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U.S. NEWSThursday 31 December 2015
Donald Trump calls former President Clinton a ‘great abuser’
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop in Council Bluffs, ary Clinton had forced his didate Bernie Sanders in
Iowa, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. hand. some polls in the first-in-the-
A spokesman for Clinton’s nation primary state.
(AP Photo/Nati Harnik) campaign did not imme- The Clintons and the
diately respond to a re- Trumps, two New York fami-
RUSS BYNUM supporters at a rally, Trump one of the great abusers quest for comment. But lies, had been on friendly
JILL COLVIN again invoked the ex-pres- of the world. Give me a deputy communications terms for years. The Clintons
Associated Press ident’s alleged extramari- break. Give me a break. director Christina Reynolds attended Trump’s wedding
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, South tal affairs and accused Bill Give me a break.” said Monday that Clin- to his third wife, Melania,
Carolina (AP) — Repub- Clinton of engaging in “tre- References to Bill Clinton’s ton “won’t be bullied” by and the couples’ daugh-
lican presidential candi- mendous abuse” of wom- affair with White House Trump and plans to “stand ters, Ivanka and Chelsea,
date Donald Trump sought en. intern Monica Lewinsky up to him, as she has from are friends. Trump came to
to assail Democrat Hillary Dismissing Hillary Clinton’s have rarely come up in the the beginning of his cam- Bill Clinton’s defense when
Clinton on Wednesday by accusation that Trump him- lead-up to the 2016 elec- paign” when he insults the Lewinsky scandal was
calling her husband, former self engaged in sexism, the tions. But Trump, who has women and other groups. unfolding, calling efforts to
President Bill Clinton, “one real estate magnate and developed a pattern of Earlier this month Trump impeach him “nonsense.”
of the great abusers of the reality TV star said: “And attacking those who cross used a vulgar sexual term The former president has
world.” she wants to accuse me of him in ways others won’t, to describe how Hillary Clin- been accused of having a
Speaking to about 2,000 things. And the husband’s said Wednesday that Hill- ton had been beaten by string of sexual encounters
rival Barack Obama in the — both consensual and
2008 Democratic primary. unwanted — with women
In response, she said that over the years.
Trump displayed a “pen- In the spring of 2014, Hillary
chant for sexism.” Clinton was asked about
“When she said that, I had the Lewinsky affair after
no choice,” Trump said Lewinsky wrote a first-per-
Wednesday. “You can’t let son account in Vanity Fair
people push you around,” magazine in which she said
he said, adding: “We view the ex-president “took ad-
this as war.” vantage of me” but that it
Bill Clinton was set to cam- was a consensual relation-
paign on behalf of his wife ship.
in New Hampshire next Hillary Clinton said in inter-
week. While the front-run- views at the time that she
ner among Democratic wished Lewinsky “well” but
candidates in national had moved on from the
polls, she trails rival can- episode.q
Pataki ends his White House bid
K. RONAYNE 2001, attacks, Pataki failed
J. COLVIN to gain traction in a crowd-
Associated Press ed field of candidates dur-
BERLIN, New Hampshire ing an election season that
(AP) — Former New York has so far favored outsiders
Gov. George Pataki said like billionaire businessman
Tuesday that he’s ending Donald Trump. Bruce Bret-
his bid for the 2016 Repub- on, a local elected official
lican presidential nomina- and member of Pataki’s
tion, with just over a month New Hampshire steering
to go before the first nomi- committee, said Pataki
nating contests begin. called him Tuesday after-
Pataki made the an- noon to say he’d be exiting
nouncement in an ad that the race. Breton said Pa-
aired on local NBC affiliates taki’s campaign had strug-
in New Hampshire, Iowa gled to raise money and
and South Carolina Tues- garner media attention.
day night. “While tonight “He said he couldn’t get
is the end of my journey any traction. He worked
for the White House as I hard, it’s just a different
suspend my campaign for type of year,” Breton said.
president, I’m confident we Pataki had hung his hopes
can elect the right person, on doing well in early-vot-
someone who will bring ing New Hampshire, but
us together and who un- he has barely registered in
derstands that politicians, state or national polls.
including the president, He never made it onto a
must be the people’s ser- main Republican debate
vant and not their master,” stage, where he would
said Pataki, 70. A centrist have had the chance
Republican who led New to reach millions more
York through the Sept. 11, viewers.q
