At a rally in Florida on Wednesday, Donald Trump addressed the post-debate hysteria about him lurking behind Hillary Clinton as she answered voter questions at Sunday's second presidential debate. "Believe me," Trump told the crowd, "the last space I want to invade is her space."
On the heels of the Friday release of a grotesque audio tape, in which Trump is heard graphically describing forcing himself on women, many took the implication of Trump's comment Wednesday a step further:
Trump has been on the offensive ever since the release of the tape Friday, as his party descends into bitter infighting. At the same Florida rally Wednesday, Trump attacked Clinton's intelligence and flat out called for her to be imprisoned for deleting private emails from her personal server.
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