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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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[–] [email protected] 170 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Mantle, lol Everybody knows the Nazis fled to hollow earth at Antarctic...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 107 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Trump will never pay anyone. They're going to have to garnish his pension from being president.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I am not a lawyer, but according to this site: https://www.lawyers.com/legal-info/bankruptcy/bankruptcy-basics/will-filing-for-bankruptcy-stop-a-civil-lawsuit.html

"Bankruptcy will stop almost all civil litigation matters except for family court cases involving domestic support obligations, at least temporarily."

He's looking at about 400 mill from the New York Fraud trial.

This is civil litigation. He's going to pull the Rudy G. maneuver.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It wouldn’t even be the first time he’s had to declare bankruptcy. For the ultra wealthy, bankruptcy doesn’t mean you’re financially ruined; It just means the bank has a bad day when they find out you aren’t repaying them.

There’s an old saying along the lines of “If you owe the bank $100k and can’t repay it, you have a big problem. If you owe the bank $100M and can’t pay it back, the bank has a big problem.”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bankruptcy doesn't mean you don't have to pay the debts, it means the court is given control of your finances and decides who gets paid from it if you don't have enough to pay everyone. Declaring bankruptcy would result in his accounts being wiped out.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Assuming he doesn't get back in in 2024 (or 2028) and exonerate himself from his own crimes.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The president cannot pardon state level crimes let alone state level civil judgements.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Okay, sure, buuut... what if his name is Donald Trump and he REEEEEALLY wants to?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We listen to him bitch about it for 10+ years and somehow it magically happens by some judge that throws away 100 years of presedent.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

The President can't declare he won an election he lost. Didn't stop him from trying.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is a civil trial, there are no crimes to pardon.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

pissing off both the judge and the jury

There’s still one other role for him to piss off if he wants to go for the trifecta.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not in a civil trial, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I know. I’m just keeping score at home and looking to be able to say “That’s a bingo!”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

I think they are likely to return an award for punitive damages that is closer to $150 million.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So when is somebody going to sentence this shit weasel?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Rape has a statute of limitations. Even if he came forward and said flat out that he raped her, he can’t be charged criminally for it. He can be charged civilly though, which is why he keeps claiming it never happened.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (4 children)

You yanks and your rapey presidents

@DevCat @politics

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Don't forget our rapey Supreme Court Justices that serve for life and take bribes with no consequence!

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