If Rudy Giuliani were the one facing off against Hillary Clinton at Monday’s debate, he would have done things a bit differently than Donald Trump, in particular addressing one scandal that has haunted the Clintons since the 1990s.
Giuliani told reporters following the debate that he “sure would” have brought up the infamous sex scandal involving Monica Lewinski and former President Bill Clinton, and blamed Hillary for painting the former White House intern as an “insane young woman.”
“I sure would have talked about what she did to Monica Lewinsky, what that woman standing there did to Monica Lewinsky, trying to paint her as an insane young woman when in fact, Monica Lewinsky was an intern,” said the former mayor of New York City.
“The president of the United States, her husband, disgraced this country, what he did in the Oval Office. And she didn’t just stand by him — she attacked Monica Lewinsky,” Giuliani added. “And after being married to Bill Clinton for 20 years, if you didn’t know the moment Monica Lewinsky said that Bill Clinton violated her that she was telling the truth, then you’re too stupid to be president.”
Following the debate, despite being attacked for his own disparaging comments about women, Trump said he refused to bring up Bill Clinton’s past scandals with women because the Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea, was in the room.
“When she hit me at the end with the women, I was going to hit her with her husband’s women and I decided I shouldn’t do it because her daughter was in the room,” Trump said Tuesday during a phone interview on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”
Giuliani defended Trump as a “feminist,” and said the candidate is too “reserved” and “gentlemanly” to respond in kind when Clinton questioned during the debate whether he is a feminist.
