"First of all, the stories have been largely debunked. Those people, I don't know those people. I have a feeling how they came, I believe it was her campaign that did it," Trump said at the third and final presidential debate here when asked by moderator Chris Wallace of the Fox News as to why would so many women after so many years make up the stories about his sexual misconduct in the last weeks of the election campaign.
"Just like if you look at what came out today on the clips where I was wondering what happened with my rally in Chicago and other rallies where we had such violence? She's the one and Obama that caused the violence. They hired people. They payed them fifteen hundred dollars and there are on tape saying be violent, cause fights, do bad things," Trump said.
Trump had apologized for his behaviour with women following the release of a 2005 tape in which he was heard bragging about being able to grope and kiss women and get away with it because he is a "star".
He said he didn't even apologize to his wife Melania because he didn't do anything.
"I didn't know any of these women, I didn't see these women. These women, the woman on the plane, the woman -- I think they want either fame or her (Clinton) campaign did it and I think it's her campaign," he said referring to accusations made by 74-year old Jessica Leeds that he had assaulted her when she was traveling in an airplane more than three decades ago.
"In particular in Chicago, people were hurt and people could have been killed in that riot. And that was now, all on tape, started by her. I believe that she got these people (women accusing him) to step forward. If it wasn't, they get their ten minutes of fame. But it was all fiction. It was lies and it was fiction," he said.
Blaming Clintonand "her very sleazy campaign" for instigating the women against him, Trump said no one has questioned her about her State Department e-mails "where she destroyed thirty three thousand e-mails criminally after getting a subpoena from the United States Congress.
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