The Trump campaign and Flowers did not immediately respond to requests for comment from both the New York Post and The Guardian. In response hours later, Jennifer Palmieri, the Clinton campaign’s communications director, said in a statement: “Hillary Clinton plans on using the debate to discuss the issues that make a difference in people’s lives. Clinton, who trails Trump in several state and national polls, may have more to lose if her performance is underwhelming, analysts say. But the presence of Flowers, and the specter of resurrecting 1980s Bill Clinton scandals, could turn the debate into a nasty slugfest. She played 15 minutes of phone conversations between the two in which Clinton instructed her to lie about having been his lover.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 25, 2016 08:15 UTC