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© Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Trump slams GOP ahead of debate, raises Clinton scandals
By JULIE PACE and LISA LERER ST. LOUIS©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Madverts
Trump's campaign is in Meltdown. The GOP in its' death throes.
All Mrs Clinton has to do is remain calm during his unhinged onslaught. She's a seasoned diplomat and a top notch lawyer. Trump is an entitled buffoon.
The end of Trump isn't going to be pretty. This whole debacle is an insult to American democracy.
JefferyDomer
Clinton = war GUARANTEED!
Trump = a chance
But I suppose most people will obey whatever the mainstream tell them what to do. This current all out media assult on Trump reminds me of Nicola Tesla.
qwertyjapan
Americans who post here constantly criticizing Japanese politicians or the political system might want to look in the mirror at the part clown circus, part reality show that is US politics before you hit the Enter button.
ArtistAtLarge
Tesla contributed knowledge and advancement in science. Trump contributes nothing to anything. Your comparison is a false equivalency.
CrazyJoe
The man brags about sexual assault on video. Not to mention the prior news that he doesn't pay federal income taxes and that he thinks soldiers with mental issues are weak. This all happened the past two weeks. Trump is simply unqualified for this office and nothing in the debates will change that. How can anyone defend this guy?
Laguna
A public opinion poll by POLITICO/Morning Consult taken just after news broke of the pussygate video found that 39 percent of voters thought Trump should withdraw, while 45 percent said he should stay.
I count myself in the latter camp. What could be more fun than four more weeks of Trump? Think of all to come that we'd miss out on if he withdrew!
Lesson: Vet your candidate.
SuperLib
Oh Trump needs to stay. The GOP needs to be reminded of their choice until election day. Over....and over....and over again. He's going to lose it tonight when Hillary baits him.
badsey3
http://www.infowars.com/never-before-seen-video-obama-on-race-i-am-saddened-that-whites-are-still-superior-things-could-explode/
-Obama should not talk.
qwertyjapan
The American election process and candidates are the finest in the world. God bless America.
bass4funk
I think this is a great opportunity for a Trump comeback. The man is not a fool.
Clinton can remain calm as she wants, the main thing is, can she defend her record, she still refuses to answers a lot of questions by a lot of people. She may be a seasoned habitual liar, but at least we should see how she fairs and what both have learned about one another.
If it's the end.
Laguna
That's debatable - the proof is in the pudding. What's worse for the GOP is that Trump is much worse than a fool.
serendipitous
It actually wouldn't surprise me if Trump ends up in prison. He'll lose the election by a landslide. Then his business dealings will be looked at very closely and most likely evidence of illegal use of 'Trump Foundation' money will turn up among other dodgy deals with Cuba and Russia. Then all the ladies he has mentioned grabbing by the you-know-what and forcibly kissing will come forward (Bill Cosby-style) and he'll continue to be stuck in court for years. Then prison. I can already see the book coming titled, 'The Rise and Spectacular Fall of DJT".
paulinusa
You can be sure Trump will quote from sleazy rightwing books that had any no evidence or credibility.
OssanAmerica
Another hour and hopefully I'll get to see this idiot go down in flames. I can see him now "It was over 10 years ago, I didn't mean it. I was joking. Either way I've changed. Let me make America great again." I want to see him make a public apology.
SenseNotSoCommon
But still attacking the candidate for the 1993 race.
bass4funk
A fool can't make millions.
You don't know that, 1980 people said the same about the cowboy actor. LOL
You mean like Obama's fast and furious and the Iran deal, ransom debacle?
No one can match the sex acts of indiscretions and infidelity of one William Jefferson Clinton. Hands down, the man is THE most prolific political sexual abuser around, that should give you pause.
Bill Murphy
Thanks to Donald Trump AND the media for putting "pussy" in my face every day. Just what I needed. Now, back to reality ...
turbotsat
What like SFGate, the online site of the San Francisco Chronicle? (19 page exposé of the Clintons' hired detective, much of it about his actions intimidating Bill's 'bimbos'): http://www.sfgate.com/magazine/article/WATCHING-THE-DETECTIVE-3491214.php
Do you really think the San Francisco Chronicle is right-wing?
Newsweek also reported it. Washington Post also reported it. (They're both included in the SFGate article.) All right-wing?
goldorak
Reckon he'll blow a fuse today, mention Bill, jfk etc. The 'it's just how we successful men talk in private' line is his only chance, too late to apologise/retract, no one would believe him anyway.
