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Trump tells Georgia witness not to testify (www.axios.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (13 children)

It's really telling about the state of Republican politics that this convicted rapist clearly committing criminal initimidation in a public forum is the frontrunner candidate for them in the upcoming election.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Trump has not be convicted of rape. That's misleading terminology and conflates the lower standards of a civil trial with a criminal one.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/

For the Legally Literate: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.212.0.pdf

You are entitled to your opinion, however afaik you are not the judge in this case, and your opinion is not legally binding.

Multiply impeached President #45, Donald J. Trump has been found guilty of the charge of rape, according to the legal opinion of District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

From the article you linked:

Donald Trump was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll

From Cornell Law School's web site:

A party is liable when they are held legally responsible for something. Unlike in criminal cases, where a defendant could be found guilty, a defendant in a civil case risks only liability

At no point in the article you linked did the Judge say that Trump was "found guilty" of anything. Trump has no crime on his criminal record.

The judge in the article says that Trump was found to have raped Carroll, but acknowledged that there is "a legal distinction" between liability and guilt.

I'm not trying to defend Trump here, or argue that he didn't do what he was found to have done, just pointing out that there is a difference between "found guilty of rape" and what actually happened.

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