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Ted Lieu Reads Federal Judge's Confirmation that Trump is a Rapist Into Congressional Record [1]
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Date: 2023-07-25
The legal and ethical failures of Donald Trump are historically unprecedented. He has been found to have stolen classified documents and hoarded them at his Mar-a-Lago hotel/home. He has defrauded his own supporters with fake universities and charities. He lied more than 40,000 times during his one-term occupying the White House.
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However, Trump's personally atrocious behavior stands out among his multitude of atrocities. From the day that he told Access Hollywood that he could get away with grabbing women by their genitals, Trump has only exacerbated his reputation as a sleazeball. A jury recently found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carrol. And the next day he appeared on a CNN town hall to defame her again.
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Following Trump's loss to Carroll, Trump filed a motion for a new trial trial. That was an especially stupid notion, even for Trump. Why would he want to litigate all over again a case that was rife with evidence of his guilt? Well, now a federal judge has rejected Trump's motion. But he went even further to affirm what the jury did not: that by definition, Trump is indeed a rapist.
To make matters worse for Trump, Rep. Ted Lieu got the court's ruling and read the parts that related to Trump's assault of Carrol into the Congressional Record. It's a disturbing account of Trump's grotesquery, but a necessary thing for Americans to know. Rep. Lieu said that...
"On July 19, 2023, federal Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial and confirmed that Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll. I’m going to submit this Court ruling into the Congressional Record, and now I going to read you what the judge found.
"On page 43 the judge 'wrote Miss Carroll testified that the sexual assault, the rape, of which she accused Mr Trump involved especially painful forced digital penetration.' The judge further writes 'The testimony of the outcry witnesses, Miss Bernbach and Miss Martin, corroborated the essence of Miss Carroll’s account of a violent traumatic sexual assault.'
"On page 44 the judge wrote 'The jury’s finding of sexual abuse, therefore, necessarily implies that it found that Mr Trump forcibly penetrated her vagina.' The judge further writes 'In other words that he raped her.'"
x YEP. Donald Trump is a rapist.
A federal judge rejected Trump's request for a new trial and confirmed that Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll. And it is now part of the Congressional Record, thanks to Rep. Ted Lieu.pic.twitter.com/g8V7K0mIWx — News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) July 25, 2023
There is nothing more to add to that. Trump has been appropriately defined for posterity. He still needs to be appropriately punished. Carrol won a $5 million judgment from Trump, and she has appealed to increase that amount following Trump's continued offenses. For good measure, Trump is also awaiting trial on his 70+ felony counts stemming from his two indictments. And the third indictment is said to be imminent. Which is all the more ironic considering that Trump once insisted that presidential candidates under felony indictment have "no right to be running."
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