Donald Trump, who was discovered chargeable for sexual assault final yr, boasted about calling undocumented immigrants rapists throughout his speech in Detroit on Thursday.
“We allowed them to come back in and raid and rape our nation,” Trump mentioned of migrants throughout his look on the Detroit Financial Membership. “That’s what they did. ‘Oh, he used the phrase rape.’ That’s proper, I used the phrase rape. They raped our nation.”
There isn’t a proof that immigrants, documented or undocumented, are raping individuals at the next charge than Individuals. Studies show that immigrants are considerably much less more likely to be charged with crimes than non-immigrants, and there’s no correlation between the presence of undocumented immigrants and an increase in crime.
Regardless of that, Trump and Republicans have repeatedly pointed the finger at immigrants for a rise in each crime conceivable, from rape and fentanyl distribution to murder and gang violence.
His rape allegation goes again to the launch of his first marketing campaign for the presidency when he declared that immigrants from Mexico have been “bringing medicine. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”
Trump has repeatedly promoted the rapist lie even if at least 26 women have publicly accused him of sexually abusing them. Final yr, a jury discovered him chargeable for sexually assaulting recommendation columnist E. Jean Carroll in a division retailer dressing room within the Nineteen Nineties and ordered him to pay her $5 million in damages.
Although the jury didn’t discover him liable on rape expenses, the decide overseeing the case mentioned it was nonetheless correct to discuss with Trump as a rapist.
“Primarily based on all the proof at trial and the jury’s verdict as an entire, the jury’s discovering that Mr. Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms. Carroll implicitly decided that he forcibly penetrated her digitally ― in different phrases, that Mr. Trump did in actual fact ‘rape’ Ms. Carroll as that time period generally is used and understood in contacts exterior of the New York Penal Legislation,” Decide Lewis Kaplan wrote when dismissing Trump’s calls for for a brand new trial.
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