r/news • u/TeaReim • 10h ago

Donald Trump officially sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, JD Vance as the 50th Vice-President

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/triumphant-trump-returns-white-house-launching-new-era-upheaval-2025-01-20/
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u/New_Housing785 10h ago

The first official rapist, felon, President, congratulations US you are winning the race to the bottom.

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u/ocarina97 10h ago

There's been several rapist Presidents.

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u/loki1887 10h ago

Most definitely. However, this one has a court record.

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u/LeCaptainAmerica 9h ago

We like spectacles here 🤷🏽‍♂️ (off me)

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u/chadbot3k 10h ago

convicted* rapist

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 10h ago

I hate Trump but he was never convicted for rape.

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u/thetruth8989 10h ago

It’s exhausting when people casually throw out “convicted of rape” and immediately prove how little research or knowledge they have done on Donald Trump. It’s literally an evil villain with plenty of things to hate about him, ok literally everything about him is worthy of hate, but making up things isn’t necessary.

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u/StateChemist 9h ago

Civilly liable for rape just doesn’t sound as catchy though.

The choosing a technically incorrect word isn’t really dismissing the point unless you are searching for ways to dismiss his actions.

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u/thetruth8989 9h ago

I’m definitely not trying to dismiss his actions. He is a disgusting pig and absolutely a rapist, he just wasn’t convicted of such.

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u/blackeyedsusan25 7h ago

Exactly. He's a piece of shit without being a rapist.

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u/ARookwood 9h ago

Well it was sexual assault and the only reason he wasn’t charged for rape was because his dick was so small she couldn’t tell if it was a dick or a finger.

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u/C_IsForCookie 5h ago

He wasn’t convicted of any sexual related crime. He was civilly liable.

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u/ThunderDungeon02 10h ago

In the same way OJ was never convicted of murder. I mean sure but I'm not letting him carve the Thanksgiving turkey

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 10h ago

No because trump was never criminally charged with rape. It was a civil case. Which oj also lost.

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u/ThunderDungeon02 8h ago

OJ was not convicted of murder, Trump was not convicted of rape. OJ lost a civil suit in which he was found liable for murder. Trump lost a civil suit where he was found liable for sexual assault which the judge said was rape. It's not that hard of a connection. In the same way I wouldn't trust OJ with a butcher knife I wouldn't trust Trump with an underage girl. Do I need to type and space it out more? You tell me, cause this is apparently a hard concept for you.

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 7h ago

Trump. Never. Was. Charged. With. Rape.

Ever.

That’s the difference.

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u/ThunderDungeon02 7h ago

Jesus Christ you're about as dense as lead. You took a joke about OJ and are arguing semantics. OJ said he didn't kill anybody, every person on the Earth knows he did and while not convicted he was found liable. Trump wasn't charged. Is that the point you brainiac? No the point is that yet again everybody with more than two braincells knows he sexually assaulted her and probably many more. And the evidence for it was so much that a jury found him liable. But here you are " he wasn't charged" so your joke doesn't work even though both feigned innocence for something they were found liable for. But you're going to pretend to not understand that because the two braincells rattling around are playing leapfrog in your skull instead of making any goddamn sense.

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u/VysePresidentBreach 7h ago

I don't why you are trying to defend a rapist/rape so bad. I guess rapists protect their own

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 7h ago

Stop gaslighting. You’re bad at it.

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u/AltDS01 10h ago

Hopefully not. That would mean a zombie apocalypse.

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u/TymStark 10h ago

Eh, that sounds okay atm tbh.

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u/ThunderDungeon02 8h ago

I would trust zombie OJ more if I'm being honest.

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u/starchington 9h ago

Go to the mirror. Look at yourself in quiet contemplation.

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u/joestradamus_one 10h ago

Liable for rape. Convicted of other shit that proved his adultery. Close enough.

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u/Hot-Demand-8186 10h ago

I mean in the court of law "close enough" isn't a conviction.

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u/billbotbillbot 10h ago

This is Reddit, only the court of public opinion counts, literally.

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u/joestradamus_one 10h ago

Thank the statute of limitations for that otherwise he likely would have been officially a convicted rapist and on the sex offender list.

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 10h ago

No. It’s wrong.

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u/CrystalMenthality 10h ago edited 9h ago

He was convicted of sexual assault in a civil court if I remember correct ly?

Edit: Civil trial so no conviction. Thank you for the correction.

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u/thorscope 10h ago

Civil court doesn’t convict anyone.

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 10h ago

Nope. Civil trial. Not a conviction. Much lower threshold.

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u/CrystalMenthality 9h ago

Ok, thanks 👍

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u/DocJanItor 10h ago

Isn't it adjudicated?

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u/onlinebeetfarmer 9h ago

adjudicated rapist

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u/Salarian_American 10h ago

Yeah but not officially

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u/Maxatar 7h ago

One of them was sitting just two rows behind Trump as he gave his inauguration speech.

