Judge confirms it's fair to call Trump a rapist, so Ted Lieu does just that in the House

As steeped as we progressives are in the yeasty lagoons of Donald Trump’s septic psyche, it’s sometimes easy to forget that many Americans have only a vague understanding of just how rapey the dude is—and always has been. That said, it’s inaccurate to call him a “convicted rapist.” He was unanimously found by a jury in a civil trial to have violently sexually assaulted a woman in a department store dressing room. In other words—totally innocent. Get your facts straight, you lying snowflake cucks!

When the jury ruled in E. Jean Carroll’s civil lawsuit against Trump in which the journalist claimed Trump had assaulted her and then defamed her by lying about it, they failed to conclude that she’d been “raped” based on New York’s narrow legal definition of the term, which specifies forcible entry of the penis. And that apparently gave Trump hope that he could muddy the waters surrounding the jury’s very clear verdict.

Now, most people found civilly liable for sexual assault would permanently slink away and voluntarily live in quiet exile somewhere. And they definitely wouldn’t revisit the case they’d just lost by suing the original plaintiff over the accusation. But Trump has long been estranged from most people, so he instead fought back like a furious chimpanzee whose only available weapon is a pile of feces. He sued Carroll for defamation based on the fact that her rape accusation wasn’t technically held up by the jury—and man oh man, is the shit ever flying now.

In a stern rebuke to Trump and his lawyers, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan denied Trump’s motion for a new trial and a reassessment of the compensatory damage award levied against him. And in his ruling, Kaplan made his meaning plain: Trump is a rapist, and it’s fair to call him one.

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