Why state-level legal minutiae impacts what words are used to describe the former president's criminal conduct.

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.

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
    891·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
      19·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • Rookwood@lemmy.world
      6·
      10 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.