Trump campaign is all in on rehashing 1990s-era attacks
How do you defend yourself against having called a young woman “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping” and forced her to work out in front of reporters? Easy, if you’re Donald Trump: you send your surrogates out to talk about Bill Clinton’s past infidelities. Official campaign talking points went out on Wednesday telling surrogates how to bring up decades-old stories about something the current candidate’s husband did that were fully aired at the time.
Just to be clear, this is the trajectory: Trump makes a big point during the debate of how he could attack Clinton over her husband’s past behavior, but won’t. He does a lot of bragging about how he didn’t do it. His son commends his courage for not doing it. And then his campaign sends out talking points to surrogates about exactly how to talk about why what Bill Clinton did in the 1980s and 1990s is relevant to Hillary Clinton being elected president in 2016.
Many of Trump’s supporters are totally on board, too.
“The fact that we are bringing back someone who disgraced the country is a problem,” Bonnie Peters told BuzzFeed News about former president Bill Clinton, who would serve as first gentleman. “He isn’t worthy of the White House.”
Says a supporter of someone whose entire campaign platform involves disgracing the country.
Standing in earshot, Ken G., who declined to share his last name, added that bringing up Bill’s affairs are “as fair game as Hillary’s comments about Trump calling Rosie O’Donnell a fat pig. Why is that fair game?”
Gosh, I don’t know. Because the person running for president said that, vs. the candidate’s husband? Because it’s not just Rosie O’Donnell, it’s how Trump treats all women—or at least the ones who aren’t lingerie models? Because every time the subject of how Trump treats women comes up, he starts talking about Rosie O’Donnell, which suggests a certain lack of impulse control?
Most of all, it’s 2016. It’s ridiculous that Republicans are still rehashing the 1990s.
Can you chip in $3 to help Hillary Clinton fight this nonsense?