Donald Trump is once again raising former President Bill Clinton’s marital infidelities, a preview of how the billionaire businessman is likely to respond to general-election attacks from Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and her allies about his treatment of women.
Speaking at a rally Saturday in Spokane, Wash., Trump repeatedly assailed the woman he has dubbed “Crooked Hillary” while hardly sparing former Republicans rivals repulsed by his chokehold on their party’s presidential nomination.
“She’s married to a man who was the worst abuser of women in the history of politics,” Trump said of Clinton as he addressed supporters at the Spokane Convention Center.
Trump appeared to be responding to news that Priorities USA, the lead super PAC backing Clinton, has already reserved $91 million in television advertising that will start next month. Much of the negative advertising is expected to focus on belittling statements he has made about women.
But Trump declared Saturday, “Two can play that game.”
“Look, folks, here’s the story: There is nobody that was worse — nobody — than Bill Clinton with women,” he said, adding that the candidate herself hurt many of the women that “he abused.”
“Hillary was an enabler and she treated these women horribly. Just remember this,” he said. “And some of these women were destroyed, not by him, but by the way that Hillary Clinton treated them after everything went down,”
Trump sought to downplay past comments he has made about women before he was a politician. He said some of the comments were made in the name of entertainment, while others, such as his criticism of Rosie O’Donnell, were warranted.
“Who the hell wouldn’t speak badly about Rosie O’Donnell?” he said. “She’s terrible.”
