It's interesting that one of the more cynical responses to rape allegations, is "they are only doing it for the money", especially when celebrity or athletes have rape charges brought against them.
Trump is famous and extremely wealthy moreso than just about every celebrity or athlete, so these women did not care that he lived that lifestyle and wanted to bring him down a notch, or more than a few notches, in actual prison, they let him live his life and decided instead to keep their stories to themselves. Being a rape victim is a very trying process, with the victims further being victimized and blamed for the act itself.
These women though, put all that aside, when they realized that the consequences of their silence wouldn't be just more sexual assaulted victims piling up on Trumps tally, but the literal rape of America and its freedoms.
Part of me says shame on them for their selfishness in not coming forward sooner and making that list much shorter, but another part of me congratulates them for saving this country from its own stupidity.