Judge Kaplan has rejected Trump’s appeal against the E. Jean Carroll verdict, in which Team Trump argued that the case should be thrown out because the jury found that Trump did not “rape” Carroll. This has been one of Trump’s excuses that he blares regularly on Truth Social and into any working mic.
Fun Fact: In the ruling Kaplan states that the jury in the Carroll case did indeed find that Trump raped her. Not in the narrow definition of the term under NY state law, but in the understanding of the word as it is used in common parlance.
“The definition of rape in the New York Penal Law is far narrower than the meaning of ‘rape’ in common modern parlance, its definition in some dictionaries, in some federal and state criminal statutes, and elsewhere,” Kaplan ruled. “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.’ Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”
This won’t stop him from saying otherwise, but the court has now affirmed that the jury did find that he raped Carroll.
The “Law” tried everything to not charge Trump in the documents case. They gave him chance after chance to just return them. The extraordinary measures the Justice Department took to retrieve the documents without publicity. The months and months of grace to just get them back.
LOCK. HIM. UP.
The DOJ also tried to avoid going after him for Jan 6. Then the House investigation laid bare all of the shit Trump was trying to pull, and they had to do it.
Biden stole classified documents as VP and stored them in several unsecure places, including in the garage of the house Hunter Biden was living in. Who oh by the way earned illegal money from the Ukraine and split with his dad “the big guy.”: Oh it was an honest mistake. Nothing to see here.
Hillary had classified documents and information she had been sending by email on a private server in her bathroom: What difference does it make? She didn’t do anything wrong.
Trump (who was President) had classified documents at Mar a Lago under video surveillance and under lock and key. Oh and he cooperated fully, giving them access to where the documents were stored, allowing them to put their own lock on the rooms they were stored in: Ohhh he broke the law. LOCK HIM UP!!!
I’m glad HOUSTON is overwhelming filled with people who aren’t TRUMPERS. Texas might be 55//45 trump but the city that host the Astros have rejected that Orange TURD multiple times.
Don’t care. I ain’t ever living in one of the areas of Texas that would vote for that Orange Turd. Any place in Texas I’d live overwhelming rejects that piece of crap.
The thing is, Texas isn’t 55/45 Trump, or even 50/50. If Texas wasn’t #1 in voter suppression, Republicans would lose all statewide elections.
There’s a reason why they’re targeting Harris County so hard right now, because there are so many Democratic votes here that suppressing 10% of that vote in Harris Co. can offset vast swaths of this giant state.
They cannot win by letting the people vote, and the tide has turned so far against them that they fear their existing suppression tactics can no longer hold back the blue wave. So they are giving themselves the tools to render Harris Co’s vote count void; simply throw out millions of valid votes. It’s a desperate move by desperate people.
Harris Co. is, of course, suing the state over this.
The law is truly dumb. The rationale is that Harris Co. is so big that it cannot have an elections coordinator who specializes in, you know, coordinating elections. That job, Abbott et al are claiming, is so important because Harris Co. is so big, that it has to be given to two other county officials who have existing day jobs and little or no experience in coordinating elections.
It’s fucking dumb because it’s fucking corrupt. Texas law prohibits the state legislature from targeting a county specifically, so they have to build the law around the size of Harris Co. in order to target us without having to name the county. So they have this logic pretzel that says because the county is so big, it has to have its elections run by amateurs.
The goal is to hobble the county in the hope that the election is such a goat fuck that it fails to comply with the new, stupid and arbitrary “KPIs”, which lets them shred the whole thing and have a do over that the state runs.
He is good at it, and those hypocrites are such easy targets.
I don’t follow the Biden outrage machine very closely, but I had to laugh when reading an article about MTG showing Hunter dick picks during the hearing. Never realized that was a current fixation of the MAGA crowd, but I’m not surprised. They are such clowns and losers.
It, might be, but more importantly, it’s just a sign of these dumbshits hanging themselves.
I recently listened to the Maddow podcast, where they explore instances of history repeating itself. One episode was early 60s Florida where the rubes in control went after African Americans and Gays, you know, cause they were bored, ignorant and scared of change. The point was that DeSantis’ antics aren’t new.
However, related to this incident, the turning point was when the Florida legislature published a pamphlet/report on their fixations and the report apparently included graphic pictures of gay sex. Anyway, it was too much for the public and many people realized “What the fuck are they doing, is this really all they’re concerned about?” and the madness abated. I’m going to optimistically assume that this is a modern day equivalent where the public recoils at all the buffoons who comprise the current Republican Party and their base.