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Getting ugly: Why the Trump spousal ‘rape’ story was unfit to print
foxnews.com ^ | Howard Kurtz

Posted on 07/29/2015 3:57:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

“On one occasion during 1989, Mr. Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our marriage. As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent. I referred to this as a ‘rape,’ but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.”

What a scoop, huh?

Now it would be one thing if Ivana was making this allegation today. Instead, the first Mrs. Trump issued this statement to CNN yesterday:

“The story is totally without merit. Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of. I have nothing but fondness for Donald and wish him the best of luck on his campaign. Incidentally, I think he would make an incredible president.”

That’s the “victim” presented by the story.

I’m sorry, but the piece in the Beast, where I once worked, reads like a hit job calculated to harm Trump. It encapsulates everything that people hate about the media. And I knew even before The Donald went on Greta Van Susteren’s show that he would use it to attack the media, and that his words would resonate.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; billclinton; dailybeast; demagogicparty; election2016; fightthesmears; gretavansusteren; hillaryclinton; hitjob; hitlery; humaabedin; ivanatrump; liberalagenda; liberalsarescared; memebuilding; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; paultardation; paultardnoisemachine; randpaulnoisemachine; randsconcerntrolls; smeartactics; trump
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To: RoosterRedux

Let’s go back and dig up Bill Clinton’s rape of Juanita Broderick...... and get the indictment going!


21 posted on 07/29/2015 4:29:31 AM PDT by high info voter (Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
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To: 9YearLurker

Those were just examples of our lack of information.


22 posted on 07/29/2015 4:32:08 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: RoosterRedux
Well Howard you should ask Megyn Kelly why she ran with the “Breaking News” story in the first place. There was an agenda there.
23 posted on 07/29/2015 4:36:13 AM PDT by McGruff (Eat a snickers...)
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To: 9YearLurker

Dayspring.


24 posted on 07/29/2015 4:36:44 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter
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To: RoosterRedux

Comments on Megyn’s Facebook page. Were very negative toward her. Her eagerness to report the yellow journalism certainly hurt her credibility with previous fans.


25 posted on 07/29/2015 4:39:13 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obam5a: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?)
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To: hoosiermama

HM, what was the name of the operative at the Walker campaign who was thought to have been behind this hit on Trump?


26 posted on 07/29/2015 4:41:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Are you referring to Wills whose wife works on Walker campaign. He had projected that something big was coming


27 posted on 07/29/2015 4:46:00 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obam5a: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?)
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To: RoosterRedux
And I knew even before The Donald went on Greta Van Susteren’s show that he would use it to attack the media, and that his words would resonate.
Poor, poor media! Such a victim of the big, bad Donald...

Poor, poor media!

(Insert /sarc tag for the sarcasm-impaired)

28 posted on 07/29/2015 4:47:00 AM PDT by Peet (Oderint dum metuant.)
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To: hoosiermama
I thought there was a man who was an opposition research expert who was thought to be behind the hit.

Someone who works with Will's wife.

29 posted on 07/29/2015 4:51:33 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: gov_bean_ counter

You mean “Brad Dayscream”?

(Had to look him up, thanks.)


30 posted on 07/29/2015 4:53:59 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: RoosterRedux

They tried it on Herman Cain. They tried it on Justice Thomas. It’s not going to work on Trump.


31 posted on 07/29/2015 4:55:33 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: RoosterRedux

Megyn Kelly is reveling in it. She is so bad I cannot believe they gave her the 9:00 PM slot. I am praying she tries to Newt Donald Trump in the debate and gets a Rosie ODonnell ghetto beatdown for it. LOL!


32 posted on 07/29/2015 4:57:18 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Megyn would have been better served by (re)opening Al Capone’s vault.


33 posted on 07/29/2015 4:58:24 AM PDT by The Duke (Azealia Banks)
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To: Tax-chick

“Maybe Trump’s campaign brought it up to set up another conflict and keep his name in the news. Maybe Ivana passed it on because she secretly still hates him”

More like a Brad Dayspring working on behalf of Mitt Walker.


34 posted on 07/29/2015 4:59:43 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: 9YearLurker

“Do we really know that it’s not the RINO/GOPe Propaganda Ministry (that is, the Undercover Democrat) at work in this case?”

No sir, we do not.

And since FOX is the undisputed right arm of the Republican Establishment, they’ve got their nose in it from the beginning as well.

I don’t watch her myself, but from what people say Megyn Kelly was shamelessly salivating at the thought of ‘sticking it’ to Trump; obviously thinking that this tabloid trash is something that finally ‘got him’.

Some say it was her producer who ‘made her do it’, thus washing her hands of her phony ways, but that excuse doesn’t pass the smell test. FOX in general, and Kelly in particular despise Trump’s success.

The GOPe, RNC, and FOX all have to deal with the fact they can’t just throw ‘sh!t on the wall and see what sticks’. Trump can’t be manipulated and that infuriates them all to no end.

The odds that FOX/GOPe/RNC is fully engaged are pretty good.


35 posted on 07/29/2015 5:01:35 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: hoosiermama

Brad Dayspring was the name I was trying to think of.


36 posted on 07/29/2015 5:01:49 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: ncalburt

this is from Hillary....period.


37 posted on 07/29/2015 5:04:24 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

It’s all for her ratings. Being anti Trump, she uses that avenue. If it doesn’t blow up in he face, she thinks it’s a success. They ALL care more about their success than who they use to get there.


38 posted on 07/29/2015 5:04:42 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Paulie

Last night was not the work of her producers. Her presentation was crisp and cruel. She has lost a lot of credibility just before the debate. Fox has contact information but I’ve lost my information


39 posted on 07/29/2015 5:12:01 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obam5a: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?)
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To: hoosiermama

Greta asked Trump about this and he handled it well.


40 posted on 07/29/2015 5:18:52 AM PDT by Clyde5445
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