Did Donald Trump once rape his wife? Maybe.

Courtesy of The Daily Beast:

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. 

The book, by former Texas Monthly and Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III, described a harrowing scene. 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 fucking doctor has ruined me!” Trump cried. 

What followed was a “violent assault,” according to Lost 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. “You’re talking about the front-runner for the GOP, presidential candidate, as well as a private individual who never raped anybody. And, of course, understand that by the very definition, you can't rape your spouse.” 

“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. 

Remember this is the same guy who accused Mexicans coming over the border of being rapists and drug dealers.

In response to this Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, claimed that when Ivana used the word "rape" she did not mean rape in the legal definition of the word, and besides:

“You cannot rape your spouse,” he said. “There’s very clear case law.”

Yeah, no there isn't.

Then Cohen got a little more aggressive with the Daily Beast reporters: 

“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.

Wow that seems awfully defensive and unnecessarily aggressive. Why would that be?

So I don't know folks, you tell me, do YOU think Donald Trump is a man capable for abusing his wife and forcing himself on her sexually?

And if he did, do YOU consider that rape?

Because I'm pretty sure you all know what I think.