So sorry I got hit with auto-correct morons. Legally the man is not a rapist and their is precedent in civil courts that spells that out.
#41 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Trump would be considered a rapist now under NY state law. He wasn't when his case was litigated because at that time NY state law defined rape as intercourse; digital penetration was considered aggravated sexual abuse.

Then:
The New York Penal Code gives "sexual intercourse" its "ordinary meaning" which is penetration, however slight, of a vagina by a penis. Digital penetration and penetration by an object are not included in the definition. Thus, where penetration is digital, the charge would not be rape, but aggravated sexual abuse.

Now:
New York's "Rape is Rape" law, signed into effect on January 30, 2024, removed the requirement of penetration to be convicted of rape. This means that digital penetration is now considered rape under New York law.

The "Rape is Rape" law, also known as S.3161/A.3340, defines rape as any nonconsensual sexual contact, including -------, oral, and ---- penetration.

The law aims to better align New York's rape laws with the experiences of sexual assault survivors.
A conviction for digital penetration under New York law could result in up to 15 years in prison and registration as a sex offender.

Lack of consent is a key element of all criminal sexual acts in New York. Consent can be lacking due to force, threatened force, or incapacity.

The NY Judge said that anyone who read the Report would call what Trump did rape.
But that because of the exact language of the NY laws, he wasn't found guilty of that exact charge.
#44 | Posted by Corky

Exactly, Corky.

New York expands the legal definition of rape to include many forms of nonconsensual sexual contact
Politics Jan 30, 2024 7:28 PM EST
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) " New York will expand its legal definition of rape to include various forms of nonconsensual sexual contact, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday.

The state's current limited definition was a factor in writer E. Jean Carroll's sexual abuse and defamation case against former President Donald Trump. The jury in the federal civil trial rejected the writer's claim last May that Trump had raped her in the 1990s, instead finding the former president responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse.

The current law defines rape as ------- penetration by a penis. The new law broadens the definition to include nonconsensual ----, oral, and ------- sexual contact. Highlighting Carroll's case at a bill signing ceremony in Albany, the Democratic governor said the new definition will make it easier for rape victims to bring cases forward to prosecute perpetrators. The law will apply to sexual assaults committed on or after Sept. 1.

"The problem is, rape is very difficult to prosecute," Hochul said. "Physical technicalities confuse jurors and humiliate survivors and create a legal gray area that defendants exploit."

In Carroll's case against Trump, which stemmed from an encounter at a Manhattan luxury department store, the judge later said that the jury's decision was based on "the narrow, technical meaning" of rape in New York penal law and that, in his ----ysis, the verdict did not mean that Carroll "failed to prove that Mr. Trump raped' her as many people commonly understand the word rape.'"

While various states define rape in different ways, every state criminalizes oral, ----, and ------- sexual contact that is nonconsensual, according to Sandi Johnson, a senior legislative policy counsel at Rape, Abuse, & ------ National Network. Prior to its new law, New York defined penetration of the vagina or other bodily orifices with anything other than a penis as "sexual abuse" rather than "rape."

Many other states continue to place unwanted oral or ---- sexual contact in a category other than rape.

Johnson said New York's new guidelines validate what has happened to survivors. Calling a criminal sexual act anything other than rape "kind of sanitizes it," she said.

At Tuesday's bill signing, state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who sponsored the legislation, said the new changes would also make it easier for members of the LGBTQ community to hold perpetrators of sex crimes accountable.

"We can't have our laws ignore the reality that so many New Yorkers, particularly LGBTQ New Yorkers, among others, have experienced," the Democrat said.

"Before today, many of those assaults wouldn't be able to be classified as rape in New York state," he said. "But now we fixed that language."

#49 | Posted by Alexandrite
#51 | Posted by donnerboy

"First they came for the journalists. After that, we didn't know what happened."

I'm not a journalist, but I do depend on them to know the truth about what's going on.