by nolan d. mccaskill 10/10/16 06:06 pm edt updated 10/10/16 06:05 pm edt donald trump emerged from sunday night<u+2019>s presidential debate, ready to sling more mud. trump, speaking before a rally in pennsylvania on monday afternoon, said he's been ganged up on ever since friday's release of a 2005 tape that captured the billionaire speaking in incredibly crude terms about women. story continued below <u+201c>i was getting beaten up for 72 hours on all the networks for inappropriate words 12 years ago <u+2014> locker room talk, whatever you wanna call it,<u+201d> trump said, referring to the wall-to-wall coverage of comments that described his ability to get away with sexual assault. <u+201c>but, i said to myself, wait a minute <u+2014> and i just saw very inappropriate words <u+2014> but bill clinton sexually assaulted innocent women, and hillary clinton attacked those women viciously. one of them said more viciously than he attacked them.<u+201d> trump warned against the release of more damaging tapes of his past comments, threatening to continue attacking the clintons over former president bill clinton<u+2019>s alleged infidelities and hillary clinton<u+2019>s response to those women<u+2019>s accusations if more such tapes emerge. though clinton<u+2019>s campaign has denied any involvement in leaking the <u+201c>access hollywood<u+201d> clip that has dogged trump<u+2019>s campaign all weekend and prompted an exodus of support from prominent republicans, trump said more such releases will come at a risk for the clintons <u+2014> he cast bill clinton as a predator monday and hillary clinton as a <u+201c>total hypocrite<u+201d> who enabled him to hurt more women. <u+201c>if they wanna release more tapes saying inappropriate things, we<u+2019>ll continue to talk about bill and hillary clinton doing inappropriate things,<u+201d> trump said. <u+201c>there are so many of them, folks.<u+201d> trump aggressively went after hillary clinton at his rally, reviving a number of attack lines he used in sunday<u+2019>s debate all the while ignoring the news that rippled through washington: house speaker paul ryan dumped trump earlier monday (though he hasn<u+2019>t officially rescinded his endorsement), telling republicans in his chamber on a conference call that he will no longer defend trump and that they should do whatever<u+2019>s necessary to maintain their majority. by nolan d. mccaskill clinton emerged from trump's weekend of wreckage with a double-digit lead over the billionaire nationally, according to an nbc news/wall street journal poll released monday. his 11-point deficit threatens to be a drag on congressional republicans<u+2019> reelection efforts. trump has repeatedly attacked bill clinton since the revelation of extremely lewd comments the real estate mogul made about women were exposed on friday. in a brief written statement, trump dismissed his remarks about trying to sleep with a married woman and groping women<u+2019>s genitals and forcibly kissing them with impunity because he<u+2019>s famous as <u+201c>locker room banter.<u+201d> he accused bill clinton of having said <u+201c>far worse<u+201d> to him in private conversations while golfing. but he didn<u+2019>t leave it at that, and he didn<u+2019>t stop there. he attacked the clintons again in a video statement released shortly after midnight saturday and once again sunday evening at the st. louis debate, which the gop nominee preceded with a surprise panel on facebook live featuring women who have accused the clintons of wrongdoing. those women <u+2014> juanita broaddrick, paula jones, kathleen willey and kathy shelton <u+2014> also attended the debate. trump<u+2019>s campaign had even devised a covert plan to have the four women join the trump family<u+2019>s box and cause a scene on national television by entering the debate hall with the 42nd president. but the plan that was thwarted by a co-chair of the commission on presidential debates, which threatened to have security remove the women from the family-only elevated box. <u+201c>you probably saw yesterday: we brought four wonderful women to st. louis. and honestly, it was both very beautiful and very sad,<u+201d> trump said monday. <u+201c>really, they had been trying to get their feelings out for so long and the media wouldn<u+2019>t take it.<u+201d> that is, until they appeared with trump. <u+201c>so they were able to get what they wanted to get out,<u+201d> trump said, going on to quote broaddrick<u+2019>s accusations about bill clinton<u+2019>s alleged rape and hillary clinton<u+2019>s alleged threat. <u+201c>she<u+2019>s been struggling to get the media to pay attention to her for many, many years. so last night i decided we would expose the hypocrisy of the clintons and the media to the entire world.<u+201d> by toby eckert trump re-upped his claim that hillary clinton has <u+201c>hatred in her heart.<u+201d> he restated that bill clinton is <u+201c>the worst abuser of women ever to sit in the oval office<u+201d> and blamed hillary clinton for <u+201c>systematically<u+201d> attacking and discrediting <u+201c>the victims of bill clinton<u+2019>s sexual harassment and assault.<u+201d> <u+201c>these things aren<u+2019>t written by the media, but they<u+2019>re true,<u+201d> said trump, who rattled off about a half-dozen of bill clinton<u+2019>s accusers but cautioned that <u+201c>many, many more<u+201d> exist (the clintons have denied such allegations). <u+201c>for decades, hillary clinton has been deeply familiar with her husband<u+2019>s predatory behavior, and instead of trying to stop it, she made it possible for him to take advantage of even more women. she put even more women in harm<u+2019>s way and then she goes out and says, <u+2018>i love women, i<u+2019>m gonna help women, i<u+2019>m gonna help them.<u+2019> she<u+2019>s a total hypocrite.<u+201d> trump slammed the alleged <u+201c>hypocrisy of the media and our politicians.<u+201d> <u+201c>they condemned my words, but they ignore and defend the reprehens<u+2014> and this is the way it is <u+2014> the reprehensible actions of hillary and bill clinton that have destroyed and hurt so many lives.<u+201d> he also blasted hillary clinton for defending a man who allegedly raped then-12-year-old kathy shelton. <u+201c>as the lawyer for the rapist, hillary clinton said the little girl was emotionally unstable and had a <u+2014> quote <u+2014> tendency to seek out older men and engage in fantasizing. hillary ruined that young girl<u+2019>s life,<u+201d> trump said. <u+201c>destroyed her life, and years later she was recorded laughing about it on videotape. she was laughing at the girl.<u+201d> while the notion that clinton was laughing at shelton has been debunked, trump added: <u+201c>there<u+2019>s nothing hillary clinton won<u+2019>t do or say to obtain power, and it<u+2019>s about time people started to understand that. but the hypocrites in the media don<u+2019>t wanna talk about what hillary clinton has done to these victims. they don<u+2019>t wanna talk about what their other political heroes have done to other innocent girls and women.<u+201d> by thomas wright by bill scher by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
trump threatens to attack clintons if more damaging tapes of him go public - politico
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