Donald Trump Hits Clintons, Says Women Don’t Like Hillary

Oh no he di-int!

While Trump’s assaults on the Clintons could help fire up his base, Democratic strategists say the attacks may have the opposite effect on Democrats – with whom Bill Clinton is still incredibly popular. Democratic pollster Geoff Garin, who advises a political action committee supporting Clinton, told me, “Trump’s use of social media is more to drive coverage than it is to organize and rally his followers….”

After Obama’s win, the former president noted that Jesse Jackson had won South Carolina’s primary in 1984 and 1988 – victories that didn’t lead to the Democratic nomination.

We do enjoy how Guthrie’s question presupposes that Bill Clinton’s admission he had an affair after angrily and repeatedly lying to the public about it means talking about his predatory behavior is somehow unfair.

The one that talks a lot more about Clinton is Fox News.

“He’s a departure from what they believe are candidates who in the past have only gone after Democrats with kid gloves”, he said.

In a nationally televised interview on Dateline NBC in 1999, Juanita Broaddrick, a nursing home administrator, alleged that Bill Clinton had raped her while he was running for governor two decades prior. Can you believe it? Me. So, if she wants to do that, we’re going to go right after the president, the ex-president. But only if someone brings it up.

Businessman Donald Trump leads the Republican field in the Silver State, according to a new poll of likely GOP caucusgoers conducted by Gravis Marketing. So when he tweeted that Bill Clinton was a liability to Hillary because of his “terrible record of women abuse”, they had to cover it.

Billionaire Trump meanwhile says he plans to spend at least $2 million a week on television advertising in the first three voting states, a move that would mark a massive departure for a candidate who has so far relied on free media to fuel his insurgent campaign. Lemon said something about this being old news and previously litigated. The Clintons preferred the Dominican Republic.

Start with “bimbo eruptions”, the phrase that Mr. Clinton’s Arkansas fixer Betsey Wright used to describe the women who had affairs with Bill. Savanna Guthrie had a trio of interesting responses. Mrs. Clinton later said that “I haven’t been shouting, but sometimes when a woman speaks out, some people think it’s shouting”.

“What are you referring to in particular?”

“You mention Monica Lewinsky”, Guthrie followed up. It’s complicated. Marital issues can be rationalized as personal, yet the Clintons’ political marriage makes them “fair game”. You go after Bill, Bill goes out there.

Sure, some of the claims (like the cat murder) may sound outlandish – and there’s no doubt that many feminist activists would point this out to defend their hero. Twenty? There’s playing journalist, and there’s playing dumb, and it’s hard to see which one is happening here. Certainly, a sexual relationship between the most powerful man in the world and a young intern would fall into this category. In what world would that not be fair game? It is Donald Trump rapid-fire.

But that was nothing compared with what CNN’s Don Lemon engaged in when he had to discuss the topic.

Hillary Clinton, who has been embracing the possibility of becoming the country’s first female president, has also benefited when she has been perceived to have been unfairly attacked by men.