Trump: 'We can't continue to allow China to rape our country'
By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Updated 10:44 PM ET, Sun May 1, 2016
Donald Trump on Sunday compared the U.S.'s trade deficit with China, which he regularly laments and vows to tackle as president, to rape.
"We
can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what
they're doing," Trump said during his second rally Sunday in Fort Wayne,
Indiana, referring to China's high number of exports relative to the
U.S.
Trump
has repeatedly accused China of manipulating its currency to make its
exports more competitive on the global market and has claimed that China
is "killing" the U.S. on trade.
Sunday marks the first time this
campaign that Trump has used the term "rape" to refer to what he views
as China's dominance in trade with the U.S.
"We're
going to turn it around. And we have the cards, don't forget it. We're
like the piggy bank that's being robbed. We have the cards. We have a
lot of power with China," Trump said Sunday before referring to China's
relationship with the U.S. as rape.
Trump added that he is not "angry at China," but with U.S. leaders whom he accused of being "grossly incompetent."
Trump previously claimed in 2011 that "China is raping this country" as he toured a defense manufacturer in New Hampshire.
Trump's
use of the analogy come as Trump is under fire for remarks he made
about Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton that critics are calling
sexist and for touting the endorsement of boxer Mike Tyson, who was
convicted of rape in Indiana.
Trump
has claimed that Clinton -- a former secretary of state, senator and
first lady -- is using "the woman card" to get elected and that she
would not have a shot at the presidency if she were not a woman.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump's main
competitor in the Indiana GOP primary, slammed Trump for touting Tyson's
support, whom Trump referred to as a "tough guy."
"I
don't think rapists are tough guys. I think rapists are weak, they're
bullies and they're cowards," Cruz said Sunday on CBS' "Face the
Nation."
One of the most effective political ads of the season features
women repeating the many derogatory statements Donald Trump has made
about the fairer sex.
No editorial comment is needed when a candidate’s own words stand alone to expose his flaws, and thus to condemn him.
Just
ask Mitt Romney, whose 47 percent remark effectively ended his
presidential aspirations. Saying that he wasn’t worried about the 47
percent of people who are on some form of welfare was perceived as
exposing a lack of compassion for the poor.
Romney’s ruin on that account may not have been fair, but it was enough.
Trump,
by contrast, can say nearly anything and escape judgment from a
majority of Republican primary voters. Hearing him refer to women as
“bimbo,” “dog” or “fat pig,” — or discuss his own wives’
gastrointestinal functions with Howard Stern — have left him
sufficiently unscathed.
It is understood that Republicans rarely suffer for criticizing
Hillary Clinton. “Hating Hillary” is a chronic obsession on the right,
especially among men for whom Trump spoke when he recently told MSNBC’s
Joe Scarborough that it was too early in the morning for him to listen
to Clinton’s “shouting.”
There’s no denying that a woman’s raised voice is every man’s
nightmare — for so many obvious reasons. For similarly obvious reasons,
it is never politic for a man to point this out.
Unless it seems, you’re Trump.
He and Scarborough were chatting about Trump’s recent comment that
all Clinton had going for her was the female vote and accused her of
playing the “woman’s card.” Just being a woman apparently is playing
this card in Trump’s world, where he prefers that women play the man’s
card. Or, as Trump might say, his “whatever.”
Why not put a bow on that while you’re at it, eh, chap?
Despite the daunting competition, nothing else Trump has said has been further from the truth. That is, until he
said it. In no time, Clinton’s campaign was offering a pink, credit
card-sized “Woman Card” to online donors. Trump also provided Clinton
the sort of touché moment atheists pray for:
“Well, if fighting for women’s health care and paid family leave and
equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in,” she said in an
impassioned voice. (Trump-lator: Screeching like a wounded owl.)
Adding confetti and Champagne to his gift, Trump went on: “And
frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5
percent of the vote. … And the beautiful thing is that women don’t like
her, OK?”
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, roared the columnist from her bunker. Do we hear a hallelujah? Hallelujah!
Thus heralding the obvious question: What if Trump were a woman? Imagine a Donna Trump running as a Republican who:
• Got her start with more than $1 million from her father’s business,
parlayed into billions via four bankruptcies and various business
failures.
• Wouldn’t disclose tax returns and donated to numerous Democrats, including Hillary Clinton.
• Ran a university wracked by allegations of fraud.
• Imported two of her three husbands from overseas, one of them on a
“model” visa, and dumped the second husband days before their prenuptial
agreement could hurt her wallet.
• Put her third husband on her plane, naked and handcuffed on a bear rug for a photo shoot she said was “classy.”
• Said her son was so handsome she’d date him if he weren’t her son.
• Said women who had abortions should be punished (if abortion were illegal).
• Knew nothing about foreign policy or even how to pronounce the names of countries.
• Routinely cursed, called people names, demonized her opponents, as
well as Mexicans, Muslims and others, and called men dogs, morons and
fat slobs.
If Trump were a woman, not only would he not get 5 percent of the
vote, he’d be tarred, feathered, branded and ridden out of town backward
on a donkey. Voters, male and female, would recognize immediately that
such a woman was inappropriate, lacking in quality and character,
perhaps more than a little crazy — and utterly unqualified to be
president of the United States.
The only thing Trump’s got going for him, one is tempted to say, is
the men’s vote, which is no way to deflect accusations of a GOP war on
women. But as Trump himself would assert: At least he’s keeping it
classy.
Daily Show Digs Up Most Disturbing Donald Trump Daughter Clip Yet
by Tommy Christopher | April 6th, 2016
One of the worst running jokes in a campaign full of them has been Republican frontrunner Donald Trump‘s truly gross habit of sexualizing his daughter, Ivanka Trump, but you really haven’t seen anything yet. On Wednesday night, The Daily Show revealed that they had dug up a 1994 clip from an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
(which was apparently still on in 1994) in which Trump took his
windowless-van parenting style all the way to eleven. There is really no
way to prepare yourself for this.
