Donald Trump continued his defense against the multiple sexual assault allegations against him, taking to his preferred method of communication to attack the media and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
In an early Saturday morning tweet storm, Trump again claimed that all the charges that he inappropriately groped women were “100% fabricated and made-up” in order to “poison the minds of the American Voter.”
This election is being rigged by the media pushing false and unsubstantiated charges, and outright lies, in order to elect Crooked Hillary!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2016
100% fabricated and made-up charges, pushed strongly by the media and the Clinton Campaign, may poison the minds of the American Voter. FIX!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2016
“This election is being rigged by the media pushing false and unsubstantiated charges, and outright lies, in order to elect Crooked Hillary!” Trump continued on Twitter an hour later.
In a third tweet 40 minutes later, Trump revisited his running argument that Clinton “should be in jail.” He fumed, “Instead she is running for president in what looks like a rigged election.”
After Trump appeared at an Ohio rally Saturday afternoon in which he suggested Clinton took performance-enhancing drugs, he went back to railing against the sexual assault allegations on Twitter, tweeting six hours after the last tweet on the subject: “Nothing ever happened with any of these women. Totally made up nonsense to steal the election. Nobody has more respect for women than me!”
Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and should be in jail. Instead she is running for president in what looks like a rigged election
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2016
Trump’s argument was in line with his attacks against his accusers at a Greensboro, N.C., rally Friday, where he claimed, “I have no idea who these women are, no idea,” and wondered why the allegations were just surfacing now.
About seven women have come forward to accuse Trump of sexual assault in situations dating back to the 1980s. The allegations started to surface after a 2005 tape of Trump surfaced in which the GOP candidate bragged about grabbing women “by the pussy.”
Trump promised at a rally Thursday to release “substantial evidence” that he claimed would exonerate him and discredit his accusers, but he has yet to live up to this promise.
