cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/88742

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a trove of evidence regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Donald Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the Department of Justice. The 50-page report, released Monday, contains testimony from 11 women who either accuse Trump of…

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    former miss switzerland accuses trump of brutal rape recently. which gaffe will trump pull out of his behind this time.

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      God is going to invade Canada isn’t he. That’s what he does whenever there’s bad news, start another unwinnable war.

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    How would we know? Republicans are currently helping Trump (illegally) keep the Epstein files secret and sealed.

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    Biden had four years to deal with this guy and just didn’t.

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      shouldve replaced garland the moment he wouldnt do anything, but he knows garland wouldnt do anything about it though. there is more than likely plenty of Dems in the files too.

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        Wouldn’t it be some shit if atheists who were good moral people also had to burn forever with Trump by their side. The injustice of that is too much to even consider…

        There cannot be a hell.

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          Or, if there was, it might be that idiot monsters that think “just accept Jesus into your heart” is the path to a heaven, and they got it all wrong.

          Wouldn’t that be quite the irony for those people - thinking that their complete immorality, papered over with a “I’m not perfect, I’m just forgiven” platitude - to find out that it was not sufficient?

          Meanwhile, finding out that atheists, pagans, Muslims, and so on that led good lives went to heaven instead?

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    Ah. Very good. So they’re going to immediately arrest him for severe sex crimes. Right? … … Right?

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    Donald was mentioned in the files more times than Jesus was mentioned in the Bible. Yeah, I’m not surprised that they managed to find testimony from 11 different women.

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      That’s one thing, second things is that his name was 3rd most mentioned name in the released files after Maxwell and of course Epstein.

      He clearly wasn’t just a customer but part of the conspiracy. His whole modeling business was likely providing young girls to be exploited.

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        The fbi had it titled the trump-epstein trafficking case at least twice in the files before the big wave of redaction post release.

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      Trump is mentioned in the (released) Epstein files more times than Harry Potter was mentioned in all seven Harry Potter books.

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    I normally don’t get surprised by these things, but the fact that Trump and Epstein ran the same exact script on these kids, down to promises of admission to the same university, is eye-opening.

    Same methods, same promises. All to get them to go into a room alone.

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      And it really makes you wonder about the people running the university / doing admissions for the university at the time as well. I wonder if they show up in the Epstein files …

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    Things that have frequently harmed children

    • drag shows
    • giant-ass pickup trucks
    • trans rights
    • pedophiles
    • gay marriage
    • missile strikes
    • banned books
    • firearms
    • birth control access
    • churches
    • racism
    • education
    • ignorance

    Who is fighting to protect what here?

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      It’s unsatisfyingly ironic that the right is virtue signalling caring for children.

      Anytime they hey outraged in defence of something. Children, women’s sports, racism (when supposedly black people were constantly attacking Asian people over covid or people are mean to Israel), it’s never actually that they give a shit about what they so vakiantly defending. It’s just that they can use it as a tool to further shit on/stomp on a different group they already did, and want to more.

      And by pretending to care about group, or cause, X it gives them, at least in their eyes, a “get out of bigotry free” card.

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    You mean the spoiled rich kid who always had what he wanted with zero regards to legality or morality and only got even more aggressive at it as he grew older, the same guy who was already convicted of rape, the guy who was notoriously friends with and a frequent customer of someone who was organizing human sex trafficking, the guy who is clearly abusing his position of power to shut down any investigation in that matter… you say he might have committed more sexual assaults in his life?

    How is this surprising anyone at that point?

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      the same guy who was already convicted of rape

      I absolutely believe he is guilty of rape but Trump has never actually been convicted… yet.

      He was found liable for sexual abuse in the E. Jean Carol verdict.

      Hopefully he’ll have rape added to his convictions before hanging for treason.

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        Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll – The Washington Post, July 19, 2023

        A judge has now clarified that this is basically a legal distinction without a real-world difference. He says that what the jury found Trump did was in fact rape, as commonly understood.

        “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,’ ” Judge 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.”

        Note: the WaPo article I just quoted is footnoted in the actual Committee report the above Truthout article is about (page 4). Even the Committee report doesn’t mince words. It was rape.

        And that’s what the jury found when it convicted Trump, according to the judge.

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        I think you’re being pedantic about the wrong word. The judge pretty directly clarified that he was proven guilty of rape. So if you want to be pedantic about the use of “convicted” I think a better phrase to use would be “adjudicated”.

        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. "Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.

        https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-rape-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-jury-judge-2023-7?op=1

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            You were being pedantic about convicted vs liable. I was suggest you instead be pedantic about adjudicated vs convicted. I don’t trust people to interpret “liable” in earnest in this context. Saying that he is an adjudicated rapist more directly states a judge [in a court of law] declared that he is guilty of rape [after being presented with evidence and testimony, without incorrectly implying that he was convicted of a criminal charge.

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              None of you guys are lawyers or journalists, so you all sound like idiots.

              what do you think he’s going to sue you? He’s a rapist pedophile, stop splitting hairs for a pedophile or his followers. They can get fucked.

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      Who could have known that the guy who got caught saying “grab her by the pussy” while running for office could be capable of such a thing?

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        C’mon, everyone just casually talks about sexually assaulting women who are not in a position to say or do anything about it. It’s just standard “locker room talk” to have a good laugh about sexual assault. It’s just boys being boys!