Click Here to Watch the 1994 Interview Clip: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/8wmfl1/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tales-from-the-trump-archive---donald-trump-s-history-of-misogyny
That’s right, folks, Donald Trump speculated about his then-infant
daughter Tiffany Trump’s potential breast size and legs that won’t quit.
Here’s to all the lucky people who went long on brain bleach stock
yesterday.
IN Focus Exclusive: One-on-one with Donald Trump’s son
Posted May 1, 2016, by Jake Miller
PARKE COUNTY, Ind. - Who would have thought an interview with the
son of a billionaire who’s running for president would happen in rural
western Indiana near an old barn, but if you know Donald Trump Jr., this
is exactly where he’d be.
“Very much. That was the way we were brought up,” said Trump dressed from head to toe in camo.
38-year-old Trump, the eldest son of Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump, was hunting turkeys Thursday near Marshall,
enjoying the outdoors.
“It's a big part of my life so I’m a pretty big advocate for the outdoors, for hunting, shooting and fishing,” said Trump.
He and his friends bagged a bird earlier in the morning.
“I did get a turkey we did well,” Trump said smiling.
As an avid hunter, Trump says his father will not add to existing federal gun laws.
“It’s the second amendment. It’s not like it was some ridiculous
afterthought 400 years later. I mean it was the second thing after
freedom of speech and religion. That’s a big deal. That’s gotta be
protected,” said Trump. "All you’re doing is preventing law abiding
citizens from defending themselves. Criminals are not gonna follow the
laws.”
Trump says money should be spent on a real solution.
“We spend a lot of money trying to get rid of guns and we’re
defunding state budgets to deal with mental health issues,” said Trump.
Trump hopes Hoosiers agree with his father’s stance comes through for him on May 3.
“Indiana actually has the chance to really make a difference in this
election. I think if we have a resounding win here on Tuesday, we just
end it. I mean, it’s pretty much over,” said Trump.
Trump believes this campaign is making history in American politics.
“It’s just incredibly moving it’s really historical. It’s pretty cool
to be a part of it even if I’m only a small fly on the wall," said
Trump. Trump calls his father's campaign a movement.
“He’s just gonna do an amazing job for this country and he’s gonna
make people’s voices heard and it’s gonna matter again,” said Trump.
On Tuesday Senator Ted Cruz to choose former candidate for president
Carly Fiorina as a running mate, Trump says it's too little too late.
“It doesn't matter. I've never heard of a candidate who’s not even
half way to the nomination to announce a vice presidential candidate. It
doesn't make any sense to me,” said Trump.
As for a running mate for his father, Trump says there are many options.
"You have to bring in people that know how to play whether it’s
business or whether it’s politics so, he’s gonna bring in someone that
has some of that experience, but now’s not the time,” said Trump.
Right now, they want to make sure the Trump message is heard here in
Indiana and they are hoping to make an impact over the next five days
until the May 3 primary.
Trump calls California protesters 'thugs and
criminals' after his Secret Service detail was forced to walk him over a
highway and in the back of a hotel at the state Republican Party's
annual convention
By
David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com
and
Kalhan Rosenblatt For Dailymail.com
Published: 30 April 2016
| Updated: 1 May 2016
Donald Trump has blasted the protesters who swarmed the outside of the state Republican Party's annual convention in San Francisco where he was due to give a speech.
In a tweet
he posted on Saturday, the GOP front runner called the demonstrators
'thugs and criminals' after he was forced to sneak in the back door of
the Hyatt Regency hotel in the suburb of Burlingame.
'The
"protesters" in California were thugs and criminals. Many are
professionals. They should be dealt with strongly by law enforcement!'
Trump tweeted.
On
Friday Trump had to be led across a grass highway median and in a
back-door loading dock at the Hyatt Regency to avoid the furious
protesters.
Donald Trump lashed out at the
protesters who forced him to enter the Hyatt Regency in a San Francisco
suburb through a loading dock because of their ferocious demonstrations
'That was not the easiest entrance
I've ever made': Trump joked with the Republican crowd when he
eventually took the stage after being smuggled into the venue, saying
they got to walk through lobby while he was being pushed in the back.
'I felt like I
was crossing the border': Trump called back to his showpiece pledge
about building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border
Trump felt like he 'was crossing the border, actually,' he said.
Led
by his regular protective detail and Trump's private bodyguard Keith
Schiller, the Republican front-runner's arrival became a full-blown
media spectacle, with cable news channels interrupting their broadcasts
for helicopter live-shots.
Their
audiences were treated to the sight of the 69-year-old Trump hopping
nearly three feet down from a cement barrier to the grass below,
skirting between two chain-link fences, and then climbing uphill in his
expensive suit and shoes while local police and California Highway
Patrol kept liberal activists at bay on the other side of the hotel.
'That
was not the easiest entrance I've ever made,' Trump joked when he
eventually took the stage. 'My wife calls – she says, "There are
helicopters following you"'
'And
then we went under a fence, and through a fence. Oh boy, I felt like I
was crossing the border actually, you know? I was crossing the border
but I got here.'
'You all walk through the lobby. I'm going under fences!' he told the audience of party loyalists.
As he
finished his remarks, a mashup of his stump-speech themes, Trump looked
offstage to his security detail that was getting ready to take him out
the same way he came in.
'I know they're waiting,' Trump said.' They're gonna take me under a fence, through a field.'
'Oh, you have no idea the route they have planned for me to get out of here!'
At
least one person was detained outside as shouting matches between
anti-Trump protesters and pro-Trump supporters occasionally clashed. A
few protesters even stole an American flag and burned it, drawing angry
responses from both sides. A Trump effigy was also burned.
