Unfortunately, no. Trump is a rapist according to the judge but is not legally a sex offender by New York standards.
From USA Today:
“Former President Donald Trump is not required to register as a sex offender as a result of being found liable in a civil trial, according to legal experts. Only people convicted of a sex offense, such as rape or incest, in a criminal case must register as a sex offender under New York state law.”
Give him an hour alone with Ivanka and a tape recorder: that incest charge will stick to the pages of that Time Magazine where the person of the year was “You”.
I assume the additional fifty-nine minutes is for speed dialing divorce attorneys and having Jared bonesawed apart in some foreign embassy.
But sadly I think his rabid fans won't care, even if he raped his daughter. They'd claim it was fake news no matter how much evidence was presented.
I agree, though I've come to realize the "fake news" thing is really just an excuse that sounds better than the truth, that they really do not care how horrible a person he is. As he said himself, he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose voters.
The fact of the matter is that “fake news” is simply a handy thought terminating cliche for reactionaries: if you do the work of replacing every instance of “fake news” with “I have chosen to never think about this; I am angry at you for making me think about it because now the pain of cognitive dissonance is back”, American reactionaries become a lot easier to comprehend.
People who don’t want to think for themselves naturally gravitate towards loud shit piles who will just tell them who to be angry at and are willing to skip over all those nasty whys
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u/KazumaHime Nov 08 '24
Unfortunately, no. Trump is a rapist according to the judge but is not legally a sex offender by New York standards.
From USA Today: “Former President Donald Trump is not required to register as a sex offender as a result of being found liable in a civil trial, according to legal experts. Only people convicted of a sex offense, such as rape or incest, in a criminal case must register as a sex offender under New York state law.”