CNN just now: Trump Will Try To Rattle Hillary Before 2nd Debate By Going After Bill's Indiscretions

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NYT reporter Patrick Healy spoke with Trump tonight by phone and told Anderson Cooper that Trump said he will go after "Bill's indiscretions" in order to rattle Hillary.

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Donald Trump Opens A New Line Of Attack On Hillary Clinton: Her Marriage

by Patrick Healy and Maggie Haberman
September 30, 2016

Donald J. Trump unleashed a slashing new attack on Hillary Clinton over Bill Clinton’s sexual indiscretions on Friday as he sought to put the Clintons’ relationship at the center of his political argument against her before their next debate.

Mr. Trump, aiming to unnerve Mrs. Clinton, even indicated that he was rethinking his statement at their last debate that he would “absolutely” support her if she won in November, saying: “We’re going to have to see. We’re going to see what happens. We’re going to have to see.”

In an interview with The New York Times, he also contended that infidelity was “never a problem” during his three marriages, though his first ended in an ugly divorce after Mr. Trump began a relationship with the woman who became his second wife.

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He said he was bringing up Mr. Clinton’s infidelities because he thought they would repulse female voters and turn them away from the Clintons, and because he was eager to unsettle Mrs. Clinton in their next two debates and on the campaign trail.

read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/us/politics/donald-trump-interview-bill-hillary-clinton.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. I wonder if he knows Bill isn't running.

[Warpy]

101. That misogynist pig thinks Bill will be the real president

while Hillary's in the kitchen, barefoot and chained to the stove.

[Dorian Gray]

2. Who the hell are his advisors?

Honestly, bring it on. It's going to make every single female voter think he's an asshole.

[napkinz]

5. this ...

[smirkymonkey]

58. +1000

[napkinz]

66. yep, he's digging his own political grave

[AgadorSparticus]

70. Yep. That's exactly right! He just goes from one stupid thing to the next.

[relayerbob]

81. Please ... proceed

[Skittles]

37. he does not listen to his advisors

any more than he listens to anyone else

[Monk06]

45. He doesn't even listen to his own family who just want to stay rich and be able to show up in public

once this insane narcissist destroys himself

[KewlKat]

46. The voices in his head

[Dream Girl]

74. Roger Ailes

[Mc Mike]

88. Steve Bannon, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani.

[fishwax]

84. yeah, i see no way this strategy ends well for him (which i guess makes it a good strategy)

[salin]

100. he obviously doesn't listen to advisors (because he thinks he is the smartest person ever.)

He is now in full phase of bull in a china shop. And with each goring of an object in the store he will repulse more fence sitters. His die-hards - are going to be his die hards. Females included. But for those "i'll vote 3rd party", "I'll vote, but not at the top of the ticket" a tipping point is growing near.

[meadowlark5]

3. I think the Hillary camp should prepare but not over prepare

Trump's campaign seems in a panic and will be trying to trip them up. They're probably saying this to, hopefully, have Hillary spend all of her time preparing for those attacks and then throw something else at her.

I suspect Hillary's campaign knows this. I think trying to predict what Donald Trump shows up the next debate is just as unpredictable as the first debate. They just have to anticipate everything - especially if there will be Trump supporters in the town hall asking Benghazi/email questions.

[NYC Liberal]

41. Best thing to do is to divert his attention elsewhere.

And it's very easy to do.

Look at what Hillary did when he brought up the emails. She mentioned his tax returns and suggested he isn't as rich as he says. That was it -- he forgot all about the emails and spent the next 10 minutes getting defensive.

[ScubaSteve]

63. Exactly

His attention span is about 30 seconds..."squirrel"

[wryter2000]

78. Welcome to DU

[DonCoquixote]

51. if?

I would not be surprised if they had some Benghazi widow waiting in the audience, ready to do tearful screams that might as well be directed by Michael Bay, for endless replay and "did yooo see how she wuz so heartless" loops.