It would make it harder for Hillary to have a proper go at him if he says he admits he is no better than Bill, should have known better, they/we can often be insensitive blabla. Can't wait for some 'bill and I stuff' haha
Bill Murphy
Bill Clinton must be hating this as it will put a real damper on his hijinks in the WH next year. Better than Hillary making him wear a chastity belt.
mtuffizi
biggest moron
bass4funk
biggest moron
Hillary may be a chronic liar, but a moron? A bit harsh, don't you think?
SuperLib
Trump's not a moron, just sheltered. His supporters on the other hand.... He sure sold them some bunk product.
paulinusa
turbostat: Where does it mention Hillary Clinton hiring a detectives or personally attacking women who had an affair with Bill Clinton?
yabits
Full on Monty Python Black Knight mode.
Yes, the man and his supporters at this point are indeed fools. As Abraham Lincoln said, "you can fool some of the people all of the time."
Lizz
Even the New York Times doesn't bother to whitewash what we have all known for 20 years. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/us/politics/hillary-bill-clinton-women.html
How Hillary Clinton Grappled With Bill Clinton’s Infidelity, and His Accusers
Outwardly, she remained stoic and defiant, defending her husband while a progression of women and well-funded conservative operatives accused Mr. Clinton of behavior unbecoming the leader of the free world.
But privately, she embraced the Clinton campaign’s aggressive strategy of counterattack: Women who claimed to have had sexual encounters with Mr. Clinton would become targets of digging and discrediting — tactics that women’s rights advocates frequently denounce.
The campaign hired a private investigator with a bare-knuckles reputation who embarked on a mission, as he put it in a memo, to impugn Ms. Flowers’s “character and veracity until she is destroyed beyond all recognition.”
In a pattern that would later be repeated with other women, the investigator’s staff scoured Arkansas and beyond, collecting disparaging accounts from ex-boyfriends, employers and others who claimed to know Ms. Flowers, accounts that the campaign then disseminated to the news media.
katsu78
How predictable. It's all too common for both narcissists and bigots to attempt to justify their behavior by claiming everyone else secretly engages in it as well. Their fragile egos can't even contemplate the possibility that they made a mistake, so when everyone else in the world tells them they did wrong, they have to perform mental gymnastics to imagine that everyone else in the world are really the ones who are wrong.
Sure they can! It's quite easy for any fool to make millions when their daddy gives them millions to start, along with business connections and intellectual support, and then you use those resources to not pay your employees, not pay your taxes, exploit the sub-prime mortgage fiasco, and if your business ever does go under, declare bankruptcy and put someone else on the hook for it. It's easy to be rich when you get handed everything from the beginning from someone else who earned it. Frankly, if Trump really had any brains, we should expect him to be even richer.
kiyoshiMukai
I don't think its a big deal talking about "grab the pus". Whats all the fuss about that? haven't anyy of you talk like that with friends? If Hillary get elected because of that then I'm sure that United States is a worthless country
Haaa Nemui
It wouldn't be inappropriate for Clinton to suggest Trump focus only on policy, and then walk away when he starts on something attacking Clinton or her husband. If she did that however, Trump would still think he won the debate.
BurakuminDes
Nope, myself and all my friends are not grubs who boast about wanting to sexually assault women. Only the lowest of low scum would ever talk like that.
bass4funk
I might have to agree with that statement, sadly.
Please elaborate, please tell 85 million people that are struggling in the States how they can do this.
So the NYTimes, didn't pay, Apple didn't pay, the Clintons after they left the White House didn't pay, most Big execs that have thousands of employees go through this, if they didn't, do you know how many companies would be out of business and Starbucks for example would be one of them. Also, NOT everyone that got some help from their parents will become successful. Now, how did the Clintons rack up a billion dollars just by doing speeches? Tell me.
Ahh, the old Obama socialist talk, "you didn't build that." like he said with Apple.
turbotsat
Washington Post, NOT 'right-wing', "She" = Hillary:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/enabler-or-family-defender-how-hillary-clinton-responded-to-husbands-accusers/2016/09/28/58dad5d4-6fb1-11e6-8533-6b0b0ded0253_story.html
nadaku
80%? Really? Proof please. Republicans and facts is like water and fire.... tell me, if 80% want her in jail, how come she is frontrunner?
Lizz
She is wounded beyond repair tonight.
