From the September 30 edition of CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront:
CNN Points Out That Trump And His Top Advisers “Have Had Their Own Personal Problems With Women”
CNN's Kate Bolduan: Trump Using “Bill Clinton's Sex Scandals” Against Hillary Clinton Is “A Questionable Strategy”
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KATE BOLDUAN (HOST): Tonight the Trump campaign trying to use Bill Clinton's sex scandals to turn women against Hillary Clinton, but it's a questionable strategy given Trump's own history with women as well as the men he's surrounding himself with during this campaign. Kyung Lah is out front.
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DONALD TRUMP: I do cherish women. I love women.
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KYUNG LAH: Despite what Donald Trump says, his furious pre-dawn tweets this morning suggests a different sentiment. In one, calling Alicia Machado, quote, “disgusting.” His war with the former Miss Universe escalating at a time when campaigns usually want to appeal to women. But it's not only Trump. The men who surround Trump, his closest advisers, have had their own personal problems with women.
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STEVE BANNON: We need to have a fight in the Republican Party for the soul of the conservative movement.
SEAN HANNITY: I agree with you.
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LAH: Campaign CEO Steve Bannon, in 1996 he faced misdemeanor domestic violence charges. His ex-wife in the Santa Monica, California, police report alleging he grabbed her, an incident that the officer says left red marks on her left wrist and the right side of the neck. Those charges were dropped. Bannon would become a right-wing media mogul. In a 2011 radio interview, using a derogatory gay slur to describe progressive women.
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STEVE BANNON: They wouldn't be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England.
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LAH: The man behind fox News Roger Ailes is now an unofficial Trump campaign whisperer, although Trump won't official acknowledge his role. Fox News ousted Ailes after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment. Most prominently anchor Gretchen Carlson, who received a $20 million dollar settlement from Fox.
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NEWT GINGRICH: You're not supposed to gain 60 pounds during the year that you're Miss Universe.
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LAH: That's former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich speaking this week defending Trump's comments about Alicia Machado. Gingrich is now a Trump adviser. He and Trump have both been married three times, both accused of infidelity. In 2012, Gingrich's second wife recalled this about her former husband to ABC News.
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MARIANNE GINTHER: He was asking to have an open marriage and I refused.
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LAH: Then there's Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor and Trump backer. After Monday's debate, Giuliani spoke to reporters bringing up Bill Clinton's affair criticizing not just him, but Hillary Clinton.
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RUDY GIULIANI: She attacked Monica Lewinsky. And after being married to Bill Clinton for 20 years, if you didn't know the moment Monica Lewinsky said that Bill Clinton violated her, that she was telling the truth, then you're too stupid to be president.
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LAH: But Giuliani should be able to relate to marital strife. Married three times, he announced the separation to his second wife at a press conference before telling her. His divorce and affair playing out publicly on New York tabloid front pages.
Previously:
Trump’s Victim Blaming Shouldn’t Be A Surprise -- He’s Surrounded By Misogynist Media Advisers
Latest Accounts Of Trump Misogyny Allege Unlawful Behavior, But Media Don't Notice