NO low is too low, absolutely none.

[VMA131Marine]

4. And the Soviets will never take Berlin.....

Things are looking grim in the Trumpenfuhrer Bunker.

[GulfCoast66]

39. You win best of the day

[Iliyah]

6. Bad move

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Depends on your perspective......

[Avalux]

7. Hey Donald - good luck with that!

He wants so desperately to unsettle Hillary, to make her nervous and submissive to him, but it isn't going to happen.

Hillary's got this.

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19. the irony ... in trying to rattle Hillary, Trump is showing how rattled he himself is

talk about a meltdown!

[Democrat 4 Ever]

87. Hillary weathered this storm 20 years ago by people much smarter than Trump.

She didn't rattle then and he certainly doesn't have the ability to rattle her now. This issue is a huge loss for Trump. He will only highlight his hypocrisy and really piss off women. Go for it dumb ass. I hope he tries, the 3 am tweets will be epic.

[spanone]

8. so Hillary wasn't the victim mr. trump? you are one sick fuck.

[napkinz]

15. Carl Bernstein on CNN just responded to this breaking news ...

Called Trump an unhinged Rage-a-Holic.

[Little Star]

10. Dumbasses. Is that all they got? Yawn.

[napkinz]

25. he thinks this will "unsettle Mrs. Clinton in their next two debates"

[elehhhhna]

76. There are potentially so many ways she can respond to this that will bury him

that I honestly hope he does it

[napkinz]

79. Hillary: "Go ahead, make my day."

[forgotmylogin]

11. That's right Don

Hit her in the place she's most callused and used to hearing about. That'll rattle this battle-hardened 60 year old verbal amazon warrior right where she least expects. She won't know what hit her. She won't have thought of any type of retort for this 30 year old issue. You have the best strategies. Flawless.

[enough]

12. So funny. If there's one thing the Clinton's are ready for it's people thinking they can

bring them down by going after Bill's "indiscretions."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Please proceed, Donald.

This is an exploding cigar. Light up....

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27. :)

[etherealtruth]

14. let's see .... one of the candidates for POTUS has been married three times, has had ....

... numerous affairs . The other has not been credibly linked to any of the above and chose to work on a marriage where her spouse was involved in multiple infidelities.

It is bizarre to me that the short fingered vulgarian would even consider this

[Mendocino]

69. Trumpy, Rudy & Newty

have 9 marriages between them. Hillary has one. Yet these rubes are somehow the arbiters of behavior.

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71. the three stooges ... Deweycheatumnhowe

[etherealtruth]

89. Its bizarre

[sarcasmo]

16. 3 wives, going after HRC spouse, funny stuff.

[rurallib]

17. He is setting the bar for stupid pretty high for future Repubs

if there is any party left after election day

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18. trump announces plans for surprise attack!

and this is the guy who whined about hillary's isis plan being too revealing.

[GopherGal]

72. No surprise

You've got to think Hillary was prepared in case he brought it up in the first debate anyway.

If he thinks that after 20 years of unending public criticism a jibe from him about this will make her loose her &*#^, he's massively projecting...

[unblock]

75. more telling, is that it doesn't remotely occur to him to roll out a popular policy proposal

with trump, the thought is even laughable.

all he has is insults.

[Egnever]

20. Good luck with that

she has heard years of that shit. If that rattles her at this point she is not the woman I think she is.

[spiderpig]

21. Bring it, Dumbass.

I'm sure Hillary is salivating and tapping her foot.

[underpants]

22. Something tells me this isn't the approach McCarthur would have taken

[backscatter712]

23. Let's see. The last issues with Bill happened 20 years ago...

...and Bill and Hillary worked to stay together and save their marriage.

All I can say about thrice-married Trump, with his acrimonious divorces: I. Wouldn't. Be. Talking...

[Hugin]

24. Ummm... Someone remind me what the actual topics of this debate are supposed to be?

A Town Hall format?

