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Actually that is incorrect Trump was found to have Raped E. Jean Carroll and paid $5 Million Dollars as a result. SOURCE
First paragraph:
A New York jury found former President Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s but not liable for her alleged rape.
The Judge called it rape mate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/
Its really fucked up that New York doesn't consider it rape.
But also notes that he was found liable for something different. The judge makes clear that in colloquial terms, yeah, it's rape. But legally, there is a difference. And Stephanopolous said he'd been found liable for rape, which is a very specific charge and a claim which is demonstrably false, even if we all understand his actions to be rape.
Law is fucked but in the confines of the law, trump's legal team has a point and, it seems, the law on their side.
A distinction without difference, the definition varies by state.