• @[email protected]
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    861 year ago

    Just a reminder that Trump is a convicted rapist, by definition of the word rape. It’s legally defined as sexual assault in NY.

    Trump is a convicted rapist.

    • Flying Squid
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      471 year ago

      Not convicted, because it wasn’t a criminal trial. But the trial did determine it was a kind of sexual assault that, while not legally fitting the term rape in New York State, can colloquially be considered such. Which is why Carroll has every right to say he raped her.

      • @rbhfd
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        31 year ago

        How does the state of NY define it? But that seems like very clear cut rape to me.

        • Flying Squid
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          211 year ago

          Without going into the sordid details, Carroll couldn’t prove whether Trump used his penis or his finger (although she claims both), and it has to be a penis in New York Law for it to be rape. So it went to the lesser verdict of ‘sexual abuse.’ It’s really a technical thing. Most people would consider him using his finger to be rape too, I would wager.

        • @[email protected]
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          NY defines rape as penetration with a penis. Since he penetrated her with his fingers, it could only be considered sexual assault by NY’s definition. Worth noting that she claimed he penetrated her with both, but could only prove in court that he penetrated her with his fingers.

          This judge basically ruled that while he wasn’t found guilty of raping her based on NY’s narrow definition, the colloquial use of the word rape is functionally what he did to her.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Wait. Really? Still? What backwards planet are we still living that one of the largest states has deemed that men can’t be raped by women?

    • @ShakyPerception
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      31 year ago

      At some point you’d think people would get sick of it. But the media keeps talking about his bullshit, his supporters still love him, and the rest of us are enjoying the endless losing.

      I am however starting to hit a wall with him period.

      Someone had an extension that could block him from what you saw on the internet, and I’m starting to think about getting set up.

  • @Bigmodirty
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    211 year ago

    Glad I don’t live my life in a way where I’d have to shout “defamation” in order to cover up being a giant piece of shit human being.

    • @zcd
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      151 year ago

      Also not raping people really cuts down on your legal problems

  • @Chickenstalker
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    91 year ago

    A rapist, philanderer, incest enthusiast, fucks porn stars, embezzles funds, multiple bankrupt man is somehow idolized as a paragon of Christianity.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Wait…did you think Christianity has anything to do with the teachings of Christ? That’s silly. You’re silly.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    41 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday dismissed Trump’s argument, ruling Carroll’s statement on the cable network was substantially true and that “[t]here would have been no different effect on the mind of an average listener.”

    Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, separately rejected Trump’s defense that he has “absolute presidential immunity” in the case.

    In May, a jury heard one of those cases and found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defaming Carroll last year by denying her story.

    “We are pleased that the Court dismissed Donald Trump’s counterclaim,” Carroll attorney Robbie Kaplan, who is not related to the judge, said in a statement.

    “That means that the January 15th jury trial will be limited to a narrow set of issues and shouldn’t take very long to complete,” she continued.

    Jean Carroll looks forward to obtaining additional compensatory and punitive damages based on the original defamatory statements Donald Trump made in 2019.”


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