• slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works
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          2 months ago

          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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              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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                I think it’s pretty funny that he basically said that any competently planned attempt on his life would have been successful as the secret service is so incompetent.

                What is funny to me specifically about this is that while intending to undermine him, Trump did the exact opposite.

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    2 months ago

    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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      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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        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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          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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        Doesn’t make sense. If O’Donnell is in league with Trump, then why would she be butchering Trump like this?

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          Ever seen good old Babylon 5? When the corrupt president seizes the media and uses it for propaganda etc. There are still good people in the media, but they can’t be openly critical or they will be removed. Subtle jabs like this are pretty much all they’ll be willing to risk.