Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
(Warning: This story contains sexual descriptions that may offend some readers and may not be suitable for children.)
With “October surprises” sparking fireworks in the race for the White House – and Americans in more than a dozen states already voting – presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are facing off in a second presidential debate Sunday evening.
The townhall-style event, which is being held at Washington University in St. Louis, begins at 9 p.m. Eastern and runs commercial free for 90 minutes. It will be livestreamed on WND. Martha Raddatz of ABC News and CNN’s Anderson Cooper are moderating the debate. Half the questions will be asked by “undecided” voters and the other half by moderators.
In the lead-up to the debate, RealClearPolitics’ polling average showed Clinton leading Trump by 4.6 percentage points, 47.5 percent to 42.9 percent. However, most of the polls were conducted before several Trump and Clinton bombshells emerged over the weekend.
The very first question of the debate will be about the leaked tape of Trump’s sexually aggressive comments about women in 2005. According to CNN, the question will be posed to Clinton. Both candidates will be asked to address the issue.
A Democrat close to Bill and Hillary Clinton told Politico viewers should “expect Armageddon” Sunday.
“I think that Trump will figure he’s got nothing to lose, so he might as well go all out,” the source said.
‘Rapist’ Clinton: Women say they’re ‘terrified’ of Hillary
As WND reported, on Sunday morning came two explosive videos from several women who say they were victims of sexual assault and rape at the hands of Bill Clinton.
The first was from Arkansas registered nurse Juanita Broaddrick, who recounted what she described as her brutal rapes by then-state Attorney General Bill Clinton.
“He grabs me, and turns me to him. And that was a shock. And I tried to push him away. And I only weighed about 120 pounds at that time. He was a very large man. And I kept telling him, ‘No. I don’t want this at all. And he grabbed me again, very forcefully. And started biting on my top lip. And this was extremely painful. I thought he was going to bite my lip off. And that’s when he pushed me back onto the bed.”
“You are still afraid of him?” asked Breitbart News’ Aaron Klein.
“Yes,” she said. “That I am still afraid. Especially if she becomes president. And I know it’s looking that way. So it’s frightening, Aaron. It’s frightening.”
Juanita Broaddrick says she was raped by Bill Clinton (courtesy Breitbart video)
Also Sunday came a separate video of Broaddrick along with Clinton accusers Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones, describing their “terrified” feelings about the Clintons.
The Broaddrick accusation has begun to catch fire with the public. Several times recently hecklers at Clinton rallies have shouted remarks about Bill Clinton being a rapist. It happened again Saturday and Clinton’s reaction was caught on video.
“Nobody can dispute the fact …” Clinton started to say to the audience, at which point the heckler jumped in to finish the sentence, “… that you are a rapist!”
“Oh, yeah?” Clinton said quietly.
He told the crowd not to worry about the outburst, while repeatedly thanking them for defending his honor.
“You gotta feel sorry for him – they had a bad day yesterday, so they’re trying to make it up,” Clinton joked. “This is what is the matter with politics. When other people pour poison down your throat, don’t drink it.”
Bill Clinton reacts to being called a “rapist” while campaigning for his wife Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016.
Trump’s sexually charged comments in 2005
WND also reported this weekend that the Washington Post published a leaked 11-year-old video recording of Trump Friday making sexually charged comments about women and talking about his failed attempt to bed a married woman.
“I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women – I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet,” Trump said in the 2005 video, which was covertly recorded. “Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the (expletive).”
After the video aired, Trump reportedly holed up Saturday in his Manhattan tower for debate prep as a parade of Republicans denounced his comments – and some called on him to step aside as the GOP presidential nominee. The response followed a statement and video apology from Trump:
“I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I’m not. I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong and I apologize.
“I have traveled the country talking about change for America, but my travels have also changed me. I’ve spent time with grieving mothers who’ve lost their children, laid-off workers whose jobs have gone to other countries, and people from all walks of life who just want a better future. I have gotten to know the great people of our country and I’ve been humbled by the faith they’ve placed in me. I pledge to be a better man tomorrow, and will never, ever let you down.
“Let’s be honest, we’re living in the real world. This is nothing more than a distraction from the important issues we’re facing today.
“We are losing our jobs, we are less safe than we were eight years ago and Washington is totally broken. Hillary Clinton and her kind have run our country into the ground. I’ve said some foolish things, but there’s a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims. We will discuss this more in the coming days. See you at the debate on Sunday.”
