Attorney: Trump rape accuser cancels first public appearance because of death threats

Donald Trump and Mike Pence.
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The woman known as "Jane Doe," who claims she was raped at a party by Donald Trump when she was 13, canceled an appearance at a news conference Wednesday because she received death threats, her attorney said.

Speaking in front of reporters near Los Angeles, Lisa Bloom said the unidentified woman was set to tell her story for the first time in public, but she "has received numerous threats today, as have all the Trump accusers that I have represented. She is living in fear. She has decided that she is too afraid to show her face. She has been here all day, ready to do it, but unfortunately she's in terrible fear."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.