Outsmarted: Instead, Secret Service
and private security guards led Trump (at center, flanked on all four
sides) down a concrete ramp to a steep jump down to grass, and then
uphill toward
Photography by Matt Slocum/AP/PA Photos/ Rex/Shutterstock
By Ailis Brennan
Donald Trump is many things, but few of us anticipated the “king of the jungle” sex symbol painted so colourfully by researchers polling Middle America’s female population.
Donald
Trump appears to inspire some worryingly carnal reactions in a certain
female demographic. A study carried out by pollsters in Pittsburgh
focused on the so-called “Walmart moms”, women who have at least one
child under the age of 18 and who have visited America’s largest
supermarket chain at least once within the last month.
When researchers asked GOP “Walmart moms” which car they would compare Republican candidate Donald Trump to, responses included a “Ferrari”, a “Porsche”
and a “muscle car”. When questioned about which animal they would liken
to the billionaire property mogul they answered a “bulldog”, a “lion”
or, most curiously, “an unpredictable cat”.
"These Moms praised
him as someone who speaks his mind, stands his ground, and is
refreshingly politically incorrect," the researchers wrote, noting that
the study also found comparisons between Trump and “a boxer who stands his ground” Unsurprisingly, Ted Cruz
didn’t come out so well, prompting responses in the animal category as a
“gorilla — almost human” or “like a neighbour’s dog — you don’t know if
they’re going to bite”. John Kasich was described either as “too sane”
or simply provoked a baffled “Who?”
The study predictably showed that these women were dismissive of claims that Donald Trump regularly displayed misogynistic behaviour, including making disparaging allusions to the physical appearance of Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi Cruz, insinuating that broadcaster Megyn Kelly
had “blood coming out of her everywhere” at a Republican debate and
reminding us all that “it doesn't really matter what [the media] write
as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”
Donald Trump Won’t Say Whether Any of His Sex Partners Needed an Abortion
By Christina CauterucciApril 4 2016 2:20 PM
Donald Trump speaks at a town hall event on April 2, 2016 in Racine, Wisconsin.
Darren Hauck/Getty Images
Donald Trump appalled progressive observers and anti-choice activists
alike last week when he told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that, if abortion
were banned, women who terminated their pregnancies should be punished. His remarks were logically in line with anti-abortion rhetoric, but so wholly terrifying to moderate voters that he was forced to walk back one of his statements for perhaps the first time in his campaign.
In last week’s MSNBC interview, Trump said that in his America, a man
would not bear any responsibility for his partner’s illegal abortion.
But if terminating a pregnancy really is murder (as anti-choice
advocates like to claim) and a moral breach worthy of legal retribution
(as Trump suggested), why wouldn’t a partner who helped coordinate or
pay for the abortion be an accessory to the crime?
Maureen Dowd’s column in Sunday’s New York Times might hold some clues to Trump’s reasoning. In their conversation, Trump tried to redeem himself from recent depictions of his misogynist worldview. “It was a mistake,” he said of his retweeting of an image that disparaged Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi. “I attack men far more than I attack women, and I attack them tougher,” he said of his repeated ridicule of women’s looks.
When Dowd baited him with an anecdote about a recent New York
fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s LGBT supporters, where Rosie O’Donnell likened him to Lord Voldemort,
Trump said “I won’t comment on Rosie” and “I wish her the best,”
declaring that he’s “making progress” by refusing to insult O’Donnell in
the press.
As for Trump’s disturbing abortion remarks, Dowd went personal:
Given his draconian comment, sending women back to back
alleys, I had to ask: When he was a swinging bachelor in Manhattan, was
he ever involved with anyone who had an abortion?
“Such an interesting question,” he said. “So what’s your next question?”
How should we interpret the GOP frontrunner’s non-answer, which seems
curiously demure for such a bombastic self-promoter? “It Sure Sounds
Like Donald Trump Has Paid for an Abortion or Two in His Life,” Mother Jones mused—a
plausible read, since any candidate would deny such an allegation
outright unless it contained some element of truth. Then again, Trump
seems to have no compunction in lying about other unsavory facts of his past and campaign, and when he’s caught in those lies, he just comes up with a new story to explain them away. Why wouldn’t he deny helping a former partner obtain an abortion, even if he had?
Trump’s powerful, tough-guy image rests on his history of womanizing
and wielding power over women by reducing them to sex objects. He is a
self-styled lady-killer, and his unapologetic boasting about his sexual
history is one reason why millions of voters consider him a manly man
who can take our country back from namby-pamby Obama. Trump has taken
great pride in his ability to attract and sleep with beautiful women—the
subtext of his initial attack on Heidi Cruz was that his macho sexual
prowess made him better qualified for the presidency than the clean-cut
weenie, Ted Cruz.
In years past, when the narrative of American conservatism was
largely controlled by religious values voters, the prospect of a past
partner’s abortion might have derailed a Republican candidate. But
Trump’s followers don’t mind that he was once vocally pro-choice, and
they love when he brags about taking hot women to bed. Of course, if a
voter accepts Trump’s alleged decades of casual extramarital sex, she
shouldn’t be surprised that he may have, at one time, somehow
participated in a partner’s abortion. Trump, however, is counting on
folks to resist making that logical leap: If he admitted to any
complicity in a woman’s abortion, he’d alienate the religious
Republicans and independents he still needs to win a general election.
But if he denied it flat out, he’d undermine his own virile image, which
is as vital to his own fragile self-esteem as it is to the support of
voters who want a libidinous playboy in the Oval Office.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump lawyer calls 'rape' lawsuit a HOAX and says there's
no proof accuser exists as he claims her address and phone number are
fakes and 'clearly there's some kind of collusion going on'
By
David Martosko, US Political Editor
and
Ryan Parry West Coast Correspondent
and
Hannah Parry for Daily Mail.
Published:
20:23 EST, 28 April 2016
| Updated:
10:18 EST, 29 April 2016
Donald
Trump's attorney told DailyMail.com on Friday that a lawsuit claiming
Trump raped a 13-year-old girl at billionaire pedophile Jeffrey
Epstein's notorious 'sex parties' appears to be a hoax.