A Politico/Morning Consult poll released after the Trump video was leaked showed 74 percent of Republicans say GOP leaders should continue to back Trump.
Hillary’s transcripts: Lies, ‘open borders,’ Blackberries
As WND reported, while the Big Media focused on the covert audio conversation by Trump from a decade ago, Wikileaks emails, mostly pertaining to her campaign manager John Podesta, released late Friday provided insight into Clinton’s highly paid insider speeches to bankers. Clinton campaign manager John Podesta told Fox News the documents are bogus.
Among the revelations:
- She said it’s necessary for politicians to hold public positions that are actually different from their private ones – those presumably held for actual governance.
- Clinton supports North American Union – a merger between the U.S., Mexico and Canada – similar to the European Union.
- Clinton relished the fact that she had graduated from the middle class, is “far removed” from it, and now enjoys “fortunes” with her husband, Bill.
- Clinton spoke openly about her need to raise money from Wall Street for her political campaigns, ignoring issues of whether or not that compromised her as a candidate necessarily beholding to serve the corporate interests of multi-national corporations.
- The speeches show Clinton was aware Blackberries were not secure communication devices, though she used them routinely as secretary of state, including on foreign trips.
- Clinton blamed Moammar Gadhafi and foreign mercenaries for the terrorism that plagues Libya after she sided radical jihadi militia aligned with al-Qaida to topple Gadhafi from power – even though he had expressed a willingness to step aside peacefully.
- Clinton admitted backing the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
- Clinton claimed to have threatened China to surround it with missile defenses if China continued to allow North Korea to develop nuclear weapons and inter-continental ballistic missile systems – a bluff not kept.
- Clinton admitted the inevitability of Saudi Arabia getting nuclear weapons.
- The Clinton Foundation held a meeting at Goldman Sachs headquarters June 6, 2014.
In addition to these hot topics, the debate is likely to include discussion of subjects such as terrorism and national security, jobs, the economy, race relations and immigration.
Terrorism and national security
Terrorism is a top issue this election season, and 80 percent of registered voters say it is “very important” to their vote in November. Sunday’s big debate takes place only weeks after the New York City and New Jersey bomb attacks by Muslim terror suspect and Afghan immigrant Ahmad Khan Rahami on Sept. 17 and 18.
Also in September, Muslim jihadi and Turkey immigrant Arcan Cetin entered a Washington mall and shot five people and Somali immigrant Dahir Adan allegedly stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota mall while shouting “Allah” and asking his victims whether they were Muslim.
The U.S. experienced 7,712 terrorist encounters in just one year – from July 20, 2015, to July 20, 2016 – according to a Breitbart report that cited leaked FBI data. Most of the “Known or Suspected Terrorist Encounters” reportedly occurred near the U.S.-Mexico border. States sharing a border with Mexico such as Texas, California and Arizona, saw the highest numbers of encounters.
Most of the encounters in Arizona involved Islamic known or suspected terrorists, both Sunni and Shiite, according to the report. Eighty-nine encounters were with Sunni Muslims, 56 with Shiite Muslims, 70 with “Other International Terrorist Groups or Affiliates,” and 52 were determined to be individuals linked to “domestic terrorism.”
Race relations
The big debate takes place amid increasing racial tensions, as riots and protests plagued Oklahoma and North Carolina in September after police shootings of black men. As WND reported, Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer Betty Shelby, who is white, was charged with first-degree manslaughter after she was captured on video shooting Terence Crutcher, a black man who was unarmed. Shelby said she felt “threatened” by Crutcher and believed he was on the drug PCP and had a gun.
In a separate incident in Charlotte, North Carolina, in September, 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, a black man, was shot and killed by a black police officer. Police say Scott had a gun and was ordered to drop it before he was shot. A photo taken by a witness appeared to show a gun on the ground near Scott’s body moments after the shooting. After Scott’s death, riots broke out in Charlotte for at least three nights, and a black protester was fatally shot by another black protester. Rioters also blocked traffic, set fires, looted a Walmart, chucked rocks and bottles at police officers, damaged police patrol cars and rampaged through downtown Charlotte.
Jobs and economy
The U.S. economy has consistently ranked as the top issue for Americans this election.
On Sunday morning, the White House tweeted a video of President Obama touting economic progress in America.
