dredging up clintons past during campaign

“I’m not going to say anything.”Īnd then he did, in a flurry of tweets at 5 a.m. “A lot of things are coming out about her,” he told Bill O’Reilly on Fox News on Wednesday.

He also made a second, even briefer attempt at apophasis when it came to Alicia Machado, the former Miss Universe who accused him of bullying her when she gained weight. “He should not let them bait him into a swamp where they can revel in the mud.” “It’s totally the wrong direction to go,” Gingrich, who led the drive to impeach Bill Clinton in 1998, told the Washington Post.

“As Trump blows everything up, does he blow himself up as well - or does he only get damaged around the edges?” “It’s like a nuclear hand grenade,” Republican pollster David Winston told me. The danger is obvious: The fallout could hurt him as much or more than the intended target. Now, despite his short-lived attempt at apophasis, he has. GOP strategists have a term for dredging up Bill’s scandals: “the nuclear option.” They’ve waited all campaign long to see whether Trump would pull the trigger. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, told MSNBC. “Look at what she has done: Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky,” Rep. Actually, the evidence that Clinton was an “active participant” in attacking her husband’s accusers is scanty, beyond the fact that she stood by her husband and said she didn’t believe their charges.

Dredging up clintons past during campaign