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Lashing back, Trump calls accusers ‘horrible horrible liars’
children to this any longer, not for
another minute, let alone for four
years.”
With Election Day less than
four weeks away, Republican
Trump was again forced to defend
himself against allegations of sexual
misconduct, ive days after a video
surfaced in which he bragged about
kissing and groping women without
their permission.
Similar behavior was detailed
by women who accused Trump in
articles published late Wednesday
by The New York Times and the
Palm Beach Post. Separately, a
People Magazine reporter offered a
irst-person account accusing Trump
of attacking her while she was in
Florida to interview him and his
pregnant wife.
Ever deiant, the New York
billionaire denied the allegations and
blamed them on Hillary Clinton’s
campaign and the complicit news
media as he campaigned in Florida.
He promised to sue his media critics
and said he was preparing evidence
that would discredit his female
Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
— Lashing back, Donald Trump
heatedly rejected the growing list
of sexual assault allegations against
him as “pure iction” on Thursday,
hammering his female accusers
as “horrible, horrible liars” as the
already-nasty presidential campaign
sank further into charges of attacks
on women.
Campaign foe Hillary Clinton
said “the disturbing stories just keep
on coming” about her Republican
opponent, but she let irst lady
Michelle Obama’s passionate
response carry the day. Obama,
in battleground New Hampshire,
warned that the New York billion-
aire’s behavior “is not something we
can ignore.”
After years of working to end
“this kind of violence and abuse and
disrespect ... we’re hearing these
exact same things on the campaign
trail. We are drowning in it,” Obama
declared, her voice cracking with
emotion. “We can’t expose our
accusers, whom he called “horrible
people. They’re horrible, horrible
liars.”
He went further during an
evening appearance in Columbus,
Ohio, saying he “never met” some
of the women.
“I don’t know who they are,”
he insisted and said they “made up
stories.”
“These vicious claims about
me, of inappropriate conduct with
women, are totally and absolutely
false. And the Clintons know it,” he
said earlier. He offered no evidence
discrediting the new reports except
to ask why his accusers had waited
years and then made their allega-
tions less than a month before the
election.
His comments came soon after
he called a reporter “a sleazebag”
for asking whether Trump had ever
touched or groped a woman without
her consent.
Trump’s attacks on his accusers’
credibility marked an awkward
break from campaign manager,
Kellyanne Conway, who earlier
in the week highlighted a Clinton
tweet that said “every survivor of
sexual assault deserves to be heard,
believed, and supported.”
Conway hoped to encourage
more women to come forward with
allegations against Bill Clinton,
building on the campaign’s Sunday
decision to bring three of the former
president’s accusers to the second
presidential debate.
“His campaign is promising
more scorched-earth attacks. Now
that’s up to him,” Clinton said
during a San Francisco fundraiser.
“He can run his campaign however
he chooses. And frankly, I don’t care
if he goes after me.”
Trump running mate Mike Pence
ditched the national reporters who
pay to travel with his campaign in
Pennsylvania. The Indiana gover-
nor’s Twitter account showed him
meeting with faith leaders and stop-
ping at a restaurant — after a Pence
spokesman said the vice presidential
nominee was attending closed-door
fundraisers.
Republican leaders across the
country said they were deeply
troubled by the allegations against
Trump, but there was no evidence of
new defections. Over the weekend,
dozens of Republican senators and
congressmen vowed they would not
vote for him, with many calling on
him to step aside.
Some recanted after an aggressive
weekend debate performance. And
in what he called an increasingly
“muddy” election, Arkansas Gov.
Asa Hutchinson raised complaints
about Hillary Clinton Thursday but
wondered aloud what could change
voters’ minds at this point.
“Is there a deal-breaker out
there? How many emails have to be
destroyed? How many investigations
have to be concluded with question
marks? How many comments have
to come out from one campaign in
reference to religious institutions
that raises concerns?”
More Trump accusers may
be coming forward, according to
attorney Gloria Allred, who said
women have contacted her ofice in
recent days.
BRIEFLY
Thais gripped by
grief after beloved
king’s death
BANGKOK (AP) —
Grieving Thais went to work
dressed mostly in black
Friday morning, just hours
after the palace announced
the death of their beloved
King Bhumibol Adulyadej,
the politically fractious
country’s unifying igure and
the world’s longest-reigning
monarch. He was 88.
Trafic and businesses
appeared to be running
normal, but many Thais —
some seen crying — were
dressed in muted colors and
there was a somber mood
on the streets following an
outpouring of sorrow on
Thursday when the king’s
death was announced.
Television channels ran
shows devoted to the king’s
life.
The news had been
expected, and hundreds of
people had gathered since
Wednesday at Bangkok’s
Siriraj Hospital, where
Bhumibol had been treated
for various ailments for
much of the past decade.
Many sobbed loudly,
clutching each other in
anguish and shouting “Long
live the king.”
The government
announced a one-year
mourning period and a
30-day moratorium on state
events, and all public ofices
and schools will ly lags at
half staff for 30 days.
Crown Prince Maha
Vajiralongkorn will
succeed the king under the
constitution, but asked for
more time to mourn with the
nation before ascending the
throne. No date has been set
for his coronation.
Most Thais have seen no
other king in their lifetime
and thought of Bhumibol,
who reigned for 70 years,
as their father and the
embodiment of goodness
and godliness.
Colombia extends
ceaseire with rebels
BOGOTA, Colombia
(AP) — President Juan
Manuel Santos announced
on Thursday that he is
extending a ceaseire with
Colombia’s largest rebel
movement in a bid to give
more time to efforts to save
a peace deal rejected by
voters.
Santos said in a
televised address that he
was extending by two
months the ceaseire with
the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia until
Dec. 31.
He made the
announcement after
meeting with students
who have been organizing
demonstrations across the
country to demand the
accord be implemented
immediately despite it being
rejected in a referendum.
“Let it be clear: this isn’t
an ultimatum or deadline,”
Santos said, adding that he
hoped to have an agreement
before year’s end. He
said the lives of soldiers
and guerrillas depended
on warfare not resuming.
“Time is conspiring against
peace and life.”
Santos, winner of this
year’s Nobel Peace Prize,
is engaged in three-way
talks with the FARC and the
opposition to ind ways to
adjust the accord so that it
enjoys broader support.
It’s an uphill battle
though.
Former President Alvaro
Uribe, who led opposition
to the accord, is demanding
deep changes such as stiffer
penalties for rebels who
committed war crimes.
Meanwhile the rebels,
who would be spared jail
time under the accord,
are insisting they won’t
go back to the drawing
board and throw out more
than four years of arduous
negotiations with the
government.
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HAMILTON, Bermuda
(AP) — Hurricane Nicole
roared across Bermuda on
Thursday, pummeling the
resort island with winds up
to 115 mph that snapped
trees and peeled off roofs
before the storm spun away
into open water.
The Category 3 system
also looded homes,
damaged boats that broke
away from their moorings
and knocked out power
to more than 27,000
customers who live in the
British territory, which has
sturdy infrastructure and
is accustomed to heavy
weather.
By late Thursday, crews
were clearing roads, and
many islanders were posting
pictures of calmer seas and
clearer skies.
“Nicole is now racing
away,” said James
Dodgson, deputy director
at the Bermuda Weather
Service. “There’s been a
bit of sunshine trying to
poke through.” Forecasters
expected to cancel a tropical
storm warning later in the
evening.
Authorities urged
everyone to stay inside.
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