Why state-level legal minutiae impacts what words are used to describe the former president's criminal conduct.

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.

  • MagicShel@programming.dev
    1662·
    10 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.

    • z3rOR0ne
      861·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
        18·
        10 months ago

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

        I mean, that has more to do with how low the bar has been set. Trump has been digging diligently for decades, but the bar is halfway through the planet’s mantle.

      • Rookwood@lemmy.world
        6·
        10 months ago

        The thing is, when you allow the single opposing party in our system to run against a literal Nazi party, no one wins. Except the wealthy of course.