Which Presidential Candidate Was Endorsed By Opponent of Marital Rape Law?
The latest controversy to light up the sky in the political fireworks show that is Donald Trump involves a Trump Organization attorney named Michael Cohen, who responded to a Daily Beast reporter’s questions about a decades-old (and mostly-recanted) accusation rape by claiming that spouses can’t be raped:
Michael Cohen, special counsel at The Trump Organization, defended his boss, saying, “You’re talking about the frontrunner 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.”
“It is true,” Cohen added. “You cannot rape your spouse. And there’s very clear case law.”
The accusation Cohen was responding to came from a deposition from Trump’s first divorce, from Ivana Trump, and was included in a 1993 book on Trump. The book included a note from Ivana Trump in which she softened the accusation, and Ivana Trump is currently defending her ex-husband over the Daily Beast story. Cohen, who went on to level a profane series of threats at the reporter, has since apologized. Given Trump’s recent history, the story doesn’t figure to hurt his chances with Republicans, and may even strengthen them.
As disturbing as this story is, however, there is an eye-opening kernel of information embedded in that same Daily Beast article, which noted that although spousal rape is, indeed, a thing that exists and is against the law, that wasn’t true in New York state until 1984. The Democratic-controlled New York State Assembly tried to pass a law removing marriage as a defense for rape in 1982, but it was blocked by the Republican-controlled State Senate. In 1983, Mario Liberta becme the first man in state history to be convicted of raping his wife, and a year later, the New York Court of Appeals upheld that conviction and struck down the state’s marital rape exemption. In 1984!
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
14 responses to Which Presidential Candidate Was Endorsed By Opponent of Marital Rape Law?
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BigDumbWhiteGuy July 28th, 2015 at 22:17
Of course conservatives don’t think you can rape your spouse. They’re nothing but an entitled bunch of Neanderthals. “Ugh, you wife. Make sexy time now, no care if headache.”
whatthe46 July 28th, 2015 at 22:31
read my link above yours and tracey’s.
tracey marie July 28th, 2015 at 22:18
Mica’s votes
Yes to make the patriot act permanent
Yes to making abortion illegal
Yes on banning same sex marriage
Yes on banning gay couples from adopting
just a taste of what a creepy little pissant he is.
whatthe46 July 28th, 2015 at 22:31
i think this twit is confused. let us teach him a thing or two. (centuries of fk’n reality)
http://www.icadvinc.org/what-is-domestic-violence/history-of-battered-womens-movement/
Suzanne McFly July 28th, 2015 at 22:45
I bet he will now go even higher in the polls.
Tommie July 29th, 2015 at 00:07
Especially since she recanted!
allison1050 July 29th, 2015 at 00:21
I wouldn’t touch that bet! ;o)
Tommie July 29th, 2015 at 00:08
I’m pretty sure there alot of wives who disagree with the can not rape wives theory!!!
Warman1138 July 29th, 2015 at 01:44
Rape, it’s not just a sexual thing with republicans but includes the environment, law, civil rights, equality, foreign affairs, religion, economics, science etc. They rape a lot, no wonder they’re dead set against it all the time, even denying its existence.
Gindy51 July 29th, 2015 at 06:42
This won’t dent Trump one tiny bit. The morons who love this guy think women are to be used and abused and love him for being a man who stands up to the damned bitches.
whatthe46 July 29th, 2015 at 23:56
and mexicans…
Bunya July 29th, 2015 at 14:11
That’s right! Because women are nothing more than brood mares put on this earth to worship men and have boy babies!
whatthe46 July 29th, 2015 at 23:57
“[T]he Bible doesn’t give the state permission anywhere in that book, for the state to be in your bedroom and that’s exactly what this bill has gone to. It’s meddling in your bedroom, the state of Florida as an entity deciding what you can do and what you can’t do. . . . [W]e don’t need to go to meddlin’ in the marriage bedroom.” ~That’s the same Jon Mica (R-FL) who currently serves in the U..S. House of Representatives, and whose endorsement is proudly being touted by former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL):
ain’t that a bitch?
whatthe46 July 29th, 2015 at 23:59
but, but, but, the gay. so, why get involved and meddle in the bedroom doors of 2 consenting adults? i’m so confused.