ABC Online :Mr Trump, who has all but locked up the Republican nomination, made the bizarre allegation while campaigning on the weekend in an apparent bid to undercut his Democratic rival’s appeal to women voters.”Hillary hurt many women – the women that he abused,” Mr Trump told a rally in Spokane, Washington – reiterating past criticism of Mrs Clinton over her handling of the former president’s affairs.”And just remember this – she was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler, and what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful.”Some of those women were destroyed not by him, but by the way that Hillary Clinton treated them after everything went down.”The likely Republican nominee charged that Bill Clinton had “abused women more than any man that we know of in the history of politics”.”Bill Clinton was the worst in history, and I have to listen to her talking about it?” he said.Mr Trump has accused Mrs Clinton, the likely Democratic candidate in November’s presidential election, of using her gender to her political advantage – playing the “woman’s card” – and says she would not be seen as a qualified candidate if not for her sex.The latest attack seemed designed to inoculate Mr Trump against anticipated accusations of misogyny from the Clinton camp.On and off the campaign trail, the tycoon has used abusive language – like “bimbo”, “dog”, “fat pig” and other epithets – to denigrate women he doesn’t like.Hillary Clinton on stage, addressing supporters, as Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton look on.The twice-divorced billionaire, who was celebrated for decades as one of New York’s most sought-after bachelors, has also admitted to cheating on his first wife with the woman who became his second.Mrs Clinton signalled in an interview broadcast on Sunday that attacks against Mr Trump over his stance on women would be part of her campaign battle plan.”When he says, ‘women should be punished for having abortions’, what does that mean? And how would he go about that?” the former first lady said.But she also vowed to not to engage in the sort of mudslinging that helped her Republican rival vanquish his challengers for the nomination.Meanwhile, Mr Trump said he would consider raising taxes on wealthy Americans, backing away from his prior proposal to reduce taxes on all Americans.”I am willing to pay more, and you know what, the wealthy are willing to pay more,” Mr Trump told American ABC’s This Week program.Mr Trump’s tax proposal, released last September, included broad tax breaks for businesses and households.He proposed reducing the highest income-tax rate to 25 per cent from the current 39.6 per cent rate.Pressed on the contradiction between his latest comments on taxes and the September tax plan, Mr Trump said his original proposal was a “a concept” and he expected that it would be changed following negotiations with Congress.”By the time it gets negotiated, it’s going to be a different plan,” Mr Trump said.He emphasised in interviews with both ABC and in a separate interview with NBC’s Meet the Press that his priorities were lowering taxes on the middle class and businesses.”The middle class has to be protected,” Mr Trump told NBC.”The rich are probably going to end up paying more.”
