Hillary Clinton argued Sunday that the scandal surrounding the leak of a tape in which Donald Trump is heard demeaning women is just the latest sign that Trump isn’t fit to serve as president.
“With prior Republican nominees for president, I disagreed with them,” Clinton said during the debate, which was held at Washington University in St. Louis. “But I never questioned their fitness to serve.”
“Donald Trump is different,” she said. “Everyone can draw their own conclusions at this point. He never apologizes for anything to anyone.”
Clinton’s remarks come just days after the Washington Post published a report revealing Trump once bragged about leveraging his celebrity status in return for sexual favors from women, some of them married.
“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” Trump bragged in 2005 to “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush. “And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.”
“Grab them by the p—y,” Trump said. “You can do anything.”
The GOP nominee also talked about his failed attempt to sleep with an unidentified married woman.
“I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it. I did try and f—k her. She was married,” Trump said.
“I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phony t—s and everything. She’s totally changed her look,” he said.
The recording, which comes amid separate reports suggesting Trump has a long track record of mistreating women, does not make it clear to whom the businessman was referring in his anecdote. It is also unclear when Trump’s reportedly failed attempt to seduce a married woman took place.
Trump claimed during the debate that what he said in the 2005 tape was just “locker room talk.”
Clinton disagreed, and said the video represents “exactly who he is,” she said.
“We have seen him insult women,” she said, adding that Trump also “rates women.”
“We have seen him embarrass women,” Clinton said. “This is who Donald trump is.”
The Democratic nomniee’s remarks Sunday evening at the debate also come just moments after Trump held a press conference with four women, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick and Kathy Shelton, who announced their support for the GOP nominee and recounted their charges against the Clintons.
The Democratic nominee’s second run at the White House has been dogged by questions about her husband’s sex scandals from when he was president and governor of Arkansas.
The former president has admitted in the past to engaging in extramarital affairs with multiple women, including former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and former model Gennifer Flowers. He has also been accused of sexually assaulting more than one woman, including Broaddrick and Jones.
