Just sad and feeble the 4th estate has become.

ABC has joined the Trump Cult facilitating post-truth America.

Judge Kaplan, who presided over both of Carroll’s lawsuits against Trump, said the definition of rape in the state code was “far narrower” than how rape is defined in common modern parlance, in some dictionaries, in some federal and state criminal statutes and elsewhere.

Under New York law, a rape finding requires vaginal penetration by a penis. Forcible penetration without consent of the vagina or other bodily orifices by fingers or anything else is labeled “sexual abuse.”

But, Judge Kaplan said the verdict did not mean that Carroll “failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’ Indeed ... the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-abc-lawsuit_n_675df4d7e4b0e1241a417b15

They should have had George Stephanopoulos do a spot that said something like:

"I'd like to apologize to Donald Trump. I had broadcast that he had been adjudicated of rape. In fact, while what he was found to have committed would have been called rape in many states and in a common usage of the term, technically, what he was found to have done did not qualify as rape in the state of New York, but rather as sexual assault, and I should have been more clear. While whether or not he committed rape may be a matter of perspective, technically, by the laws of New York, he was adjudicated of sexual assault rather than rape."

And run it over and over. It serves the purpose of addressing the "defamation" albeit in a way Trump would likely regret, as it would instead be a frequently repeated reminder to the public that he was indeed found responsible for sexual assault.

The actual legal term under New York law for act Trump was found to have committed was "sexual abuse." Which is a very banal New York law term for what everyone else would call rape, namely forced vaginal penetration, albeit not with a penis.

...unless maybe you're putting it on your resume to be appointed to some position in the trump administration.

Everyone should be following Mark Elias on Bluesky. All of his tweets on Twitter are also posted on Bluesky: http://marcelias.bsky.social/

Him and his law firm fight endlessly against Republicans non-stop efforts to game the voting system in State after State.

He puts out a newsletter too, called Democracy Docket.

These bastards will target him big time!!

... ABC's on-air talent repeated a documented, irrefutable fact, to which, in typical fashion, the Orange Shitgibbon took umbrage. So now the Orange Shitgibbon's... wait – LIBRARY?!!? – of dried-out Sharpies and broken crayons is getting $15 mil and ABC's balls.
Sounds legit.

... illustrated hundreds of Little Golden Books. I'd hate to see any of his books in the possession of the Orange Shitgibbon.

I learned to read from those wonderful books.

But now they are guaranteed continued access to Trump's firehose of lies.

Im glad he is on our team but where is the Democratic Party leaders?

Congress is still in session trying to keep the government from being shut down (let alone with Dems trying to keep poison-pill crap out of any CR).... and in the Senate, Schumer is trying to get judges confirmed.

As you probably know, Nancy Pelosi just had a hip replacement at a base in Germany.

I try to post what gets published by the M$M but this is probably a situation where those who are on social media and follow our Dem leadership, do see their "commentary" (whether the 45 bought-and-paid-for media cover it or not).

I know many on DU hate those social media enities but that is what is being used for "communications" unfortunately.

I need alternatives to the MSM.

If one is linked to in a news article (and they often are), and it will let me view it, I'll look at it. Before Musk bought it, I used to have the "web versions" of twitter accounts (in browser tabs) for some of the M$M reporters like Scott McFarlane (CBS), Kyle Cheney (Politico), and Ryan Reilly (NBC) because they were stationed at a D.C. courthouse watching the grand juries and live-blogging cases. After it was bought and became "X", the access changed for something as simple as monitoring the posts without having to have an account, and log in.

seem to be bending over backwards to kiss the ring of an insurrectionist criminal.

deed of his new term. I'm not looking forward to it.

we will no longer be able to trust anything the government or Corporate Media tell us.