During a press conference today President Barack Obama finally commented on the overwhelming wave of rape allegations against Bill Cosby. While he said there isn't a precedent for revoking Cosby's Presidential Medal of Freedom, Obama didn't hold back on referring to Cosby's actions as rape.
"If you give a woman, or a man, a drug and then have sex with that person without consent... that's rape," Obama said. "Any civilized country should have no tolerance for rape."
Just last week newly released court documents proved Cosby had admitted to obtaining Quaaludes with intention on giving them to women he wanted to sleep with. As Obama pointed out correctly, that's the definition of rape.
From Cosby's sworn testimony:
Q. When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?
In response to Cosby's admissions surfacing a White House petition was created to have his Presidential Medal of Freedom revoked. As of today it has more than 10,000 signatures.
Listen to audio from the press conference below:
