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PORTSIDE CULTURE

DONALD TRUMP, SEXUAL PREDATOR  
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Lloyd Green
October 27, 2019
The Guardian
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_All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator_
Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy
Hachette Books
ISBN: 9780316492669

Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy parachute into the netherworld of
weaponized libido that is the life of the 45th president.
Salaciousness abounds. Their book is lurid, informative and aptly
subtitled
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“Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator”.

 
Fortunately for us, the authors bring unique expertise. Levine is a
former executive editor of the National Enquirer. According to the
investigative reporter Ronan Farrow
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Trump’s secrets were stashed in a safe in Levine’s office until
they were shredded in December 2016 – a claim the Enquirer denies.
El-Faizy is the author of God and Country
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which examined the rise of the evangelical community in the aftermath
of George W Bush’s 2004 re-election.
All the President’s Women is breezy but heavy. Unlike Stormy
Daniels’ 2018 bestseller
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Full Disclosure
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none of it is entertaining. Not surprisingly, the White House declined
multiple opportunities to rebut the book’s contentions.

It takes us from Trump’s days growing up in Queens to his arrival in
the Oval Office and chronicles everything in between, mommy and
daughter issues included. Much has been heard before, some is aired
for the first time, little is pleasant, plenty is disturbing.

The book rests upon firsthand interviews, transcripts and prior
reports. It also contains a detailed appendix that lays out its
sources. Said differently, if you can actually believe Barack Obama is
a crypto-Muslim born in Kenya to a cocaine-addled Martian, then opting
in to at least 50% of All the President’s Women should be a
no-brainer.

 

Court records abound. It is not just the authors’ word or a birth
certificate. Think Summer Zervos, Michael Cohen and “Individual-1”
for starters.
Despite all Trump’s protestations and legal maneuvers, the lawsuit
commenced in New York by Zervos, a one-time Apprentice contestant who
was allegedly manhandled and defamed, proceeds apace. Since the case
began in early 2017, the defendant has never submitted a sworn
statement denying the substance of the complaint.

In March 2019, a New York appeals court gave its greenlight
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for Zervos’s action to continue. Earlier this month the trial court
set a 6 December discovery cut-off
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with the possibility of Trump being deposed.

Practically speaking, don’t bet on it. Like Bill Clinton before him,
Trump will probably continue to assert that a sitting president cannot
be sued, an argument rejected by the supreme court
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squared off against Paula Jones. It is also possible Trump will claim
that being deposed while being impeached is more than one man should
be forced to bear. There, he may have a point.

More ominously for Trump, on Thursday Zervos filed a motion with the
court that outlined a series of sexual assaults in late 2007
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allegedly perpetrated by Trump. For good measure, the results of a
polygraph
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are included. According to Zervos
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in one instance Trump “began kissing” her “very aggressively”,
then pawed at her. Zervos also attached portions of Trump’s calendar
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Barron Trump, the president’s son with Melania, was less than two
years old at the time.

 

On top of that, there is Cohen’s guilty plea that essentially paints
the president AKA “Individual-1” as an unindicted co-conspirator
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in a campaign finance scheme to keep Karen McDougal
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a former Playboy model (“Woman-1”), and Daniels, a porn star
(“Woman-2”), out of the headlines. The plan worked well enough.
The two women were neither seen nor heard until the presidential race
was over.

Among the book’s more questionable vignettes is a story of a younger
Trump, nearly 40 years ago, frequenting a sex club maintained by the
mob and pursuing a threesome
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with a porn star and a young girl. The authors have failed to find the
two women or a possible black-and-white tape.

Beyond that, the building in question has since been demolished and
the mob kingpin behind the club was purportedly whacked in 1986. The
sole eyewitness is named John Tino, and his rap sheet includes
convictions for larceny, fraud and forgery.

Yet Trump’s forays into construction and casinos, his nexus to
organized crime and his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein together
confer a patina of plausibility on a tale that would otherwise be
close to nonexistent. The authors stand by Tino.

The book also raises the possibility Trump may have left in his wake
more than a few terminated pregnancies. David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer
prize winner and a Trump biographer, is quoted as saying that several
“name-brand” women had pregnancies and abortions courtesy of
Trump. Johnston adds: “I don’t have the medical records to prove
it, but they’ve told girlfriends about it.” No names are listed.

All the President’s Women also examines evangelical support for
Trump and Trump’s religious life. One source is quoted as saying
evangelical backing stems from Trump’s judicial selections. Another
attributes it to the loss of “Protestant privilege in America”.

On that score, Pew Research recently announced
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“In US, Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace”. Just
over two in five Americans are Protestants and evangelical
Protestantism is now the dominant branch. At the same time, the
religiously unaffiliated comprise more than a quarter of the country.

 
Potentially more telling is that Paula White
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a preacher of the prosperity gospel, has emerged as Trump’s personal
pastor. White’s take on immigration and Scripture
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Jesus “did live in Egypt for three and a half years. But it was not
illegal. If He had broken the law then He would have been sinful and
He would not have been our Messiah.” Good to know.

White is a resident of Trump Park Avenue, a condominium in
Manhattan’s Lenox Hill neighborhood. In 2018, Omarosa Manigault
Newman, formerly of The Apprentice and the White House, asked
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if White’s position as Trump’s spiritual adviser “had ever been
missionary”? Levine and El-Faizy don’t go there. Instead, they
look to White as a character witness.

It is unlikely All the President’s Women will change many, if any,
minds about Trump. He was never viewed by anyone as a boy scout. Each
half of the US sees what it wants. If Trump is brought down, it
won’t be by his zipper.

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