donald trump will broaden his attack against the media to hit globalism and the clinton foundation by charging that mexican billionaire carlos slim is part of a biased coalition working in collusion with the clinton campaign and its supporters to generate news reports of decades-old allegations from several women. mr. trump, defiant and enraged in speeches on thursday, flatly denied charges he had made inappropriate advances on the women over the past three decades. capital journal is wsj.com<u+2019>s home for election 2016. <u+201c>what they say is false and slanderous in virtually every respect,<u+201d> he said at a rally in west palm beach, fla., on thursday, the day after the new york times and other news outlets published accounts of women who said he had fondled or kissed them against their will. as early as friday, mr. trump is planning to claim that mr. slim, as a shareholder of new york times co. and donor to the clinton foundation, has an interest in helping hillary clinton <u+2019>s campaign, according to a trump adviser. attacking the mexican billionaire would allow mr. trump to hit several targets. he could slam the <u+201c>failing<u+201d> new york times, which he says had to be <u+201c>rescued<u+201d> by a <u+201c>foreigner<u+201d><u+2014>mr. slim, the adviser said. <u+201c>this is totally false,<u+201d> said arturo elias, mr. slim<u+2019>s spokesman. <u+201c>of course we aren<u+2019>t interfering in the u.s. election. we aren<u+2019>t even active in mexican politics.<u+201d> he said the contributions by mr. slim to the clinton foundation were a matter of public record. the slim family held about 17% of the new york times class a shares as of march, making them the largest individual shareholder. the sulzberger family still controls the company, with more than 90% of the class b shares. mr. slim and his foundation have given between $250,000 and $500,000 to the clinton foundation since its founding. <u+201c>carlos slim is an excellent shareholder who fully respects boundaries regarding the independence of our journalism,<u+201d> said new york times publisher arthur sulzberger jr. <u+201c>he has never sought to influence what we report.<u+201d> the times said it stood by its reporting and declined a demand from a lawyer representing mr. trump to remove the story. the attack on mr. slim <u+201c>is just another deranged right-wing conspiracy theory from donald trump<u+2019>s increasingly desperate campaign,<u+201d> said brian fallon, mrs. clinton<u+2019>s press secretary. mr. trump said in his florida speech he would soon produce emails and other evidence to counter the sexual-misconduct claims but didn<u+2019>t give specifics. instead, he framed the episode in blunt populist terms, of how the political and media establishments are pitted against him and his supporters. <u+201c>i take all of these slings and arrows gladly for you,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>i take them for our movement so that we can have our country back.<u+201d> mr. trump<u+2019>s speech was an extended response to the spate of reports that surfaced wednesday just as trump allies had been hoping he had stabilized his standing in the race following last week<u+2019>s release of a 2005 video in which he bragged about being able to exploit women sexually. during the debate with mrs. clinton sunday, mr. trump said that tape captured <u+201c>locker room talk<u+201d> that is not representative of his real behavior. <u+2014>janet hook contributed to this article. write to monica langley at monica.langley@wsj.com
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