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lees1975

(7,127 posts)
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 12:15 AM 11 hrs ago

Trump's defensiveness, and his attack on the press during his 60 minutes interview says it all.

Other than a repeat of the same old words and expressions that he keeps using, when he laid into Norah O'Donnell, in his rant because she not only dared bring it up right in his face, but followed it up with a question, "Oh do you think he was talking about you?" which was brilliant, he betrayed himself. He jumped on that way too fast for it not to have had a devastating effect.

OK, so let's come to grips, America, with the fact that something is critically wrong with a democratic republic where the electorate chose to put this dysfunctional, disgusting wreck of a human being in the Presidency. It's on us to fix it.

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Trump's defensiveness, and his attack on the press during his 60 minutes interview says it all. (Original Post) lees1975 11 hrs ago OP
Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll LetMyPeopleVote 10 hrs ago #1
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LetMyPeopleVote

(180,969 posts)
1. Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 12:24 AM
10 hrs ago

trump is a rapist

Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Nick Turse (@nickturse.bsky.social) 2026-04-27T03:23:05.768Z

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/

The filing from Judge Lewis A. Kaplan came as Trump’s attorneys have sought a new trial and have argued that the jury’s $5 million verdict against Trump in the civil suit was excessive. The reason, they argue, is that sexual abuse could be as limited as the “groping” of a victim’s breasts.

Kaplan roundly rejected Trump’s motion Tuesday, calling that argument “entirely unpersuasive.”

“The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’ ” Kaplan wrote.

He added: “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”

Kaplan said New York’s legal definition of “rape” is “far narrower” than the word is understood in “common modern parlance.”
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