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Page 10A East Oregonian PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Saturday, October 8, 2016 Clinton’s paid speeches to Wall Street executives leaked AP Photo/ Evan Vucci In this Thursday photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a town hall in Sandown, N.H. Trump’s campaign reeling after crude comments on women aired NEW YORK (AP) — Caught on tape making shockingly crude comments about a married woman he tried to seduce, Donald Trump reeled under wide- spread condemnation from his own party on Friday, increasingly desperate to salvage a presidential bid at risk of imploding. Trump tried to head off some of the damage by issuing a statement apologizing “if anyone was offended” by vulgar remarks captured on a 2005 tape and made public Friday. In the recording, obtained by The Washington Post and NBC News, Trump describes trying to have sex with the married woman and brags about women letting him kiss and grab them because he is famous. “When you’re a star they let you do it,” Trump says. “You can do anything.” He adds seconds later, “Grab them by the p----. You can do anything.” The one-sentence response from the head of Trump’s Republican Party was devastating. “No woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner. Ever,” said Reince Priebus, who had stood by Trump through his past provocative comments. House Speaker Paul Ryan said he was sickened by Trump’s comments. “I hope Mr. Trump treats this situation with the seriousness it deserves and works to demonstrate to the country that he has greater respect for women than this clip suggests.” Ryan added tartly that Trump was “no longer attending” a joint campaign appearance set for Saturday in Wisconsin. Trump himself later said in a statement that he would be preparing for Sunday night’s debate instead. Other Republicans, painfully aware of Trump’s possible impact on their own political fates, were quick to chime in. New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who is locked in a close race, called his comments “totally inap- propriate and offensive.” Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was “beside himself” and his wife was furious, according to a person familiar with their thinking. That person spoke on the condition of anonymity, because they were not authorized to share the private discussion. For all the condemnation, there was no GOP clamor for Trump to bow out. But Ryan’s spokesman and others who criticized the candidate’s comments sidestepped the question. On the tape, Trump is caught on a live microphone while talking with Billy Bush of “Access Hollywood.” The candidate is heard saying “I did try and f--- her. She was married.” He also uses graphic terms to describe the woman’s body and says he frequently tries to kiss beautiful women. “Access Hollywood” said a recent Associated Press story about Trump’s lewd behind-the-scenes comments as star of “The Apprentice” led it to dig through its archives and turn up the previously unaired tape. It was recorded during a bus ride while Trump was on his way to appear in an episode of the soap opera “Days of Our Lives.” Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, seized on Trump’s quotes, calling them “horriic.” She said in a Twitter message: “We cannot allow this man to become president.” There were plenty of other problems for Trump on what surely was one of the worst days of his two-year drive for the White House. His advisers planned for him to spend a quiet Friday preparing for the debate and meeting with border security oficials. But the day was quickly consumed by a series of controversies, including Trump’s unsubstantiated claim about immigrants in the U.S. illegally voting in the election and his ques- tioning the innocence of ive black teenagers exonerated in a 1989 rape case. Then, there were new signs of unusual links between Trump and Russia. For the irst time, the U.S. publicly blamed the Russian government for hacking the Democratic National Committee and accused Moscow of trying to interfere with the American election. Also in the mix Friday: New questions about the Trump campaign’s inances. With roughly a month until Election Day, the campaign has yet to schedule the $100 million in television advertising that his campaign boasted about just two weeks ago. The campaign has just half that amount scheduled, and late this week shifted ad money around rather than increasing its overall investment, suggesting a bit of penny-pinching even as the clock winds down. While Trump has survived numerous controversies that would have sunk other candi- dates, Friday’s developments came at a crucial moment. Less than ive weeks from Election Day, he needs to expand his support and is struggling in particular with minorities and women. The unearthed tape of his comments can hardly help with female voters. In a statement after the tape was revealed, Trump called his comments “locker room banter” and a “private conversation that took place many years ago.” “Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course — not even close,” he said. “I apologize if anyone was offended.” WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton told bankers behind closed doors that she favored “open trade and open borders” and said Wall Street executives were best-positioned to help reform the U.S. inancial sector, according to transcripts of her private, paid speeches leaked Friday. The leaks were the result of another email hacking intended to inluence the presidential election. Excerpts of the speeches given in the years before her 2016 presidential campaign included some blunt and unguarded remarks to her private audiences, which collectively had paid her at least $26.1 million in speaking fees. Clinton had refused to release transcripts of the speeches, despite repeated calls to do so by her primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders. The excerpts were included in emails exchanged among her political staff, including Campaign Chairman John Podesta, whose email account was hacked. The WikiLeaks organization posted what it said were thousands of Podesta’s emails. It wasn’t immediately clear who had hacked Podesta’s emails, though the breach appeared to cover years of messages, some sent as recently as last month. Among the emails was a compilation of excerpts from Clinton’s paid speeches in 2013 and 2014. It appeared campaign staff had read all Clinton’s speeches and identiied passages that could be potentially problematic for the candidate if they were to become public. One excerpt put Clinton squarely in the free-trade camp, a position she has retreated on signiicantly during the 2016 election. In a talk to a Brazilian bank in 2013, she said her “dream” is “a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders” and asked her audience to think of what doubling American trade with Latin America “would mean for everybody in this room.” Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, has made opposition to trade deals a corner- stone of his campaign. Podesta posted a series of tweets Friday night, calling the disclosures a Russian hack and raising questions about whether some of the documents could have been altered. “I’m not happy about being hacked by the Russians in their quest to throw the election to Donald Trump,” Podesta wrote. “Don’t have time to igure out which docs are real and which are faked.” Podesta’s comments came just hours after U.S. oficials publicly accused the Russian government of directing cyberat- tacks on political organizations and Amer- ican citizens in an attempt to interfere with U.S. elections. The joint statement from the ofice of the Director of National Intelligence and the Homeland Security Department cited disclosures of “alleged hacked emails” on AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a town hall in Haverford, Pa., Tuesday. sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks as being “consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts.” The statement didn’t refer by name to the affected political institutions, but federal authorities are investigating cyberattacks on the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said in a state- ment, “It’s not hard to see why she fought so hard to keep her transcripts of speeches to Wall Street banks paying her millions of dollars secret.” The emails released Friday included exchanges between Podesta and other Clinton insiders, including campaign manager Robby Mook. Most were routine, including drafts of Clinton speeches, suggested talking points for campaign surrogates and suggested tweets to be sent out from Clinton’s account. The excerpts include quotes from an October 2013 speech at an event sponsored by Goldman Sachs, in which Clinton conceded that presidential candidates need the inancial backing of Wall Street to mount a competitive national campaign. In an April 2013 speech to the National Multifamily Housing Council, Clinton said politicians must balance “both a public and a private position” while making deals. Clinton gave an example from the movie “Lincoln,” and the deal-making that went into passage of the 13th Amendment, a process she compared to sausage-making. “It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be,” Clinton said. “But if every- body’s watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous to say the least. 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