Means nothing. They’re in the tank for nazis.

It’s not hard to understand. But it’s often used by trumps defenders to claim he isn’t a rapist.

And he is. Let there be NO DOUBT.

So who found him liable for sexual assault? Was it the courtroom sketch artist?

And what led them to that conclusion, I wonder. Was it the rape?

I made myself very, very clear, but a big words frighten you, I’ll make nice and simple:

Just relax. You’re all bent out of shape for nothing.

But he’s a rapist, and that’s a fact.

Nobody is debating that here

A fact determined by a judge and jury in a court of law.

Incorrect. A jury determined that he had committed sexual assault, and that E Jean Carroll deserved $5 million in a civil case in the state of New York.

And then again for 85 more million, yeah. So you’re saying that due to the civil nature of the case, and the expired statute of limitations on the criminal charges, when the judge and jury determined that his attacking and forcibly penetrating her vagina with his penis was - what - just “sexual assault”? (It was.)

And if I go read the court case with the letters r-a-p-e appear in the findings of fact? No? Well then he can’t have raped her can he? Except that he can, and did, and - here’s the part I think we disagree on - it was proven. In court.

So sure, it’s “just” sexual assault on the printed page but who’s fooling who? Is a hot dog a sandwich? Is Allah God? Is a brontasaurus an apatasaurus?

If somebody says he wasn’t found guilty of rape, they’d better damned well understand his “sexual assault” for which he was liable was rape.

He raped her. It’s real simple.

If you want to polysyllabically dance about The Law, go nuts. What is your point when it is a given?

But he’s a rapist, and that’s a fact. A fact determined by a judge and jury in a court of law. End of story.

No.

In an opinion issued on Wednesday, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the trial, wrote that the trial evidence demonstrated Trump “raped” Carroll in the plain sense of the word.

“The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’” Kaplan wrote. “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-rape-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-jury-judge-2023-7

Edit: it is correct to say he wasn’t convicted of rape, specifically, in that case, (partly because it was not a criminal trial, it was a civil trial) it is totally in keeping with the court’s findings to call him a rapist. The difference is a thin hope against the worst that he is that many MAGAts cling to.

What a shit-for-brains drunken fuckwit.

If that’s the transcript of a 30m video, I’m good.

If you’re saying I can go to youtube, presuming they’ll feel like letting my anonymous ass in, then open the automated transcript and read it, yeah I could. But I, and I would imagine many others, are not going to do that.

I wish i could read it.

Hey Steve!

Oh, it’s Alvin Bragg! Well, that doesn’t look good for Swalwell then.

Why Manhattan though, doesn’t he live in CA?

Welcome to Lemmy! Look for the US politics threads where no one is a US voter!

Are they under the DOJ?

Trump-appointed, one assumes

Outdoor cat houses with heated cushions are a thing! Now.

Grift money never lasts long enough does it

Not impossible, just very unlikely. At this time.

Then he should be ousted if these allegations are true. Full stop. Flirtatious texts being A Bad Thing enough.

In addition:

Rumors about misbehavior by Swalwell have circulated on social media in recent weeks, broadcast by a group of progressive social media influencers. Most of the women who spoke to CNN initially reached out to one of these influencers, and said that before the social media attention, they had assumed they were alone in their experiences with Swalwell.

Three key influencers told CNN that they were not being paid by other campaigns and had not coordinated directly with them in publicizing claims about Swalwell.

Having “influencers” break this is kinda weird. Anyone remember that woman who accused Biden of rape and then moved to russia? I feel like with a literal adjudicated rapist receiving full unwavering support from the entirety of one party, there can only be an electoral benefit in accusing the other one of sexual misconduct.

So long as you have no intention of winning federal office in the next couple of decades. Heck the Greens have been a third party forever and they still only have 5 or so local officers and no federal ones.

Political organizing is crazy hard and expensive for third parties.