memeorandum: Flashback: Donald Trump Called Bill Clinton's Accusers ‘Terrible’ and ‘Unattractive’ and Former President ‘Terrific’ (Jordyn Phelps/ABC News)

4:30 AM ET, October 10, 2016

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Trump's debate plan to seat Bill Clinton's accusers in family box was thwarted — ST. LOUIS — Donald Trump's campaign sought to intimidate Hillary Clinton and embarrass her husband by seating women who have accused former president Bill Clinton of sexual abuse in the Trump family's box …

Discussion: The Week and Balloon Juice

Ezra Klein / Vox:

Notes on the garbage fire that is American politics — Every Republican who endorsed and normalized Trump bears part of the blame for this moment. — At 7:26 pm, barely 90 minutes before the second presidential debate, Donald Trump tweeted, “Join me on #FacebookLive as I conclude my final #debate preparations.”

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Associated Press:

Trump Ally Paid Sexual Assault Victim Critical of Clinton — A sexual-assault victim who is critical of Hillary Clinton and who appeared alongside Donald Trump before Sunday night's debate was paid $2,500 by a political action committee founded by Trump ally Roger Stone.

Discussion: ABC News, Raw Story and Media Matters for America

Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:

Flashback: Donald Trump Called Bill Clinton's Accusers ‘Terrible’ and ‘Unattractive’ and Former President ‘Terrific’ — Over the weekend, Donald Trump has called former President Bill Clinton an abuser of women and Hillary Clinton a bully who intimidated his victims.

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Mediaite and Associated Press

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Who paid for Bill Clinton's accusers to travel to the debate? — ST. LOUIS — One of the women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault, Juanita Broaddrick, told reporters at the debate on Sunday that the website Breitbart paid for her trip to St. Louis.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, AOL and New York Times

Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump hosts surprise panel with Bill Clinton's accusers

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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Second Presidential Debate: 11 Moments That Mattered

Discussion: Politico and Associated Press

Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Trump Goes Full Breitbart

Discussion: Mediaite

Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Donald Trump used to make light of Bill Clinton's sex scandals. Now they're his main weapon.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Guardian, NBC News, Occupy Democrats, Media Matters for America, Washington Post, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, RedState, Mashable and Vox

Zack Stanton / Politico:
Trump is wrong: Hillary Clinton did not laugh about the rape of a 12-year-old

Discussion: ABC News, Occupy Democrats, ThinkProgress, Vox, Little Green Footballs, New York Magazine and Daily Kos

David Weigel / Washington Post:
As Trump mulls attack on Clinton scandals, one source makes him a target

Discussion: Infowars, The Daily Caller and Media Matters for America

New York Times:
Presidential Debate: Here's What You Missed

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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The rape allegation against Bill Clinton, explained

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Will Jordan / YouGov US Opinion Center News:

Post-debate poll: Clinton 47%, Trump 42% — YouGov interviewed 812 registered voters who watched the debate … Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton clashed for the second time at a town hall-style debate in St Louis, Missouri on Sunday night.

Discussion: CNN, The Week, Politicus USA and Daily Kos

Andrew Prokop / Vox:

Polls suggest Hillary Clinton won the 2nd presidential debate — It will be a few more days before we get really methodologically rigorous polls measuring how the electorate felt about the second presidential debate, the impact of which will be intermingled with the Trump leaked tape scandal that broke two days earlier.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Business Insider, Politicus USA, CBS New York and Independent Journal Review

Associated Press:

Trump's 'You'd Be in Jail' Debate Jab at Clinton Condemned — Donald Trump says he'll jail opponent Hillary Clinton if he wins the presidency. — The Republican presidential nominee made the threat — an unprecedented break with U.S. political decorum — in the middle of the second presidential debate, held Sunday in St. Louis.

Discussion: Politico and ABC News

Ben Schreckinger / Politico:

The 7 nastiest insults of the debate — The insults are coming fast and furious in the second presidential debate in St. Louis, with threats of imprisonment and attacks on fitness to office. Below are the seven harshest insults of the night so far between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Discussion: ABC News

Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Everything that was said at the second Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton debate, highlighted

Discussion: Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, Advocate, Mashable, Vogue, Occupy Democrats, WCTX-TV, Information Liberation, The Verge, BuzzFeed and Washington Free Beacon, more at Mediagazer »

ABC News:
Both Campaigns Spin Debate Performance

Discussion: Politico

Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
We're Live Blogging Round Two of the Presidential Debates

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, WAVY-TV and The Moderate Voice

Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
12 most heated moments in an unprecedented debate

Discussion: ABC News

CNN:
Obama: Donald Trump comments ‘disturbing’

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ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Will Appeal to Women in Second Debate

Discussion: Politico

Julia Jacobo / ABC News:
Trump, Clinton Don't Shake Hands at Debate

Discussion: Politico

Julia Jacobo / ABC News:
Clinton on Trump Video: ‘This Is Who Donald Trump Is’

Discussion: Politico and Associated Press

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Cooper, Raddatz set to make first questions of debate about Trump tape

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Claude Brodesser-Akner / New Jersey Online:

Mike Pence cancels N.J. Trump fundraiser scheduled for Monday in Ocean County — TRENTON — Donald Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, has canceled his planned visit to New Jersey scheduled for Monday, several GOP sources tell NJ Advance Media. — Pence, the governor of Indiana …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Daily Kos

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Billy Bush suspended from ‘Today’ show — “Today” show host Billy Bush has been suspended from the show pending an “internal review” at the network in the wake of his part in a 2005 video showing him and Donald Trump talking about women using vulgar language.

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New York Times:
How NBC Finished Second on the Trump Video Story

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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Billy Bush, embroiled in Trump tape scandal, is asked to take a break from ‘Today’ show

Discussion: Mediaite

al.com:

Endorsement: We're with Hillary Clinton. Frankly, Donald Trump's dangerous. — Donald Trump must not be president. — Alabama has voted for every Republican candidate since Ronald Reagan, a man that captured our imagination with a hopeful view of America as a shining city upon a hill.

Discussion: Political Wire

Foreign Policy:
Hillary Clinton for President of the United States

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:

The answer is no: We haven't seen anything quite like this — ST. LOUIS — The question has been asked so many times over the past 16 months of this presidential election that it has become a cliche: Has anyone ever seen anything quite like this? And yet, once again, Donald Trump took Campaign 2016 …

Discussion: Political Wire, The Moderate Voice, WCTX-TV, Need To Know Network and Bloomberg

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

In The Abuser's House — This was a very, very different kind of debate. Let me begin with a few general observations. — First, I think this was the debate the Breitbart crew - Bannon, Bossie and the rest - wanted from Trump. He hit Bill's history; he was aggressive and slashing …

John Hinderaker / Power Line:

Trump Wins — Some of the rats might want to consider returning to the ship. Donald Trump came through pretty well tonight, mainly because the focus was on the issues. As long as issues are being discussed, Trump wins. — The moderators came out of the box with questions about Trump's 2005 video …

Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:

In Which I Take a Second Look at Hillary Clinton's Paid Speeches — While we pass the time waiting for tonight's debate, I'm going to talk through something else. Yesterday I wrote about one of the emails in the Podesta hack, and basically dismissed it. It was a review of the most …