Bill Clinton’s testimony for a lawsuit brought by Paula Jones, who alleged sexual harassment by Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas and she was a state employee, included a denial of a sexual relationship with Lewinsky.
Responding to Trump’s initial attacks on Bill Clinton, Clinton spokesman Christina Reynolds said, “Though Donald Trump has pushed around nearly all of his fellow Republicans, Hillary Clinton won’t be bullied or distracted by attacks he throws at her and former President Clinton”.
“And that is now the biggest story on television by a factor of 10”. In 2008, Trump stated, “Look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant and they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. I would need Stephen Hawking to find the theoretical limit of how little I care about Donald Trump’s silly jokes”. But Trump is making it easy for the Clintons right now. Trump is already positioning himself as the GOP candidate. He received 234 minutes of coverage, more airtime than the entire Democratic field.
Trump has claimed he’s not sexist, and his daughter Ivanka Trump, who had been notably absent from his campaign so far, emerged Tuesday to insist that her father is “highly gender-neutral”, but he has a history of such comments even before his recent attacks on Clinton.
No other Republican scored more than a point. That’s between Pope Francis and Donald Trump. Several of the major campaigns have another attitude in common – contempt for the news media – that is being taken to new levels of intensity.
Clinton holds a commanding lead over fellow Democratic candidate Vermont Sen. There were moments in which Clinton’s male opponents demonstrated their cluelessness about how to run against a woman; recall President Obama’s “likable enough” moment and John Edwards’ ham-handed comment on Clinton’s pink jacket.
And why? Trump thinks Sanders’ leadership would spell the end of golf. “It’s almost a generation since he was president”. But Trump, who has developed a pattern of attacking those who cross him in ways others won’t, said Wednesday that Hillary Clinton had forced his hand. Yet in the larger scheme of things, Bill Clinton’s conduct toward women is far worse than any of the offensive things that Trump has said.
Before his headline-making South Carolina appearance, the real estate mogul and reality TV star took to Twitter to lob insults at the Clintons, pointing to the presidential scandal two decades ago that ultimately resulted in Bill’s impeachment for lying about having “sexual relations” with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The Senate acquitted Clinton in early 1999, concluding that the charges did not constitute an impeachable offense.