[napkinz]

67. yes, it's a Town Hall. There will be no lecterns. Trump will be seated.

[Hugin]

68. My eyes!i1!!i

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85. T P (Trump Pence)

[matt819]

26. Oh yeah

With 10 days notice I doubt she'll be terribly rattled.

[MFM008]

28. "Rattle Hillary"

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31. :)

[Wounded Bear]

42. First image that came to my mind...

[GWC58]

55. I love the

deadpan look on Hillarys face, like "yawn! Is that all you got!?! Proceed, Donald."

[MFM008]

80. lol

[wisteria]

29. He is going to rattle her with rehashed smears?

[C_U_L8R]

30. That was what... 25 years ago??

I'm sure Hillary and Bill have it all worked out... and good for them for working it out. As for Trump trying to make an issue of it... who the fuck cares. He's deplorable.

[HipChick]

32. Hillary will simply wipe the floor with him...it will be a Please Proceed moment

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86. he'll be ON the floor

[TDale313]

33. This is going to seriously backfire. n/t

[Hekate]

34. Yawn.

[ColemanMaskell]

35. Thanks for the grins -- ☺ ☻☺☺☺☺ :-) :)

Let's not gloat but this is hilarious stuff. Thanks for sharing. There's so much discouraging stuff in the news; It's good to get a smile here and there.

We still have to remember to get out the vote and all that. No getting complacent!

[regnaD kciN]

36. That's the way to get women's votes, all right!

[Thor_MN]

38. Does he repeat everything to try to convince himself the lie is reality?

Is he so weak that he uses the Big Lie on himself?

[roamer65]

40. Go for it, Drumpf. Show us just how much an asshole you really are.

C'mon.

[Wounded Bear]

43. Just announcing that should garner a 3 point bump for Clinton in the polls...nt

[Warren DeMontague]

44. how could that possibly backfire?

stay classy, jackass.

[Warren DeMontague]

47. you know what would really leave her befuddled, Don?

Take a big Trump Dump right there on the stage. Pull down your big boy Pants, and just drop a giant loaf on national television. Then stand up, face the camera, your wee dingle dangle dangling under the tv lights, and go

"see, mine DO smell like honey!

NOW, TINY PEOPLE OF EARTH--- ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?"





You'll totally win, man. Seriously. Do it. Hillary won't know what to do.


You know you want to.

[maryellen99]

48. He's also claiming that he has never cheated

He claims he started dating Marla Maples only after divorce proceedings started ROFL.

[randome]

49. Wait just a minute. He's telling her his plan instead of convening his generals to come up with one?

Clinton is more of an immediate concern for him than ISIS?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[justiceischeap]

50. Bring it Donald. Getting attacked is Hillary's super power

He has to have the most clueless campaign advisors if they think this line of attack will rattle her. Have they no recollection of how composed she was in the midst of all of Bill's indiscretions? How she came out swinging in his defense?

If they think they can force an error with this attack, then I only have one thing to say, "Please proceed."

[Arkana]

52. Bring. It. On.

[Aviation Pro]

53. At the end of the debate....

....when the walking fuckwit said he wasn't going to go there, the look on HRC's face said it all:

[font size='36' color ='red']Proceed, asshole.[/font]

[beachbum bob]

54. 30 years of people trying to rattle hillary hasn't work and coming from trump it ill appear as

just more of his misogynistic attacks....hillary will use this for her advantage as she has prepared for it for 12 years.....

trump and conservatives ill once again fall into her trap where they will come out looking like complete fools again

[sarae]

56. This idea that Bill's infidelities would repulse women and turn them away

from Hillary Clinton is so completely NUTS. Trump's an idiot if he doesn't see that what really repulses women is the fact that HE'S attacking her in this way.

Do he and his "boys club" (Giuliani, Bannon and Gingrich) think women are so dumb that we don't realize these men live in the most fragile glass houses ever built?

The sheer idiocy and hypocrisy on display here is STUNNING.

