Brian J. Tumulty

USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — Add this to your presidential scorecard: Donald Trump is "nastier."



That's what he told The New York Times on Friday, comparing himself to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

“She’s nasty, but I can be nastier than she ever can be,” he told the Times.

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Trump's comment came in the context of his plans for the next presidential debate scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 9 from 9 to 10:30 p.m. at Washington University in St. Louis.

Trump told the Times he's thinking about bringing up former president Bill Clinton's marital infidelities and alleging that Hillary Clinton played a role in attacking the women who went public about them. Trump described Hillary Clinton as an "enabler'' and the women with whom her husband has liaisons as "mistreated afterwards.''

During Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign in 1992 Hillary Clinton described Gennifer Flowers as “some failed cabaret singer who doesn’t even have much of a résumé to fall back on” in an interview with ABC News. Flowers had publicly claimed to have a 12-year sexual relationship with the then-governor of Arkansas.

Bill Clinton admitted to his affair with Flowers in a 1998 court deposition involving the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones dating back to May 1991.

Jones accused Bill Clinton of groping her when she was alone with him in a room of Little Rock’s Excelsior Hotel when he was governor.

The lawsuit by Jones also brought to public attention allegations that Bill Clinton had a sexual encounter with White House intern Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office.

Hillary Clinton’s close friend Diane Blair wrote in her personal papers that the first lady referred to Lewinsky as a “narcissistic loony toon.” Blair’s personal papers were donated to the University of Arkansas Special Collections library after the political scientist’s death in 2000 and made available to the public in 2010. The “correspondence, diaries, interviews, strategy memos and contemporaneous accounts of conversations with the Clintons ranging from the mid-1970s to the turn of the millennium," were first reported by the Washington Free Beacon in February 2014.

“I am not gonna’ comment on what I did or did not say back in the late '90s,” Hillary Clinton told ABC News when questioned about the veracity of the "loony tune" comment in June 2014, after Lewinsky's essay for Vanity Fair magazine about how she "deeply" regrets what happened was published.

Lewinsky, in the Vanity Fair essay, wrote, "Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position."

Trump declined in the interview with the Times to draw any comparisons between his personal life and the Clintons' marriage.

He declined to discuss with the newspaper his affair with Marla Maples during his marriage to first wife Ivana Trump, whom he divorced in 1991. “I don’t talk about it,'' he told the Times. "I wasn’t president of the United States. I don’t talk about it."

Trump was married to Maples from 1993 to 1999. He married his current wife, Melania, in 2005.