Trump Takes Dig At Bill Clinton For Skipping Over Lewinsky Scandal At DNC

FILE - In this June 10, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up while addressing the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference in Washington. Presumptive Repu... FILE - In this June 10, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up while addressing the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference in Washington. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump boils down his foreign policy agenda to two words: “America First.” For students of U.S. history, that slogan harkens back to the tumultuous presidential election of 1940, when hundreds of thousands of Americans joined the anti-war America First Committee. That isolationist group’s primary goal was to keep the United States from joining Britain in the fight against Nazi Germany, which by then had overrun nearly all of Europe. But the committee is also remembered for the unvarnished anti-Semitism of some of its most prominent members and praise for the economic policies of Adolf Hitler.(AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File) MORE LESS
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After promising for months to level no-holds-barred personal attacks on Hillary Clinton over her husband’s extramarital affair in office, Donald Trump almost went there during a Wednesday press conference.

Trump noted that during Bill Clinton’s detailed telling of the story of his life with Hillary Clinton Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention, the former President skipped over a few years—namely, the high-profile scandal with Monica Lewinsky and subsequent impeachment—without getting into specifics.

“Even the story told by her husband last night, he left out the most interesting chapter. I won’t get into that,” Trump told reporters in Doral, Florida. “The chapter that I really waited for—because it was pretty boring—the chapter that I waited for, I never heard. He left it out.”

“Look, Hillary Clinton is a disaster,” the GOP nominee finished, before moving on to a broader critique of the Democratic nominee.

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  1. This is what is wrong with this press conference.

    Everyone remember all the coverage Hillary got during her press conferences last week? Oh…she didn’t host any last week? But her comments got lots of coverag…Oh…they were basically ignored by the MSM? The entire week??

    Fair and Balanced…that’s our news media.

  2. The nerve it takes for this cheating, daughter molesting, 13 yr old girl raping asshole to comment on someone else’s cheating is mind numbing. It’s…what a clueless dick. I’m sorry for the nasty tone to this posting…but this man does not deserve for anything to be held back. He’s a class A piece of dog shit.

  3. Ooh, a press conference - did anyone ask about Russian investors? Or why he won’t release his tax returns?

  4. Yes. But he arranged for the questions to be inaudible to anyone listening to the broadcast. His answers were the usual lying dodges. Move along, nothing to see here.

  5. …oh good. and i was so worried about him not keeping it classy… :unamused:

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