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On top of the fraud convictions, Trevor Milton was credibly accused of sexual assault by his own cousin and a girl he employed. Both victims were minors at the
by nerevarthelame 6mo ago
On top of the fraud convictions, Trevor Milton was credibly accused of sexual assault by his own cousin and a girl he employed. Both victims were minors at the time.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/two-women-file-sexual-abuse-complaints-against-nikola-founder-trevor-milton.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/two-women-file-sexual-abuse-...
- ryandrake 6mo ago> It was wiped away with a phone call. In March 2025, Trump called Milton to tell him he had signed an unconditional pardon. Milton had styled himself as a political victim of the Biden administration, and Trump agreed. Birds of a feather flock together.
- chneu 6mo ago[flagged]
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- muwtyhg 6mo agoYou seem to be making an assumption on what comment the OP is referring to. Could you provide us the quote you think has "gone through many rounds of telephone"?
- worksonmine 6mo ago[flagged]
- evan_ 6mo agoPost the whole thing. > I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.
- lunchbucket 6mo agoNo, consent was assumed. He makes it very clear that he doesn't ask for consent. "I don't even wait." "You can do anything." We don't even need to speculate about what he meant; he assaulted E. Jean Carroll. This is open and shut.
- ashtonshears 6mo agoShame on you
- vkou 6mo agoI've no doubt that he believes it is possible for his political enemies to commit it.
- dsr_ 6mo agoThe average dog has slightly less than 4 legs; the modal dog has 4 legs. If you call a tail a leg, it's still not a leg, so no dogs have 5 legs. What the President believes is not, has not been, and cannot be the basis of law. If it were, the President would be a king.
- lovich 6mo agoThe line between president and king has stopped being neon bright and started to look blurry under this admin.
- lo_zamoyski 6mo ago> What the President believes is not, has not been, and cannot be the basis of law. Yes, but... > If it were, the President would be a king. First, rape is an immoral act that the law does and should punish. It is a factually bad thing, regardless of whether a legal system recognizes it as such. Second, pace the legal positivists, the law is a determination of the moral law within particular circumstances. It is not arbitrary without becoming false. As the old legal maxim goes, lex iniusta non est lex: an unjust law is not a law. This means justice is presupposed by the positive law; the latter exists in the service of the former. Third, kings are not God. They are not the basis for the law in the sense that they can simply legislate anything they want. One reason I've already given: a valid law can only be a determination of the natural law; declaring dogs to have five legs is meaningless. Another reason is that kings were bound by tradition, custom, and various feudal contracts. In Europe, the Church also kept kings in check. In countries like Poland, the king increasingly became more "presidential" in the sense that the sovereign could not enact any laws without the consent of the nobility (per the Nihil Novi Act [0]). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihil_novi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihil_novi
- cheema33 6mo ago> Milton had styled himself as a political victim of the Biden administration, and Trump agreed. That and a $1 million donation. He bought his pardon fair and square.
- SideburnsOfDoom 6mo agoCheap at the price!
- kjkjadksj 6mo agoWonder what the price will end up being for Maxwells inevitable pardon
- michaelteter 6mo agoShe’s more likely to develop an unfortunate health problem before being released. She will forever be a walking timebomb for a lot of powerful people. That’s too much risk for some of them.
- PearlRiver 6mo agoParty of family values (just don't ask what goes on behind the front door).
- Weryj 6mo agoI guess we know how he managed to get the funding.
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- dmitrygr 6mo ago> She was 15, that’s older than the age of consent in a lot of US states. What are you smoking? The lowest age of consent in any US state is 16
- doubletwoyou 6mo agoFalse? No US state has an age of consent below 16 except in cases between minors (Romeo & Juliet laws), which this most certainly isn't?
- mh2266 6mo agois the intended point here that it is okay to sexually abuse 16 year olds, so everything is fine—but 15 year olds are right out? or... what?
- snvzz 6mo ago[dead]
- poisonarena 6mo agodevils advocate here... but isnt it weird how these women filed a complaint together 20 years later, after he became a billionaire? I just read the article and by his cousins own testimony, they were BOTH minors, and he heinously sexually assaulted her by groping her breasts after she consented to... take off her own shirt down to a bra, during a "massage"... but the shirts off massage turned into a sexual assault when he touched her breasts/removed her bra? He denies all of it, and it happened 20 years ago, and maybe he is a fraud, and maybe he is a creep, but there is no way to prove any of it.
- defrost 6mo ago> isnt it weird how these women filed a complaint together 20 years later No. Not in the slightest. From work I once did, essentially IT support for a Royal Commission inquiry into sexual abuse and assault, it's extremely common for all manner of sexual assault victims to remain silent for many years. Regardless of the wealth of the alleged perpetrator(s). Eg: ~ 50 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Cable#Sexual_abuse_claims https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Cable#Sexual_abuse_claim... also, say, Rolf Harris, Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, and numerous other rock spiders.
- poisonarena 6mo agoAhhh I see you quoted, and responded to only the FIRST half of the sentence I wrote, totally ignoring what I was implying, and answering a question I didn't ask ! edit: comparing Jimmy Seville, and this 17 year old kid who touched his cousins tits during a consensual massage 20 years ago is a reach
- defrost 6mo ago> Ahhh I see you quoted, and responded to only the FIRST half of the sentence I wrote, totally ignoring what I was implying Read more carefully, note well: " Regardless of the wealth of the alleged perpetrator(s)." > comparing Jimmy Seville, and this 17 year old kid who touched his cousins tits during a consensual massage 20 years ago is a reach No, they had a reach around. Moreover, I didn't compare them, I merely noted that large time gaps are common place. Again, please read carefully.
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