During rallies on Friday,
the presumptive Republican nomineedelivered his strongest
attacks yet on the former first lady after she criticised his stance on women's
issues.
His ferocious tactics will do nothing to reassure
senior Republican figures who fear the unpredictable billionaire will hand the
White House to the Democrats in November's election or those who fear an even
worse outcome: that he could actually win.
He referred once again to
“crooked Hillary” but also launched a broadside based on Bill Clinton's marital
infidelities.
“Bill Clinton was the worst in
history and I have to listen to her talking about it?" he said in Eugene,
Oregon. “Just remember this: She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler.
"And what she did to a
lot of those women is disgraceful. So put that in her bonnet and let's see what
happens."
Despite a campaign in which he
has mocked the looks of a female rival and used menstruation to construct a
crude slur against a journalist, he told the crowd that nobody respected
women more than he did, before adding: "Nobody in this country, and maybe
in the history of the country politically, was worse than Bill Clinton with
women."
He also disparaged Elizabeth
Warren, a leading liberal figure in the Democratic party, as a
"goofus".
Mr
Trump wrapped up his party's nomination last week.
His two
remaining rivals dropped out after they lost heavily to the real estate
developer in Indiana's primary.
Since then
he has said he wants to unify the party behind his candidacy.
However, some senior figures – including
the party's two most recent presidents – have refused to endorse him while others have begun a search for a
third-party candidate to representative the mainstream of the party.
Analysts
believe Mr Trump will fail to win the White House if he cannot improve his
support among women and ethnic minorities.
Meanwhile, Mrs Clinton is
expected to use her opponent's low favourability ratings among female voters
in an attempt to woo Republican women to vote Democrat.
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