Donald Trump has vowed to bring post-election lawsuits against every woman who has accused him in recent days of sexual misconduct years ago even as he renewed the charge that Hillary Clinton’s campaign was behind the “total fabrication” to hurt his presidential bid.
“Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. Total fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over,” Trump said on Saturday – a day when an 11th woman alleged that he grabbed and kissed her without permission in Nevada 10 years ago.
The Republican nominee, who faces continuous criticism for going off message, came up with his plan for legal challenge at what had been billed as a campaign milestone event in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to make his “closing argument” and lay out his agenda for “first 100 days” should he win the White House race.
Trump did lay out an elaborate plan of action on a host of issues, but what caught the attention of the American media to the virtual exclusion of all else was his proposed lawsuits.
Hours later, the 11th accuser surfaced in los Angeles. Jessica Drake, an adult film star, claimed at a news conference that Trump grabbed her and two other women accompanying her and kissed each of them without seeking permission at a charity golf tournament in lake Tahoe, Nevada in 2006.
Refuting the allegation as “totally false and ridiculous”, the Trump campaign said in a statement: “This is just another attempt by the Clinton campaign to defame a candidate who just today is number one in three different polls…. Just another example of the Clinton campaign trying to rig the election.”
In his Gettysburg address, Trump presented what his campaign called “a game-changing plan” to revitalize the American economy and protect citizens.
Trump vowed to cancel “every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama”, cancel all federal funding to ‘Sanctuary Cities’, begin removing more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants, and suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur.
He detailed a wide range of other steps that included renegotiating NAFTA (North American Free Trade Association) or withdrawing from that deal, withdrawing from TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership), labelling China a currency manipulator and directing his Commerce Secretary and US Trade Representative to end all foreign trading abuses affecting American workers.
Trump said he would also cancel billions in payments to UN climate change programmes and use the money to fix America’s own water and environmental infrastructure. He would also lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal. He also would get rid of the “Obama-Clinton roadblocks” so that vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, can move forward.
“On the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC,” Trump said, listing the measures that included proposing a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress and instituting a five-year ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists when they leave government service.