Chelsea Clinton responded on Tuesday to Donald Trump’s claim that he refrained from bringing up her father’s alleged extramarital affairs for her benefit at the presidential debate Monday night.
Threat
Trump had threatened last weekend to bring Gennifer Flowers, a former model Bill Clinton allegedly had an extramarital affair with decades ago, as a guest to the debate against Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.
Tweet
“If dopey Mark Cuban of failed Benefactor fame wants to sit in the front row,” Trump tweeted on Saturday, “perhaps I will put Gennifer Flowers right alongside of him!
Another threat
“I was going to say something extremely rough to Hillary and her family, and I said to myself, I couldn’t do it. It’s inappropriate. It’s not nice,” Trump said. “I was, but I decided not to do it out of respect for Chelsea.”
Chelsea response
Chelsea Clinton responded to his claim on Tuesday, telling Cosmopolitan’s Prachi Gupta that the attacks Trump lobbed at her mother this time were like those he’s made in the past.
“My reaction to that is just what my reaction has been kind of every time Trump has gone after my mom or my family,” Clinton said, “which is that it’s a distraction from his inability to talk about what’s actually at stake in this election and to offer concrete, comprehensive proposals about the economy, or our public school system, or debt-free college, or keeping our country safe and Americans safe here at home and around the world.
She continued:
“Candidly, I don’t remember a time in my life when my parents and my family weren’t being attacked, and so it just sort of seems to be in that tradition, unfortunately. And what I find most troubling by far are … Trump’s continued, relentless attacks on whole swaths of our country and even our global community: women, Muslims, Americans with disabilities, a Gold Star family. I mean, that, to me, is far more troubling than whatever his most recent screed against my mom or my family [is].”
Bingo Chelsea. Thank you.
By: Blackman FreeinAmerica on September 28, 2016
at 9:45 AM
Good for you Chelsea, your family life is no one’s business at this point. This from a man who has done so much worse holds little credibility with most of us. I know most would say that you are public figures and so it may be their business but, I am only interested in what kind of person and what kind of President your mom will make. I trust her, I am behind her and I will vote for her again and again.
By: Susan Tentomas on September 28, 2016
at 11:40 AM
If one of use make a threat we go to jail. He gets away with it. But that should tell you that Mrs. Clinton is a Lady.
By: Anneliese Penn on September 28, 2016
at 1:05 PM
Thanks Chelsea you are a good daughter.
By: Gloria McLean on September 28, 2016
at 2:42 PM
Donald Trump does not have the moral authority to criticize Bill Clinton. Donald Trump cheated on all of his wives.
By: Keith Williams on September 28, 2016
at 2:47 PM