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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump should NEVER be referred to as "a convicted felon" WITHOUT ADDING "and an adjudicated rapist."
The entire "AMERICA ELECTED A CONVICTED FELON" thing is still a mind-boggling, incomprehensible twist of fate.
And maybe it's just me, and my values, but the fact that he raped E Jean Carroll bothers me more than the felonies.
And the fact that 26 other women credibly accused him of sexual assault.
I assume there are tens of millions of people in America who don't have mothers, sisters, wives, girlfriends, or any other women in their life that they claim to care about.
Because if they did, please explain to me...OTHER THAN MAGAts believing Trump when he says "I couldn't have POSSIBLY raped her because she wasn't hot enough for me to fuck"...HOW can ANYONE look at this vile pig, this monster, who assaulted, humiliated and intimidated TWENTY SEVEN WOMEN?
I have a hard time chalking it up to "they just don't give a shit."
But in the absence of "understanding it," I will never refer to Trump SIMPLY AS "a convicted felon."
The two impeachments were largely symbolic, since McConnell blocked Trump's conviction and removal on both.
And who knows, maybe...even though it's light years away from legit...Republicans will just wipe their asses with the rules one more time and "expunge" the records of both impeachments.
But let's be clear on one thing. Trump is a convicted felon AND a rapist, and we should NEVER fail to "credit" him for BOTH.

SheltieLover
(70,421 posts)
BOSSHOG
(42,932 posts)And a coward who got daddy to buy his way out of military service.
And a TACO.
Krazy_Kat
(40 posts)If Holy Moses Johnson can say "the Biden crime family" it's the least Dems could do--and it's also the truth.
JT45242
(3,415 posts)That's what he is.
In a state where proof of penile involvement is required for rape.
Just as bad ..in fact more insulting because
his micro dick is as skinny as a finger and apparently mushroom shaped.
Either way that any woman could vote for a man who dies these things
Any father who heard 'grab them by the pussy. Because you're famous, they just let you '
How did 1/3 of eligible voters say ...yeah give me the felon and sexual predator.
How did 1/3 of eligible voters not bother to vote to keep that piece of crap that you wouldn't let within a football field of any woman you care about our of office.
He is loathsome foul felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter, and those that did not against him are his accomplices as far as I am concerned
Miles Archer
(19,732 posts)It's behind the paywall, unfortunately, but the title tells the tale:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/
I understand what you're saying, but however it's labeled, he forcibly committed illegal acts, more than once, and I'd say he earned his "Sexual Predator" merit badge.
JT45242
(3,415 posts)Not for fraud...
Not for bankrupting casinos where people literally come in and throw cash at you
Not for money laundering for the Russian mob/oligarchs
Not fir sexual assault
Not for tax evasion
Not for being a Russian agent undermining Obama
Not for treason/rebellion on January 6
He is walking talking poster child for the dangers of nepotism babies with no consequences. He makes coke head W look like a competent intelligent human being by comparison.
Yes we should call him sexual predator and felon.
Miles Archer
(19,732 posts)...as much as he was famous for "not liking to read," he read enough about his escapades with Cheney to know his best bet was to settle into a quiet, anonymous retirement. "Out of sight, out of mind."
He was famously pressured to "SPEAK OUT" against Trump during last year's election, and he declined. My personal belief is that he did so in order to avoid re-litigating his own shady past, because Trump fans are ADDICTED to "whataboutism," and any DIRECT criticism by Bush against Trump would be met with choruses of "He lied the US into Iraq"...and the irony is that if MAGAts threw that back at him, it would only be to "own" a Trump critic, and not because they had any great understanding of...or gave a rat's ass about...Iraq.
Walleye
(41,174 posts)He feels he has a right to take anything he wants and wont take no for an answer. Hes a rapist unrepentant. I dont see why anybody should give him the benefit of the doubt on anything. I hate rapists. Got nothing to do with politics.
malaise
(285,646 posts)😀
Silent Type
(10,108 posts)Sadly, voters didnt seem to care.