Chelsea Clinton was interviewed in Cosmopolitan today. Obviously, she was asked about the first debate between her mother and Donald Trump. The first question the interviewer asked her was Trump’s perverse statement, made after the debate, about how he was “proud” he didn’t begin talking about Bill Clinton’s infidelity. You might remember, Trump said he didn’t bring it up because he saw Chelsea Clinton in the audience.
Well, my reaction to that is just what my reaction has been kind of every time Trump has gone after my mom or my family, which is that it’s a distraction from his inability to talk about what’s actually at stake in this election and to offer concrete, comprehensive proposals about the economy, or our public school system, or debt-free college, or keeping our country safe and Americans safe here at home and around the world.
And candidly, I don’t remember a time in my life when my parents and my family weren’t being attacked, and so it just sort of seems to be in that tradition, unfortunately. And what I find most troubling by far are Trump’s — and we talked about this when you interviewed me the night before the Iowa caucus — are Trump’s continued, relentless attacks on whole swaths of our country and even our global community: women, Muslims, Americans with disabilities, a Gold Star family. I mean, that, to me, is far more troubling than whatever his most recent screed against my mom or my family [is].
As the first debate showed us, all that Donald Trump has to fear is a woman who will to tell him to shut the fuck up.
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