Remember these are distractions from Hope Hicks and Jared Kushner being interviewed by Mueller this week and next.
“But one man apparently slipped through the cracks just before America began this reckoning. Despite facing a flurry of allegations, Donald Trump became president.”
ALLEGATION:In aJuly 2015 article, The Daily Beast summarized an incident (also written about in the 1993 bookLost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald Trump,by Harry Hurt III) in which Ivana Trump alleged a violent attack by her former husband:
“After a painful scalp reduction surgery to remove a bald spot, Donald Trump confronted his then-wife, who had previously used the same plastic surgeon.
” ‘Your f[******] doctor has ruined me!’ Trump cried.
“What followed was a ‘violent assault,’ according toLost Tycoon. Donald held back Ivana’s arms and began to pull out fistfuls of hair from her scalp, as if to mirror the pain he felt from his own operation. He tore off her clothes and unzipped his pants.
” ‘Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified… It is a violent assault,’ Hurt writes. ‘According to versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, ‘he raped me.’
“Following the incident, Ivana ran upstairs, hid behind a locked door, and remained there ‘crying for the rest of night.’ When she returned to the master bedroom in the morning, he was there.
“As she looks in horror at the ripped-out hair scattered all over the bed, he glares at her and asks with menacing casualness: ‘Does it hurt?’ Hurt writes.”
Watch: 16 women have come forward to report being sexually harassed or assaulted by Trump. Seeing their stories together is incredibly powerful, and damning. It’s time to hold him to account. 2 of 2 parts pic.twitter.com/h3qR1OhIj1
There are at least sixteen women in America today who Donald Trump sexually assaulted. They have names. Their stories deserve a spotlight. https://t.co/CTPvcbyor5
