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Donald Trump vowed to continue to attack Hillary Clinton over her husband's marital transgressions if more of his own past comments are made public in the final month of the campaign.
“If they want to release more tapes saying inappropriate things, we’ll continue to talk about Bill and Hillary Clinton doing inappropriate things,” Trump said Monday at a rally in Ambridge, Pennsylvania.
Seeking to push back against a furious wave of Republican desertions following the release of a 2005 video of him talking about groping women and getting away with it because of his celebrity, Trump energized Republican voters by confronting Hillary Clinton at the second presidential debate with Bill Clinton's accusers. The strategy locked up the support of his running mate, Mike Pence, and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.
But he also moved to address the larger threat looming on the horizon Monday: the potential emergence of more damaging tapes.
Hours after an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll taken after the video's release and before Sunday's debate showed him trailing Clinton by double digits, Trump said his newly launched scorched-earth tactics were meant to discourage the release of more evidence.
Reports of possible damaging transcripts of Trump from his years as a star of the NBC reality show The Apprentice continued to swirl Monday, leading MGM and producer Mark Burnett to release a statement denying that they would pursue legal action if unaired excerpts were released.
“The recent claims that Mark Burnett has threatened anyone with litigation if they were to leak such material are completely and unequivocally false. To be clear, as previously reported in the press, which Mark Burnett has confirmed, he has consistently supported Democratic campaigns,” the statement said.
At the Pennsylvania rally, Trump told supporters he was being unfairly attacked for “locker room talk” with former Access Hollywood host Billy Bush.
“I was getting beaten up for 72 hours,” Trump said, “for inappropriate words 12 years ago.”
So he brought three of Bill Clinton's most prominent accusers as his guests at the debate, and gave them the chance to speak to a startled press corps just hours before his face-off with Hillary Clinton.
“Bill Clinton sexually assaulted innocent women and Hillary Clinton attacked those women viciously,” he continued at Monday's rally. “She goes out and says ‘Oh, I love women, I’m going to help women.’ She’s a total hypocrite.”
Trump's advisers believe the stepped-up attacks on the Clintons can help him close the polling gap despite Republican allies who warn it could help Clinton seem more sympathetic to voters, particularly women.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-10/trump-threatens-to-push-intensely-personal-clinton-attacks-if-more-tapes-emerge?bpolANews=true
“If they want to release more tapes saying inappropriate things, we’ll continue to talk about Bill and Hillary Clinton doing inappropriate things,” Trump said Monday at a rally in Ambridge, Pennsylvania.
Seeking to push back against a furious wave of Republican desertions following the release of a 2005 video of him talking about groping women and getting away with it because of his celebrity, Trump energized Republican voters by confronting Hillary Clinton at the second presidential debate with Bill Clinton's accusers. The strategy locked up the support of his running mate, Mike Pence, and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.
But he also moved to address the larger threat looming on the horizon Monday: the potential emergence of more damaging tapes.
Hours after an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll taken after the video's release and before Sunday's debate showed him trailing Clinton by double digits, Trump said his newly launched scorched-earth tactics were meant to discourage the release of more evidence.
Reports of possible damaging transcripts of Trump from his years as a star of the NBC reality show The Apprentice continued to swirl Monday, leading MGM and producer Mark Burnett to release a statement denying that they would pursue legal action if unaired excerpts were released.
“The recent claims that Mark Burnett has threatened anyone with litigation if they were to leak such material are completely and unequivocally false. To be clear, as previously reported in the press, which Mark Burnett has confirmed, he has consistently supported Democratic campaigns,” the statement said.
At the Pennsylvania rally, Trump told supporters he was being unfairly attacked for “locker room talk” with former Access Hollywood host Billy Bush.
“I was getting beaten up for 72 hours,” Trump said, “for inappropriate words 12 years ago.”
So he brought three of Bill Clinton's most prominent accusers as his guests at the debate, and gave them the chance to speak to a startled press corps just hours before his face-off with Hillary Clinton.
“Bill Clinton sexually assaulted innocent women and Hillary Clinton attacked those women viciously,” he continued at Monday's rally. “She goes out and says ‘Oh, I love women, I’m going to help women.’ She’s a total hypocrite.”
Trump's advisers believe the stepped-up attacks on the Clintons can help him close the polling gap despite Republican allies who warn it could help Clinton seem more sympathetic to voters, particularly women.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-10/trump-threatens-to-push-intensely-personal-clinton-attacks-if-more-tapes-emerge?bpolANews=true
