A Cheap ‘Rape’ Smear on Trump

Let’s begin by saying I’m not a fan of Donald Trump, personally or politically. The first time he spoke at CPAC, Trump made a lot of protectionist noise in regard to China that struck me as both ignorant and irresponsible. Protective tariffs are just bad economics, as every intelligent person has understood since Adam Smith made the case against mercantilism in The Wealth of Nations. Tariffs are taxes, and the purpose of taxation is to produce revenue for the government. A protective tariff, by contrast, is not intended to produce revenue, rather it is intended to reduce foreign trade, which tends to benefit manufacturing interests at the expense of consumers and agricultural interests. Protective tariffs are usually accompanied by a system of domestic subsidies and regulations that beget crony capitalism. Whatever our economic problems, protectionism is not the solution, and so Trump’s China-bashing anti-free-trade rhetoric was distasteful.

So I’ve never been a fan of Trump-as-politician, but what the Daily Beast has done is as distasteful as a protective tariff: Resurrected a two-decade-old claim by Trump’s ex-wife Ivana that he “raped” her in 1989. This claim was made in their divorce and published in a 1993 book.

So what? When a rich man’s wife divorces him, she always accuses him of awful things. It’s a shakedown: “Give me the money I want or I’ll drag your name through the mud and make an ugly spectacle of it.”

Who knows if it’s true? And who cares? Ivana got her money and Trump moved on with his life. It’s over. Ancient history.

This doesn’t mean I’m in favor of Trump’s candidacy, but there was no point in the Daily Beast dragging this old mess out now.

 

305 comments

  1. By “behavior” you mean speech. You’re nothing but a hysterical, prissy liberal queen. I disagree with you politically and you seek to silence my voice. It’s not complicated. You neo-cons (or neo-cucks of late) have a thoroughly Marxist pedigree all the way back to “Trotsky” (Lieba Bronstein). And you should show some respect: I’m an amateur chacham – I know more about the object of your worship – the Rabbis – than you do.

  2. The Talmud is of Israeli origin. That was a question answered long ago, and not in your favor. Paul was a Pharisee. He stated that explicitly. If you had a tithe the biblical knowledge you wish to come across as having, you’d already know that.

  3. You may say what you wish on your own blog to heart’s content. You have no right to hijack another’s blog post on a different topic. Go someplace else.

  4. I’ve never seen anyone so ignorant of Christian teachings try to claim that they’re the “true” Christians.

  5. How little you know of me, or anyone else here. You simply come in here flinging feces like an enraged monkey and we’re supposed to pat you on the back and tell you what a good mate you are.

    If anyone in any of this thread is “prissy” that’s you.

  6. You’re asking me questions when you don’t understand the significance of the book of Genesis to Christianity?

    I’m done with you. Jesus taught me to not cast my pearls before swine.

  7. I’m also not Roman Catholic. That organization repudiated the Bible at the Council of Trent. And your language certainly shows you are no Christian.

    You might as well kiss a Koran. You’re headed for hell anyway.

  8. By ‘speech’, you mean your various and sundry fictions, fantasies, and irritable mental gestures. This is a discussion forum for serious people, not for fantasists and asylum dwellers, whether they be devotees of astrology, the John Birch Society, or Stormfront.

  9. As it happens, my wife and I dined at the same Italian restaurant before she went into labor with each of our three children. When they were little and asked, “where did I come from,” our stock answer was “pasta primavera”

  10. “By ‘speech’, you mean your various and sundry fictions, fantasies, and irritable mental gestures.” – Stalin before sending his political enemies to the gulag

  11. I’ve forgotten more about the New Testament than you know, fool.

    Tell me, what did the Archangel Gabriel say to Satan when contending with him for the body of Moses?

  12. Yeah. Fabulists all. We also need to quit feeding the trolls and let Wombat take of care of things without making things any harder for him. I must confess that I’ve given into the temptation of feeding same.

    Sorry Wombat.

  13. I’m sorry I thought I had a disqus account and was “created equal”. Am I wrong on one of those or do you mean to discriminate?

