These misogynistic attacks will only ramp up as Trump battles Clinton in the general election-Ivanka Trump won’t be able to defend her father’s remarks for much longer.
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While the article characterizes it as “a debasing face-to-face encounter between Mr. Trump and a young woman he hardly knew”, it also contrasts his public persona – the televised insults, the degrading tweets – with the man who also took pains to laud and elevate women in his organization, a “complex, at times contradictory portrait … that defies simple categorization”.
Trump’s sexist history with women has been well-documented, so the allegations brought forth by the NYT are not shocking in the least.
“Look, I’m not in every interaction my father has, but he’s not a groper”, Ms Trump, who works as an executive vice president for her father’s business empire, commented. “And he has total respect for women”, she said.
The New York Times piece in question, “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private“, for which the paper spent six weeks interviewing more than 50 people, revealed “unwelcome romantic advances, unending commentary on the female form, a shrewd reliance on ambitious women, and unsettling workplace conduct, according to the interviews, as well as court records and written recollections”.
Donald Trump today demanded that the New York Times sack its reporter who did an investigative report on his relationships with women that allegedly showed the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in bad light. “Let me just say, this was a very traumatic thing working for him”.
“Basically he name-dropped throughout that dinner, when he wasn’t groping me under the table”, she testified.
The full interview will air Wednesday morning on “CBS This Morning”. “There was no trend towards equality in real estate and the construction industry back in the 1980s”. “And he was doing it because he believes ultimately in merit”.
“I was bothered by it, but it’s largely been discredited since”, she said, referring to Brewer Lane’s criticism of the report.
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The former beauty queen was signing a different tune Tuesday night, sticking up for Trump. “They had a strong thesis and created facts to reinforce it, and I think that narrative has been played out now, and there’s backlash in that regard”, she said. In this case, they went so far. He turned to Brook Antoinette Mahealani Lee, Miss Universe at the time, and asked for her opinion of his daughter’s body. “He asked me the same thing about Ivana [Trump]”.