Please proceed, Donnie.

[smirkymonkey]

60. Thank YOU!

Not only does he not see how such a tactic will alienate women even further, but he is a serial philanderer who brags about it. He is in no position to bring up such a matter. It is only going to come back to hit him in his ugly face.

[sarae]

57. The entire Republican party is a cocker spaniel repeatedly banging into a sliding glass door.

[ScubaSteve]

59. Hillary’s response to Donald “if” he has the balls to bring up Bill’s indiscretions in next debate;

“Well Donald…I’m pretty sure that my husband’s past has been well documented and the people out there have most likely made up their minds regarding how they feel about it.

My faith tells me in that situation that I have to work on my marriage, and that’s what I did.

Your past indiscretions are also well documented as you shamelessly cheated on your first wife with your second wife, and then cheated on the second wife, and who knows what you are doing while you are on wife number three.

I however, have not cheated on anyone.”

“…nuff said”

[smirkymonkey]

61. Boom!

Perfect reply! And welcome to DU!

[ScubaSteve]

62. Thanks!

Been a fan for many years...

[fleabiscuit]

83. Welcome to DU. Step on in and take a look around.

Very good start. However, I don't like to leave open arguments giving a chance for rebuttal. Plus I would rather go for the jugular. Perhaps...

"Your past indiscretions are also well documented as you shamelessly cheated on your first wife with your second wife, and then cheated on the second wife, and you strangely mention how "hot" your own daughter is.

“…nuff said”

Think?

[ScubaSteve]

95. Yessss…

I like you’re thinking. The beauty is there is so much to work with that we can take it so many ways….

[Mike Nelson]

64. Unsettle...

... lol. Go for it, Donald! She does not unsettle easily and these stories always make Hillary more popular!

[DinahMoeHum]

65. Heh heh. Please proceed, dumbass.

[AgadorSparticus]

73. He is right. Bringing up Bill's infidelities will repulse women voters...just not to Hillary

I swear, he is Hillary's best unknowing surrogate.

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92. a couple of commentators on Joy Reid this morning came to the conclusion that he's actually

trying to throw the election.

[AgadorSparticus]

94. That has been floated for a long time now. The way things are going,

It sure looks more and more like it. But, you never know.

[wryter2000]

77. Good luck with that

If the entire US Congress couldn't rattle her with that, I don't know what Trump thinks he can accomplish.

[relayerbob]

82. Because they've never thought about this possibility

She'll create yet another asshole in that asshole

[Duval]

90. Hillary will just ignore him.

She already knows what he plans and is too smart to be rattled about this during the debates.

[napkinz]

93. :)

[jmowreader]

91. Boxers call this "telegraphing a punch"

I call this the biggest mistake that has ever been made in the history of American politics, because it opens Trump up to a LOT of attacks. You can't unnerve someone who doesn't sweat, Donnie, and mentioning Hillary's HUSBAND's infidelities will allow Hillary to remind female voters of your inability to keep your dick in your pants.

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96. he won't reveal his plan to defeat ISIS (it's a secret)

He reveals his plan to defeat Hillary.

[ancianita]

97. Bill can speak for himself. Hillary should NOT address this in a public forum. It's an invasion

of privacy between two married people. In public.

If she forces Trump to answer for his infidelities, that's fair, because he's the one running for president. But Trump MAY NOT demand that Hillary answer for Bill.

[napkinz]

98. well, he just crossed another line ...

Trump accuses Hillary Clinton of cheating on Bill Clinton

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/10/02/sotu-panel-1.cnn

[ancianita]

99. And she needn't react.

Ugh. He's so high school, the filth out of his mouth so toxic, that I have to take a shower after he talks.

[napkinz]

103. yep, just let him keep digging

[Zambero]

102. 20 years too late

Also, if Trump wants to score points, attempting to shame a woman for her husband's past indiscretions would not be anywhere near the top of the "succeed" list.