Trump
had already 'categorically' denied the claims but attorney Alan
Garten's statement signals that the Trump campaign is eager to swat down
the allegation before it gains any more traction.
'The
allegations are not only categorically false, but disgusting at the
highest level and clearly framed to solicit media attention or, more
likely, are politically motivated,' Garten told DailyMail.com in a
statement. 'To be clear, there is absolutely no merit to these claims
and, based on our investigation, no evidence that the person who has
made these allegations actually exists.'
In
a followup telephone interview, Garten cited a litany of specific
indications that the lawsuit is a hoax perpetrated by 'someone with some
level of legal background.'
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The
address listed on the lawsuit exists, he said, but 'there is no
indication or record that that person' named as the lawsuit plaintiff
'ever resided there. So we believe it is a false address.'
He
also said the phone number listed on the lawsuit papers rings to
voicemail and publicly available records tie it to another person.
'There is no record that the phone number is tied to the person who has made these allegations,' he said.
'We believe that this person does not exist.'
The
suit details claims made by a woman named as 'Katie Johnson,' with a
home address named as what turned out to be an empty, foreclosed
property at 'Twentynine Palms' in California.
Neighbors
told reporters that the home has been empty since the death of its
owner, David Stacey, last October. The property went into default soon
after and on April 11 – just 15 days before the lawsuit was filed – the
bank officially foreclosed.
Alan Garten, Donald Trump's corporate
attorney at the Trump Organization, spoke exclusively to DailyMail.com
and swatted down the allegations in a salacious lawsuit filed Thursday
against the Republican presidential front-runner
Garten
rattled off a list of indications in the lawsuit that suggest it was
not filed by an indigent woman acting on her own behalf, but that it was
drafted by someone who 'clearly has some legal background.'
The
suit details claims made by a woman named as 'Katie Johnson,' who says
her net worth is $278, leading her to request a waiver of the filing
fees.
'This
is not a "pro se" filing,' Garten told DailyMail.com, referring to the
legal term for someone who petitions a court without an attorney.
'This
was written on legal paper with margins and line numbers. It's properly
captioned. It has no typos. It has footers. It cites statutes.'
'This
has all the hallmarks of being drafted by someone with some level of
legal background,' he said, 'and 'this was filed to not leave
fingerprints.'
'I mean, there's a section titled "material witnesses!" This is not someone with $278 to her name.'
He suggested that the lawsuit filer pleaded poverty 'because unless you pay in cash, the filing fee traces back to someone.'
'It
seems like there's a lot more to this story than some random person.
Clearly there's some kind of collusion going on here,' Garten insisted.
In
California as in most states, anyone can file a lawsuit with a court –
whether or not they are a lawyer or a named plaintiff. No identification
is required.
But
most suits are filed by lawyers who put their names on the legal
papers, and the ethics requirements of their law licenses generally
prevent the kind of shenanigans Garten suggested.
Trump,
the Republican presidential front-runner, told DailyMail.com on
Thursday night that the allegations were 'disgusting at the highest
level' after he was accused of raping and sexually assaulting a minor in
a bombshell $100 million lawsuit.
The
suit claims Trump took Johnson's virginity and alleges that the
Republican presidential hopeful and financier Epstein treated her as a
'sex slave' during an 'horrific' four-month period in 1994.
Donald Trump Rape Lawsuit Claims Trump Forced 12- and 13-Year-Old Girls To Perform Oral Sex On Him By: Paula Mooney April 29, 2016
Donald Trump is being accused of rape
in a new $100 million lawsuit, and it is not the first time that Trump
has been accused of rape. As reported by the Inquisitr, Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, allegedly threatened a Daily Beast reporter, telling writer Tim Mak that if he wrote an article about Ivana Trump’s rape allegations against her ex-husband, the lawyer would mess up the reporter’s life.
It is ironic that the presidential candidate, who famously called
some Mexicans rapists, is the one who is once again facing the Trump
name being associated with rape charges. As reported by the Daily Beast, Trump was accused of rape
by Donald’s ex-wife, Ivana, when the ex-Mrs. Trump said that “The
Donald” grew angry over her plastic surgeon recommendation. Ivana
claimed Trump’s scalp surgery went awry, and in the 1993 book titled Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump,
Ivana reported that Trump allegedly ripped out Ivana’s hair and raped
her in anger. Mysteriously, Ivana’s rape charges were altered to have
Ivana eventually claim it was “emotional rape” and a differing type of
sex.
Warning: The following rape accusation statements contained in the
lawsuit against Trump can be disturbing and triggering to some readers
and sexual assault victims.
Rape accusations are once again being levied against Trump, as reported by Heavy. Trump is being sued
for $100 million for reportedly raping a 13-year-old girl three times.
The lawsuit also alleges Trump forced a 12-year-old girl to perform
fellatio on him at the same time as the 13-year-old girl and pushed both
of them away after Trump allegedly achieved orgasm:
“On the first occasion involving the
Defendant, Donald J. Trump, the Plaintiff…was forced to manually
stimulate Defendant Trump with the use of her hand upon Defendant
Trump’s erect penis until he reached sexual orgasm.
“On the second occasion involving the Defendant, Donald J. Trump, the
Plaintiff…was forced to orally copulate Defendant Trump by placing her
mouth upon Defendant Trump’s erect penis until he reached sexual orgasm.
“On the third occasion involving the Defendant, Donald J. Trump, the
Plaintiff…was forced to engage in an unnatural lesbian act with her
fellow minor and sex slave…age 12, for the sexual enjoyment of Defendant
Trump.
“After this sex act, both minors were forced to orally copulate
Defendant Trump by placing their mouths simultaneously on his erect
penis until he achieved sexual orgasm. After zipping up his pants,
Defendant Trump physically pushed both minors away while angrily
berating them for the ‘poor’ quality of their sexual performance.
