Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confronted heavy criticism on Friday after calling US President Donald Trump a “rapist” in a social media publish.“Wow who would have thought that electing a rapist would have difficult the discharge of the Epstein Information?” she wrote on X.Her remark referred to the continuing debate over the Epstein case, after the FBI and Justice Division issued a joint memo declaring the investigation formally closed. The memo mentioned Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in jail and located no proof of murder.Ocasio-Cortez advised that electing a president with a historical past of sexual assault allegations made it harder or politically delicate to completely launch and examine the Epstein case data.Her tweet shortly went viral garnering over 11 million views. It sparked robust backlash from Trump supporters. Many accused her of defamation, declaring that Trump has by no means been criminally convicted of rape.One person expressing anger commented: “Donald Trump has not been criminally convicted of rape. As a Congresswoman, with such broad attain, you ought to be conscious of this and act and converse appropriately. That is defamation.”One other wrote: “If Trump is a rapist, then absolutely he was convicted of rape in a felony court docket and you’ve got proof of that conviction, proper? If not, then that is defamation.”Journalist E Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of raping her within the Nineties. She mentioned he attacked her in a dressing room on the Bergdorf Goodman division retailer in Manhattan round 1995 or 1996.In 2023, a civil jury didn’t discover Trump accountable for rape beneath the authorized definition used within the trial, however did discover him accountable for sexual abuse. He was ordered to pay Carroll $2.02 million in damages for sexual assault and one other $2.98 million for defamation, totalling $5 million, Al Jazeera quoted.Final month, the general public feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump intensified after the Tesla proprietor made a placing allegation towards the US president, claiming that Trump is talked about within the Epstein recordsdata. He added that that is the explanation they have been by no means made public.
