(Warning: this article contains depictions of sexual violence and may be triggering for survivors of assault)
Donald Trump is a court-adjudicated rapist.
This is not speculation.
It is not conjecture.
It’s not a Left-Wing talking point.
This is documented, established fact.
It was unequivocally declared by a judge.
It has been repeatedly upheld in the courts.
He is a rapist.
And to any decent human being, that would have been a dealbreaker.
It wasn’t for them.
Donald Trump’s name is listed tens of thousands of times in the files documenting one of the most prolific and vile child trafficking rings in history, orchestrated by a man with whom he was a close friend and collaborator, one he traveled with. partied with, and corresponded with.
For people with normal ethical standards, this would be a stark, uncrossable red line.
For them, it proved not to be.
Donald Trump has been accused by dozens of women of rape, sexual abuse, and physical violence, including a woman who testified before the FBI that Trump raped her when she was just 13 years old.
For actual followers of Jesus, this would all be stomach-turning and condemned as the darkest kind of evil.
For them, it hasn’t been.
For tens of millions of our family members, lifelong friends, neighbors, coworkers, and classmates, none of this has mattered. His well-documented brutality has never been a liability.
Despite a vast and reprehensible body of work, filled with proven sexual assault, alleged pedophilia, boasts about forced affection, credible accusations, and vicious public verbal attacks on women, he still receives their undying allegiance.
Instead of joining decent humanity in dragging him and his accomplices into the raking light of legal accountability for their atrocities against the most vulnerable, they obfuscate, they feign ignorance, they move the goalposts, and they slander the victims.
For all their performative sermonizing about protecting girls and young women, Trump’s supporters have shown through their silence, through their refusal to acknowledge reality, and through their steadfast adoration no matter how disgusting the revelations that they simply don’t give a damn.
Unthinkable violence against children, sadistic degradation of women, absolutely monstrous allegations of assault; they’re all trumped by the pathetic cultic affection they have for a man who in any other sphere of life would be a pariah where good people gather.
They have put political wins, Supreme Court Seats, and the cheap high they get off hurting people vicariously through him above the dignity and safety of other human beings. In the face of legal reckoning, he has received the protection of the highest seat of power in this nation, one they’ve helped him retain.
They know what he’s done, and it has not dampened their passion.
And this, perhaps as much as any moral or ethical malpractice they’ve engaged in to support him (and there has been so much), cannot be something we let them off the hook for, no matter what they say after he is no longer in power or no longer walking this earth.
When time and justice catch up to him, when his regime is finally dismantled, and some kind of normalcy and stability return to our nation, their breathless worship of a violent, sadistic sexual deviant will be their legacy.
He is who he is, and his supporters are who they are.
Donald Trump is a rapist.
He will always be a rapist.
His supporters will always have passionately supported a rapist.
They cannot be excused for that.
They cannot be forgiven for that.
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