Seems Johnson knows this. Both him and Trump will keep this shutdown going to stop the forced release of these files it seems. Don’t know what kind of plan they’re cooking up though.
Seems Johnson knows this. Both him and Trump will keep this shutdown going to stop the forced release of these files it seems. Don’t know what kind of plan they’re cooking up though.
To be clear, he wasn’t found guilty because it wasn’t a criminal trial. The judge ruled, on the balance of probabilities that it was more likely that he raped Carroll than he didn’t. That’s a different bar than for criminal trials which require that it is beyond a reasonable doubt that he raped Carroll.
Now my personal opinion is that he absolutely raped her beyond a reasonable doubt, and that he has definitely raped others on numerous occasions, but sadly those aren’t legal facts as he hasn’t been found guilty of them by a criminal trial jury or judge.
This isnt quite right.
He didn’t rule the probabilities. The judge specifically stated that under the letter of the law, Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll. However, you are correct that the judge was presiding over a civil case for defamation and not a criminal case of rape, and therefore Trump has not been found guilty of the criminal act of rape in a court of law. That doesn’t change the fact that he did, in fact, rape her.