Warning: this article contains reference to sexual assault.

WASHINGTON – A former beauty pageant contestant who has said she rebuffed a sexual advance from President Donald Trump in 1993 now says Trump raped her during the encounter, according to a report from the House Democrats who will take the lead on any potential impeachment of Trump next year.

In a series of interviews with Democratic staff on the House Judiciary Committee, Beatrice Keul said Trump raped her that year in “brutal” fashion in a hotel room at Trump’s Plaza Hotel in Atlantic City after the pair spent time with Jeffrey Epstein, the now-deceased child sex trafficker who was among Trump’s closest friends at the time.

Democrats detailed Keul’s account in a lengthy report on Monday, saying it’s consistent with several of the other already-public accusations of sexual assault against Trump and describing it as a pattern of behavior the president pursued during his friendship with America’s most notorious sexual predator.

“A growing body of…