Posted on 07/28/2015 12:42:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump may have raped his ex-wife Ivana Trump, according to a 1993 biography of the real estate mogul uncovered by The Daily Beast. Trump's attorney on Monday denied the allegation, claiming “you cannot rape your spouse.”
“You’re talking about the front-runner for the GOP, presidential candidate, as well as private individual, who never raped anybody," Michael Cohen, the Trump Organization’s special counsel, told The Daily Beast. "And, of course, understand that by the very definition, you can’t rape your spouse.”
The biography, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, by Harry Hurt III, details a 1989 incident in which Trump reportedly confronted his then-wife Ivana, pulling out clumps of her hair and sexually assaulting her. She characterized the incident as rape during the couple’s divorce proceedings in the early 1990s and said she felt “violated,” according to legal documents cited by The Daily Beast....
...Trump, a real estate mogul, has made numerous offensive comments about rape, most notably when he kicked off his presidential campaign last month and alleged that undocumented Mexican immigrants are “rapists.”
Read the whole story at The Daily Beast.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
“During a deposition given by me in connection with my matrimonial case, I stated that my husband had raped me,” the Ivana Trump statement said. “[O]n 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.”
The statement, according to a “Notice to the Reader” in the book, “does not contradict or invalidate any information contained in this book.”.........
The Daily Mail - Ivana once claimed Donald Trump 'violated' her in violent sex attack amid argument over bald patch treatments
".....However, the Daily Beast's article claims they received more from Cohen than the Trumps' standard line on the incident.
The piece written by reporters Tim Mak and Brandy Zadrozny saw Cohen explode with statements such as: 'You write a story that has Mr. Trump’s name in it, with the word ''rape,'' and I’m going to mess your life up…for as long as you’re on this frickin’ planet…you’re going to have judgments against you, so much money, you’ll never know how to get out from underneath it'.'
'And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know,' Cohen reportedly told the outlet. 'So I’m warning you, tread very f****** lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be f****** disgusting. You understand me?' the Daily Beast quotes him as saying at another point.
'So you do whatever you want. You want to ruin your life at the age of 20? You do that, and I’ll be happy to serve it right up to you,' he allegedly said. .......
On Hannity - Donald Trump's Special Counsel: He's Going to Be the Republican Candidate
"... Cohen said that the liberal media is going after Trump right now for drawing attention to illegal immigration and the failures of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
"What the media is doing is they're looking to divide," Cohen said. "They're looking to make Mr. Trump into the outsider, which by the way he is. He's not a politico. He's a mega-billionaire real estate developer, celebrity, author, movie star, etc. That's what he is. He's not a politico. And they're afraid."
"Donald Trump's going to be the Republican candidate.".....
American Thinker - Bi-polarizing Trump
.......Trump clearly said in 2009 he identified more as a Democrat on the economic crash--and he doubled down on the sentiment this weekend.
There’s more. He took the liberal union thug talking points book and aimed many of those same arguments right at Scott Walker, saying that “Wisconsin is in turmoil.” He went on to clarify, telling a boisterous crowd in Iowa that the state’s “roads, schools and hospitals, which he said were all a disaster.” Let me translate: Scott Walker screwed up Wisconsin by going after the unions.
So is Trump working for Richard Trumka or the SEIU now? I mean, this is right out of the union hall. It’s going after Walker from the left. So Trump was angry for some comments made by a Walker fundraiser? That’s no excuse for firing from the liberal flank, and frankly, a bit childish too. But my main concern is the liberalism thing, which has been exposed again.
So how will this play out? Will Trump’s legion of fans take note? Will talkers like Rush and Laura Ingraham mention this? They seem singularly focused on just Trumps good points. That’s a valid, but incomplete focus. It is not contradictory to support and enjoy his stabs at Washington--while also realizing in the sober moment that he is not the conservative answer.
Donald Trump is gifted. He is passionate. He has a finger on the pulse at the moment. It’s doubtful that conservatives need to nominate someone who has been pro Obama and pro Universal Care as recently as a few years ago--and to the left of George W. Bush this weekend."
This is what Scott Walker wants, his supporters smearing Don Trump over some 25 year old story?
The lawyers statements arent 25 years old.
The huffington post is reporting what was written by another journalist in another newspaper? This is how today’s journalists operate?
You forgot this...Whoops
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The 1993 book, by author Harry Hurt III, includes a statement from Ivana Trump stating that she referred to the sexual encounter in question “as a ‘rape’, but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.”.
People like talking trash in divorce. She probably was a woman scorned who wanted Trump to pay more than money in the divorce.
Notice her children work with him. I think in this case it is BS because raping and beating mom is a turn off for children IMO.
Was there ever police reports regarding this issue especially before she wanted a divorce?
With great wealth always comes other people trying to get at it.
The 1993 book, by author Harry Hurt III, includes a statement from Ivana Trump stating that she referred to the sexual encounter in question “as a ‘rape’, but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.”.
NOT true.
Any other GOP candidate would be buried by this.
Pick your "heroes" carefully.
When????
We were not there and based on a lack of a criminal police report you can probably guess this is a woman scorned thing.
That wife liked being famous for a while as well.
As my tagline clearly shows, Don Trump is not my hero. I just find it amusing that now that he is besting Scott in the polls, the Walkerites are aiming their cannons in his direction. LOL
Correct. Cohen's statements are current.
".....“I think you should go ahead and you should write the story that you plan on writing. I think you should do it. Because I think you’re an idiot. And I think your paper’s a joke, and it’s going to be my absolute pleasure to serve you with a $500 million lawsuit, like I told [you] I did it to Univision,” Cohen continued."....
You’re doing a bait and switch.
'So I’m warning you, tread very f****** lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be f****** disgusting. You understand me?'Sounds like a rape threat.
Hillary and Donald can debate the meaning of “is.”
Tape?
Yeah, that’s what lawyers do when you defame, slander or libel their clients. They sue you. Don Trump isn’t a lawyer so he isn’t going to do it himself. This guy seems like the kind of tough, tenacious attorney that a Don Trump would have. I don’t think I’d want him coming after me.
Which part of my statement was false?
I’m glad you’re amused.
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