“We turned a recession into a record streak of job growth, creating more than 15 million private-sector jobs and cutting the unemployment rate in half,” Obama said. “Getting wages to rise again was a harder task. … Because the policies we put in place are working, working families are finally seeing their incomes rise. … We lifted 3.5 million people out of poverty. … What’s more, lower- and middle-income families saw the biggest boost in incomes, in part because 18 states and the District, as well as more than 50 communities, have given millions of Americans a raise by raising the minimum wage.”
According to the Pew Research Center, 84 percent of registered voters have said the economy is “very important” to their vote in November. That’s likely because the economy is stagnant, with the country on track for a GDP growth of only one percent in 2016. According to the Wall Street Journal, the anemic 1.2 percent growth rate in the second quarter of 2016 makes for an annual average rate of 2.1 percent growth since the end of the recession, making it the weakest recovery since the Great Depression.
Trump says his economic plan would create up to 25 million new jobs and a minimum of 3.5 percent growth over the next decade.
Trump says tax reform will stimulate the economy. He wants to “dramatically” reduce income taxes for everyone, simplify the tax code, give tax breaks for child care costs, end the estate tax, and cap business taxes at 15 percent. He wants to scale back regulations that hinder business growth, calling for a “temporary pause on new regulations and a review of previous regulations to see which need to be scrapped.” He wants to repeal the most burdensome regulations.
Trump wants to renegotiate trade deals he believes hurt the U.S. economy, such as NAFTA and the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.
He wants to boost domestic energy production to stimulate the economy, and save the domestic coal industry. He also believes the repeal of Obamacare will help American businesses.
Clinton takes a less laissez-faire and more of a big-government approach to the economy. She wants to increase taxes by at least $1 trillion over the next 10 years.
She told the Daily News, “I would spend about $100 billion a year. And I think it’s affordable, and I think it’s a smart way to make investments … that will contribute to growing the economy.”
As for the energy industry, she is not exactly pro-growth. In March, she famously remarked, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
On her campaign website, Clinton’s five-point plan promises:
“Hillary will fight to pass a plan in her first 100 days in office to invest in infrastructure, manufacturing, research and technology, clean energy, and small businesses.
“Make debt free college available to all Americans. Hillary will make college debt-free, and she’ll provide relief for Americans with existing debt by allowing them to refinance their student loans.
“Rewrite the rules so that more companies share profits with employees—and fewer ship profits and jobs overseas. Hillary will reward companies that share profits and invest in their workers, and she will raise the minimum wage to a living wage.
“Make certain that corporations, the wealthy, and Wall Street pay their fair share. Hillary will pay for her economic priorities and avoid adding to the national debt by ensuring the wealthiest Americans and the biggest corporations pay their fair share.
“She will fight for equal pay and guarantee paid leave, two changes that are long overdue. And she will provide relief from the rising costs of necessities like child care and housing, while taking steps to provide Americans with greater retirement and health care security.”
Immigration
Trump’s staunch opposition to illegal immigration when he launched his campaign is the issue that vaulted him to the front of the pack in the GOP primaries. No one was more opposed to illegal immigration, and no policy proved more popular among Republican voters.
His plan has three basic components:
- Build a wall along the border with Mexico.
- End amnesty for illegal immigrants.
- Enforce the existing laws on illegal immigration.
Early in his campaign, Trump did call for a “deportation force” to round up all illegal immigrants. He said, “they have to go,” but the “good ones” would be allowed to return. He has since modified that stance, saying that he now think it is best to figure out how to deal with all the illegal immigrants in the country, once the flow of border-crossers has been stemmed and the problem brought under control.
Trump has also called for a temporary suspension of visas to people coming from regions with a history of exporting terrorism and from areas where it isn’t possible to do adequate background checks.
“When I am elected, I will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies, until we fully understand how to end these threats,” said the candidate in a speech in June.
This is Trump’s immigration plan outlined plan in great length on his campaign website, along with some excerpts of some of the details.
Clinton’s positions on illegal immigration are, in nearly every respect, the exact opposite of Trump’s.
She is against amnesty and against enforcing the immigration laws on the books, as evidenced by her support of Obama’s executive orders suspending and overruling those laws.
Clinton also wants a 550 percent increase in the number of Syrian refugees admitted into the United States.
In June, she criticized Trump’s proposed pause on immigration from areas where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, saying, “What I won’t do, because I think it is dangerous for our efforts to defeat this threat, is to demonize and demagogue and declare war on an entire religion.”
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