Before and during Bill Clinton’s presidency, the issue of sexual abuse allegations “never got the news coverage it deserved at the time because the media was much more narrow and more controlled”, Stone said in an interview Thursday.
Taken together, the stories about Trump and his retorts about Bill Clinton have plunged an already rancorous campaign to new lows.
Donald Trump suggested some of his female accusers were unattractive and said of his opponent, Hillary Clinton, “when she walked in front of me I wasn’t impressed”.
Another clear advantage for Clinton is that she can rely on popular, high profile surrogates like the president and first lady Michelle Obama and other top Democrats while Trump is at war with the Republican establishment and numerous party’s top current and former officials are staying on the sidelines.
Trump is trying to discredit new allegations of groping and sexual assault.
At a morning rally in Ocala, Trump said that he was “embarrassed” Congress had not done more to probe Clinton after the Federal Bureau of Investigation decided not to seek charges against her over the private email server she used as secretary of state. But if anyone still needed convincing, he said, they should go watch his wife’s speech from earlier today. Because it did not happen! They never happened. They never would happen.
Trump has denied “stalking” Clinton during the debate in an attempt to intimidate her.
Four of Trump’s top advisers have waited a quarter-century to more deeply explore accusations that the former president assaulted women. “It was so inappropriate”, she told the newspaper. “His hands were everywhere”. To the contrary, Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, Eugene Robinson and, yes, Republican strategists Nicole Wallace and Steve Schmidt were the exceptions – nailing Trump’s twitchy, seemingly coked-up “jumble of sniffles and nonsense”, as John Oliver described it last week. While acknowledging any evidence was circumstantial, Podesta said the alleged ties could be driven either by Trump’s policy positions or the Republican’s “deep engagement and ties with Russian interests in his business affairs”.
And late Wednesday, a writer for People magazine reported a 2005 incident in which she said Trump kissed her against her will at Mar-a-Lago. The Trump campaign said there was no “merit or veracity” to either story.
Yet in a sign of how toxic Trump has become for other Republicans, Portman revoked his support for Trump after video emerged of Trump making offensive comments about women. He said you just have to be a decent human being. “You can do anything”. The 70-year-old billionaire has apologized, but also repeatedly dismissed his comments as “locker room talk”. Rejecting his claims of being the victim of false stories, Hillary Clinton and ally Michelle Obama say Americans are learning more about Trump’s unacceptable behavior every day. “I will make sure that she is there”. The revelation prompted a flood of Republicans to revoke their support for Trump, with some even calling for him to drop out of the race – though a handful of GOP officials have since switched back to supporting their party’s nominee.
Though the president said he didn’t need to spend much time convincing the Democratic crowd gathered to vote for Clinton. A few of the original defectors subsequently got back on board, including Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska and Reps. Ryan is campaigning for House Republicans in Texas and Walker is the keynote speaker at a previously scheduled GOP candidate training event in New Jersey.
For Trump, the cumulative effect of his brazen strategy appears to be a tumble in the battleground states he needs to win in November. Other friends also told the Post that Anderson told them the same story years ago.
“We are competing everywhere”.
“I know how important it is that we stay focused on the concerns that people have, not on the demagoguery and distraction”, she said.
It seems anybody who thought Byrne was withdrawing support for Trump was jumping to conclusions.
But giving his army what it wants is one thing.
Trump saw it another way ahead of a campaign appearance in Florida.
“Don’t act like this all started with Donald Trump“, he went on to say, while adding with a chuckle, “He took it to a new level, I’ll give him credit”. How many emails have to be destroyed?
“These people are sick”, he said. Among men, who have heavily backed Trump, Clinton turned a 16-point deficit into a 1-point advantage by the end of the poll. Obama, in an op-ed in the magazine Wired, said the USA needed to adapt its skills to address emerging threats like antibiotic-resistant “superbugs”, cybersecurity and climate change.
The FBI said anew that it is investigating possible Russian hacking involving US politics but made no comment on Podesta.