Donald Trump's Lawyer Threatens Reporters, Says "You Can't Rape Your Spouse"

The special counsel for presidential candidate Donald Trump had some heated words for a Daily Beast reporter who was asking questions about an old remark from Trump's ex-wife Ivana Trump. Michael Cohen gave an expletive-laden rant to the Daily Beast reporters about Ivana Trump's remarks from twenty years ago that suggested Donald had sexually assaulted her while they were married.

Daily Beast was referring to Ivana and Donald's early 1990s divorce case. During the proceedings, Ivana described a situation where, she had told friends, "he raped me," according to 1993 book, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump by Harry Hurt III.

When the book was published, Ivana Trump clarified her comments in a note printed at the beginning of the book.

"As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent. I referred to this as a 'rape,' but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense," the note reads.

Cohen was not as well worded as Ivana Trump. He went on a verbal rampage against the Daily Beast reporters.

"I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we're in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don't have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know," Cohen said. "So I'm warning you, tread very f**king lightly, because what I'm going to do to you is going to be f**king disgusting. You understand me?"

Cohen also said, "by the very definition, you can't rape your spouse." Quite to the contrary, marital rape has been illegal in New York State since 1984 and in all 50 states by 1993.

"He's speaking for himself. He's not speaking for me, obviously," Trump said on CNN on Tuesday, distancing himself from Cohen after the outburst.

Cohen apologized for his comments on Tuesday, saying that "the gall of this particular reporter to make such a reprehensible and false allegation against Mr. Trump truly stunned me."

"I have recently read some comments attributed to me from nearly 30 years ago at a time of very high tension during my divorce from Donald. The story is totally without merit," Ivana Trump said in a statement.

Donald Trump has also come under fire this week for allegations that he told a female lawyer she was "disgusting" when she requested a pause in a court case to breastfeed in 2011.

Most shocking part of this? Trump's lawyer thinks it's legal to rape your spouse. Giving Akin a run for his money. https://t.co/eB9h2KjiFc

— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) July 28, 2015