If you give a woman or a man for that matter, without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent, that's rape.
Barack Obama: “If you give a woman or a man for that matter, without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person…”
On the recordJuly 14, 2015
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Obama comments on the issue of consent in relation to sexual assault, referencing Bill Cosby.
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