Only the politically naïve didn’t see this coming. The liberal outlet “The Daily Beast” begins to attack Donald Trump personally, through a method of hiding behind citations in old books and manipulating content/context delivery to attack their target.
The Daily Beast takes this very specific and very strategic approach because references to the statements/opinions of others allows them to avoid libel and legal accountability.

(Screenshot Daily Beast 8:57pm 7/27/15)
For over a decade the political progressive news machine has finely tuned this attack approach. They do this by citing “according to“, such as in this example:
[…] What followed was a “violent assault,” according to Lost Tycoon.
Or they’ll use “the author writes“, and interplay it’s use in the written paragraph:
[…] Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified … It is a violent assault,” Hurt writes.
The salacious attack method is very familiar. (more…)