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But to many observers on social media, that’s exactly what the Fulton County district attorney was doing.

Writer E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a Manhattan department store in a lawsuit, and a jury found him liable for sexual abuse. A judge this month rejected Trump’s defamation counterclaim, saying Carroll’s insistence in a post-verdict TV interview that Trump raped her was “substantially true.”

“Mr. Trump did in fact ’rape’ Ms. Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contacts outside of the New York Penal Law,” Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in tossing Trump’s suit.

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    For starters, wage theft is the largest dollar amount of theft in the US and that would improve some of the lowest paid workers lives if resolved.

    I don’t know about all, but it would certainly alleviate the financial stress of some.

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      I believe it intuitively but you’re not providing evidence which is really important and you’re not even connecting it to blue collar crime. Let’s try to find a study or some actual stats before echo chambering too hard

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        Security of income and ability to pay for things has long since been shown to be directly linked to blue collar crime. Crimes of necessity wouldn’t exactly happen if they could meet those needs legally, now would they?

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          Which is why I think it’s true but when asked for evidence speculating doesn’t help. It makes us look like we’re in an echo chamber.