Daily Beast does fact-deficient hit piece on Trump because of his comments about illegal alien rapists. But then Trump’s lawyer puts his foot in his mouth.
Via CNN:
Washington (CNN)A top adviser to Donald Trump apologized Tuesday for comments he made in an explosive interview while defending the Republican presidential candidate from a decades-old rape accusation.
Michael Cohen, special counsel to Trump and an executive vice president at The Trump Organization, asserted in an interview published Monday in the Daily Beast that legally “you cannot rape your spouse.”
The rape accusation stems from an accusation Trump’s then-wife Ivana Trump leveled at her husband during divorce proceedings in the early 1990s, an accusation she walked back in a statement Tuesday. [ed. – she just didn’t walk it back Tuesday, she had walked it back before Daily Beast wrote the story. Indeed, DB included that in the story, but decided to run with the false story anyway.]
Marital rape today is illegal in all 50 states and non-consensual sex between spouses does in fact constitute rape.
“As an attorney, husband and father there are many injustices that offend me but nothing more than charges of rape or racism. They hit me at my core. 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.