Amen to that.

@ BWJ

“Shakes my head and shrugs my shoulders”.
Life often does not make sense.

I lived in Ohio right after my release from prison in Florida. The probation office wouldn’t let me live with my wife and children, but I could live next door to children and often passed them as I walked home from work. It’s absurd.

BWJ
Generally, if you already lived there, and they try and force you out, numerous people have won that argument while on the registry. Retroactively making you move from a house you already live in is a tough call. Heck, I live 40 feet from a School bus stop and have never been forced to move. Of course I was here before the bus stop.
What is funny, the parents walk their kids to the bus to make sure I don’t pounce, but once the kids are out of school, they play in the street in front of my house un-supervised. Good Lord.

Don’t expect any epihanies from Trump. He’s done all he wants to do with his felony label, as a way to sell $2 bills or pieces of his jacket as part of his ongoing fundraising efforts, or in a questionable strategy to try to appeal to minorities.

There’s a lot of rapist, philanders and child molesters that are not on the registry as a result of not having a “criminal conviction” and Trump is one of thousands of them out there.

This is directly from an AP News article “A jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House.
The verdict was split: Jurors rejected Carroll’s claim that she was raped, finding Trump responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse. The judgment adds to Trump’s legal woes and offers vindication to Carroll, whose allegations had been mocked and dismissed by Trump for years.” I never said that Trump was criminally guilty of sexual assault/abuse. I said that he was found liable. Big difference.

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hummm, makes me think he may be in violation of the law

Bwj, you once again misapprehend the civil case against Trump. This is a quote from CNN: “Carroll, a former magazine columnist, alleged Trump raped her in a department store in the mid-1990s and then defamed her when he denied her claim.” Also, “Some background: The verdict, awarding Carroll $83.3 million, was the second time over the past year that a jury has awarded Carroll millions of dollars in damages from Trump for his defamatory statements disparaging her and denying her rape allegations.”

This case was decided with a much lower standard of proof called preponderance of the evidence than in criminal trials, in which the prosecution’s contentions must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

As a FAC moderator put it: “Trump has not been convicted of a criminal sexual offense.”

By the way Bwj, the dollar amount was $83.3 million, not $5 million as you stated.

It is more accurate to say that Trump was liable for battery and defamation, but not that he was found guilty of battery and defamation. The jury could have found Trump liable of battery based on the preponderance of evidence for rape, sexual abuse or forcible touching, of which they found Trump was liable for sexual abuse. All three possible findings of illegal touching are forms of battery. So, any finding that Trump had engaged in any of these would be sufficient to hold him liable for battery.

It is more precise say, ‘The jury found by a preponderance of the evidence that sexually abused Ms. Carroll and therefore was liable for battery.’

I hope this helps your understanding of what actually happened. My point being, anyone can be accused of illegally touching another person and sued in civil court for it or even prosecuted in criminal court. That is the way our legal system works.