A Cheap ‘Rape’ Smear on Trump

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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. Anyone who had ever read the book of Jude would have been able to answer my question. Clearly, you haven’t.

    He’s probably never read the New Testament, Attila.

    As I said, I’ve forgotten more about the New Testament than you know.

  2. Ok, Chief, whatever you say. The fact that I couldn’t answer a random Bible trivia question proves that everything I have said today is wrong or irrelevant. Whatever you have to tell yourself to maintain your precious, fragile worldview.

  3. Yet you try to lecture me on what the New Testament says.

    Like our host sometimes says: “I was born at night, but not last night.”

  4. You can memorize the words all you want, but if you don’t have the eyes to see and the ears to hear what is really being said – the big picture – it is all for naught. You know who was the most adept scripture-quoter ever? You know who.

  6. Amazing. You’re proud of your ignorance.

    I can’t insult you any more strongly than you’ve already insulted yourself. My job is done.

  9. If there is neither Jew nor Greek why do you single out Jews? Also, how can one murder God? God is eternal.

  13. Look, it’s not like they really need your help demonstrating their low IQ and poor people skills.

  14. Dollar General. They’ve blown too much money on newsletters warning about ZOG and the New Black Order (don’t google that, trust me) to afford the hifalutin’ merchandise at WalMart.

  15. Step Four: create a vulgar yet catchy hashtag for those idiots to snicker about while they psychologically
    masturbate each other online?

  16. From here on out, anyone using that term for purposes other than in the preceding comment gets banned.

  20. He doesn’t “worship a people”. He worships Christ. He prays for “these people” you speak of, part of whom are the remnant God promises to save.

    Read Romans 11.

  22. IIRC, Trump did do the dirty on Ivana. I’m thinking he just let his eye stray to the newer model and liked it better. That’s the best reason I can think of why he did it. Nothing else makes sense to me.

  25. Since the Breitbart post points up the original way in which i saw the term used, I still find it useful. It certainly would apply to the RINOs such as the GOP leadership, McCain, Little Miss Lindsey, and others of their ilk.

  32. No need to point that out really. Most of the regulars here have their wits about them.

    The exception likely being some new visitors since this past weekend, in which case let’s hope they click and invest heavily.

  38. I never have, but I took a line drive in the right knee off one when I was throwing batting practice. Each stitch of the ball made a rather bright red welt.

  39. As a way of expressing disaffection with the establishment GOP, it had some potential. I would think most of the regulars here would agree that the leadership of the GOP has betrayed certain core values most of us hold dear in favor of maintaining their place at the public trough.

    Unfortunately, “the word which shall not be named” was immediately hijacked by the Paulites and other assorted loons as a vehicle for publicizing their own delusions. Whatever utility evaporated in an instant.

  40. Last sentence: “Whatever utility it might have had evaporated in an instant.”

    My brain moves faster than my fingers.

  41. I’ll bet a bunch of them work at Walmart though, thinking it’s such a great All-American company.

  42. Good decision.
    Please consider applying it to the word “Teabagger” as well.
    It’s not that I’m against a little vulgarity from time to time, it just that juvenile vulgarity is just so …juvenile.

  43. As a pitcher, been there, done that too. Was main reason I decided center field might be a better fit for my capabilities. 😉

  44. Not sure but every time we have someone who has both logic and reason mention a certain billionaire’s name. These screaming hordes come out and begin to muck up all sorts of stuff. Its like the Ron Paul followers but a worst infestation since these folks since there is more Sn foil and more colorful language. The same sort of lack of substance and only knowing how to speak in meme or poorly reasoned concepts. Hmmm, maybe since Ron isn’t in the same sort of followers have latched on to this certain billionaire as their last great hope for being noticed and loved by the rest of America and not considered folks that need to be collected for a nice peaceful time down at the farm painting still life or scenery with their feet.

  47. “Jews” did dominate the porn studios. That was a very well known fact.

    There is a distinction between a fact and a subcultural meme.

  50. If we hit the tip jar first, its like buying an indulgence, so you can sin later without Wombat smiting you. Right?

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