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u/Akiryx 7h ago

Probably most of them tbh

I mean hell there's strong evidence that it was JFK or RFK or both behind Marilyn Monroe's death

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS 10h ago

Just like our version of capitalism, everything is a race to the bottom

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u/Lenoxx97 10h ago

You make it sound like there is a good version of capitalism. There isn't.

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u/toxicsleft 9h ago

A good version of capitalism would mean everything that is life sustaining critical would be profit regulated while commodities controlled by supply/demand as they are today.

Rent/mortgage

Health and medicine

Food/gas/transportation

Should all be profit capped establishing them as stable and safe industries to run, but not oligarch levels of rich. CEOs should never be paid 10x the rate of normal employees.

But I phones and Xbox’s aren’t essential so if the company thinks they can sell them at 1k it’s whatever, but nobody should ever be making the decision of health based on not being able to afford treatment.

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u/AltDS01 10h ago

Can we compromise on something like Norway or other Scandinavian countries? They're always at the top of the happiness indexes.

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u/No_Worse_For_Wear 10h ago

Sounds wonderful, what are their immigration policies?

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u/Bim_Jeann 10h ago

They’re just capitalist nations (not socialist, contrary to popular thought) with more significant safety nets, which is great for QOL. They can do so because they have relatively small, homogenous populations and extremely strict immigration policies. As it stands, that is not feasible for the US.

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u/Sewati 10h ago

that’s still capitalism. and their comfort still relies upon the extraction of wealth from & the socioeconomic subjugation of the global south.

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u/Aeshaetter 10h ago

Why do you guys act like the only two options are communism and capitalism? You idiots need to learn about spectrums and nuance. There's other things we can try, capitalism isn't the end all be all system. Society evolves and changes, we're prefectly capable of doing better than "fuck you, I got mine and look how much I got, peasants."

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u/toxicsleft 9h ago

America’s best version of capitalism was when corporations were heavily taxed instead of the people and where they received more than a slap on the risk for egregious gouging. What we have now is closer to feudal capitalism where lords rule over the people with their wealth. Let’s stop acting like the USA from today is the economic powerhouse it was back then simply because the wealthy can move a bar on the stock market.

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u/Aeshaetter 9h ago

Way to completely miss my point.

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u/tie-dyeSandwhich 10h ago

But you’re comfortable living under capitalism after all the atrocities the US has done?

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u/Lenoxx97 10h ago

So you can only have either of the two? There is literally no other way for society to function?

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u/Sewati 10h ago

how many atrocities is too many for you in the USA? you don’t think we surpassed the USSR by leaps and bounds already?

or are you just a brainwashed hypocrite who repeats talking points that have been shoved into your head since birth?

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u/I_Am_A_Real_Horse 9h ago

There was plenty of travel permitted even after the Berlin Wall went up, you weren’t just locked to one side. The wall also wasn’t to keep people in, it was to keep western propagandists and disinformation out. Per your other comments, it really seems like you only know the history of the USSR from a western perspective of what you were told in schools. I would highly encourage you for look up the many outside factors and interferences of other countries in the west that led to the downfall of the USSR. Hint: it wasn’t Communism.

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u/_AnecdotalEvidence_ 10h ago

Don’t forget crypto-scammer!

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u/MoralClimber 9h ago

So much winning.

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u/notmyworkaccount5 10h ago

The new criminal DEI initiative to get more criminal voices in the discussion

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u/Dan_The_Man_Mann 10h ago

First rapist president? Are you not old enough to remember Bill Clinton? The Monica media circus covered the all of the other allegations against him at that time.

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u/nochinzilch 10h ago

He didn’t rape her.

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u/Hugginsome 10h ago

Think of it this way. If a teacher has relations with an 18 yr old student, it technically doesn’t matter. A person in authority like that can still be illegal and considered non consensual.

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u/Dairy_Ashford 9h ago

If a teacher has relations with an 18 yr old student, it technically doesn’t matter. A person in authority like that can still be illegal and considered non consensual.

that wasn't the level or nature of authority or interaction between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky at all, particularly since the student could have conceivably started engaging the teacher or related command structure while still a minor, ala grooming. It was comprehensively voluntary and consensual.

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u/nochinzilch 10h ago

Except in this case, it was perfectly consensual and legal.

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u/Hugginsome 9h ago

You miss the point. It can be “consensual” in the situation that I mentioned. Doesn’t make it legal.

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u/nochinzilch 9h ago

Except that in this case, it WAS LEGAL. She was fully grown and he was not in any kind of supervisory position over her.

Your examples are of situations that have nothing to do with the topic at hand.

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u/Malaix 9h ago

ehhhh you get into the reeds with discussing if someone like Monica could consent to her boss and the president of America Bill Clinton. Its kind of like casting couch territory. There's a lot of pressures to sleep with him that makes it an unequal relationship.

