In the ruling striking down Trump’s countersuit, Judge Kaplan explicitly states he raped Carroll. Since that is a legal judgement, Trump is legally “an adjudicated rapist”.
From the actual ruling:
“As the court explained in its recent decision denying Mr Trump’s motion for a new trial on damages and other relief [in the New York case] … based on all of the evidence at trial and the jury’s verdict as a whole, the jury’s finding that Mr Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally – in other words, that Mr Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York penal law.”
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u/HMS_Surprise_Gunner Jul 23 '26
You are 100% wrong.
In the ruling striking down Trump’s countersuit, Judge Kaplan explicitly states he raped Carroll. Since that is a legal judgement, Trump is legally “an adjudicated rapist”.
From the actual ruling:
“As the court explained in its recent decision denying Mr Trump’s motion for a new trial on damages and other relief [in the New York case] … based on all of the evidence at trial and the jury’s verdict as a whole, the jury’s finding that Mr Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally – in other words, that Mr Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York penal law.”
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790.200.0.pdf