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A federal judge has gone to great lengths to make clear Trump really did rape E. Jean Carroll

www.motherjones.com A federal judge has gone to great lengths to make clear Trump really did rape E. Jean Carroll

Why state-level legal minutiae impacts what words are used to describe the former president's criminal conduct.

A federal judge has gone to great lengths to make clear Trump really did rape E. Jean Carroll

District Judge Lewis Kaplan has said it multiple times: Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Kaplan wrote it in May 2023, when he presided over one of the trials against Trump. And he reminded jurors of the rape this week, during the latest proceedings in the multi-layered, winding rape and defamation cases brought against Trump by Carroll.

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