Foxy,

You used that same claim from the Washington Post back in 2021 and I made you look the fool then for falling for it.

Do you really want to go down that path again?

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Dear Foxy,

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Thank you for that link which might have been quite entertaining if it were not for the fact that Trump may soon be assuming the immense responsibilities of the presidency of the most powerful country in the world.

It somehow reminds me of Charly Chaplin’s "global" scene of The Great Dictator :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jj-PaqFrBc

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Trump’s religion/ideology :

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White evangelical Protestants continue to have a positive opinion of Trump even though he has been divorced twice, married three times, found to have raped E. Jean Carroll (an American journalist), and convicted of falsifying business records to hide a $130,000 payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels to silence her about an alleged sexual encounter before the 2016 election.

A video published by the Washington Post provides an insight into Trump’s attitude towards women :

http://www.vox.com/2016/10/7/13205842/trump-secret-recording-women
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Trump was baptized and confirmed in the First Presbyterian Church in New York and attended the Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan with his parents who were attracted by the personality of its pastor, Norman Vincent Peale.

Peale admired successful businessmen and preached optimism and success, both material and spiritual. His book “The Power of Positive Thinking” was a best seller in which he developed a theology of success, advocating self-confidence as a philosophy of life.

It appealed to Trump because it fit in with his family's culture: not hesitating to bend the rules, doing ruthlessly whatever it took to win.

The “theological message of Peale echoed the "Prosperity Gospel," practised by televangelists according to which God chooses to reward certain people with material wealth.

Interestingly, Vladimir Putin also maintains a close relationship with religion through one of his previous colleagues at the KGB, Patriarch Kirill, who has since become the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Kirill has described Putin's rule as "a miracle of God". According to Putin, Kirill's father baptized him. During his tenure as Patriarch of Moscow and Russia, Kirill has brought the Russian Orthodox Church closer to the Russian state.

Krill has also praised the Russian invasion of Ukraine, justifying the war as a struggle against "forces of evil". The World Russian People's Council under Krill's leadership described the conflict as a "Holy War.

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"[Trump was]found to have raped E. Jean Carroll "

False. Struth - you people. What was I saying about low information observers?

Meanwhile, not a policy discussion in sight. Just concentrate on mindless peripheries.

Last month the USA lost 28000 private sector jobs as the economy unravels. Harris says she can't think of anything she'd do differently to Bidenomics. Trump has detailed and innovative plans to revitalise US manufacturing. Hey, but let's talk about his pastor from 70 years ago.

Electronic voting for Australia was rejected after investigations showed how open to fraud and dishonesty it is.

Voting corruption is rife in America. Americans know it, but not ignorant Australians, who should be more concerned about their own country, not America.

The Democrat party has clearly shown how desperate it is, and what tactics it will use, with its open misuse of the law, its lying and cheating (proved) at the last election - anything to keep Donald Trump out, when they have nothing to offer but an obvious airhead who keeps cackling about 'turning pages over'.

However, there is not much point in trying to convince people here who are obviously of the same calibre as the crooks in America.

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Dear mhaze,

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You wrote :

« "[Trump was] found to have raped E. Jean Carroll ".

False. Struth - you people. What was I saying about low-information observers? »
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The Washington Post explains the verdict of the civil court case quite clearly, mhaze :

After Donald Trump was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll, his legal team and his defenders lodged a frequent talking point.

Despite Carroll’s claims that Trump had raped her, they noted, the jury stopped short of saying he committed that particular offence. Instead, jurors opted for a second option: sexual abuse.

Trump’s attorneys have sought a new trial and have argued that the jury’s $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 victim’s breasts.

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan 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 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.”

Kaplan said New York’s legal definition of “rape” is “far narrower” than the word is understood in “common modern parlance.”

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(Continued …)

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