Rape: the crime, typically committed by a man, of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse with the offender against their will
That's an antiquated definition of rape, which comes from the Oxford English Dictionary (British). This is from 2012 and it's the FBI's legal definition of rape in America. From
An Updated Definition of Rape:
In a victory for survivors of rape and their advocates, the Attorney General announced a newly revised definition of rape for nationwide data collection, ensuring that rape will be more accurately reported nationwide. The change sends an important message to all victims that what happens to them matters, and to perpetrators that they will be held accountable. It was because of the voices of survivors, advocates, law enforcement personnel and many others that FBI Director Robert Mueller was able to make this important change within the FBI’s
Uniform Crime Report (UCR) Summary Reporting System (SRS). “Forcible rape” had been defined by the UCR SRS as “the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will.” That definition, unchanged since 1927, was outdated and narrow. It only included forcible male penile penetration of a female vagina. The new definition is: “The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”
The legal definition of rape doesn't require violence or intercourse, just the absence of consent and penetration by any perp and any victim regardless of gender.
I don't believe it is necessarily so, that Trump, walked into a store and put his finger in some god awful looking feminism rights gal
Agreed. She could be lying. So what? A jury agreed unanimously that she's probably not, and it's their call, not ours.
If Carroll is lying, Trump has only himself to blame for making her seem credible. This is from a post I left on another thread last week:
It's possible Carroll made it all up, but the story is credible, Carroll is not known to be a liar, and Trump is a self-confessed sexual predator who enjoys grabbing women by their genitals. If Carroll is making it all up, Trump gave her the opportunity to do so credibly by making that claim. If you say something like that, you open the door, just as if you are ever heard saying that you want somebody dead, somebody else can kill them and you'll be the principal suspect.
I used to be a hospice medical director, and from time to time, we would have patients claim repeatedly that their hospice caregivers were abusing them. I can't say that they were lying, but I knew the accused caregivers, could vouch for their caring nature, and nobody else made the same complaints about them, meaning that if they were lying, they made it possible for those caregivers to abuse them with impunity and be believed when they denied it.
Fanny and James look to eventually having egg on their faces
You think so? James has defeated Trump and is already eyeballing his assets:
Letitia James has already begun the process of seizing at least one of Donald Trump’s properties
I expect Willis, Bragg, and Smith all to prevail in their criminal prosecutions, but we really only need a few of the 88 felony charges to stick to put Trump away for the rest of his life.
The 9th commandment is to not make a false witness.
Irrelevant. What is relevant is perjury and the laws that proscribe it.