“[The suit alleges that Trump forced the 13-year-old to] engage in
various perverted and depraved sex acts by threatening physical harm to
[the alleged rape victim] and her family.”
As reported by Radar Online, Trump has denied
the rape of the 13-year-old and all rape claims. The truly disturbing
contents of the lawsuit are being called untrue by Trump. Donald called
the rape claims false and disgusting and claimed they were designed to
get media attention. Trump also claimed that the rape charges levied
against him were somehow politically motivated.
Trump’s ex-wife used to tell friends about his erectile dysfunction
By David Bixenspan /April 29, 2016
From the “Donald Trump is totally going to throw a fit when the
coverage of this gets on his radar” file, it looks as if we once again
have to talk about his phallus — 23-year-old information about his
phallus, no less. Politico’s “Trumpology: A Master Class”
transcribed a roundtable between Trump’s various biographers. The
introduction drops this bomb, which was in former Newsweek and Texas
Monthly reporter Harry Hurt III’s “Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump,” but has received little attention for various reasons (more on that in a moment).
What broke up Trump’s first marriage? Harry Hurt III
writes that Ivana “confided to female friends that Donald had difficulty
achieving and maintaining an erection.”
One reason that this information never really got much play was that
there was a much more serious allegation revealed for the first time in
Hurt’s book: That in a deposition during their divorce, Ivana alleged that Trump had raped her in 1989.
Ivana had filed for divorce on the grounds of “cruel and inhuman
treatment,” and it was granted. In 2015, Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
didn’t help matters by claiming that “You
cannot rape your spouse. There’s very clear case law.” That hasn’t been
true in New York since 1984 or anywhere in the United States since 1993.
So, given Trump’s objections, why didn’t he sue Hurt, Hurt’s
publisher, or anyone else involved? Well, during the Politico
roundtable, a discussion about Trump’s various threats of litigation led
to this amazing story from the biographer:
He thinks there’s no cat he can’t charm out of the tree,
but then when you back him in, he goes crazy. Prior to the publication
of my book, he and his lawyer, Jay Goldberg, came to scream at the folks
at Norton, mainly about Ivana’s divorce deposition. And they were
pounding their fist. You know, they’re very tall guys. Norton’s lawyer
was a 5-foot-tall lady in about her 60s. And finally Donald got so
frustrated, he jumped up and he pulls a tape recorder out of his coat
pocket. He said, “I’ve been recording all this,” and our little lawyer
looked at him, and Goldberg just turned like this napkin, white. “You’ve
been recording this and you didn’t tell us? That’s not right.” And I’m
going, “Yeah.”They walked out and I said, “He can’t sue us now. He’s not
going to sue us because they just shot themselves in the foot.”
We’re way past the point where anything about Trump is surprising, right?
Ivana Trump: What you don’t know about Donald Trump’s first wife
She once wrote a divorce guide with the
advice “take his wallet to the cleaners,” before doing just that on
splitting with Donald, a moment that freed Ivana to pursue her own, very
public, pursuits.
Ron Galella / WireImage
Ivana with her then-husband Donald Trump. The couple's 1992 divorce was bitter and made headlines around the world
By:
Barbara MarshallThe Palm Beach Post, Published on Sat Apr 30 2016
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.—In October 1987, Ivana
Trump sat at her mahogany desk at the Trump’s Castle Hotel and Casino in
Atlantic City where she commuted each day from New York by helicopter
and mused about the possibility of being married to a presidential contender.
“I wouldn’t like it. I treasure the family
privacy too much,” the Czech-born former model told a Palm Beach Post
reporter visiting her elegant office, “but he makes the decisions.”
“He” being Ivana’s then-husband of 10 years,
Donald, who years later said his current run for the presidency had its
roots that fall in a GOP activist’s Draft Trump movement.
“I never say never,” Ivana said at the time
about her husband’s political aspirations. “He is 41 now. Who can say in
10 years what he will do?”
It took 28 years, not 10, for Trump to decide
to run. By then, worrying about her family’s loss of privacy was left to
Trump’s third wife, Melania.
SWERZEY
The couple in 1989. They split over Donald Trump's public dalliances with actress Marla Maples, whom he would later marry.
In the meantime, the ever-buoyant Ivana, now
67 and a grandmother of eight, has reinvented herself many times
personally, professionally and, due to a series of plastic surgeries,
even physically.
The 1992 divorce from Trump over his public
dalliances with actress Marla Maples, who would become Trump’s second
wife and mother of their daughter, Tiffany, became a vicious public
circus.
In a deposition, Ivana claimed Trump raped her during an
argument, a claim she later denied.
The battle would have sent a lesser woman slinking off to obscurity.
But Ivana, a former competitive skier, went for the gold.
And got it, in a settlement estimated at $14
million (U.S.) to $20 million plus custody of the couples’ three
children: Donald Jr., now 38; Eric, 32; and Ivanka Trump Kushner, 34.
Suddenly, Ivana didn’t have to answer to her ex-husband.
Represented by the William Morris Agency,
Ivana began a dizzying series of media appearances and business deals,
her buttercream blond bouffant appearing in ads for Coors Light, Pizza
Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and the Milk Campaign.
Donald and Ivana Trump with their daughter Ivanka. Since splitting from Donald, Ivana has become a successful businesswoman.
In 1992, she published a racy roman a clef about a Czech-born beauty and her wealthy hotelier husband called For Love Alone,
although critics dubbed it “For Revenge Alone.” She also wrote a
divorce guide, in which she urged spurned women to “take his wallet to
the cleaners.”
She even appeared as herself in The First Wives’ Club
movie with Goldie Hawn, telling divorced women “don’t get mad, get
everything.” (Although Ivana was actually a second wife, having been
married in the early 1970s to Austrian skier Alfred Wiklmayr.)
