Rape accusations, denials and apologies -- another day in the Trump camp
Postmedia Network First posted: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 08:09 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 08:14 PM EDT
Rape has once again threatened to derail Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and this time it's not The Donald talking about Mexicans.
A decades-old rape accusation Ivana Trump reportedly made against Donald pushed the Republican front-runner's campaign off-track Tuesday.
It started when pop culture news site The Daily Beast rehashed a snippet from a '90s biography about Donald Trump in which Ivana reportedly told the author Donald raped her during their marriage in 1989.
Donald's top adviser Michael Cohen shot back: "You cannot rape your spouse."
On Tuesday, he apologized for the comment.
"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.
He didn't have anything to say about the rest of his response to The Daily Beast.
According to the site, he threatened the reporter with a lawsuit: "I will take you for every penny you still don't have ... I'm warning you, tread very f---ing lightly, because what I'm going to do to you is going to be f---ing disgusting. You understand me?...I'm going to mess your life up."
Meanwhile, Ivana responded with a statement of her own, dismissing the whole account.
"The story is totally without merit. Donald and I are the best of friends," she said. "I have nothing but fondness for Donald and wish him the best of luck on his campaign. Incidentally, I think he would make an incredible president."
In launching his bid to represent the Republicans in the upcoming presidential race, The Donald called Mexicans who try to cross into America illegally "rapists."
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