It didn’t so much mysteriously discontinue as the accuser and witness evaporated. The case was dismissed as it was filed improperly, refiled then dismissed for technical reasons, then refiled, dropped, refiled, then dropped. The attorney running the suit was a patent attorney from a different state who’d never met his client or the witness face to face, and no journalist was able to locate either or arrange a meet or confirm existence or identity even with promises of anonymity. Lisa Bloom, a lawyer who had represented 2 of Trump’s other accusers, became the accusers new lawyer. Refiled, and called a press conference for the accuser to come forth publicly. The accuser pulled a no show at the press conference. And it is not clear that Bloom had met her face to face either. Everyone involved with the case appears to have only spoken with her and the witness over the phone. The witness claimed to be a former Trump employee, but again noone was able to locate her, confirm an identity, or confirm if anyone of the sort had worked with Trump at the time. And its unclear if anyone had met said witness.
Before the suits were filed the story and the accuser had been pitched to news orgs and tabloids by a reality TV producer with a reputation for pushing false stories on the press. The filings themselves were inconsistent as to the accusations. The cases were dismissed multiple times. The final version dropped twice.
There’s plenty mysterious about that particular story. But what happened to the case isn’t. And I wouldn’t exactly call any of it credible.
