# Will Donald Trump bring up the Clinton's private life in tonight's debate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 9, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-donald-trump-bring-up-the-clintons-private-life-in-tonights-debate/768099 "2016-10-09T21:07:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-donald-trump-bring-up-the-clintons-private-life-in-tonights-debate/768099/21 "2016-10-09T22:24:53Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Because it’s a case of the pot calling the kettle black, in that if he opens this door by commenting on Bill’s transgressions, it allows Hillary to bring up all of Donald’s. She won’t have to take the high road. > > A piece of advice my father once gave me (though he stole it from someone else, I have no doubt) is this: when you point your finger at someone, you have three pointing right back at you. And of course [Hillary isn’t the only person to have defended Bill](http://ijr.com/2016/10/710486-what-trump-said-about-bill-clinton-after-monica-lewinsky-scandal-is-definitely-raising-eyebrows/) either, or demeaned his accusers. > [@](#): > > Buzzfeed drew our attention to a passage from Trump’s book The America We Deserve, where he referenced the Lewinsky scandal: > > “I got a chuckle out of all the moralists in Congress and in the media who expressed public outrage at the president’s immoral behavior. I happen to know that one U.S. senator leading the pack of attackers spent more than a few nights with his twenty-something girlfriend at a hotel I own. > > There’s also a conservative columnist, married, who was particularly rough on Clinton in this regard. He also brought his girlfriend to my resorts for the weekend. Their hypocrisy is amazing. > > When confronted with the Lewinsky matter, Clinton should have stoutly refused to discuss his private life. He should also have declined to answer, rather than perjure himself. If the Clinton affair proves anything it is that the American people don’t care about the private lives and personal of our political leaders so long as they are doing the job.” > > Trump also defended Clinton against Paula Jones, calling her a “loser”: ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-donald-trump-bring-up-the-clintons-private-life-in-tonights-debate/768099/22 "2016-10-09T22:36:01Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I can’t wait! Before the first debate I was all [this](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5a/a5/d6/5aa5d6321cf7e5c16bef7f4ae6644980.jpg). But now before this one I’m [this](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lokdi6gQZE1qd3usgo1_500.jpg). Right on. No reason to hit the sauce this time. (Well, some of us might have some _other_ reason…) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-donald-trump-bring-up-the-clintons-private-life-in-tonights-debate/768099/23 "2016-10-09T23:45:29Z")
CNN just ran footage of Trump flanked by three women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual assaults, plus the rape victim where Hillary acted as defence counsel. So I guess we have the answer to the OP. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-donald-trump-bring-up-the-clintons-private-life-in-tonights-debate/768099/24 "2016-10-09T23:52:45Z")
> **[Death and Taxes Archives - SPIN](https://www.spin.com/death-and-taxes/)** > > Culture & Politics I wish Hillary would bring up this photo of Trump with his daughter ! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-donald-trump-bring-up-the-clintons-private-life-in-tonights-debate/768099/25 "2016-10-09T23:58:06Z")
Bloomberg just reported “[Trump Holds Event With Bill Clinton Accusers Before Debate](http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-09/trump-may-face-last-chance-to-right-sinking-campaign-at-debate)”. > [@](#): > > Just 90 minutes before the biggest moment of his political life, Donald Trump showed no sign of contrition for his vulgar statements about women as he held an impromptu press conference with the most prominent accusers in Bill Clinton’s past. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-donald-trump-bring-up-the-clintons-private-life-in-tonights-debate/768099/26 "2016-10-10T00:08:48Z")
Of Course he will! Almost every single one of the smart and respectable members of the GOP have scraped “The Donald” off of the bottoms of their boots by now and have left him by the curb. All that’s left is the most base of his base… and they’ll tear him apart and eat him alive if he doesn’t give them ignorant sexual innuendo and scandal that they need to get drunk and to start riots to. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-donald-trump-bring-up-the-clintons-private-life-in-tonights-debate/768099/27 "2016-10-10T00:21:49Z")
I wonder who it was who voted no? ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-donald-trump-bring-up-the-clintons-private-life-in-tonights-debate/768099/28 "2016-10-10T00:29:51Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > And then can’t stop himself from rambling on and on about it, getting angrier and more out of control, diverging into jeremiads about the GOP traitors, climaxing in storming off the stage, as moderators, audience, Clinton and the world look on slack-jawed. > > And as the dust settles, Hillary turns back to the moderators and says quietly, “Now you were asking about…” and proceeds to discuss policy issues with calm, assured insight. He’ll be played by Bruno Ganz, in the original German. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-donald-trump-bring-up-the-clintons-private-life-in-tonights-debate/768099/29 "2016-10-10T00:57:41Z")
If he follows the usual MO of the schoolyard bully, he’s a coward at heart. I’m betting that at most he will refer to it obliquely. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-donald-trump-bring-up-the-clintons-private-life-in-tonights-debate/768099.md?page=1)