October 8, 2016

MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN...JAIL HIM:

Let's Be Clear: Donald Trump Bragged About Sexual Assault (Mark Joseph Stern, 10/08/16, Slate)

[W]hat Trump describes in the recording is, quite literally, criminal sexual assault.

[C]onsider the law in New York, where Trump lives. There, an individual is guilty of a sex offense if he "forcibly touches the sexual or other intimate parts of another person for the purpose of degrading or abusing such person, or for the purpose of gratifying the actor's sexual desire." A person found guilty of this sex offense risks imprisonment of up to one year. In Connecticut, where Trump long maintained a vacation home, the law is similar: An individual is guilty of sexual assault when he "subjects another person to sexual contact without such other person's consent." ("Sexual contact" need not even involve the touching of "bare skin.") Again, an individual convicted of this form of sexual assault faces up to a year's imprisonment.

Trump boasted of kissing women and touching their genitals without their consent. In much of the country, including those states in which Trump lives and works, that is sexual assault. And if he was telling the truth on tape, he could have been prosecuted and imprisoned for a considerable amount of time.

Posted by at October 8, 2016 9:10 AM

  

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