Why ABC settled a case they knew they would win — and why the Lincoln Project didn't

Since 2012, the U.S. Dept. of Justice has defined rape as bodily “penetration, no matter how slight… with any body part or object… without the consent of the victim.” To be redundant, no penis is required.

On May 9, 2023, a New York jury determined that Donald Trump had shoved his unwelcome fingers inside E. Jean Carroll’s genitals, after he pushed her against a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room wall, and that he later defamed her. Trump’s ‘what’s a little groping among friends’ defense argued...