Michael Cohen, Special Counsel At The Trump Organization: “Understand That By The Very Definition, You Can’t Rape Your Spouse.” “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.’ Ivana Trump’s assertion of ‘rape’ came in a deposition—part of the early ’90s divorce case between the Trumps, and revealed in the 1993 book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump….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.” [Daily Beast, 7/27/15] Trump Special Counsel: “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 Write A Story That Has Mr. Trump’s Name In It, With The Word ‘Rape,’ And I’m Going To Mess Your Life Up.” “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.” [Daily Beast, 7/27/15] COHEN APOLOGIZED FOR SAYING “YOU CANNOT RAPE YOUR SPOUSE” Michael Cohen, Special Counsel To Trump, Apologized For Saying “You Cannot Rape Your Spouse.” “Michael Cohen, special counsel to Trump. Cohen has been a long-time aide to Trump, but he found himself facing the national media glare last month when he defended his boss to a Daily Beast reporter in a story about rebuffed allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump. Cohen has since publicly apologized for telling the Daily Beast that ‘you cannot rape your spouse’ and has repeatedly said that he does not believe that statement. ‘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,’ Cohen said in an apology statement to CNN. Cohen has served as a media liaison to Trump, helping to coordinate interviews. And he has also appeared on television defending Trump's campaign, but his public appearances have dwindled following the controversy.” The Hill, 8/14/15] WHEN MIKE TYSON WAS CONVICTED OF RAPE, DONALD TRUMP CAMPAIGNED FOR A LENIENT SENTENCE WITH NO JAIL TIME Donald Trump Campaigned For A Lenient Sentence With No Jail Time After Mike Tyson Was Convicted Of Raping An 18-Year-Old Girl In 1992, Suggesting Tyson Should Give Millions To A Rape Survivor Fund Instead. “Trump campaigned for a lenient sentence for former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson, whom he'd advised in the past, after Tyson was convicted of raping an 18-year-old girl in 1992. The real estate mogul proposed that Tyson be ordered to pay millions of dollars to his victim and into a fund for other rape survivors rather than serve a prison sentence. ‘As everybody knows, I am very strong on the death penalty Confidential Page 190