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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Assuming he doesn’t get back in in 2024 (or 2028) and exonerate himself from his own crimes.

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The president cannot pardon state level crimes let alone state level civil judgements.

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Okay, sure, buuut… what if his name is Donald Trump and he REEEEEALLY wants to?

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We listen to him bitch about it for 10+ years and somehow it magically happens by some judge that throws away 100 years of presedent.

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The President can’t declare he won an election he lost. Didn’t stop him from trying.

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Yeah, sure. But if Trump pardons an offense in a Republican state, criminal or civil, which way do you think the state would swing?

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This is a civil trial, there are no crimes to pardon.

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True, but I’m confident that alone won’t stop Trump, certainly not his attempts anyway.

We have to remember this is someone who does not play by the rules. He relies on everyone else doing so.

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