Halperin: Trump ‘Is Now the Leading Anti-Clinton Spokesperson in the Country’

SCARBOROUGH: “And there’s a — and there’s this evidentiary rule where if you open the door to a certain line of evidence, then that evidence comes in. The question is, having Hillary Clinton made the mistake once of saying that Donald Trump was a sexist. I said made a mistake — she opened the door to these lines of attacks.”
HALPERIN: “Right.”
SCARBOROUGH: “The question is whether she stops doing that again? Because if she does, you know he’s going to bring up Juanita Broaddrick and you know he’s going to bring up Kathleen Willey and you know, he’s going to bring all these lists of women who have very specific — “
BRZEZINSKI: “Gene —“
SCARBOROUGH: “— things to say. Let me go to Mark and then Gene. So, does she stay away from this from now on?”
HALPERIN: “There are a lot of dimension to this. I think Bill Clinton [indecipherable] on the campaign trail may well not resist going after Trump. In terms of Trump, the reason I think this is politically brilliant form, politically brilliant is one of the things he was vulnerable to year at the end was the charge that he’s not a real Republican. That he is not — that he’s been too close to the Clintons or the other Democrats. He is now the leading anti-Clinton spokesperson in the country. And so, I think it’s going to be very difficult for him to go at television with an ad saying here are Trump’s past statements attacking the Clintons.” [crosstalk]