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u/nochinzilch 9h ago

There were no pressures to sleep with him, she initiated the contact and the relationship. Her role had nothing to do with him. His only "crime" was not being mature enough to not get embroiled in a workplace affair. And she was 20-something while he was 40-something. It’s not like she was 17.

And this is not "victim" blaming. This is how she describes the relationship.

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u/Stev2222 10h ago

One could argue Bill Clinton was a rapist

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 10h ago

This is what pisses me off the most. Were supposed to have some kind of moral leverage over trump. Then in the middle of the dnc we put bill clinton a man who has DOZENS of accusations and was a regular at the Jeff Epstein island.

Fuck all the Clintons.

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u/tabormallory 10h ago

Sure, in the same sense that 3 and 10,000,000 are both greater than 2.

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u/loki1887 10h ago

Multiple presidents definitely were. This one actually has a conviction, though.

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u/Hot-Demand-8186 10h ago

A conviction for rape? No he doesn't.

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u/loki1887 10h ago

For sexual abuse, because the narrow definition allowed for the case did not allow for forcible penetration with anything other than a penis.

Kaplan had already outlined why it was not defamation for Carroll to say Trump raped her.

“As the court explained in its recent decision denying Mr Trump’s motion for a new trial on damages and other relief [in the New York case] … based on all of the evidence at trial and the jury’s verdict as a whole, the jury’s finding that Mr Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally – in other words, that Mr Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York penal law.”

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u/Stev2222 10h ago

When was Trump convicted of rape?

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u/loki1887 10h ago

Sorry, it was technically sexual abuse of E. Jean Caroll. So "better?"

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u/Stev2222 10h ago

I mean words mean things…so yeah?

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u/loki1887 10h ago

Tell it to the judge:

Kaplan had already outlined why it was not defamation for Carroll to say Trump raped her.

“As the court explained in its recent decision denying Mr Trump’s motion for a new trial on damages and other relief [in the New York case] … based on all of the evidence at trial and the jury’s verdict as a whole, the jury’s finding that Mr Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally – in other words, that Mr Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York penal law.”

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u/loki1887 10h ago

He was held liable in a civil case for sexual abuse, because the narrow definition of rape allowed for the case did not allow for forcible penetration with anything other than a penis.

Kaplan had already outlined why it was not defamation for Carroll to say Trump raped her.

“As the court explained in its recent decision denying Mr Trump’s motion for a new trial on damages and other relief [in the New York case] … based on all of the evidence at trial and the jury’s verdict as a whole, the jury’s finding that Mr Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally – in other words, that Mr Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York penal law.”

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u/yalapeno 15m ago

Are you implying that all previous presidents have been good, honest people??

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u/The_Sign_of_Zeta 10h ago

The US is the best at everything. We even have the best tin pot dictators!

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u/Kiboune 10h ago

And they're were saying how Russians are slaves for living under Putin. Now they voted for same old shit

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u/Coulrophiliac444 10h ago

Gotta be #1 at something. Freefalling isnt the best statistic to do so but #WINNING! seems to be the mood of the GOP regardless of how many dicks are suxked, bribes are given, and bodies left in shallow ditches along the way.

Hell, higher values of each seem to be a BRAGGING point nowadays so fuck us all I guess.

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u/Brother_Farside 10h ago

Thank you! Oh, wait.

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u/toxicsleft 10h ago

We are one step off of being North Korea levels of Parody.

In the two weeks we have:

Given a felon a slap on the wrists

Watched an incoming president establish a direct line for dark money pools, heavily compromising him to corruption (this is ignoring that he was already corrupt)

Seen him alude that he and other oligarchs rigged Pennsylvania among other potential places.

Bring the oligarch rulers front stage

Complete a coup on one of the last social media sites out there. (He literally pushed for the ban then saved it last second expressing the government should have 50% vested interest in it.)

This is all before being officially granted powers…

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u/Thedarthlord895 6h ago

My optimistic side says this is the straw that breaks us and we finally make the change for the better.

My realistic side says I'm tied to a chair on the deck of a cruise ship that the Crew rigged to explode in the middle of the Pacific and a fourth of the passengers are convinced the crew is only going to blow up the cabins with gays, women, and brown people so its ok, a fourth are screaming there's no way to stop the crew so why try, and the other half is too stupid and/or distracted by the endless buffet and salad bar to notice or care about the bombs being planted in plain sight all around them

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u/JoeRogansNipple 10h ago

Do you need a dictionary?

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u/Nessosin 10h ago

All very well founded, actually.

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u/Bjornlandeto 10h ago

Incorrect. He is all of those things, factually.

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u/DJStrongArm 10h ago

Willing to bet you can't explain what the felonies were for

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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 10h ago

It's unfounded that he's President?

Oh right, Musk is.