MONDAY, JULY 27 This week of cops charged with murder, cops killed by murder, and deeply despised dentists kicked off with Donald Trump, the pumpkin-colored racist and GOP presidential front-runner who was today the subject of an explosive report at the Daily Beast. “Donald Trump introduced his presidential campaign to the world with a slur against Mexican immigrants, accusing them of being ‘rapists’ and bringing crime into the country,” reported the Daily Beast, reminding readers of Trump’s unhinged defense of his immigrants-are-rapists proclamation (“Someone’s doing the raping! Who’s doing the raping?”) and Trump’s previous comments blaming the epidemic of sexual assault in the military on the presence of female service members (“What did [they] expect when they put men and women together?”). But as the Daily Beast suggested, Trump’s rape-related troubles extend back dozens of years, with the 1993 book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump highlighting a rape claim made by Trump’s former wife Ivana in 1989. “Ivana Trump’s assertion of ‘rape’ came in a depositionโpart of the early ’90s divorce case between the Trumps,” reported the Daily Beast. “The book, by former Texas Monthly and Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III, described a harrowing scene. After a painful scalp reduction surgery to remove a bald spot, Donald Trump confronted his then-wife, who had previously used the same plastic surgeon…” During the ensuing confrontation, Donald “jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months,” Hurt wrote in Lost Tycoon…
David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest... More by David Schmader

