The distinction between “rape” and “sexual abuse” wasn’t a winning argument for Team Trump, Jordan_S_Rubin writes.
Batting away that challenge, the federal judge who handled the case explained why the distinction doesn’t help the former president.that the “purported sexual abuse found by the Jury could have only included alleged groping of Plaintiffs intimate parts through clothing, which is clearly not rape.”Wednesday that the Manhattan jury hadn’t awarded Carroll millions in damages “for groping her breasts through her clothing, wrongful as that might have been.
Rather, Kaplan wrote, “the proof convincingly established, and the jury implicitly found, that Mr. Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina with his fingers, causing immediate pain and long lasting emotional and psychological harm.” The federal judge admonished Trump’s team for focusing on the narrower definition of “rape” under New York criminal law as opposed to its more commonly understood use and what the jury found Trump actually did.to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in his legal attack on the jury’s $5 million award.
Putting aside Trump’s mounting criminal troubles, this isn’t even the only Carroll case that Trump could lose. Her other defamation lawsuit against him is set for trial in January.when he was president, he lost an important defense earlier this month, when the federal governmentfor having made statements in the course of his official duties.
Like Judge Kaplan’s extinguishing of the rape/sexual abuse distinction, the reversal was another commonsense loss for the former president.
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