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For Cohen, no target was too big. Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly put tough questions to Trump at a Republican presidential debate. Cohen later retweeted someone who had written, “we can gut her.”

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Cohen’s legal threats have generally been done in private and stayed that way. But in 2015, when I was reporting for The Daily Beast, canada goose outlet washington dc an online news outlet, Trump’s campaign was in ascendancy.

I started writing about a 1993 biography of Trump written by former Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III. According to the book, The Lost Tycoon, Trump’s first wife, Ivana, claimed in a sworn deposition during her divorce proceedings that Trump had raped her.

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When I reached out to campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks about the claim in the book, I got an angry call from Cohen in return.

His first tactic was to try to persuade me not to run the story but he did so by falsely claiming that spousal rape was not a crime.

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