Trump Warns He’ll Keep Going After Clintons Over ’90s Sex Scandals

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, in Ambridge, Pa. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump renewed his attacks on Hillary Clinton for her husband’s extramarital affairs on Monday, saying she allowed him to “take advantage” of women.

“For decades Hillary Clinton has been deeply familiar with her husband’s predatory behavior and instead of trying to stop it, she made it possible for him to take advantage of even more women,” Trump told supporters at a rally in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, saying Clinton put women “in harm’s way.”

“She is a total hypocrite,” he went on. “The hypocrisy of the media and our politicians is hard to believe.”

Trump’s campaign paid to have three women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct sit in the audience at Sunday’s debate, where the Republican nominee expounded on his claim that his Democratic opponent was an enabler of her husband while standing on the stage beside her.

Trump signaled on Monday that he would continue to employ this strategy if the Clinton campaign continued to bring up a newly leaked 2005 tape in which Trump himself once made predatory comments bragging about grabbing women “by the pussy.”

“I was getting beaten up for 72 hours on all the networks for inappropriate words 12 years ago, locker room talk, whatever you want to call it,” Trump told the audience. “But I said to myself, wait a minute—I just said very inappropriate words—but Bill Clinton sexually assaulted innocent women and Hillary Clinton attacked those women viciously.”

“If they want to release more tapes saying inappropriate things, we will continue to talk about Bill and Hillary Clinton doing inappropriate things,” Trump warned.

At Sunday’s second presidential debate, Clinton said, “It’s clear to anyone who heard it that it represents exactly what he is.”

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  1. “If they want to release more tapes saying inappropriate things, we will continue to talk about Bill and Hillary Clinton doing inappropriate things,” Trump warned.

    Double dog dare ya.

  2. Please proceed, Douchebagerer. It’s going to work so well with suburban women to suggest that any wife is responsible for her husband’s extramarital affairs.

  3. Please proceed, Shitbag.

  4. “I was getting beaten up for 72 hours on all the networks for inappropriate words 12 years ago, locker room talk, whatever you want to call it. But I said to myself, wait a minute…”

    It’s as if the Trump brain trust (yeah, yeah…I know) all sat around and asked themselves:

    “If there were just some way to further alienate every single woman voter in America, what would it be?”

  5. Oh, please proceed, HO. Please proceed. Oh – and do not hold back anything, no matter how small the detail. Thank you, Mr. Trump – you’re the only one we can con, I mean, trust to bring us this information. Enjoy the next month, Mr. Trump.
    Sincerely,

    BC

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