Alexandra Mayers commentary: Earlier this week, TheDailyBeast .com posted an article that Donald Trump’s ex wife, Ivana Trump, stated “Donald Trump made me feel ‘violated’ during sex”.
Since the article was posted, there has been a media frenzy in regards to whether or not Donald Trump should be defined as a “rapist”, considering the details of the incident. In addition, one of Trump’s attorneys, Michael Cohen, had the nerve to state that “you can’t rape your spouse” (a comment that particular attorney has since apologized for).
It appears that as of July 29th, 2015 Ivana Trump has stated in defense of her husband that he didn’t rape her, and that he’d be a great President… however I personally have a hard time buying what she’s stated as genuine… primarily because it would be very difficult ANY woman after all these years to have to admit to the public and herself that due to societal pressures & finances she stayed with an abusive rapist. It would especially be heart wrenching for such a woman to have to tell her 3 adult children that their father raped her.
Strangely in 2011, Bill Cosby (who is now contending with multiple rape allegations) stated on the Today Show that Donald Trump “is full of it”.
article below in part via TheDailyBeast.com – click here to read full article
Ivana Trump’s assertion of “rape” came in a deposition—part of the early ’90s divorce case between the Trumps, and revealed in the 1993 book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump.
The book, by former Texas Monthly and Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III, described a harrowing scene. After a painful scalp reduction surgery to remove a bald spot, Donald Trump confronted his then-wife, who had previously used the same plastic surgeon.
“Your fucking doctor has ruined me!” Trump cried.
What followed was a “violent assault,” according to Lost Tycoon. Donald held back Ivana’s arms and began to pull out fistfuls of hair from her scalp, as if to mirror the pain he felt from his own operation. He tore off her clothes and unzipped his pants.
“Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified… It is a violent assault,” Hurt writes. “According to versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, ‘he raped me.’”
Following the incident, Ivana ran upstairs, hid behind a locked door, and remained there “crying for the rest of night.” When she returned to the master bedroom in the morning, he was there.
“You’re talking about the front-runner 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.”
“As she looks in horror at the ripped-out hair scattered all over the bed, he glares at her and asks with menacing casualness: ‘Does it hurt?’” Hurt writes.
Donald Trump has previously denied the allegation. In the book, he denies having had the scalp reduction surgery.
“It’s obviously false,” Donald Trump said of the accusation in 1993, according to Newsday. “It’s incorrect and done by a guy without much talent… He is a guy that is an unattractive guy who is a vindictive and jealous person.”
Cohen acknowledged Monday that he has not read the entire deposition but said he had read the two relevant pages of it, including the rape accusation.
“It’s not the word that you’re trying to make it into,” Cohen told The Daily Beast, saying Ivana Trump was talking about how “she felt raped emotionally… She was not referring to it [as] a criminal matter, and not in its literal sense, though there’s many literal senses to the word.”
Cohen added that there is no such thing, legally, as a man raping his wife. “You cannot rape your spouse,” he said. “There’s very clear case law.”
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