General Discussion

I have altered the post to read "sex occurred with Trump", as I was going for a more clinical tone there.

In the state of Florida if the victim was under 18, and sex occurred, then at minimum, statutory rape occurred. If, in your book, statutory rape and rape are the same thing, even though in the former case, the victim said "yes" and in the latter, the victim said "no", then that's your prerogative. I don't subscribe to that thinking because I want the word "rape" to maintain a certain level of impact in discussion, and in law. I feel it should be reserved for when someone is literally forced, because that is SOOO mentally traumatic, *always*, so I prefer not to blur that line with this particular word. But to each their own, friend.

Bottom-line, depending on what Trump knew at the time, it would've been either statutory rape, or rape. If he knew she was being trafficked, then yes, clear rape.