  14. What does Genesis have to do with Christianity?

    Thank you for proving your complete ignorance and stupidity. There’s nothing more I need say here.

  15. “complete ignorance and stupidity” – Yeah, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is just a minor footnote – at best – in your eschatology of Jew-worship.

  16. It’s only in your warped twisted mind that the only two choices of how to think about Jews are to curse them or worship them.

  17. You don’t do you? You don’t know what the Talmud is. You should maybe try to learn a little about these Jews you worship before you follow them down their old road of rebellion against God.

  18. Why am I headed for hell? Because I don’t worship Jews? Have you ever thought about how radically nuts that is? Not that you would believe me – but try to live a ridigidly Christian life and I am certain we agree on almost every cultural, political and social issue out there – but that is not enough for you. You demand that I split my loyalty between Christ and the people who murdered Him. And it’s not for you or anyone else to decide who is going to hell. Even the Jews who murdered Christ can be Redeemed.

  19. In America, if you do not actively oppose what SOME Jews are doing to this country, then you are de facto on board with it. and FYI I don’t hate anyone – and if I did it would certainly not be because they were Jewish – and there are some wonderful, beautiful Jewish people I know and care for. But that doesn’t change that fact that Jews are behind virtually every destructive social, political and financial movement today

  20. You didn’t actually say why this information is bad. So what if it comes from something with ZOG in the title? That’s a logically fallacy.

  21. And also abortion, you forgot about the fact that abortion is from the Jews. And feminism and gay rights and multiculturalism. And political correctness.

  22. As if the CEOs are developing the …ahem…”talent”. Do you seriously deny that Hollywood and the “music” industry are dominated by Jews?

  23. If he’s wrong, then prove him wrong. If you can’t rebut his claims, then they stand. Those are the rules in any court.

  24. Revelation 2 and 3 refers to the seven stages of history of the Christian church. Anyone who knows anything at all about the New Testament knows that.

    If you know so much about the New Testament, you would have been able to answer my question, ignorant one.

  25. All of your comments are ad hominem fallacies. i.e., you have no credibility. If he’s wrong PROVE him wrong.

  26. But answer his question: why do you worship a people whose entire identity is organized around hating Christ? Do you know that the Talmud wasn’t even written until 600AD in Babylon? The Talmud is the source of everything you know as “judaism” and the “Jewish religion”. When Jews speak of “Torah” you – dumb goy that you are – think they are talking about the Tanakh or the Pentateuch, but in Orthodox Judaism, “Torah” refers to Talmud and Hallacha. You know none of this because you don’t bother to learn anything about these people you worship.

  27. Yeah, you’re “bored” because I broke your frame again and you can’t deal with it. Just like a whiny pathetic SJW. Sad.

  28. You say you know the Bible but you couldn’t answer my question below. The answer is directly from the New Testament.

  29. You are so dishonest. I cited SPECIFIC passages and you ignored them like they weren’t even there. If you were an honest Christian person with a CLEAN CONSCIENCE you could have answered my question honestly. What is the Synagogue of Satan? Who are the counterfeit Jews spoken of specifically at Rev. 2:9 and 3:9?? If you can’t answer those questions honestly, then you need to WAKE UP.

  30. Is this an open forum or not? The fact that I am here suggests it is. If your fragile, tender world-view cannot tolerate questions and dissent, then maybe your world-view is pathetic and false and weak and cowardly?

  31. I never said I “knew the Bible” and you’re right, I don’t know the answer to your question, but Bible trivia doesn’t prove anything. My question was very specific because it involved Jews, but you’re just pulling questions out of their trying to prove that “whoever knows more Bible trivia is right”. Come on man, that doens’t prove anything.

  32. 95% of the world’s “Jews” do not have a single drop of s(h)emitic blood in them. The Ashkenazim are Turkic “Khazars”, that makes them Biblically Japhetic.

  33. Pretty funny for a non-catholic to call anyone a “heretic” unless they were speaking ironically.

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