https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/donald-trump...
> Kaplan had already outlined why it was not defamation for Carroll to say Trump raped her.
> “As the court explained in its recent decision denying Mr Trump’s motion for a new trial on damages and other relief [in the New York case] … based on all of the evidence at trial and the jury’s verdict as a whole, the jury’s finding that Mr Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally – in other words, that Mr Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York penal law.”