American Pravda’s “Legally Wrong and Dangerous” Never-ending Anti-Trump Propaganda
Trump was not found “guilty” of rape as he was not criminally charged, nor was he found liable for rape. Further, the civil claim was on a battery tort [civil wrong] but brought forward using an extension of the statute of limitations …
[T]here was no criminal conviction [for anything, including sexual abuse], only liability for battery based on the preponderance of evidence … [Notre Dame Law School professor Jay Tidmarsh says the] conflation of civil liability and criminal guilt would be “legally wrong and dangerous.”
Fact Check: Was Donald Trump Found Guilty of Rape? Newsweek, May 12. 2023
[George] Stephanopoulos [of ABC News] asked congresswoman Nancy Mace … why she backs Trump despite him being found “liable for rape”. … But the jury did not find [that] the former president had raped her.
BBC, March 20, 2024
It was an episode. It was an action, … it was not a crime. … … Every woman gets to choose how she describes it. … My word is not the victim word. I have not been raped.
E. Jean Carroll, Vox, June 28, 2019
On her Facebook page, Joy Reid, of MSNBC, America’s Pravda, posted a comment by Tristan Snell (Assistant AG of New York and Creator of Taking Down Trump) that reads:
“Trump just claimed you can’t walk across the street without getting raped. He should know. The Bergdorf Goodman Department store where he raped E. Jean Carroll is across the street from Trump Tower.”
The claim, as if it is established fact, that Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, is regularly repeated by the Democrat “News’-media Colluders (hereafter the DNC).
Eric Swalwell, Representative of the People’s Republic of California’s 14th District, who actually procured a J.D. from the University of Maryland, perhaps acting on advice from his Communist Chinese “honey trapper” Fang Fang, stated that Trump has been “convicted” of sexual abuse making the Republican Party the “The party of a *convicted* sexual abuser.”
Jamie Raskin (Rep. Maryland’s 8th District), who also actually has a J.D., from Harvard (for whatever that, after the Claudine Gay scandal, is now worth), has stated that Donald Trump is “an adjudicated rapist.”
Since what’s left of our “news” media is unable to report the situation correctly, and has, apparently, no knowledge whatsoever of the Law, let alone the English language, similar accusations have been repeated all over social media. Here is a smattering of the comments, minus the tags of the offenders, cut and paste from social media, 1.) “Donald Trump is a piece of shit rapist,” 2.) “Donald Trump, is a convicted felon AND rapist who stole the 2016 election, extorted Ukraine, incited an insurrection,” 3.) “Anyone supporting this rapist and domestic terrorist should be watched. They are not safe to the public, especially children. We must ensure they lose this civil war, too,” 4.) “The jury’s gonna find him to be a rapist,” 5.) “I’m very concerned about foreign rapists which is why I’m endorsing our own domestic rapist, Donald Trump,” 6.) “The serial adulterer, pathological liar, narcissistic, charity robbing, wannabe dictator, racist, rapist, and convicted felon. Nah… It’s not a cult. Not at all,” 7.) “Trump is a RAPIST,” 8.) “What happened to Byron Donalds that he [supports] racist convicted felon adjudicated rapist Donald Trump over the United States?”, 9.) “Donald Trump is a scumbag phony lying traitor, a convicted Felon, a known fraud, a rapist and twice impeached with at least 3 more trials pending for Insurrection stealing classified documents and interfering in the election,” 10.) “Doesn’t this Trump bus that crashed into a pole … sum it up for the washed up twice impeached four time indicted, rapist, adulterer & felon?”
Unhinged anyone?
None of these claims that Trump was convicted of rape or sexual assault is true. Trump was not convicted criminally of anything because, as a civil trial, he could not even be criminally charged with anything. Duh! Not even the DNC has found a way to find Trump guilty of a crime in a civil trial but they would have you believe that is what happened in the E. Jean Carroll trial.
As Newsweek also explains, the standards of evidence for civil liability, namely “preponderance of the evidence,” are much lower than the standard, “beyond a reasonable doubt,” for criminal cases. “Preponderance of the evidence” merely requires that the charge is, more likely true than not, true.” In other words, 50.001 % of the evidence for liability is sufficient in a civil case. By contrast, the criminal standard “beyond a reasonable doubt” requires that “there is no other reasonable explanation that can come from the evidence at trial. … The jury must be virtually certain [emphasis added] of the defendant’s guilt in order to render a guilty verdict.” Despite the massive difference in the standard of evidence in civil and criminal cases, the Democrats and their media poodles are happy to run this “legally wrong and dangerous” con on the voters in order to keep themselves in money and power.
Newsweek also points out in that same article that it was only possible to bring this civil trial against Trump because a new law was miraculously passed in the Democrat Party People’s Republic of New York, just in the nick of time in 2019 to affect to 2020 election, that allowed alleged rape victims to bring a one-time charge outside the normal statute of limitations. In other words, the statute of limitations has run out for Carroll to charge Trump (she cannot even remember what year it allegedly took place), but this new law allowed Carroll to bring the charge well outside the normal statute of limitations. What a great stroke of luck engineered by the DNC for “Basement Biden” for his 2020 election “campaign”!
Finally, the trial was a farce to begin with because, referring to the alleged encounter with Trump, Carroll freely told Vox in 2019 that “it was not a crime. … I have not been raped.” One would think Carroll’s own description of the alleged event should have been enough to prevent the charge from being brought at all but, given what Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz describes as the DNC’s Stalin-like “Get Trump” (by any means necessary) shameless lawfare scheme, apparently this common sense and basic decency no longer applies in the People’s Republic of New York.
The fact that, as reflected all over social media, people believe that Trump has been convicted of all sorts of crimes, including rape, of which he has not been convicted, is because these fake charges are pushed by unscrupulous DNC con artists for their own political agenda. Perhaps Reid, given her affirmative action BA from Harvard doesn’t really understand any of the relevant theses or concepts, but Stephanopoulos (who is currently being sued by Trump for defamation of character), with an M.A. from Oxford, and the abovementioned J.D.’s should know better.
Of course, the real problem with the DNC’s shameful lawfare is a moral one, not an intellectual one. Unhinged irrational hatred, especially when cynically generated by a never-ending series of hoaxes and smears, does not make either for clear thinking or for integrity.
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There is such a thing as inflammatory rhetoric, that applies to use of hyperbole and exaggeration. My friend had been the Prosecuting Attorney in our county and his murder conviction of a felon, was overturned by our Supreme Court for just that reason. Not the facts mam….just the rhetoric. But that was then. Now rhetorical and in fact untrue and non factual rhetoric is allowable, if it meets the goals of the court. or the political system that governs it. This is not justice, it is anarchy!
The article captures the moral rot that is at the heart of the case against Trump. The law has become abused beyond recognition by the anti-Trump maniacs.
I posted this article on various Democrat and Media Facebook pages as soon as it was published yesterday and today when I try to access Democrat Representative Jamie Raskin’s FB page, that was there yesterday and that states that Trump is an “adjudicated rapist”, I now get this message “Opps. That page cannot be found.” It was there yesterday when I linked it in the article. Today after I sent my article around and it is gone. Opps indeed!!!