FizzBit
The silly people who support Hillary the warmonger have blinders on their minds. Very very sad as they don't care about war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3b6SGoN6dA
bass4funk
You do know that Hillary will have NO problem with launching or calling for war if she's agitated or feels that she doesn't get the respect that she deserves with her adversaries and the same old BS Wall St. shenanigans will continue as usual and the people will complain and when that happens, I'll just laugh and say, you wanted this, don't complain. Sad indeed.
nfijapan
No one can match the sex acts of indiscretions and infidelity of one William Jefferson Clinton. Hands down, the man is THE most prolific political sexual abuser around, that should give you pause. what has that got anything to do with Hillary running for POTUS, how are Bills faults going to effect how Hillary runs the country. Trump supporter are just as bad as Trump himself. The issues here are Trumps and Hillarys personalities, temperamanet, experience and who is better suited to be POTUS. Bill Clinton is history and can never be POTUS again. To insinuate that Bills infidelities will sudden corrupt Hillary also is just plain moronic .
serendipitous
Trump did well in the debate?! Must have been some other debate! He just interrupted, ranted and rambled off topic as usual. If that's what his decreasing number of supporters like well.....ok. Thanks Donald! Amazing how his, 'Locker room talk' apology quickly changed to ISIS and people getting their heads chopped off. Really relevant Donald!! And he brings up Bill Clinton as though that makes it ok for him to, 'Grab them by the p_____'? If people can't see how bad Trump is, not only as a candidate, but as a person it really says a lot about his supporters.
FizzBit
Bass-Sad indeed.
Not surprising with the military/corporate MSM supporting their corporate puppet. Fooling the the fools is easy with a TV.
yabits
Nice to know there's an alternate universe. However, back in this world:
"Donald Trump knows he won't be president. He's now in full carnival-barking, network-launching, party-nuking mode—a scowling, pouting menace who threatened during a nationally televised debate to throw Hillary Clinton in jail and called her husband the most sexually abusive man in political history."
Wow. The stampede away from this mentally ill menace is going to grow by leaps and bounds.
FizzBit
JefferyDomer Clinton = war GUARANTEED!
bass4funk
Here we go again, with the denying....
Because the moderators were piling on Trump more and that shouldn't have been, so I would have interrupted them as well. Totally bias.....nothing new.
Why is this even an issue what Trump said, 12 years ago. Tell me how many guys when they are with their friends younger or even older and sees a hot woman that walks by NEVER said anything bad or nasty in closed circles? I'm sure Bill Clinton said a lot worse. Imagine if Howard Stern ran for office, good lord!
Actually, it does make it ok for him to bring up Bill. If Hillary can focus on his past, Trump can do the same thing, that is, unless you believe in fairness.
smithinjapan
bass4funk: "Here we go again, with the denying...."
Never seen a more hypocritical statement in my life.
"Actually, it does make it ok for him to bring up Bill. If Hillary can focus on his past, Trump can do the same thing, that is, unless you believe in fairness."
Yeah, except get this -- Bill Clinton isn't running for president. Tough for you guys to understand given you have absolutely no argument, but hey.
"Imagine if Howard Stern ran for office, good lord!"
Is he? Seems you guys will ask about anyone running for office but the guy you cannot defend.
"Why is this even an issue what Trump said, 12 years ago."
hahaha... yeah, so you harp on about Bill Clinton instead. See the first line of my comment in reply to what I quoted.
I love how senile old Giuliani even had to apologise for Trump!
FizzBit
Yeah, your world of war and weapons sales and central bank control. nice
turbotsat
Because, just like the two faces she shows when talking finance and trade, one to the public and one to Wall Street, she shows two faces on the topic of women. One to the public, and the one she shows when she's victim-shaming women accusing Bill of rape and the 12-year-old rape victim she mounted a criminal defense against.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3729466/Child-rape-victim-comes-forward-time-40-years-call-Hillary-Clinton-liar-defended-rapist-smearing-blocking-evidence-callously-laughing-knew-guilty.html
bass4funk
I'm sorry, come again> You libs kept bringing up Bush and he wasn't president anymore or running, Bill isn't running, both aren't running. So now try this again, Smith....
Libs can't talk, they had a Klansman and a former SNL comedian (and not a very good one) in congress, shameful.
I'm sorry, what Trump said, 12 years ago was very bad, so what about about Bill's indiscretion and the allegations that he had sex with a minor? Should we give Bill a pass because libs DON'T WANT to face the reality and just will justify or deflect by attacking Trump?
I love how senile old Giuliani even had to apologise for Trump!
Giuliani turned NYC from one of the most violent cities in the world to one of the more safer cities in the world. As a Senator, what great accomplishment did HRC do for the city of NYC?
SuperLib
Did Trump really promise a special prosecutor if elected? That a a big no no.
turbotsat
What's "no no" about it?
yabits
Simple: The president takes an oath to uphold the Constitution. The Constitution forbids bills or writs of attainder. That's where your political opponent threatens to come after you if he wins power.
Trump and his minions are un-American in the sense they don't understand our founding documents and principles.
dcog9065
He doesn't pay taxes, he commits massive fraud on a regular basis, has caused for Soviet operations against America, has called for political assassinations and lynchings, and goes around sexually assaulting women. Shouldn't this moron be in jail already?