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发帖数: 10469 | 1 HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — As Monday night’s presidential debate neared its end,
Donald J. Trump alluded to an attack line against Hillary Clinton that he
was refraining from using.
But in the “spin room” after the debate, Mr. Trump and his surrogates were
a bit more forthcoming on how directly he could have gone after Mrs.
Clinton and her husband, suggesting that Bill Clinton’s relationship with
Monica Lewinsky was fair game.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, one of Mr. Trump’s
most ardent supporters and a constant presence on the campaign trail,
elaborated on the line of attack that wasn’t used.
“He restrained himself from saying what I know he would have liked to have
said except for the fact that Chelsea Clinton was in the audience,” Mr.
Giuliani said. “And that is that she enabled and supported a president who
is a disgrace to the White House. He was one of the two presidents impeached
. He was impeached because he took advantage of an intern, an intern that
she attacked for six months, and she claims to be a feminist.”
He added another common attack made by the Trump campaign, claiming that Mrs
. Clinton took money from “at least six countries in which women can’t
drive, in which women are stoned, in which women are killed for adultery,”
ostensibly a reference to the Clinton Foundation and not Mrs. Clinton’s
campaign, although Mr. Giuliani did not differentiate.
He concluded: “That’s what he wanted to say, but he didn’t say it, and as
his friend, I’m going to say it for him. She’s a total phony.”
The use of Mr. Giuliani as a surrogate on this front could be problematic
given the former mayor’s own history.
Mr. Giuliani married Judith Nathan after separating and later divorcing his
second wife, Donna Hanover, who said at the time of their separation in 2000
that the couple’s troubles began years before because of a previous
relationship the mayor had with a member of his staff.
Mr. Trump himself echoed Mr. Giuliani’s remarks after the debate, but was
less direct.
“I didn’t want to do my final attack, which was to attack her husband on
what took place with respect to him and his life and all of the things that
took place because Chelsea, who I happen to think is a wonderful young lady,
was in the room, and I didn’t think it would be appropriate,” Mr. Trump
said. |
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