Donald Trump Saturday escalated his feud with Democrat Hillary Clinton — taking a personal slap at her announcement that former President Bill Clinton was joining her on the campaign trail next month.
The Republican front-runner developer said on Twitter:
In her announcement last week, Hillary Clinton described the 42nd president as her "not-so-secret weapon."
The "penchant for sexism" reference in Trump's tweet refers to Hillary Clinton's description of the developer to The Des Moines Register this week.
The comment came after Trump said that the former secretary of state got "schlonged" — a term that is considered sexist — in her 2008 race against then-Sen. Barack Obama.
The phrase is also an apparent reference,
CNN reports, to the personal scandals that engulfed the Clinton presidency, including those involving former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones, model Gennifer Flowers and White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
The Lewinsky scandal led to Clinton's impeachment by Congress in 1998.
Trump and Bill Clinton have known each other for years, with the Clintons attending the billionaire's third wedding in 2005. The front-runner also is a donor to the Clinton Foundation. Their daughters also are close friends.
Bill Clinton also called Trump before he announced in candidacy, encouraging him to "to play a larger role in the Republican Party," The Washington Post reports.
While Clinton has commented little on the campaign, he did call Trump "fact-free" on Burnett's show in September.
"If he becomes the nominee, he'll have to sort of hone his criticisms a little more finely because the facts will be easy to marshal," Clinton said. "But he's good at this. That's what he does.
"And the people that he is telling it to now basically have only heard that story, so they believe it and it's probably good politics for him."
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