A lawyer for Donald Trump threatened a reporter with what he described would amount to a “f***ing disgusting” consequence if the journalist published a story about sexual assault accusations reportedly once made by the Republican hopeful’s ex-wife.
“You write a story that has Mr. Trump’s name in it, with the word ‘rape,’ and I’m going to mess your life up…for as long as you’re on this frickin’ planet … you’re going to have judgments against you, so much money, you’ll never know how to get out from underneath it,” Michael Cohen, special counsel to Trump, told The Daily Beast reporter Tim Mak.
Cohen was referring to accusations Ivana Trump reportedly made about a 1989 incident. During a deposition, reported on in 1993 book “Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump,” Ivana alleged that Donald became upset after a painful surgery to remove a bald spot and confronted her because she had previously used the same surgeon.
Claiming “your f***ing doctor has ruined me,” Trump violently sexually assaulted Ivana, she reportedly said during the deposition. Trump has denied the accusation.
Asked about the deposition Monday, Cohen told the liberal-leaning news outlet that “it’s not the word you’re trying to make it into.” He added that Ivana “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.”
“You cannot rape your spouse,” Cohen continued. “There’s very clear case law.”
Trump’s lawyer then threatened Mak if he were to publish the story.
“I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we’re in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don’t have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know,” Cohen said. “So 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?”
He added to The Daily Beast, “There is nothing reasonable about you wanting to write a story about somebody’s usage of the word ‘rape,’ when she’s talking [about] she didn’t feel emotionally satisfied.”
“Though there’s many literal senses to the word, if you distort it, and you put Mr. Trump’s name there onto it, rest assured, you will suffer the consequences. So you do whatever you want. You want to ruin your life at the age of 20? You do that, and I’ll be happy to serve it right up to you,” he continued.
“I think you should go ahead and you should write the story that you plan on writing. I think you should do it. Because I think you’re an idiot. And I think your paper’s a joke, and it’s going to be my absolute pleasure to serve you with a $500 million lawsuit, like I told [you] I did it to Univision,” Cohen added.
ABC: Michael Cohen “is a registered Democrat who voted for Barack Obama in 2008.”
Wild Thing’s comment.…………
Sorry to those that want Trump, but choosing Trump is just as stupid as choosing Obama. We know what happens when we elect based on “cool” and this is not cool. Yes this is an old story and said by an angry wife in a divorce but rape is still rape even if married to the person so this lawyer is wrong.
Plus one other thing, I would hate to have this lawyer in our WH, we already experiences what it is like to have Eric Holder and his threats to we the people. Remember when the Black Panthers threatened votes and it was pushed aside by Obama’s lawyers. It would be the same kind of pushing us aside if we had a complaint about Trump if he got elected.
I think Trump will implode…He already is, he may be high in the polls of Trump fans wanting him for president, but the other polls asking do you like him as a person he is also at the top of NOT liking him. So that is important to know too.