In an obscenity-laced rant, a lawyer for blowhard winger Donald "Rump" Trump vigorously denied an old charge that Rump had raped his former wife Ivana and threatened legal action against The Daily Beast reporters on the case. The charges stem from a 1993 biography of Rump, "Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump" by Harry Hurt III, in which Ivana Trump claims that in 1989 her husband went ballistic over scalp reduction surgery that her surgeon had performed, and forced her to have sex with him. Ivana Trump later modified her story, which was told in a matrimonial deposition, indicating that the sex left her feeling "violated" and lacked "love and tenderness," but that it wasn't strictly rape.
Rump lawyer Michael Cohen, when learning that The Daily Beast planned to resurrect the claims from Hurt's book, went on an obscene tear, saying among other things,
"I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know. So I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?”Cohen later issued an apology to The Daily Beast, via CNN, saying that his threatening comments were "inarticulate."
This is yet another view into the dark soul of the Retrumplican party, and typifies the kinds of angry, belligerent people Rump surrounds himself with and appeals to.
