrat Attorney Lisa Bloom Paid Trump Accusers “Millions Of Dollars”. Democrat attorney Lisa Bloom has been caught paying Trump accusers millions of dollars in cash in order to falsley accuse the President of sexual assault. The women’s right Attorney worked behind the scenes to operate a scheme in which potential accusers, ...
Bloom says that the goal of her accusation mill was to simply raise funds to help women “relocate or arrange security if they felt unsafe during the waning days of a vitriolic election.”. With a commission to Bloom as high as 33 percent, if she was able to sell their stories to media outlets.
Readers were confused by a story reporting Bloom offered financial assistance to clients, even though she never denied it. On 15 December 2017, The Hill, a website devoted to Capitol Hill news and commentary, posted an article reporting that prominent Los Angeles-based women’s rights attorney Lisa Bloom had offered money to women who were ...
Both sent statements to The Hill confirming that Bloom set up a GoFundMe for Harth and facilitated a donation that paid off the mortgage on Harth’s apartment in Queens. They also accused The Hill of launching a partisan attack against them on behalf of President Trump.
In November, the Trump-backing social media agitator Mike Cernovich offered to pay $10,000 for details of any congressional sexual harassment settlements, and said on Twitter that he would cover the expenses of “any VICTIM of a Congressman who wants to come forward to tell her story.”.
For roughly two weeks, however, legacy news organizations steered clear of of the story — until 31 December 2017, when the New York Times reported that partisans from both sides of the political spectrum were offering money in exchange for career-ending accusations of sexual misconduct against their rivals.
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.
That’s just a fact of life. But Jill Harth told us she didn’t net any personal gain from the fact that her story became public. She highlighted the pain she suffered after her 1997 lawsuit accusing Trump of forcing her into a bedroom at Mar-a-Lago and attempting to rape her came to light during the 2016 campaign cycle:
Lisa Bloom represented four women who alleged misconduct against Trump
The most tenacious attempts were to secure money for a woman who never ended up going public with her story against Trump.
Do not let the right wing undermine the brave Trump accusers. Not today. Not ever. I stand with them.
Nearly from the beginning, Bloom made clear to the woman she would have to pay her law firm a commission on any fees the attorney arranged from media outlets willing to pay for the woman’s story, according to a copy of a contract as well as a text message sent to the woman.
Bloom told The Hill that the woman asked for money as high as $2 million in the conversations, an amount that was a nonstarter, but the lawyer confirmed she tried to arrange donations to the woman in the low six figures.
Harth said the payments did not affect the merits of her allegations. She alleges that during a January 1993 meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the future president pushed her up against a wall and groped her, trying to get his hands up her dress.
Bloom is the daughter of Gloria Allred, another prominent attorney who is representing a number of women who have made accusations of sexual misconduct against Trump. In an email to the unnamed woman, Bloom said that her story was “further evidence of what a sick predator this man is,” referring to Trump.