Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump unloaded Saturday over Bill Clinton’s past cheating, saying the former president abused many women and Hillary Clinton destroyed lives to enable her husband.
Speaking in Spokan, Wash., Trump repeated his claim that Clinton is playing “the woman card” in her campaign. He said he wanted his supporters to remember Bill Clinton’s past marital transgressions when they see negative ads from the Clinton campaign.
“She’s married to a man who was the worst abuser of women in the history of politics, Trump said. “She’s married to a man who hurt many women. And Hillary hurt many women, the women that he abused,” Trump said. “She’s married to a man who was impeached for lying … he was impeached for lying about what happened with a woman, and she’s going to take out ads about little Donald Trump? I don’t think so.”
“Hillary was an enabler and she treated those women horribly. Some of those women were destroyed, not by him, but by Hillary Clinton after all of that went down.”
Trump’s disaproval among women in both parties is sky high in part due to what many consider misogynistic comments. Married three times, he has acknowledged past infidelity and been sued for alleged conduct that included unwanted sexual advances on women with whom he did business.
Trump’s attack on the Clintons’ marriage isn’t the first time he’s brought up the issue, but Saturday’s comments show he may increase the attacks as the general campaign heats up.
During his speech, which went about an hour, Trump said Bill Clinton “abused more women than any man, that we know of, in the history of politics.”
In response to Clinton’s so-called “woman card,” Trump said men are becoming the real victims.
“All of the men, we’re petrified to speak to women any more,” he said. “The women, they get it better than we do, folks.”
A message seeking comment on Trump’s remarks about the Clintons’ marriage was not immediately returned by the Clinton campaign.