Ivana, now a bona fide businesswoman, became
one of the first “sellebrities,” selling her high fashion and jewelry
lines on TV home shopping networks. She owns property in St. Tropez,
Miami, New York and London.
A 1995 rebound marriage to Italian businessman
Riccardo Mazzucchelli lasted two years, then Ivana seemed to follow in
Trump’s footsteps by dating younger partners.
As always, she was in on the joke.
The pair pose together at a Betsey Johnson fashion show in New York in 1997.
She starred in a 2006 dating show called Ivana Young Man.
“I’m very energetic. I don’t want to worry
about a bad back and bad knees,” she told Oprah Winfrey. “Younger guy
gives you a little bit of the edge because it’s just more of the energy,
which I definitely need.”
In 2008, Ivana, then 59, tied the knot with
35-year-old Italian model-actor Rossano Rubicondi in a ceremony that
reportedly cost $3 million in front of 23 bridesmaids, 300 guests — and
her now-friendly ex-husband.
The Palm Beach Daily News reported that the groom entered to the theme from Rocky.
During the ring ceremony, he repeated in accented English the phrase
“but a small token” as “a small butt token.” After which, the wedding
party retreated into a reception room named for the bride’s second
husband.
Perhaps it surprised no one when the marriage ended four months later.
Even into her seventh decade, Ivana has continued to seek the spotlight.
At age 60, she stripped down to her underwear on U.K. television for Celebrity Big Brother,
seeming to affirm that if you believe you’re a beautiful and glamorous
older woman, so will everyone else. Or that with enough confidence, you
can delude yourself into thinking it.
Vivien Killilea
Ivana has reinvented herself many times personally, professionally and physically. She is pictured here in 2015.
But who are we to argue with an almost-70-year-old woman who says her three boyfriends keep her busy?
Since Trump launched his presidential campaign, Ivana has seemed to wobble on her stilettos.
In January, she was reportedly scolded by the Trump campaign for questioning Melania Trump’s ability to be first lady.
She was excoriated earlier this month after
discussing immigration with the New York Post, a subject with which she,
as an Eastern European immigrant, is familiar.
“As long as you come here legally and get a
proper job ... we need immigrants,” she said. “Who’s going to vacuum our
living rooms and clean up after us? Americans don’t like to do that.”
And to the inevitable question, she confirmed that her former husband has no problems with the size of his, er, hands.
Donald Trump and Ivana Trump, in Beverly Hills, California, 1989.
Ron Galella/WireImage
Donald Trump holds one core belief.
It’s not limited government. He favored a state takeover of health care
before he was against it. Nor is it economic populism. Despite many
years of arguing the necessity of taxing the rich, he now wants to slice
their rates to bits. Trump has claimed his nonlinear approach to policy
is a virtue. Closing deals is what matters in the end, he says, not
unbleached allegiance to conviction. But there’s one ideology that he
does hold with sincerity and practices with unwavering fervor: misogyny.
We have been collectively blithe about this fact. On its face, Donald
Trump’s hateful musings about women and his boastful claims of sexual
dominance should be reason alone to drive him from polite society and
certainly to blockade him from the West Wing. Yet somehow his misogyny
has instead propelled his campaign to the brink of the Republican
nomination. Each demonstration of his caveman views—about Megyn Kelly’s
menstruation, about Carly Fiorina’s face, about the size of his
member—produces a show of mock-horror before Trump resumes his march to
the nomination. It fits a familiar pattern. Trump rose to fame on the
basis of our prurient interest in his caddishness and amusement at his
vulgar provocations.
Trump wants us to know all about his sex life. He doesn’t regard sex as a private activity.
It’s something he broadcasts to demonstrate his dominance, of both
women and men. In his view, treating women like meat is a necessary
precondition for winning, and winning is all that matters in his world.
By winning, Trump means asserting superiority. And since life is a
zero-sum game, superiority can only be achieved at someone else’s
expense.
This was a view etched in Trump from an early age. He was the
archetypal brat. His father, himself a successful real estate developer,
endlessly expressed a belief in his son’s greatness. “You are a king,”
his father would tell Donald, according to his biographer Michael D’Antonio.
His son took that to mean he could set his own rules. In elementary
school, he gave one teacher he didn’t like a black eye; others were
pelted with erasers. At birthday parties, he would fling cake.
Not even Trump’s father’s wealth, nor his father’s faith in his son’s
destiny, could save Trump from incessant discipline. At the age of 13,
he was shipped off to the New York Military Academy, which employed
brutal tactics for the remaking of delinquent character, even resorting
to violence to assert control over the boys. “In those days they’d smack
the hell out of you. It was not like today where you smack somebody and
you go to jail,” Trump has recalled. The struggle for domination
permeated the culture of the place, especially the manner in which boys
treated one another. According to oneNPR report,
Trump would tear off the sheets of boys who didn’t make their beds
properly; he would laugh while his classmates spoke, putting them in
their place.
But Trump’s primary method for asserting dominance was sex. The school’s yearbook—the perfectly named Shrapnel—anointed
him the official “ladies man” of the class. He began his lifelong
practice of advertising his bedroom exploits as a means of demonstrating
his authority over the rest of the locker room. Decades later, he’s
still trumpeting his sexual exploits. When Tucker Carlson once mocked
him on air, Trump called the pundit and left a voicemail: “It’s true you have better hair than I do. But I get more pussy than you do.”
Such boasting is an essential part of his patter. In 2001, he phoned into TheHoward Stern Show to discuss his feats of cuckoldry. The occasion for the call was the guest appearance of a gossip columnist from the Daily News named A.J. Benza, who was shilling for his book, Fame, Ain’t It a Bitch.
