Donald Trump pivoted Super Tuesday to his increasingly probable clash with Hillary Clinton for the presidency.
Speaking on morning TV, the billionaire businessman who most pundits now see as cruising almost inevitably to the Republican presidential nomination, made it plain that he intends in the general election to focus on Clinton’s handling of classified information in her insecure private emails.
“It’s going to be pretty rough. I’m not going to let go of the email thing,” Trump told “Fox & Friends,” adding that the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, in which four Americans were murdered, would “of course” be a big talking point.
“We are never going to let this email thing die,” he went on, “because, frankly, what she did was break the law — viciously break the law. Many other people were prosecuted for it and went to jail, and she’s out there running like nothing happened, and what she did is far worse than anybody else.”
Trump then predicted that a Trump vs. Clinton race would get out more voters than any election in recent history. He also warned the Clintons, specifically former President Bill Clinton, against using the sexism charge against him, telling the hosts that the former president will have a “hard time” if he makes any such charges.
“You mean they’re going to use Bill to say that I’m a sexist? That didn’t work four weeks ago. I can tell you they had a rough, rough week. I assume you’re kidding,” Trump told host Brian Kilmeade.
“I hope they do that. If Bill tries to portray that I’m a sexist, he’s going to have a hard time, and he had a hard time four weeks ago. I will tell you, they had a pretty rough weekend four weeks ago,” Trump said, pointing to his response in December after such charges from the Clinton camp.
“I haven’t even gone after Hillary yet. I want to do one thing — first things first. The big thing is what’s happening tonight and today and then what’s going to happen in two weeks and we’re doing well,” Trump said.
Trump was responding to a story in the New York Times Tuesday that laid out the Clinton’s “plan to defeat” Trump if he wins the GOP nomination, which would feature the former president as the chief attack dog against the real estate mogul.
