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I thought there was sufficient evidence to conclude he raped her, but as it was a civil trial and he wasn't found criminally guilty of rape due to statutes of limitations, it was only called "sexual assault"?
Not exactly. It's due to a wrinkle in New York law. Since she was unable to positively state that when he penetrated her it was with a finger or his penis, the jury could only find him responsible for sexual abuse. In most (if all) other states, it would have labeled rape, but NY has this odd category where it must be a penis to be rape. Since it is unknown what he raped her with, it's officially sexual abuse.
I think the fact that she couldn’t tell if it was a finger or a penis is the best low-key insult of Trump’s dick size that I’ve ever heard.
It isn't the first time his button mushroom has been joked about and it won't be the last, if I can help it.
Jfc. :/
The state law specifically defines rape as penis-in-vagina. Since he only (ugh, I hate using that word here, because it makes it sound like I’m minimizing the attack…) fingered her, it wasn’t technically rape by the state’s very narrow definition. But that judge also said that his PR team couldn’t start going around with the “lol the courts said he didn’t rape her” thing, because the judge accepted that the extremely narrow legal definition and common nomenclature are different. When a regular person thinks “not rape” that usually includes things like fingering.
Trump’s argument feels a lot like the “pedophiles and hebephiles are different, so I’m not technically a pedophile even though I’m attracted to 11 year olds” thing that sometimes gets argued by creeps.
Wouldn't collateral estoppel automatically prevent them from trying that?
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