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Wayward5oul -> RE: Debate...Pre and Post (10/9/2016 10:59:46 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
Transcript of the pre debate pre-debate press conference
TRUMP: “Thank you very much for coming, and these four very courageous women have asked to be here and it was our honor to help them. And I think they’re each going to make just an individual short statement and then we will do a little meeting and then we’ll see you at the debate. We’ll start with Paula.”
JONES: “I’m here to support Mr. Trump because he’s going to make America great again. And I think everybody else should vote for him. And I think they should all look at the fact that he’s a good person. He’s not what other people have been saying he’s been, like Hillary. So, think about that.”
TRUMP: “Kathy Shelton”
SHELTON: “So I’m also here to support Trump. At 12 years old, Hillary put me through something you’d never put a 12 year old through. And she says she’s for women and children. And she was asked last year on what happened and she says she’s (inaudible) whether they did it or not and now she’s laughing on tape saying she know they did it.”
TRUMP: “You went through a lot.”
SHELTON: “Yes, sir. I did.”
TRUMP: “OK”
BRODDRICK: “Hi. I’m Juanita Broddrick. And I’m here to support Donald Trump. I’ve tweeted recently and Mr. Trump retweeted it that action speak louder than words. Mr. Trump may have said some bad words, but Bill Clinton raped me and Hillary Clinton threatened me. I don’t think there’s any comparison.”
WILLEY: “I’m Kathleen Willey and I am here to support Donald Trump. The reason for that is the first day that he announced for president he said I love this country and I want America to be great again. And I cried when he said that because I think that this is the greatest country in the world. I think that we can do anything. I think we can accomplish anything. I think we can bring peace to this world, and I think Donald Trump can lead us to that point.”
TRUMP: “Thank you very much. OK. Thank you all very much. We appreciate it.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/live-blog-updates/2016/10/second-2016-presidential-debate-trump-clinton-st-louis-000010#ixzz4MdfjiYHd
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Are those ladies aware of what Trump had to say about them during that time?
https://gma.yahoo.com/flashback-donald-trump-called-bill-clintons-accusers-terrible-002349440--abc-news-topstories.html
Over the weekend, Donald Trump has called former President Bill Clinton an abuser of women and Hillary Clinton a bully who intimidated his victims.
But if you rewind to 1998, the Republican presidential nominee had a very different view of the 42nd president, defending him as the real "victim" in the wake of the fallout of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and blasting the accusers as "terrible" and "unattractive."
He also suggested that Clinton should have kept the scandal -- which he said "should have been nothing -- to himself."
Days after President Clinton admitted to having an inappropriate relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, Trump said Clinton was a “victim” and critiqued the physical appearances of various women with whom Clinton had been accused of having extramarital relations at different times.
“It’s like it's from hell, it's a terrible group of people,” Trump said in an interview with FOX News' Neil Cavuto on Aug. 19, 1998.
Asked by Cavuto if Clinton’s image as a “quasi-sex symbol” stood to somehow benefit from the alleged extramarital relations, Trump took issue with the characterization.
“I don't necessarily agree with his victims, his victims are terrible,” Trump said. “He is really a victim himself. But he put himself in that position.”
“The whole group, Paula Jones, Lewinsky, it's just a really unattractive group. I'm not just talking about physical," he said.
“Would it be any different if it were a supermodel crowd?” Cavuto then asked.
“I think at least it would be more pleasant to watch,” Trump replied.
Trump suggested that Clinton could have avoided the public relations fallout that followed his admission of "inappropriate" relations with Lewinsky had he stayed silent on the topic altogether, rather than initially denying the reports of an sexual relations only to later admit to a relationship.
“It's a shame, it's really a shame,” Trump said. “I've watched all my life politicians in New York, something gets brought up on them. I don't talk about my personal life. So what are you going to do? I don't talk about personal life.”
“They've taken nothing and made it a big monster,” Trump said in reference to the Lewinsky scandal. “I mean they've made Watergate out of really what should've been nothing.”
“I don't know if that's a good thing in terms of what Starr has done or a terrible thing, I think it's a terrible thing, actually,” Trump added, presumably referring to the former Whitewater independent counsel who expanded his investigation into the Lewinsky affair.
As far as his personal opinion of Clinton, Trump gave Clinton a strong rating.
“I think he's terrific. I think the guy's terrific. I just hate the way he tried to get out of this mess,” Trump said.
“In terms of myself, I love him as a president because business has been great, the economy's been booming. We have to give him credit,” he said.
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