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2026-07-07 02:58 UTC

I don’t know who that is but Trump hadn’t been found guilty in criminal court right? Except for falsifying records? How do people say Trump is a sex criminal but that other accused people deserve the presumption of innocence until proven guilty? It implies that only victims of the opponent are to be believed. Which implies that only some people deserve to be believed, as a function of how useful that accusation is. If the response to this is “it’s obvious Trump is guilty”, yeah no shit but if a fair trial is required before we hold the accused accountable, why is Trump’s criminality constantly being referenced by politicians as proof of his untrustworthiness?

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@Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 2026-07-07 03:47

He’s kind of been found to be a rapist in a court of law. Trump sued a woman for defamation over a rape claim and the jury listened to testimony and evidence and found that he had forcibly penetrated her. So not criminal trial, but there was a trial and a determination by a jury. After a nine-day trial, the jury deliberated for under three hours before returning a verdict on May 9, 2023. They found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and for defaming her. The jury did not find that Carroll had proven “rape” as defined under the New York Penal Law, which requires penile penetration. The total award was $5 million: $2 million in compensatory damages for the sexual abuse, $2.7 million in compensatory damages for defamation, and $280,000 in punitive damages for defamation. Judge Kaplan later clarified what the “not rape” finding actually meant. In denying Trump’s motion for a new trial, Kaplan wrote that the jury had “implicitly found that Mr. Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina with his fingers” — conduct that most people would understand as rape, even though it fell outside the narrow New York criminal statute requiring penile penetration. legalclarity.org/trump-rape-lawsuit-e-jean-carrol… You seem to be taken in by the idea that all unproven claims should be treated equally until tried in a court of law. But it’s totally ok to judge people on your own based on their personality, history, and the circumstances of the accusation. We’re not deciding whether they’ll spend their lives in prison, we’re judging their character for an elected position. Trump isn’t just one accusation from Carroll, he’s his whole life of womanizing and misogyny and proudly violating boundaries of young women. He’s outright bragged about grabbing women by the pussy. Sometimes you just have to make an educated guess and be willing to be wrong.

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