Hillary Clinton dramatically declined to defend her husband's 'honor' today, hours after Donald Trump linked the ex-president to 'rape'.

The Democratic frontrunner angrily claimed Trump was 'fishing' for her to get into a fight at his 'level'.

Asked by CNN's Chris Cuomo, 'Do you ever compelled to defend your honor, the honor of your husband?' Clinton said, 'No, not at all.'

'I know that that's exactly what he is fishing for. I'm not gonna be responding.'

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Today Democratic frontrunner angrily claimed Trump was 'fishing' for her to get into a fight at his 'level'

Hillary Clinton declined to defend her husband's 'honor' today, or her own, hours after Donald Trump linked the ex-president to 'rape'

Donald Trump brought up a rape charge made against Bill Clinton in 1999 by a woman named Juanita Broaddrick last night on Hannity

Trump brought his toughest charges against Bill Clinton yet on Wednesday evening during a sit-down interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News.

The presumptive Republican nominee brought up a rape accusation against the former Democratic president when talking about Clinton's past behavior with women with the Fox News host.

The two were discussing a recent New York Times article that was supposed to expose Trump's own treatment of women and how several of the sources had come out and said the newspaper twisted their words.

Trump labeled the story a 'con job' and called it a 'disaster' for the newspaper.

Hannity then asked why the Times hadn't dug into Bill Clinton's past.

'Are they going to interview Juanita Broaddrick? Are they going to interview Paula Jones? Are they going to interview Kathleen Willey?' Hannity asked, ticking off the names of women who have accused Bill Clinton of inappropriate behavior through the years.

'In one case, it's about exposure. In another case, it's about groping and fondling and touching against a woman's will,' Hannity continued.

'And rape,' Trump inserted.

'And rape,' the television host repeated.

'And big settlements, massive settlements. And lots of other things. And impeachment for lying,' Trump continued.

Clinton's presidential campaign barked back at Trump and said he was trying to 'change the subject' to escape the bad headlines dogging his own campaign.

'Trump is doing what he does best, attacking when he feels wounded and dragging the American people through the mud for his own gain,' Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill told CNN.

Merrill said, 'If that's the kind campaign he wants to run, that's his choice. Hillary Clinton is running a campaign to be president for all of America.

Continuing, he said, 'It's not surprising that after a week of still refusing to release his taxes and likening Oakland and Ferguson to the dangers in Iraq, of course he wants to change the subject.

'So while he licks his wounds, we'll continue to focus on improving the lives of the American people.'

Interviewer Sean Hannity brought up Juanita Broaddrick's name as the two men discussed a New York Times article that detailed some of Donald Trump's inappropriate behavior with women

On CNN this afternoon Cuomo broached the topic of Trump's 'heavily personal' assaults on Clinton and her husband.

Cuomo recapped the Republican race and noted that for many of Trump's opponents, 'the stink wound up sticking them.' Is Clinton worried she'll suffer the same fate? he asked.

'No, I'm not because I think people can judge his campaign for what it is. I'm gonna run my campaign. I'm not so much running against him as I am running for the kind of future that I think America deserves to have,' she said.

Clinton said, 'I'm going to lay out my record of of accomplishments, my vision for the future. He can say whatever he wants to say, but I think in every election people want to do know are you going to do tomorrow, what's the future going to look like if I entrust you with this most solemn responsibility.

'And that's exactly the kind of campaign I am running and I intend to keep running.'

The Democratic presidential candidate said Republicans mishandled their approach to Trump, and she wouldn't make the same 'mistake'.

'Yes, he took out a field that couldn't really criticize him on issues because they fundamentally agreed with them,' she said.

'So when he would say these outrageous things, more dramatically perhaps than his Republican counterparts were saying, they were stymied.'

Then, when it came to the personal attacks, 'They just tried to respond tit for tat.

'If you pick a fight with a bully...you're gonna be pulled down to their level,' Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee for president, asserted.

Clinton said she intends to 'go after' Trump in the general election only on the 'issues and statements that are divisive and dangerous'.

'I actually think that's what the American people want to see, not an argument between two people.'

Clinton said she does not believe he is qualified for the Oval Office.

'No, I do not,' she bluntly told Cuomo after he asked her for her estimation.

'And I think in this past week, whether it's attacking Great Britain, praising the leader of North Korea, a despotic dictator who has nuclear weapons, whether it is saying pull out of NATO, let other countries have nuclear weapons, the kinds of positions he is stating, and the consequences of those positions, and even the consequences of his statements are not just offensive to people, they are potentially dangerous.'

Trump rolled out new attacks on Bill Clinton this week after a pro-Hillary Clinton PAC criticized Trump for some of the language he's used to describe women.

