• gramie
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    11 months ago

    He himself has one conviction (civil, not criminal) so far, for sexual assault on E. Jean Carroll.

    The people around him (Bannon, Manafort, Flynn, Weisselberg, etc.) have many convictions, including guilty pleas. If you include the January 6th insurrection, hundreds of them.

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      Important note, it did not meet the legal definition of rape for NY because they define it specifically with sexual intercourse. In common terms however we’d of course call it rape.

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      11 months ago

      And to think only a few decades ago, Bill Clinton was nearly impeached for receiving extramarital oral sex and lying about it, all the while the general public not knowing he palled around with Jeffrey Epstein…ah, simpler, dumber, but still monstrous times.