Donald Trump’s attorney quickly hit back at the Daily Beast for publishing a story on Monday about his ex-wife Ivana Trump, who used the word ‘rape’ in a deposition in the early 1990s to describe an incident between the two.
According to Hurt’s book, the incident happened after Trump yelled at Ivana for suggesting a plastic surgeon who botched an operation to fix his bald spot. After that, there was a “violent assault,” according to the book, in which he pulled Ivana’s hair.
“Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified… It is a violent assault,” the Hurt book claims. “According to versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, ‘he raped me.’”
Trump denied the allegation in a 1993 interview and Trump Organization special counsel Michael Cohen quickly responded to the Daily Beast.
“You’re talking about the frontrunner for the GOP, presidential candidate, as well as a private individual who never raped anybody. And, of course, understand that by the very definition, you can’t rape your spouse,” Cohen told the site. “It is true. You cannot rape your spouse. And there’s very clear case law.”
Cohen also threatened the site with a $500 million lawsuit and threatened the site with other insults. “So I’m warning you, tread very f**king lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?” he told the site.
Trump is now running for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. During his announcement speech in June, he called some Mexican immigrants “rapists,” an insult that forced Univision and NBC to both drop the Miss USA pageant.
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