District Judge Lewis Kaplan has said it multiple times: Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Kaplan wrote it in May 2023, when he presided over one of the trials against Trump. And he reminded jurors of the rape this week, during the latest proceedings in the multi-layered, winding rape and defamation cases brought against Trump by Carroll.

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    6 months ago

    Did she call him the rapist Donald J Trump? The same Donald Trump who raped E Jean Carroll? The woman who was raped by Donald Trump? The same rapist who also raped his wife? The same rapist Donald J Trump who described sexually assaulting woman on a radio show? The same rapist who spied on nude underage girls at his pageant? Because Donald Trump is a rapist as a matter of legal fact.

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      A rapist who is not only sickeningly still walking free, but is the frontrunner for the Nazi party.

      I’d say that it’s a new low for the Nazi party, but we all know it’s not.

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    Trump and his lawyers have been really pissing off both the judge and the jury with how unseriously they’re treating the proceedings. They’re gonna take two hours (an absurdly short time for a jury) and write a check for $15mil, I bet.

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    Fun fact: the UK defines rape as “penetration with his penis”, so, in the UK and legally speaking, a woman can’t rape a man.

    Instead, it would be sexual assault, which has the same sentencing range. However, we all know that female rape against males is not prosecuted as harshly, if at all.

    Not that women have better luck in court, mind. It’s all messed up, and it’s not like locking someone up actually stops them from doing it again as soon as they get out. Detention is not an effective deterrent - the most effective deterrent is the certainty of being caught. After that, rehabilitation is needed. But hey, private prisons need bums in cells.

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    Is this the best our country can do? Two dinosaurs who act inappropriately around women and children?

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      I think you are (intentionally?) confusing the large gap and missing the nuance between raping, potentially even worse things as we’ve recently got more proof of, and acting goofy and awkward with greetings or whatever. Both can be described inappropriate, sure, but you have to realize there’s a long way between rape, pedophilia, and awkward greetings with kisses to forehead or whatever.

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        He assaulted Tara Reid and you call it a kiss on the forehead? Your blue hat must be full of mercury. You’re sick

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          I’m sick? Blue hat?

          At this point it’s clear you’re just intentionally being provocative and contrarian.

          If you had a specific case to point out, such as that one, you could have just done that, instead of whatever the fuck this is.

          I still don’t know the case you are referring to, which could have been a great moment to educate and inform others, instead you spent the opportunity attacking and calling me sick, for what? You boggle me. Makes no sense.