Donald and Ivana fight unsealing of divorce records

[Jacque67 7,328]

The Times and Gannett argued that Donald Trump's treatment of women, finances and personal credibility are at issue in the presidential campaign, creating an "intense" public interest in the divorce files. The news outlets also noted that the divorce was granted in 1990 on grounds of "cruel and inhuman treatment" by the real estate mogul.

However, Donald Trump's lawyers say the interests advanced by the media don't amount to the kind of "special circumstances" that justify disregarding the presumption of secrecy.

"The courts [in New York] have never overridden those protections because of a purported public interest in vetting political candidates," wrote Kasowitz and other attorneys from the New York-based firm Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman as well as longtime Trump Organization lawyer Michael Cohen. "There is simply no importance, overriding or otherwise, to unsealing the matrimonial records of a political candidate."

The GOP presidential candidate's brief also veers into one of the hot political topics of the dayDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's healthwith a warning that a decision to open up divorce files could create "an untenable slippery slope" leading to opening other records normally considered confidential such as candidates' academic and medical records.

"For example, President Obama did not release his academic records, even though he made his intelligence and preparation campaign issues, and Secretary Clinton is not revealing her medical records, even though her medical condition is being raised as an issue in the current campaign. Nor could or should they be compelled to do so," Donald Trump's submission says.

Clinton has released a two-page statement about her health issued by her physician, but has not disclosed original or detailed medical records. Trump has released a less-detailed statement from his doctor. Both candidates have indicated plans to make more health information public.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-ivana-divorce-records-228119#ixzz4KFBR1GFg

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Don't want to give Melania a strategy;)

Ivana was the smartest of them all!!!!

[Rob L 3,811]

""For example, President Obama did not release his academic records, even though he made his intelligence and preparation campaign issues, and Secretary Clinton is not revealing her medical records, even though her medical condition is being raised as an issue in the current campaign. "

And the Donald refuses to release even his earlier tax returns and fights release of depositions from Trump U lawsuit even though he touts that he is one of the greatest business people ever.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Gotta keep that lifestyle;)

[lostinblue 1,989]

Let’s take a romp down memory lane and review the typical Obama campaign strategy. Obama became a U.S. senator only by virtue of David Axelrod’s former employer, the Chicago Tribune, ripping open the sealed divorce records of Obama’s two principal opponents.

One month before the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, Obama was down in the polls, about to lose to Blair Hull, a multimillionaire securities trader. But then the Chicago Tribune leaked the claim that Hull’s second ex-wife, Brenda Sexton, had sought an order of protection against him during their 1998 divorce proceedings.

Those records were under seal, but as The New York Times noted: “The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had ‘worked aggressively behind the scenes’ to push the story.” Many people said Axelrod had “an even more significant role — that he leaked the initial story.”

Both Hull and his ex-wife opposed releasing their sealed divorce records, but they finally relented in response to the media’s hysteria — 18 days before the primary. Hull was forced to spend four minutes of a debate detailing the abuse allegation in his divorce papers, explaining that his ex-wife “kicked me in the leg and I hit her shin to try to get her to not continue to kick me.”

After having held a substantial lead just a month before the primary, Hull’s campaign collapsed with the chatter about his divorce. Obama sailed to the front of the pack and won the primary. Hull finished third with 10 percent of the vote.

As luck would have it, Obama’s opponent in the general election had also been divorced! Jack Ryan was tall, handsome, Catholic — and shared a name with one of Harrison Ford’s most popular onscreen characters! He went to Dartmouth, Harvard Law and Harvard Business School, made hundreds of millions of dollars as a partner at Goldman Sachs, and then, in his early 40s, left investment banking to teach at an inner city school on the South Side of Chicago.

Ryan would have walloped Obama in the Senate race. But at the request of — again — the Chicago Tribune, California Judge Robert Schnider unsealed the custody papers in Ryan’s divorce five years earlier from Hollywood starlet Jeri Lynn Ryan, the bombshell Borg on “Star Trek: Voyager.”

http://humanevents.com/2012/08/01/ann-coulter-obamas-signature-move-unsealing-private-records/

The same m.o. for liberals everywhere

[smilesammich 10,727]

Let’s take a romp down memory lane and review the typical Obama campaign strategy. Obama became a U.S. senator only by virtue of David Axelrod’s former employer, the Chicago Tribune, ripping open the sealed divorce records of Obama’s two principal opponents.

One month before the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, Obama was down in the polls, about to lose to Blair Hull, a multimillionaire securities trader. But then the Chicago Tribune leaked the claim that Hull’s second ex-wife, Brenda Sexton, had sought an order of protection against him during their 1998 divorce proceedings.

Those records were under seal, but as The New York Times noted: “The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had ‘worked aggressively behind the scenes’ to push the story.” Many people said Axelrod had “an even more significant role — that he leaked the initial story.”

Both Hull and his ex-wife opposed releasing their sealed divorce records, but they finally relented in response to the media’s hysteria — 18 days before the primary. Hull was forced to spend four minutes of a debate detailing the abuse allegation in his divorce papers, explaining that his ex-wife “kicked me in the leg and I hit her shin to try to get her to not continue to kick me.”

After having held a substantial lead just a month before the primary, Hull’s campaign collapsed with the chatter about his divorce. Obama sailed to the front of the pack and won the primary. Hull finished third with 10 percent of the vote.

As luck would have it, Obama’s opponent in the general election had also been divorced! Jack Ryan was tall, handsome, Catholic — and shared a name with one of Harrison Ford’s most popular onscreen characters! He went to Dartmouth, Harvard Law and Harvard Business School, made hundreds of millions of dollars as a partner at Goldman Sachs, and then, in his early 40s, left investment banking to teach at an inner city school on the South Side of Chicago.

Ryan would have walloped Obama in the Senate race. But at the request of — again — the Chicago Tribune, California Judge Robert Schnider unsealed the custody papers in Ryan’s divorce five years earlier from Hollywood starlet Jeri Lynn Ryan, the bombshell Borg on “Star Trek: Voyager.”

http://humanevents.com/2012/08/01/ann-coulter-obamas-signature-move-unsealing-private-records/

The same m.o. for liberals everywhere

so you think the only reason obama was elected senator is because hull was forced to speak four minutes on how he hit his exwife's shin?

[Jacque67 7,328]

Irrelevant!!!!!! Nice try with the boomerang! Sad!

Edited September 14, 2016 by Jacque67