Women’s Rights Lawyer Used “Spill-Money Donors” to Entice Women to Accuse Trump

Over the course of the last five and a half decades, Gloria Allred has been the quintessential lawyer-against-the-stars, putting aside any and all perception of propriety for the opportunity to be front page news.  Her clients have ranged from Mel “Scary” Spice to the porn star who was entangled with Anthony Wiener and his namesake.  Her particular expertise was in answering the call of the damsel in distress (99% of the cases she’s pursued have been spurned women of very famous men) and basically goes through the motions of standing next to the accuser in front of microphones, pretending to be either outraged, concerned or both as the accuser explains her grievances, then stepping up to the audio devices shoved at her to confirm that she is going to war against said accused.  Typically, within the first few days to a week, the issue is resolved with either a deal reached of undisclosed piles of cash or a public character assassination of the accused, which then later results in a settlement undisclosed piles of cash.

Of course, as in all ambulance chaser cases, they take their agreed-upon cut of the proceeds and go on their merry way, fanning themselves with stacks of hundred-dollar bills.  Allred has made this practice an art form of sorts and has spent decades refining the scam.  However, for all intents and purposes, what she’s doing is legal and “ethical.”

Allred’s daughter is a chip off the old gavel.  Lisa Bloom has taken all the expertise and lessons learned from her mother’s long-running practice and applied them to her very own law firm that takes ambulance chasing one step further than her mom.

Bloom has made it a crusade of late to take down President Donald Trump.  Not just because she can’t stand him (which, judging from her texts and emails, is putting it lightly), but also because it suits her politically to do hand-to-hand combat with the Republican Party, through a proxy client.

The law firm involved in Bloom’s particular obsession with taking out Trump is her own, bought and paid for through years of grinding out one small disagreeably beneath-her settlement after another…until finally she could begin the more high-profile cases, “just like mommy.”

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.

Bloom, who has assisted dozens of women in prominent harassment cases and also defended film executive Harvey Weinstein earlier this year, represented four women considering making accusations against Trump last year. Two went public, and two declined.

In a statement to The Hill, Bloom acknowledged she engaged in discussions to secure donations for women who made or considered making accusations against Trump before last year’s election.

“Donors reached out to my firm directly to help some of the women I represented,” said Bloom, whose clients have also included accusers of Bill Cosby and Bill O’Reilly.

Bloom said her goal in securing money was not to pressure the women to come forward, but rather to help them relocate or arrange security if they felt unsafe during the waning days of a vitriolic election. She declined to identify any of the donors.

The fact that Bloom stated that this “donor spill-money” was not raised to pressure these women to talk is now almost universally rejected by anyone keeping track of the texts and emails from these cases against Trump.  In the months leading up to the presidential election last year (and particularly in the month prior) her efforts to take out Trump ahead of November 8th were stepped up to the point where she almost seemed to be a George Soros bought-and-paid-for over-glorified member of antifa!

One Bloom client who received financial help from Bloom was New York City makeup artist Jill Harth.

The former beauty contestant manager filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Trump in 1997 and then withdrew it under pressure. The news media discovered the litigation during the election, and Harth’s name became public in the summer of 2016. She asked Bloom to represent her in the fall after hearing Trump describe her allegations against him as false, and became a vocal critic of Trump.

Bloom arranged a small payment from the licensing of some photos to the news media, and then set up a GoFundMe.com account to raise money for Harth in October 2016. “Jill put herself out there, facing off with Donald Trump. Let’s show her some love,” the online fundraising appeal set up by Bloom’s husband declared.

The effort raised a little over $2,300.

Bloom then arranged for a donor to make a larger contribution to help Harth pay off the mortgage on her Queens apartment in New York City. The amount was under $30,000, according to a source directly familiar with Harth’s situation. Public records show Harth’s mortgage was recorded as extinguished on Dec. 19, 2016.

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.

Trump has steadfastly denied assaulting or harassing women, even after a videotape surfaced in September 2016 in which he can be heard boasting that famous men like him can grab women by the genitalia without consequence.

The bidding war then begins in earnest.  Harth begins going back and forth with Bloom as the lawyer ups the chum in the water of her own feeding frenzy.  She gets so crazy that, at one point, she complains to the client about having spent a lot of time and money on her behalf and yet never charged her for any of the work, that the window of opportunity to nab Trump was closing quickly.

Harth then came back with a text that asked if this was about her self-respect and temerity of the accusations, or was it about taking down Trump.  Amazingly, two days AFTER the election was over and Trump had been victorious was the time when Bloom appears to have lost all interest in “supporting her sisters in need.”

The woman who ultimately declined to come forward with Bloom told The Hill that she stayed silent for an entire year afterward because she did not want to call attention to her family.

She said she supported Trump in 2016, and that he she held no resentment about the early 1990s advance because Trump stopped it as soon as she asked him.

She said she remains friends with many people associated with the president to this day, including one of his best personal friends and a lawyer who works for one of the firms representing Trump.

The woman said, however, no one associated with the Trump White House or the president forced her to come forward or made any offers to induce her to talk to The Hill. She said she agreed to do so only after she became disgusted to learn this past October that Bloom had agreed to work in defense of Weinstein.

Bloom dropped her representation of Weinstein as the accusations piled up against him, telling Buzzfeed that it had been a “colossal mistake.”

If you’re looking for a lawyer, particularly if the potential for piles of cash could be in her future, Lisa Bloom is ready to go to work for you…sort of a female version of Saul Goodman or Frank Galvin (except in the latter case, only before Paul Newman gets a conscience).

If you’re looking for a good lawyer, however (good being taken in both senses as that being talented and having a soul still intact), you might want to give a wide berth as you steer your ambulance clear of this woman.

Source:  The Hill