Why state-level legal minutiae impacts what words are used to describe the former president's criminal conduct.

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.

      • Mango@lemmy.world
        51·
        11 months ago

        No it’s not. I don’t have the mental capacity to memorize the crimes of every citizen. I don’t have the give-a-damn to care what goes on in the lives of these puppets who exist to trick everyone into thinking their votes matter. I don’t need to give a fuck.

        • theodewere@kbin.social
          311·
          11 months ago

          when you vote for someone, you take responsibility for their actions… that’s what it means… you’re saying, “this person acts in my name”… you fuckers will own up to it… every one of his crimes is on your ignorant, cowardly heads forever…