Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump’s lewd comments about women represent ‘exactly who he is’
In her opening salvo during Sunday night’s presidential debate, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump’s lewd comments about women represent exactly who the Republican presidential candidate is.
“With prior Republican nominees for president, I disagreed with them – politics, policies, principles – but I never questioned their fitness to serve,” she said. “Donald Trump is different.”
Trump came under fire after The Washington Post leaked a 2005 tape in which the real estate mogul is overheard making vulgar comments about women. The tape, Clinton says, shows that Trump is unfit to be president, as have a number of his comments made during the campaign. After the tape was made public, Trump issued an unprecedented apology and claimed they didn’t “reflect who [he was].”
“What we all saw and heard on Friday was Donald talking about women. What he thinks about women. What he does to women. And he has said that the video doesn’t represent who he is. But i think it’s clear to anyone who heard it that it represents exactly who he is,” she said. “We’ve seen this throughout the campaign. We have seen him insult women. We’ve seen him rate women on their appearance, ranking them from one to 10.”
Clinton referenced other comments the Republican candidate has made, noting times he’s made offensive statements about Muslims, prisoners of war, people with disabilities, and racial minorities.
“I want to send a message – we all should,” Clinton said. “To every boy and girl, and indeed to the entire world: That America already is great, but we are great because we are good.”
In response, Trump criticized Clinton by saying she was all talk and full of empty promises.
“It’s just words, folks,” Trump said. “It’s just words.”
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