Posted on 07/28/2015 8:12:59 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
A top adviser to Donald Trump apologized Tuesday for comments he made in an explosive interview while defending the Republican presidential candidate from a decades-old rape accusation.
Michael Cohen, special counsel to Trump and an executive vice president at The Trump Organization, asserted in an interview published Monday in the Daily Beast that legally “you cannot rape your spouse.”
The rape accusation stems from an accusation Trump’s then-wife Ivana Trump leveled at her husband during divorce proceedings in the early 1990s, an accusation she walked back in a statement Tuesday.
Marital rape today is illegal in all 50 states and non-consensual sex between spouses does in fact constitute rape.
“As an attorney, husband and father there are many injustices that offend me but nothing more than charges of rape or racism. They hit me at my core. Rarely am I surprised by the press, but the gall of this particular reporter to make such a reprehensible and false allegation against Mr. Trump truly stunned me. In my moment of shock and anger, I made an inarticulate comment – which I do not believe — and which I apologize for entirely,” Cohen said in a statement to CNN.
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Cohen still needs to be fired from the campaign and moved back over to the Trump business operations.
My guess is that’s what’s happening.
Good to get out in front of it with the disavowal from Trump and apology from his pitbull.
I may get flamed but, how is marital rape ever prosecuted or charged? I can appreciate the idea that there are laws against forcing yourself on someone, but, certainly in a marriage, if there are rape allegations, the man would say it was consensual, they sleep in the same bed, etc.
I would also say that any wife charging marital rape is really saying the marriage is over, and it’s time to head to divorce court.
She did not say he raped her she was describing that the love had gone out of their marriage and she used that word to describe sex without feelings.
Cohen would have better retained his dignity with a round house to the jaw of that oppo researcher muck raker. Instead, he hit a wall with an old canard.
I am relieved he had the smarts to apologize and the courage to explain himself. It sounded authentic, actually, and a furious impulse erupting from another era.
Trump should fire Cohen but Cohen should not have apologized. Any apology for anything is a much worse stumble than whatever it is that is being apologized for could possibly be. If the original remark would cost votes the apology will cost much more votes.
Really from the text it was more than that, as she said he did so at the same time he was inflicting pain on her by purposely tearing her hair out and essentially punishing her for the pain her surgeon caused him in his surgery.
But it was in the midst of a battle to break his prenup through their divorce. Very well could have been exaggerated from nothing more than what you describe, and apparently not only the worst that she could muster about him, but not enough to keep her from having a good relationship with him decades later.
She says now it was nothing, so it should be treated as nothing.
Whoopi says it was “rape rape”.
NEVER APOLOGIZE! Geez, when will they ever learn?
I took Cohen’s comment as one he was expressing from a legal standpoint, not as support of violence in a marriage. The anger? It’s turning out that the allegations were way out of line, not at all with the context of what the first Mrs. Trump said.
it’s a very fine line that for the most part can’t be deciphered……. After all, what is there about marriage from the relationship perspective that makes it unique other than the understanding that it is a commitment to have sex with the other party to the exclusion of all others?
I agree with you, but he actually isn’t apologizing for the law, he apologized for and regrets his reactive thinking that rape can not occur in marriage that led to his remark . Regardless of the law. imho.
I agree with you, but he actually isn’t apologizing for the law, he apologized for and regrets his furious reactive thinking that rape can not occur in marriage that led to his remark. Regardless of the law. imho. In this era, nobody believes that, but he reached for it never the less, and had to say he doesn’t “believe” it.
The hypocrisy? The creep I couldn't even be in the same room when he was on TV is David Letterman. Yet he got a "pass" for his outrageous behavior.
I believe behind the scenes Ted Cruz is organizing a revolt against the Republican establishment and recruiting others to defect from the GOP and start their own party. That’s why Ted isn’t afraid of going against the GOPe leadership. Now it’s just a matter of gathering the allies and making the move. And I think people will be surprised at how many will go with him, when that time comes.
THAT is the more interesting question to me, also.
Who sponsored this vicious attack? Is the Daily Beast really that instinctive, all by itself?
This crap story is the caliber of the University of Virginia faux rape story against the boy kid who was drunk, but was no rapist as it turns out.
Trump is remaining coy with the Establishment, declining to say with certainty or by pledge that he would not run Third Party. He plays hard ball at their level and they deserve it.
I agree with your assessment of the situation.
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