Katie Johnson’s lawyer: ‘There’s No Doubt in My Mind She Told the Truth’

He spent days questioning her, hired investigators, and filed the suit. Nearly a decade later, he’s breaking his silence about what he saw.

Welcome back to The Red Letter.

So many of you have left comments or reached out directly about Katie Johnson, the Jane Doe who accused President Trump of raping her at Jeffrey Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse in 1994, when she was just 13 years old. She later dropped the lawsuit on November 4, 2016, just days before the election, citing repeated death threats.

You’ve urged me to find her. And while I’ve followed leads and received tips on where she might be, I’ve been clear: I’m not going to hound someone who has identified herself as a victim of a heinous crime. If she wants to come forward, she will. Many of you also asked me to reach out to her lawyers. I took that seriously.

I called her attorney Lisa Bloom’s office. They told me she’s no longer in contact with her client and couldn’t discuss it further. I reached out to another of Johnson’s attorneys, Thomas Meagher and Evan Goldman, but never heard back. You may recall from my interview with Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen that he recalled sending a private investigator to track down a Jane Doe who accused Trump of rape before the 2016 election. Cohen told me that Trump dismissed it as “bullshit” and instructed him to “take care of it.” He also claimed he had been in communication with a male lawyer about the case, who admitted he had never met his client. I wanted to know if that was true.

Two weeks ago, I tried Johnson’s fourth lawyer: Cheney Mason. To my surprise, he picked up the phone and he was willing to talk. Mason spoke with me over several days, and while he declined to join me on The Tara Palmeri Show, he allowed me to quote him on the record. He was candid about the rigor with which he investigated Johnson’s claims, her credibility, and the limits of what he could disclose.

First, Mason made it clear he has no current contact with his former client. He suggested it would be an ethics violation to reveal too much. Still, he shared what he could:

“I don’t know if my client is still alive,” Mason told me. “I would have been the happiest I’ve ever been if she could come forward, because I’ve seen women on television in the category of victim who tell such a similar story to what happened to her, it’s almost like they’re quoting the affidavit I filed nine years ago.”

👉 Subscribers can read what Mason told me about interrogating her claims over several days, sending private investigators to verify her story, and why he still insists she told the truth about Trump and Epstein.