It didn’t take long for the Daily Beast to post some salacious excerpts from the early ’90s Donald Trump biography “Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump” for Trump’s lawyer to come to his defense and for Twitter to turn to this.
Let's go live now to Twitter pic.twitter.com/WLLY0hqLI3
— Jason Sparks (@sparksjls) July 28, 2015
The problem with Michael Cohen, special counsel at The Trump Organization, is that his defense of Trump — “You cannot rape your spouse. And there’s very clear case law.” — revived the name of Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin for a lot of people on both sides of the aisle.
Sen. Claire McCaskill didn’t pass up the opportunity to bring up a sore subject.
Most shocking part of this? Trump's lawyer thinks it's legal to rape your spouse. Giving Akin a run for his money. http://t.co/eB9h2KjiFc
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) July 28, 2015
@clairecmc a politician talking legalities…that's funny.
— Sarah the Roma? (@ToothpasteWords) July 28, 2015
.@groskogirl I spent years in the courtroom as a prosecutor, and it is incompetent for any lawyer to not know that rape is rape.
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) July 28, 2015
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On the next episode of “Sen. Claire McCaskill, Former Prosecutor” (we hope):
@clairecmc @groskogirl what about storing secret documents on a private server and selling off significant amounts of US uranium to Russia?
— M Putnam (@putnam_ml) July 28, 2015
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