Over the course of two minutes during Sunday night's presidential debate, Donald Trump declared his love for Twitter, denied posting a tweet that's still on his page, and said Hillary Clinton has "hate in her heart."
Trump said the United States is a "very divided nation," and it's all because of "people like her. Believe me, she has tremendous hate in her heart." Moments earlier, Clinton said her problem is with Trump, not his voters, but Trump declared, "When she said 'deplorables,' she meant it. … This country cannot take another four years of Barack Obama, and that's what you're getting with her."
As a follow-up question, moderator Anderson Cooper said in one of his books, Trump said the most important characteristic of a good leader is "discipline," yet in the days after the first debate, he was tweeting up a storm from 3 to 6 a.m., at one point even telling people to look at a sex tape. Trump denied it (here's the tweet), and defended his use of Twitter. "Tweeting happens to be a modern day form of communication," he said. "You can like it or not like it." People are welcome to "put it down," he added, but it's an "effective form of communication. I'm not unproud of it."
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