"I'm old enough to remember when being found to have raped a woman who was then awarded over $80 million in damages because a politician defamed her would have made it somewhat less likely that politician would be elected president the United States."
"It will be interesting to see whether moderate Republicans and Independents begin to peel off. How do you explain to your kids that you’re going to give your vote in the presidential race to a man who forced his fingers into a woman’s vagina and then lied about it and about her, and exposed her to public ridicule and harm?"
"Even the judge in this case pointed out that Trump can't control himself. He's a deeply morally bereft, sadistic human being, who has no conscience, morality, empathy, or remorse.
Those who continue to support him need to stop pretending that he isn't a sick and disturbed man."
In a research letter published Wednesday in JAMA Internal Medicine, Dr. Samuel Dickman and a team of researchers report that 64,565 pregnancies have been caused by rape in the 14 states where abortion is banned.
Women and girls who are raped and impregnated cannot, in increasing areas of the US, obtain medical assistance to terminate their unwanted pregnancies.
"[Trump] carried male Republican voters by 20 points, but he carried female Republicans by only 4 points. Women know what sexual assault and rape are."
"District Judge Lewis Kaplan has said it multiple times: Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Kaplan wrote it in May 2023, when he presided over one of the trials against Trump. And he reminded jurors of the rape this week, during the latest proceedings in the multi-layered, winding rape and defamation cases brought against Trump by Carroll."
"If you’re thinking, 'Hey, isn’t this [continued slander of E. Jean Carroll on social media] even more defamation?' you’d be correct. The question of whether Trump sexually assaulted and defamed Carroll has already been settled by a jury. It is a legal fact. Each time he denies it, he opens himself up to more exposure."
"Trump was in court Tuesday as jury selection got underway, but his social media operation launched what was clearly a pre-planned full-scale attack on Carroll, including repeating the defamation. (It was perhaps not a coincidence that a key Trump lawyer resigned the night before.)
Trump is risking a substantial punitive damages award by continuing to attack his accuser."
"One thing is certain. When Carroll’s lawyers make their closing argument to the jury, they will point to today’s social media firestorm. They will ask the jury to award punitive damages in an amount sufficient to make Trump, who has been completely unrepentant following the first jury verdict against him, stop."
“White evangelicals heartily endorse a crook and a rapist apparently because they expect that he will put in place the world they envision, one controlled by white, patriarchal evangelical Christians.”
@TruthSandwich@mondoweiss@palestine You are right. And they dont care about the deaths of their 'people' but not surprised, a terrorist can wear a suicide bomb and enter a stadium, a school, an airport etc and destroy himself with his people and anyone present there #hate#violence#rape#murder#slaughter etc