Story highlights Donald Trump has again brought up Bill Clinton's past infidelity and called Hillary Clinton an "enabler"

He defended those comments on CNN Monday

Washington (CNN) Donald Trump said Monday he called Hillary Clinton an "enabler" of her husband's infidelity as "retribution" for her playing the "woman's card" against him.

"It's only retribution for what she said. She is playing the woman's card to the hilt," Trump told CNN's Chris Cuomo in a testy exchange on "New Day." "She is going, I watched over the weekend, everything is about 'woman' and 'Donald Trump raised his voice.' And you know it's all nonsense. You know what? Women understand it better than anybody."

Trump accused Clinton at a recent campaign stop of attacking the women who accused Bill Clinton of harassing them.

"She's been the total enabler. She would go after these women and destroy their lives," Trump said at the rally . "She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler, and what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful."

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