During Wednesday's interview, Trump took issue with the ad using a line out of context, in which he says go 'f*** themselves,' a comment he made about bad trade deals at a Portsmouth, New Hampshire rally in February, where he mouthed the four-letter swear word.

' The main punchline wasn't about women,' Trump pointed out. 'They put it in like it was about women. Now I guess they have to do a retraction.'

The other lines used in the attack ad, including one aimed at Fox News host Megyn Kelly, were about women.

But in order to negate these attacks, Trump has pushed back hard.

He started laying the groundwork to exploit Bill Clinton's sexual past before the first votes were being cast.

'She's got one of the great women abusers of all time sitting in her house, waiting for her to come home for dinner,' Trump said back in January.

He repeated the charge earlier this month.

'She's married to a man who was the worst abuser of women in the history of politics. She's married to a man who hurt many women,' Trump said, while also bringing Hillary Clinton into the picture.

Trump charged that the Democratic frontrunner 'would go after these women and destroy their lives.'

While Bill Clinton has been accused of rape, along with groping and affairs – and his sexual history with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky is well known – the 'rape' accusation had yet to be used in the political campaign by someone as prominent as the presumptive Republican nominee.

Trump, however, has pushed the boundaries of political discourse this campaign season and been close to leveling the 'rape' charge at Bill Clinton before.

Broaddrick (pictured present day c1978 with Clinton at a nursing home in Arkansas) has accused Clinton of raping her in an Arkansas hotel room in 1978 when he was the state's governor

In January, Juanita Broaddrick sent out this tweet repeating rape allegations she made against President Bill Clinton in 1999

Juanita Broaddrick pledged to play a bigger role in the presidential campaign, especially with Bill Clinton hitting the campaign trail for Hillary

Juanita Broaddrick chimed in on Twitter today and made the same suggestion as Sean Hannity - that the New York Times should dig into Bill Clinton's devious sexual past

In January he posted a video that linked Bill Clinton to both Lewinsky and accused rapist Bill Cosby.

The campaign video was released around the time that Broaddrick, who accused Bill Clinton of rape, emerged on social media.

Broaddrick has accused Clinton of raping her in an Arkansas hotel room in 1978 when he was the state's governor, saying he left her with a swollen lip and some advice: 'You better get some ice on that.'

And while Hillary Clinton was campaigning on a platform of women's issues, Broaddrick says she knew about the sexual assault and tried to cover it up.

Broaddrick tweeted in January that 'I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73....it never goes away.'

A day before, she had said she was 'dreading seeing my abuser on TV,' as Bill Clinton was campaigning for his wife, the Democratic front-runner, in New Hampshire, 'but his physical appearance reflects ghosts of the past,' which she said were 'catching up.'

The former nursing home administrator made her allegations public in 1999.

She said Bill Clinton, when campaigning for Arkansas governor in 1978, raped her in Little Rock, Arkansas.

At the time, noted the Hill Newspaper, who authenticated Broaddrick's social media account, Clinton's personal attorney David E. Kendall strongly denied the charges.

'Any allegation that the president assaulted Ms. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false, he said in a statement from February 1999, reported the Washington Post.

'Beyond that we're not going to comment,' Kendall added.

Paula Jones (pictured left in 1994 and right last year) became a national figure when she sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment after an incident in an Arkansas hotel room three years earlier; She alleged he propositioned her for oral sex and said 'kiss it'; she received a six-figure settlement

Kathleen Willey Swchwicker, a former White House volunteer who accused President Clinton in 1998 of fondling her in 1993 (she is pictured left 1999 and right more recently) and subsequently sued him and Hillary

Broaddrick said she planned to yell the allegations louder as she doesn't want to see another Clinton in the White House.

'I've been quiet for too long, and now with the possibility of [Hillary Clinton] being the Democratic nominee and possibly president, I feel the need to get involved,' she told the Hill.

Broaddrick said in an interview in January that she was happy that Donald Trump, whom she supports, brought up Bill Clinton's sexual past.

'I'm glad someone did,' she said. 'Everyone has been hanging back and most of the mainstream media won't approach it, but it's something that should be talked about.'

Broaddrick said she was a Trump fan because, 'he says the things I like to hear.'

This week, she defended him again.

'The NY Times should do equal time investigating [Hillary's] enabling of Bill Clinton's sexual assaults on women,' Broaddrick tweeted.

Hillary Clinton's decision to advocate for victims of sexual assault has persuaded some of her husband's accusers, including the three mentioned by Hannity, to resurface.

Willey, a former White House volunteer, claims Bill Clinton groped her in an Oval Officer hallway in 1993 when she came to him tearfully seeking a paid job.