September 28, 2016 | No Comments
Donald Trump deputy campaign manager David Bossie said “clearly Mr. Trump held his tongue” at Monday night’s presidential debate when Hillary Clinton raised the Manhattan billionaire’s history of derogatory remarks about women.
Towards the end of the debate Monday night, Clinton managed to squeeze in a line of attack against Trump, labeling him as “a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs.” Almost immediately following the debate, Trump insinuated that he had considered responding by raising Bill Clinton’s history of marital infidelities but opted against it because the couple’s daughter, Chelsea Clinton, was in the debate hall.
That Trump had considered such an attack was more fully fleshed out by his surrogates and by the candidate himself in an array of TV news interviews Tuesday morning. The GOP nominee told Fox News that “I really eased up because I didn’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings” in Monday night’s debate, and that “I may hit her harder in certain ways” in future debates.
“I think that if you look at Hillary Clinton’s background and if you look at her being an enabler, really, in the ’90s and really attacking these women, it goes against everything that she now tries to spout as a candidate for president,” Bossie said on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” Wednesday morning. “She’ll say and do anything. Those are Barack Obama’s words, not mine. She’ll say and do anything to become president of the United States. And I think we’re seeing that now.”