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Trump openly stated one of the perks of running an underage beauty pageant was being able to walk in on them in the dressing room.

He has himself admitted to being a pedophile...



I can't believe you are making me defend this guy.

It is creepy as shit and I wouldn't allow him near my kids, but there is a very specific legal definition of pedophile and looking isn't the same as touching. It dilutes the term when you use it the wrong way.


No clue what you're on about:

> Pedophilia is defined as a sexual interest in prepubescent children.

When they touch them they're not a pedophile, they're a pedophile molester or a pedophile rapist. It has adds an additional word.

He likes looking at children in states of undress. He's a pedophile.

And, if dozens of people are to be believed across multiple lawsuits and 30,000 files at the FBI he's going to literal war to hide, he's a pedophile rapist too.


>It is creepy as shit and I wouldn't allow him near my kids, but there is a very specific legal definition of pedophile and looking isn't the same as touching. It dilutes the term when you use it the wrong way.

Then why wouldn't you allow him near your kids? If he isn't legally speaking a pedophile, what would you be worried about?

If it were the case that "looking isn't the same as touching", child porn wouldn't be illegal. Trump is a pedophile because he's attracted to underage girls, he isn't not a pedophile if he looks but doesn't touch.

And there is a mountain of (granted circumstantial) evidence from the Epstein files that have been released to suggest he's probably done more than just look.


I want to see him die in prison.

I only care about the legal definitions because that's how you get someone arrested, convicted, and thrown in jail forever.


He's already been found liable for sexual assault, and I don't doubt a case for pedophilia could stick if the standard is beyond a reasonable doubt - he drew a picture of a naked girl on a birthday card for Epstein FFS. Just his conspiracy to keep the Epstein files hidden and protect anyone culpable (in his party) alone would put him in jail until he died if SCOTUS hadn't decided that anything a sitting President did while in office was legal.

Unfortunately he's going to die a free and wealthy man, and be buried with honors. All we can hope is that he does it soon and that he soils himself on the way out.




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