House Dems Vice Chair Ted Lieu yesterday recited a federal judge's denial of Trump's petition for a new trial or a reduced fine to journalist E. Jean Carroll after she won her civil defamation lawsuit against Trump. Via Alternet:
On July 19th, 2023, federal Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected Donald Trump's request for a new trial and confirmed that Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll. I'm gonna submit this court ruling into the congressional record, and now I'm gonna read you what the judge found," Lieu said.
On page 43, the judge wrote, 'Ms. Carroll testified that the sexual assault, the rape of which she accused Mr. Trump, it involved especially painful forced digital penetration.' The judge further writes the testimony of the outcry witnesses. 'Ms. Birnbach and Ms. Martin corroborated the essence of Ms. Carroll's account of a violent, traumatic, sexual assault.'
On page 44, the judge wrote, 'The jury's finding of sexual abuse therefore necessarily implies that it found that Mr. Trump forcibly penetrated her vagina.' The judge further writes, 'In other words, that he raped her.'
So it's in the official record for posterity. Imagine future Americans reading this and wondering what the hell was wrong with Republicans.
