https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/
This was a rape claim, this was a rape case all along, and the jury rejected that made other findings, his lawyer, Joe Tacopina, said outside the courthouse.
A judge has now clarified that this is basically a legal distinction without a real-world difference. He says that what the jury found Trump did was in fact rape, as commonly understood.
The filing from Judge Lewis A. Kaplan came as Trumps attorneys have sought a new trial and have argued that the jurys $5 million verdict against Trump in the civil suit was excessive. The reason, they argue, is that sexual abuse could be as limited as the groping of a victims breasts.
Kaplan roundly rejected Trumps motion Tuesday, calling that argument entirely unpersuasive.
The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was raped within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump raped her as many people commonly understand the word rape, Kaplan wrote.
He added: Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.
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