Donald Trump's campaign spokesman defended Trump using "vermin" to describe his enemies, while historians compared his language to Hitler, Mousselini.

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      Also don't forget to mention it at every opportunity. The rapist Donald Trump must be called exactly that so people don't forget we're talking about a convicted rapist who for some reason is not a registered sex offender which, of course, doesn't mean he's any less of a rapist, which Donald Trump verifiably is.

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        He's not a convicted rapist. It was a civil trial, not a criminal one. The trial decided that he did sexually assault E. Jean Carroll (but not legally rape, although the judge said it was rape despite the legal definition) but that resulted in a ruling for damages. The statute of limitations for a criminal trial had passed.

        So he's not a convicted rapist, but the judge at his civil trial involving rape said he was a rapist. But that's why he isn't a registered sex offender.

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            No problem. I wish he had been convicted obviously. And I seriously doubt that is anywhere near the only time he's raped a woman. But like so many other things in his life, he's gotten away with it.

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            A jury if his peers still found that Trump was a rapist. The judge in that trial clarified that the jury finding meant that Trump was a rapist.

            This was after the Trump camp claimed, after losing the defamation suit, that none of this meant that Trump was a rapist.

            So the judge explicitly clarified that the jury had found that Trump had committed rape.

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              Found that he was more likely a rapist, not a rapist beyond a reasonable doubt.

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                Trump was found to be a rapist by a jury because he used his fingers to sexually assault and violate a woman. The judge clarified that Trump raped Jean carroll.

                Those conclusions are beyond reasonable doubt.

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                  Those conclusions are beyond reasonable doubt.

                  No that's literally not what they found, because it was not a criminal trial. That wasn't the burden of proof. He may be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but a civil court is not legally capable of proving that.

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                    Trump was not criminally convicted as his rape trial was a civil case, not criminal.

                    Those jurors found Trump responsible for digital rape that in New york is defined as sexual assault, that the judge clarifiedas rape because trump violated a woman sexually, the new york legal term is just too narrow here for the finding because he used his fingers to violate her vagina.

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

                    Still rape.

                    Your doubt is your own, but seems unreasonable.

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          The problem is that calling it sexual assault doesn't make it clear that he penetrated her with his penis without consent. The only reason it's not "rape" is that it wasn't a criminal trial.

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            The reason it's not considered rape is because it didn't fit New York state's archaic legal definition of rape.