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[–] 144 points 4 months ago (17 children)
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  • [–] 82 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Shooters manifesto about the secret service:

    This level of incompetence is insane.

    Trump:

    Well he was pretty incompetent, too, because he got caught.

    LOL

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I heard that too, and chuckled.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Why chuckle? It’s the world’s biggest moron making anything up at our expense on live tv. It’s the worst possible thing, with the worst possibly price tag being paraded in front of our faces at the worst possible time. I got no chuckle

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago

    Because chuckling is free and Trump tacitly agreeing that he's incompetent is funny.

    Catastrophizing doesn't help the situation either, at least a chuckle doesn't blow up your own mental health for no reason.

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  • [–] 58 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    “So what about this statement someone else made?”

    “You’re a shitty person for repeating words and I assumed you were shit and so now I’m calling you shit to deflect…”

    “Yes well uh gosh Mr president okay…”

    Fucking incompetence…

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago

    It’s been real since at least the 80s. Imagine the busses full of execs and millionaires and collaborators who stayed quiet all this time to make sure he got where he is today. None of whom we will talk about once the chief pedo is dead.

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  • [–] 125 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (14 children)

    Isn't he a convicted rapist? Surely that means he's in fact a rapist

    Edit: thanks to all the people pointing out that he wasn’t convicted

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  • [–] 72 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    He wasn't convicted of the crime of rape because he hasn't, to date, been criminally charged with rape. He was sued civilly by E. Jean Carroll for sexual abuse and defamation, and found by a jury liable for both acts. Which means the jury found that sufficient evidence existed that he did sexually abuse her even without a criminal conviction for rape.

    The judge later clarified that the acts that the the jury found him liable for, forcible penetration of the vagina with his fingers, do constitute first degree rape under New York law. And first degree rape in New York has no statute of limitations. Were he to be tried for rape, the evidence in the civil suit would be admissible and he would almost certainly be convicted of rape. Weird that hasn't happened, but here we are.

    So technically, he is not a convicted rapist as he has yet to be criminally charged and tried for rape. But he has also been determined by a court and a jury to have absolutely sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in a manner that constitutes rape under New York law. "Rapist love this one weird loophole."

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  • [–] 51 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    He paid her 78 million dollars specifically so that he wouldn’t have to take a DNA test to prove his innocence.

    Hmmmm

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago*

    I missed something. What dna were they going to test that could influence a case for a crime that occurred 30 years ago?

    E. Jean Carroll requested a DNA sample from Donald Trump in 2020 to compare with unidentified male DNA found on the dress she allegedly wore during a 1990s sexual assault.

    Well there you go.

    EDIT: added some googling.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    He was found civily liable for sexual assault by a jury. It means a jury said he did it, but it's not actually a conviction because civil suits are between private parties whereas criminal cases are between the defendant and society. They also have very different methods of punishment, as they pursue different goals.

    In criminal court, the prosecutors seek punitive damages. It usually takes the form of a fine or a prison sentence. In civil court, the plaintiff (who can also be the government) seeks relief in the form of compensation for damages or an order to do something, undo something, or stop doing something. You can't

    This makes sense when you think about it. Let's say you get pulled over for speeding. You didn't actually cause any damage, you can't undo having sped, and since you were pulled over you've already stopped speeding. So the state's options are pretty much limited to punishment for having committed the crime. And once you've paid the ticket, the matter is resolved.

    But what if instead of speeding, you build a building that extends beyond your property line and into a public street? Criminal statues allow for a fine, but that's about it. Cities can even do daily fines, but rich people can just pay the fine and effectively take control of public land.

    For that, you need to go through the Civil process, because in the civil system the goal isn't justice or punishment, but relief. Instead of getting fines, the government can get an order from a judge requiring the building to be removed, and even to allow the government to bulldoze the building and bill the landowner for the expense of the demo and remediation.

    This is why, unless you're looking at a felony, you'd rather have the government take you to criminal court than civil.

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    [–] 103 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Dude LITERALLY raped his ex wife.

    Dude was convicted of sexual assault.

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    He was determined by a jury in court to have sexually abused E. Jean Carroll too. While the case was a civil suit for sexual abuse (and defamation), not a criminal charge for rape, he was still determined to have committed specific acts that do constitute first degree rape under New York law, a crime for which there is no statute of limitations. In other words, he's not a convicted rapist, but still definitely a rapist, just an as yet unconvicted one.

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  • [–] 71 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    *pedophile

    *rapist

    *rapist

    *rape

    *pedophile

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    [–] 70 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    How the FUCK, is there already a 60 Minutes interview about this?

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    [–] 53 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Adjudicated rapist.

    Openly speaks about sexually assaulting women.

    Has made many very creepy remarks about his daughter as well as other people's daughters.

    Is the single most prominently featured individual in the Epstein Files.

    So it's 100% accurate to call him a rapist and reasonably implicated pedophile.

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    [–] 51 points 4 months ago

    Thank you, miss O'Donnell. Not all heroes wear capes.

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  • [–] 44 points 4 months ago* (9 children)

    It's ok to say "rape" and "pedophile" on the internet.

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago

    Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist, so he's definitely lying there with that denial.

    That doesn't make the entire statement true, but if it were false I suspect the Epstein files would have been released in full unredacted by now, as the law requires. It would completely exonerate him, if he had nothing to hide.

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  • [–] 38 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    The moron doth protest too much

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  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    "I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody." -- Donald Trump, Convicted Rapist

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    [–] 32 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Why the fuck wouldn't he think the manifesto is referring to him?

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    [–] 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    In his criminal mind, they can't prove it so he can lie about it but EVERYBODY knows exactly who they are referring to when they mention pedophile and rapist. Releasing the unredacted Epstein files is his greatest fear - people will die before he allows it.

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    [–] 23 points 4 months ago

    He never said he is not a traitor?

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    [–] 13 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, I don't think the shooter was talking about the mentalist.

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