"The first was a ruling by the US federal court of appeals, upholding an earlier judgment in which the president was found liable for $83.3m in damages for defaming the writer E Jean Carroll a woman whom, it was ruled in civil court in 2023, had been sexually abused by Trump. On the same day, Trump's alleged contribution to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book was shared"
"For that matter, why does Trump's record of gross references to grabbing women by the pussy and calling them fat and ugly elicit barely a shrug from supporters, while his friendship with Epstein, a man referred to in the press, variously, as the billionaire paedophile, the paeodophile financier, and, surely coming down the pike at some point, the hell-based paedophile money manager, has triggered not only fury among the Maga faithful"
Donald Trump appeared in two unrelated sexual‑abuse stories: a federal appeals court upheld $83.3m in damages for defaming E Jean Carroll, whom a 2023 civil ruling found had been sexually abused by Trump. On the same day Democrats circulated an alleged lewd drawing from Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book that Trump denied making. The Carroll judgment produced little political inconvenience for Trump, while the Epstein material generated intense backlash and became a politically dangerous episode of his presidency. Supporters appear to treat Epstein‑style child abuse as the most taboo offense while minimizing other sexual‑misconduct allegations, producing inconsistent calibrations of outrage.
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