UPDATE: Sunday morning, Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence said that Gennifer Flowers is actually not invited to the debate and that Trump was making a joke:
“Donald Trump was using the tweet yesterday really to mock the effort by Hillary Clinton and her campaign to distract attention from where the American people are going to be focused tomorrow night, which on the issues, on the choice that we face,” Pence said on Fox News Sunday.
Bill Clinton’s former mistress Gennifer Flowers has accepted Donald Trump’s invitation to sit in the front row at the first presidential debate on Monday.
Trump first suggested he would invite flowers to the debate after it was announced that Hillary Clinton had given a front-row seat to billionaire Mark Cuban, a vocal Trump opponent.
Hillary Clinton Gives Mark Cuban Front Row Seat to Debate in Blatant Attempt to Psyche Out Trump: https://t.co/ipcV2uWylx
— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) September 24, 2016
If dopey Mark Cuban of failed Benefactor fame wants to sit in the front row, perhaps I will put Gennifer Flowers right alongside of him!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2016
It turns out Trump did extent an invitation to Flowers, who accepted. “Ms. Flowers has agreed to join Donald at the debate,” her personal assistant told BuzzFeed News.
https://twitter.com/gennflowers/status/779764506146680832
Flowers, a former model and actress, made headlines during the 1992 presidential campaign when she claimed to have carried on a 12-year extramarital relationship with then-Gov. Bill Clinton, the Democratic nominee.
At the time, Clinton adamantly denied having an affair with Flowers. However, in the fallout of the Monica Lewsinky scandal, which came to light in 1998, Clinton admitted under oath to having a sexual encounter with Flowers.
Donald Trump has shown no hesitance when it comes to invoking Bill Clinton’s sexual history in order to attack Hillary. Earlier this year, for example, Trump published an Instagram video featuring audio recordings of two women, Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey, who have accused the former president of sexual misconduct.
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