from âDOCUMENTING TRUMPâS ABUSE OF WOMENâ by Jane Mayer
âLost Tycoonâ didnât sell well. It came out at a time when Trumpâs businesses were faltering, and interest in him had waned. But this spring, when Trump was one of three Republican Presidential candidates still in the race, Hurt asked Norton to reissue the book. Word came back that the publisherâs lawyers had deemed the book âtoo dangerous to publish.â (Norton said it had made âa business decision.â)
Hurt decided to scan the book and reissue it himself online. When a reporter for the Daily Beast began making calls about the rape allegation, Michael Cohen, a Trump lawyer, told him, âYou write a story that has Mr. Trumpâs name in it and the word ârape,â and Iâm going to mess your life up . . . for as long as youâre on this frickinâ planet.â