The tome included the admission that Benza’s girlfriend had left him
for Trump. Most men who would go on to become major-party nominees would
have run in the other direction from such a spectacle; Trump couldn’t
resist. “I’ve been successful with your girlfriend, I’ll tell you that,”
Trump told Stern’s audience. “While you were getting onto the plane to
go to California thinking that she was your girlfriend, she was some
place that you wouldn’t have been very happy with.” It was characteristic bit of braggadocio. As he wrote in The Art of the Comeback:
“If I told the real stories of my experiences with women, often
seemingly very happily married and important women, this book would be a
guaranteed best-seller.”*
It’s an entirely Darwinian view, where the alpha male has his pick of
females, both as a perk and a means of flexing his power over lesser
men. It’s the mindset that made his assertion of his penis size in a
national debate almost an imperative—if he let the attack on his manhood
slide, his entire edifice might crumble.
Trump considers himself such a virile example of masculinity that
he’s qualified to serve as the ultimate arbiter of femininity. He
relishes judging women on the basis of their looks, which he seems to
believe amounts to the sum of their character. Walking out of his
meeting with the Washington Post editorial board this week, he paused to pronounce
editor Karen Attiah “beautiful.” When he owned the Miss USA and Miss
Universe pageants, he would screen all the contestants. His nominal
reason for taking on this role was to make sure that his lackeys weren’t
neglecting any beauties. His real motive was to humiliate the women. He
would ask a contestant to name which of her competitors she found
“hot.” If he didn’t consider a woman up to his standards, he would
direct her to stand with her fellow “discards.” One of the contestants,
Carrie Prejean, wrote about this in her book, Still Standing:
“Some of the girls were sobbing backstage after [Trump] left,
devastated to have failed even before the competition really began ...
even those of us who were among the chosen couldn’t feel very good about
it—it was as though we had been stripped bare.”
Humiliating women by decrying their ugliness is an almost recreational pastime for Trump. When the New York Times columnist Gail Collins
described him as a “financially embittered thousandaire,” he sent her a
copy of the column with her picture circled. “The Face of a Dog!” he
scrawled over her visage. This is the tack he took with Carly Fiorina,
when he described her facial appearance as essentially disqualifying her
from the presidency. It’s the method he’s used to denounce Cher, Bette
Midler, Angelina Jolie, and Rosie O’Donnell—“fat ass,” “slob, “extremely
unattractive,” etc.—when they had the temerity to criticize him. The
joy he takes in humiliating women is not something he even bothers to
disguise. He told the journalist Timothy L. O’Brien, “My favorite part [of the movie Pulp Fiction]
is when Sam has his gun out in the diner and he tells the guy to tell
his girlfriend to shut up. Tell that bitch to be cool. Say: ‘Bitch be
cool.’ I love those lines.” Or as he elegantly summed up his view to New York magazine in the early ’90s, “Women, you have to treat them like shit.”
Megyn Kelly, Donald Trump.
Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photos by Lorenzo Bevilaqua/ABC via Getty Images, Noam Galai/WireImage.
When presented with the long list of his demeaning comments, Trump has responded,
“I respect women, I love women, I cherish women.” Indeed, he has hired
and promoted women within his companies. “They’ve been among my best
people,” he wrote in TheArt of the Deal.* The line reveals more than he intends. He’s perfectly comfortable with female underlings, hispeople—less
so when women question him sharply, as Megyn Kelly has, or compete
against him, as Carly Fiorina did. He’s perfectly blunt about this power
dynamic. In a 1994 interview with ABC News, he explained, “I have
really given a lot of women great opportunity. Unfortunately, after they
are a star, the fun is over for me.” He means it. He brought along one
his deputies, Carolyn Kepcher, to appear on TheApprentice. But he couldn’t stand her growing fame, and fired her for becoming a “prima donna.”
Women labor under a cloud of Trump’s distrust. “I have seen women
manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye—or perhaps another body
part,” he wrote in Trump: The Art of the Comeback.
Working moms are particularly lacking in loyalty, he believes, and thus
do not make for good employees. “She’s not giving me 100 percent. She’s
giving me 84 percent, and 16 percent is going towards taking care of
children,” he told Mika Brzezinski. (Further evidence of his dim view of working moms: Trump once notoriously blurted that the pumping of breast milk in the office is “disgusting.”)
This is one reason that evangelicals, both men and women, gravitate
to Trump, despite his obvious lack of interest in religion and blatantly
loose morals. He represents the possibility of a return to patriarchy,
to a time when men were men, and didn’t have to apologize for it. While
he celebrates his own sexuality, he believes that female sexuality has
spun out of control and needs to be contained.
The best example of this
view is a reality show called Lady or a Tramp,
which Trump developed for Fox but never aired. The premise of the show
was that Trump would take “girls in love with the party life” and send
them off for a “stern course” on manners. “We are all sick and tired of
the glamorization of these out-of-control young women,” he told Variety, “so I have taken it upon myself to do something about it.”
How will Trump cope with a general-election race against a woman?
We’ve seen hints. Describing Hillary Clinton’s 2008 primary loss, he
resorted to a crude metaphor—she’d been schlonged by then–Sen.
Obama. As always in Trump’s world, sex is power. When Clinton suggested
that Trump has “demonstrated a penchant for sexism,” he fired back by
invoking the sins of her husband: “She’s got one of the great
women-abusers of all time sitting in her house, waiting for her to come
home to dinner.”
There’s a case for subjecting Bill Clinton to far harsher scrutiny,
but Donald Trump is the last person with the moral standing to make it.
The former Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III described Trump’s history of assault in his book, The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump.
In 1989, Trump had returned home from a painful scalp-reduction
surgery, intended to remove a bald spot. His ex-wife Ivana had suggested
the doctor—and he blamed her for his suffering. He held her arms and
began pulling hair from her scalp, then tore off her clothes. Hurt
writes: “Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more
than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified … It is a violent assault.
According to versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes,
‘he raped me.’ ” When the story resurfaced last summer, Trump’s campaign disavowed it.
