... but, then again, that's not too surprising.
GQ Magazine Asks Donald Trump Jr. if He Wants to Have Sex with His Mother
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/06/21/exclusive-oedipal-impulses-gq-reporter-asks-donald-trump-jr-if-he-wants-to-have-sex-with-his-mother/
The reporter writing the GQ story, Julia Ioffe, was fired a little over a year ago from Politico for making similarly prurient accusations against the first family, suggesting that President Trump was having sex with his daughter Ivanka Trump. After being fired from Politico, Ioffe joined The Atlantic's staff and she also writes for other publications - including this piece for GQ magazine.
The wild story begins a couple weeks ago, when GQ researcher Andrew Fedorov - on behalf of Ioffe, for a story published this Thursday - emailed a series of fact-checking questions to the Trump Organization's official press request email address. The email, obtained by Breitbart News, included questions about the president's son's well-known love for fishing and angling, as well as various other basic, non-controversial questions.
But then came this bombshell: "Was there ever a time when Donald Trump Jr. felt any oedipal impulses?" ...
No one from GQ has even attempted to justify the distasteful insinuation with a reporting angle relevant to the public interest. No mention or suggestion of this line of questioning made it into the published version of Ioffe's story. Ioffe has not replied to a request for comment on this issue by press time. ...
"We are disappointed by the astonishingly inappropriate questions posed to Don, Jr., for this piece," Andy Surabian, a former Trump campaign and White House official who now represents the president's son, told Breitbart News. "We're hopeful that in the future GQ will have the common decency to refrain from asking people about bizarre and disgusting conspiracy theories that have no basis in reality."
Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary, was equally upset. "This continuing line of questions is both disgusting and reprehensible," Spicer told Breitbart News.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, former White House aide and editor at Breitbart News, condemned the magazine's fixation on salacious insults as "demented."
"GQ used to be a mildly entertaining read about where to buy your next pair of brogues, or which style of aviators is cool this year," Gorka said. "Now it just reads like a glossier and just as demented version of Mother Jones."
"The editors and the author owe Don Jr. and the entire Trump family an immediate apology for their despicable screed. Asking the son of the President of the United States about having an 'Oedipus complex' isn't journalism, it's the act of a political sociopath."
"GQ has succeeded in lowering their reputation to the point at which The National Enquirer is more reputable than they are. By succumbing to Hillary's logic of seeing those they do not agree with as Deplorables, they have reinforced for most Americans just why Donald Trump became President."
Reporter Ioffe was fired from Politico in late 2016 for doing almost exactly the same thing with a different member of the president's family, his daughter Ivanka.
Nearly two years later, Ioffe's apparent interest in the Trump family's sex lives has not waned at all. ...
"Unfortunately, this is the type of morally bankrupt treatment that the Trump family has to deal with on a daily basis from the fake news media," Citizens United president Dave Bossie, Trump's 2016 general election deputy campaign manager, told Breitbart News. "Would GQ have ever asked the children of Barack Obama or Bill and Hillary Clinton the same type of fact-free and repugnant questions that they apparently felt comfortable asking Don, Jr.?" ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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