Donald Trump launched a social-media ad Monday, going after Hillary Clinton via the emotional words of two women who claimed they were sexually assaulted by her husband, Bill.
“He starts to bite on my top lip and I try to pull away from him,” Juanita Broaddrick is heard tearfully saying in the black-and-white Instagram ad that shows a creepy-looking Bill Clinton with a cigar in his mouth.
Her comment comes after another Clinton accuser of decades ago, Kathleen Willey, declares: “No woman should be subjected to this. It was an assault.”
The ad ends with Hillary cackling as a photo of the two Clintons appears with the title “Here We Go Again?”
Trump tweeted, “Is Hillary really protecting women?” with a link to the stinging video.
Broaddrick is a former nursing-home administrator who claims Bill Clinton raped her in Arkansas in 1978 when he was running for governor.
Willey, a former White House volunteer, alleges that Clinton sexually asssaulted her in 1993 during his first term as president.
Trump has made it clear that he intends to make Bill Clinton’s infidelities an issue in the campaign, charging that Hillary Clinton was his “enabler.”
In interview with the Washington Post released Monday night, Trump also brings up the death of Clinton deputy White House counsel Vince Foster, whose suicide sparked conspiracy theories that the Clintons were involved in killing him.
“He had intimate knowledge of what was going on,” Trump told the Washington Post.
“He knew everything that was going on, and then, all of a sudden, he committed suicide.”
The former first lady didn’t comment Monday on the latest Trump attacks on her husband.
But in a preview of the coming brutal, six-month struggle for the White House, she questioned Trump’s reputation as a successful businessman — which is an underpinning of his outsider campaign.
“Trump economics is a recipe for lower wages, fewer jobs, more debt. He could bankrupt America like he bankrupted his companies,” Hillary Clinton told the Service Employees International Union convention in Detroit.
“I mean, ask yourself: How could anybody lose money running a casino, really?” she said.
Trump’s businesses filed four bankruptcies for casinos he used to own in Atlantic City.
In her remarks, Hillary also called on Democratic rival Bernie Sanders’ supporters to join her to stop Trump from getting into the Oval Office.
“The last thing we need is a bully in the pulpit,” Clinton said.
As she and Sanders continue battling, the Real Clear Politics averages of national polls showed Trump even with or ahead of Clinton for the first time in the general election, 43.4 percent to 43.2 percent in his favor.