When Hurt was writing his book, Trump’s lawyers forced the author to
include a statement from Ivana in the book, “A Note to Readers,” which
softens the account but doesn’t disavow it: “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 scene offers a graphic summation of Trump’s retrograde beliefs
and real brutality. What’s worse, the same spirit informs his politics—the
rampant cruelty, the violent impulses, the thirst for revenge, the
absence of compassion. Misogyny isn’t an incidental part of Donald
Trump. It’s who he is.
*Correction, March 25, 2016: This article
originally misstated that the “If I told the real stories of my
experiences with women ... ” quotation came from Trump’s book The Art of the Deal. It came from The Art of the Comeback. The article also originally misquoted Trump as writing “They’re among
my best people.” He wrote, “They’ve been among my best people.” \ Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/donald_trump_has_one_core_philosophy_misogyny.html
Donald Trump’s Problems With Women Voters Are Worse Than You Think
By Tierney Sneed Published
When it comes to Donald Trump’s women problems, the top-line polling numbers are just the tip of the iceberg.
The real estate mogul's sexist rhetoric coupled with his clumsy
posturing on policy issues that already hamstrung Republicans with
female voters have exacerbated a gender gap that helped President Obama
defeat Mitt Romney in 2012.
It’s no secret that Trump -- whose latest antagonization was his insistence
Tuesday night that Hillary Clinton was relying on the “woman card” --
is turning off women in huge numbers. But Trump is not just angering the
women who were maybe leaning Democratic anyway.
Current polling shows Trump is turning off the subset of women voters
who are typically up for grabs in elections and who in other cycles
have swung races towards Republicans. He is even alienating the type of
dependable Republican female voters who turned out for Romney the last
time around. To make matters worse for him, Trump’s deficit among women
are blunting some of the vulnerabilities Clinton would be facing if
pitted against a less controversial Republican.
The gender gap in a Trump v. Clinton match-up is different from the
gender gap in previous elections, according to Margie Omero, a
Democratic pollster and co-host of the podcast “The Pollsters.”
"Sometimes when you look at overall what’s happening, people will
say, 'Well women think this and men think this,' and sometimes it’s
because of party rather than because of gender,” Omero told TPM. "When
it comes to Trump it’s actually both. He’s got a gender problem even
within his own party."
For decades, women have made up a majority of the electorate.
Elections have featured a consistent gender gap where men lean
Republican and women Democrat. Republicans can only be successful when
their advantage among men is greater than their deficit among women.
Trump’s deficit among women is enormous and getting worse. Per Gallup’s tracking,
70 percent of women view him unfavorably, up from 58 percent last July.
Trump’s problem looks even more dire when broken down by the subsets
women that are typically in play or can depended on by Republicans.
Married women, who turned out for Mitt Romney over Obama by 53 percent to 46 percent, have an overwhelmingly negative view of Trump. Seventy percent of them view Trump unfavorably, according to Purple Slice online poll conducted by Purple Strategies for Bloomberg Politics and released earlier this month.
Married women choose Clinton over Trump 48 percent to 36 percent.
(The
married female vote would be split 43-to-43 percent if Clinton was
facing Cruz, according to the poll.)
“There’s a 21-point gap between where [Trump] is and where he needs
to be just to match Romney, who lost,” Douglas Usher, a pollster for
Purple Strategies, told TPM.
An early April Democracy Corps poll
conducted for the Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund found numbers
not quite as ugly but still troubling for Trump. He beat Clinton among
married women, but by only 3 percentage points. Meanwhile, Clinton
slaughtered him among unmarried women 73 percent to 21 percent.
“Married women are supporting Trump by a slight margin and unmarried
women are giving Hillary Clinton a 52-point advantage. That’s huge,”
said Page Gardner, president of the Women’s Voices Women Vote Action
Fund.
While Trump’s problems with minorities voters are well-known, he
could lose the advantage Republican had with white females in 2012.
Despite a record-setting gender gap overall, Romney was still able to win among white women, 56 percent to Obama 42 percent. (Obama meanwhile won 96 percent of black women and 76 of Hispanic women).
According to a Washington Post poll from this month, 66 percent of white women view Trump unfavorably, and 55 percent of them very unfavorably.
“Overall, in the general election, he is not where he needs be among white women,” Usher said.
On top of that, female voters' resistance to Trump is helping Clinton
where she might have otherwise been vulnerable. For instance, she has a
3 percent favorability deficit among women, according to Gallup,
which might be concerning if she wasn’t likely running against Trump,
who is facing a 47-point unfavorabilty gap among women. That easily
offsets the 20-point favorability deficit Clinton faces with male
voters, who also view Trump unfavorably by a 22-point spread.
Trump’s women issues are also driving up Clinton numbers among young
people, who have been skeptical of Clinton in her primary race against
Sanders. For instance, in a generic match-up, young women support a
Democrat over a Republican by a 33-point margin, according to a Harvard Institute of Politics poll
of 18- to 29-year-old likely voters released this week. But once young
voters are asked to chose between Trump and Clinton, the spread among
young women increases to 42 points. (For comparison, the advantage
Democrats have among young men increases by only half that, from 18
points in a generic matchup to 22 points in a Clinton v. Trump contest).
“He’s well behind even where [2008 GOP nominee John] McCain was among
younger voters and younger women in particular,” Usher said, referring
to the Harvard Institute of Politics Poll
One other place Trump’s anti-women rhetoric is costing him is with
the very demographic that supposedly makes up his base of support: the
white working class. He is still winning among white working class
female voters, but by far slimmer margins than Republicans in the past.
The Democracy Corps poll showed that, while Clinton is doing 5 points
worse than Obama in 2012 among white non-college educated men, Trump’s
support among their female counterparts is four percentage points less
than what Romney earned.
“As Hillary Clinton loses support among white non-college men, that’s
made up by her gaining support from white non-college women,” Gardner
said.
