Trump maps out strategy against Hillary

[brendablethyn 536]

Donald J. Trump plans to throw Bill Clinton’s infidelities in Hillary Clinton’s face on live television during the presidential debates this fall, questioning whether she enabled his behavior and sought to discredit the women involved.

Mr. Trump will try to hold her accountable for security lapses at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and for the death of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens there.

And he intends to portray Mrs. Clinton as fundamentally corrupt, invoking everything from her cattle futures trades in the late 1970s to the federal investigation into her email practices as secretary of state.

Drawing on psychological warfare tactics that Mr. Trump used to defeat “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz, “Little Marco” Rubio and “Low-Energy” Jeb Bush in the Republican primaries, the Trump campaign is mapping out character attacks on the Clintons to try to increase their negative poll ratings and bait them into making political mistakes, according to interviews with Mr. Trump and his advisers.

In a telephone interview, he noted that women did not like seeing Mrs. Clinton insulted or bullied by men. He said he wanted to be more strategic, by calling into question Mrs. Clinton’s judgment in her reaction to Mr. Clinton’s affairs — people close to the couple have said she was involved in efforts to discredit the women — and in her response to crises like Benghazi.

“Just getting nasty with Hillary won’t work,” Mr. Trump said. “You really have to get people to look hard at her character, and to get women to ask themselves if Hillary is truly sincere and authentic. Because she has been really ugly in trying to destroy Bill’s mistresses, and she is pandering to women so obviously when she is only interested in getting power.”

He acknowledged that Republicans tried to discredit her judgment in the marathon Benghazi hearing in the fall, to little avail. But he said that he would be more pointed and memorable in linking her to the failings and deaths in Libya, and that the debate would have a vastly larger television audience than the hearing. Still, advisers of Mrs. Clinton pointed to her face-off with the Republican-led Benghazi committee as a sign of her unflappability.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton.html

[mcoop 628]

He could do it all he wants. We've heard it already. Nothing new. Won't work.

[PartySick 174,387]

4 minutes ago, brendablethyn said:

“Just getting nasty with Hillary won’t work,” Mr. Trump said. “You really have to get people to look hard at her character, and to get women to ask themselves if Hillary is truly sincere and authentic. Because she has been really ugly in trying to destroy Bill’s mistresses, and she is pandering to women so obviously when she is only interested in getting power.”

Hmm...so it's a choice between someone who moved past a bump in her marriage but allegedly tried to "destroy" the mistresses and a man who spoke about his daughter's tits while she was still a baby then said he would date her as an adult. Decisions decisions.

Spoiler

 

[JevyDuty 2,961]

This is so sad. Those attacks won't work because Trump doesn't know how to deliver them to a general election audience. This is not the Republican Primary. The way he embellishes his talking point is always going to overshadow his point.

[Nemo 4,414]

I'm really wondering if she should even condescend to share a stage with this clown.

Then again, she already did this:

 

[Morphine Prince 109,984]

Can't wait for the debates. 

Comedy gold that will be stored for generations to watch. 

[brendablethyn 536]

Doesn't Trump meltdown when confronted by a woman, e.g. Megyn Kelly? Hillary will just throw accusations at him and he will see red, and unlike with Marco or Jeb, when it's directed at a woman it will make him look bad. 

[SychosSoChic 9,995]

More of the same? Grand.

[FATCAT 60,967]

If he really wants to win, he should bring up her total indiscretion of classified data, and the lack of prosecution thereafter. She compromised national security, she broke the law, and she didn't go to jail. Why? Because she's the head of the corruption.

[Goosey 3,017]

41 minutes ago, mcoop said:

He could do it all he wants. We've heard it already. Nothing new. Won't work.

Won't work? Seems to be working GREAT so far.

 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

5 minutes ago, FATCAT said:

If he really wants to win, he should bring up her total indiscretion of classified data, and the lack of prosecution thereafter. She compromised national security, she broke the law, and she didn't go to jail. Why? Because she's the head of the corruption.

 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

31 minutes ago, Nemo said:

I'm really wondering if she should even condescend to share a stage with this clown.

Then again, she already did this:

 

Donald's a zig zagging mess.

[En_Sabah_Nur 9,366]

Same ole tired play book!  

 

[FATCAT 60,967]

1 minute ago, LebaneseDude said:

Donald's a zig zagging mess.

Hillary's just a wider zig zagging mess. Ain't that the pot calling the kettle black.

 

[mcoop 628]

13 minutes ago, Goosey said:

Won't work? Seems to be working GREAT so far.

 

Sure Jan. Come November, Donald is DONE.