drsmooth wrote:... this thing will blow over soon, at least as much as Benghazi has blown over...

smitty wrote:I don't believe he's even saying what he thinks. I don't believe he puts much thought into what he says. A guy isn't a hero except he is a hero. But he was captured and I like guys who weren't captured. Guys like me, I was never captured. Mexicans are rapists and drug addicts except for the ones who aren't.

Donald Trump introduced his presidential campaign to the world with a slur against Mexican immigrants, accusing them of being “rapists” and bringing crime into the country.

“I mean somebody’s doing it!…Who’s doing the raping?” Donald Trump said, when asked to defend his characterization.

It was an unfortunate turn of phrase for Trump—in more ways than one. Not only does the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination have a history of controversial remarks about sexual assault, but as it turns out, his ex-wife Ivana Trump once used “rape” to describe an incident between them in 1989. She later said she felt “violated” by the experience.

Michael Cohen, special counsel at The Trump Organization, defended his boss, saying, “You’re talking about the front-runner for the GOP, presidential candidate, as well as private individual who never raped anybody. And, of course, understand that by the very definition, you can’t rape your spouse.”

“It is true,” Cohen added. “You cannot rape your spouse. And there’s very clear case law.”

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.”

That is not true. In New York, there used to be a so-called marital rape exemption to the law. It was struck down in 1984.

Trump’s lawyer then changed tactics, lobbing insults and threatening a lawsuit if a story was published.
“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 fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?”

“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,” he added.

jerseyhoya wrote:

“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,” he added.

Ex-Wife: Donald Trump Made Me Feel ‘Violated’ During Sex

While I understand the Occam's Razor explanation above, and think it is the most likely option, it is difficult to imagine what would be going differently if he was doing this in order to aid Hillary.

Days after unveiling the first part of her energy and climate platform, Hillary Clinton refused to answer an audience question here about how she would handle the controversial Keystone XL pipeline were she to win the White House.

“This is President Obama’s decision, and I am not going to second guess him,” she told the audience member who implored her to “please” commit to either approving or vetoing the pipeline. Clinton explained that while she helped start the process of reviewing the pipeline during her tenure as secretary of state, she doesn’t want to interfere with the White House or current Secretary of State John Kerry.

“If it’s undecided when I become president, I will answer your question.”

jerseyhoya wrote:

Days after unveiling the first part of her energy and climate platform, Hillary Clinton refused to answer an audience question here about how she would handle the controversial Keystone XL pipeline were she to win the White House.

“This is President Obama’s decision, and I am not going to second guess him,” she told the audience member who implored her to “please” commit to either approving or vetoing the pipeline. Clinton explained that while she helped start the process of reviewing the pipeline during her tenure as secretary of state, she doesn’t want to interfere with the White House or current Secretary of State John Kerry.

“If it’s undecided when I become president, I will answer your question.”

#HardChoices

Werthless wrote:What is her energy and climate platform