George Conway let loose on his biggest foe in an X post, arguing that it’s “not defamation” to call the president a “rapist.”
It started with a post from conservative radio host Erick Erickson, who cautioned another X user that calling President Donald Trump “an adjudicated rapist” is “actual defamation” and could result in a lawsuit.
Look:
This is actual defamation, and the president could sue this person. https://t.co/5NASl5dZ2W
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) July 6, 2026
And Erickson isn’t necessarily wrong. ABC News paid the president $15 million in a settlement after anchor George Stephanopoulos said Trump was found “liable for rape” on air. This was not true, as the legal definition for “rape” and “sexual abuse” differs in New York.
But Conway insisted that it was true in a lengthy post bashing the president.
Watch:
It is not defamation. Not even close.
It is not false to state that a man who forcibly inserted his fingers into a non-consenting woman’s vagina has raped her. That’s because, as the distinguished district judge in Carroll v. Trump explained more than once, and as dictionaries… https://t.co/vFo36osiVx
— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway3d) July 7, 2026
“It is not defamation. Not even close,” he wrote. “It is not false to state that a man who forcibly inserted his fingers into a non-consenting woman’s vagina has raped her. That’s because, as the distinguished district judge in Carroll v. Trump explained more than once, and as dictionaries confirm, the word ‘rape’ is broad enough to encompass forcible, involuntary penetration of the vagina or anus by fingers or some foreign object, even if under the specific criminal code provisions of some (but not all) jurisdictions, non-penile penetration is categorized as sexual abuse or sodomy.”
“It is therefore not defamation to state that a man who, like [Trump], was found unanimously by a federal jury to have forcibly inserted his fingers into a non-consenting woman’s vagina, is an adjudicated rapist. Because he is. But even if the word ‘rape’ were categorically defined to exclude non-penile penetration (which it is not), the description of Trump as an adjudicated rapist would not be actionable under the defamation-law doctrine of ‘substantial truth,’ which provides that, if the gist, or sting, of a challenged statement is not significantly different in reputational effect from the actual facts, there can be no liability. And here there can be no serious argument that committing forcible sexual abuse is any less morally reprehensible or reputationally damaging than committing forcible rape.”
“So it’s a fact and not defamatory to state that Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist. He may be an adjudicated digital rapist, to be more precise, but he’s still a rapist, and it’s long past time that people stop pretending that he isn’t and wasn’t found to be one—or that forcible sexual abuse is somehow more tolerable than forcible rape. Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he snarked.
X users reacted:
Losing a civil lawsuit does not make one guilty of a crime. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
— Chest Rockwell (@gimpboy199) July 8, 2026
And that’s a claim you’re supposed to prove with evidence and yet that was not a requirement of the Carroll clown court.
— theWOKEHOLICS (@theWokeholics) July 8, 2026
Nope. The jury didn’t find him guilty of rape. Another George (Stephanopolous) & his network had to settle with Trump for calling him a rapist. @potus should ABSOLUTELY sue you for defamation 😂
— Glameow66 (@Glameow66) July 8, 2026
A random quote from a single activist judge does not undermine the entirety of Western Law.
Try again dipshit pic.twitter.com/QGszDQQWF6
— Gabriel-74 (@legitgabriel74) July 8, 2026
He was convicted of a lesser charge. Jurors rejected conviction of rape. Yes, that’s defamation.
— Boyd Bible (@9b56a5b4dee744c) July 8, 2026
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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