Salma Hayek on Trump's efforts to get her to date him:
..... During a radio interview, the actress recalled, “When I met that man, I had a boyfriend, and he tried to become his friend to get my home telephone number. He got my number and he would call me to invite me out.” She continued, “When I told him I wouldn’t go out with him even if I didn’t have a boyfriend, [which he took as disrespectful], he called—well, he wouldn’t say he called, but someone told the National Enquirer— I’m not going to say who, because you know that whatever he wants to come out comes out in the National Enquirer. It said that he wouldn’t go out with me because I was too short.” ?
[ I don't believe this man ran the Trump Organization. No real executive has the time to do all this ego serving media crap. I think he was a figurehead for the family-owned business. ]
“Later, he called and left me a message. ‘Can you believe this? Who would say this? I don’t want people to think this about you,’” Hayek concluded. “He thought that I would try to go out with him so people wouldn’t think that’s why he wouldn’t go out with me.”
While the Trump anecdote is almost too absurd to be considered intimidation, his urge to humiliate Hayek and/or pressure her into going on a date is its own form of retaliation. Trump, like Weinstein, clearly hates to be told no; these men don’t seem to understand the concept. While Weinstein used his industry influence to attempt to control and even punish Hayek, Trump called on an ally—the National Enquirer—in an attempt to malign and ensnare his romantic mark.
The National Enquirer, helmed by recently accused editor Dylan Howard, is a “mutual friend” of Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump. This sinister association of Bad Men may sound like a conspiracy theory, but it’s very much substantiated. As The Washington Post noted, “The National Enquirer provided to Democrat Harvey Weinstein the same reputation-management services that it furnished to Republican Donald Trump.” The New Yorkerreported: “A December, 2016, e-mail exchange between Weinstein and Dylan Howard, the chief content officer of American Media Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer, shows that Howard shared with Weinstein material obtained by one of his reporters, as part of an effort to help Weinstein disprove [Rose] McGowan’s allegation of rape. In one e-mail, Howard sent Weinstein a list of contacts. ‘Let’s discuss next steps on each,’ he wrote.”
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