Donald Trump's repeated charges that Hillary Clinton was an 'enabler' of his husband's affairs is bringing new attention to the current candidate's role in operations to discredit her husband's accusers – a role that is not disputed by those who witnessed some of her efforts.

Former Clinton aide Mickey Kantor defended the practice in connection to the Gennifer Flowers scandal in 1992, when Hillary Clinton sat by her husband's side during an infamous '60 Minutes' interview.

'Let's say the woman has some not-helpful things that she has done in the past,' Kantor, Bill Clinton's former campaign chairman said. 'Wouldn't you want to know that, and evaluate it?' he told the New York Times, which produced a lenghty report on Hillary Clinton's role during her husband's scandals.

THREE ALARM FIRE: Hillary Clinton took on the role of 'firefighter' when scandals erupted during her husband's 1992 presidential campaign, says former campaign chairman Mickey Kantor

'She's the firefighter running to the fire ­– not away from it,' he said, describing Clinton's role.

The paper also recounted a story about a rock groupie named Connie Hamzy who claimed Clinton propositioned her in a Little Rock hotel.

Former communications director George Stephanopoulos told the story of the effort to go after her in his book, 'All Too Human.'

'We have to destroy her story,' Hillary Clinton said, Stephanopoulos wrote.

Hillary Clinton drew criticism for a statement she made in November when she got asked a question about her husband's accusers and whether they should be believed, in light of her own statements about giving credence to alleged victims.

'I would say that everybody should be believed at first, until they are disbelieved based on evidence,' Clinton said.

A 1992 photo shows then Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary embracing. Clinton had recently been accused of having an affair with a former White House intern Monica Lewinsky

'Let’s say the woman has some not-helpful things that she has done in the past ...' said former aide Mickey Kantor

Bill Clinton relied on his own communications skills, plus a handful of aides and even a private investigator to counter charges by women during his 1992 campaign

Hillary Clinton sat next to her husband during an infamous 1992 '60 Minutes' interview after Gennifer Flowers first said they had an affair

Clinton's indelible image as a staunch defender of her husband got launched during the 60 Minutes interview, where she sat with her husband as he acknowledged causing 'pain' in their marriage.

After Flowers gave a press conference, Clinton told journalist Gail Sheehy in Esquire magazine that if she got Flowers before a jury 'I would crucify her.'

Clinton told ABC Flowers was 'some failed cabaret singer who doesn't even have much of a résumé to fall back on, the Washington Post noted.

An unidentified campaign aide told the paper Clinton was involved in the hiring of a private investigator to gather information that might discredit Flowers.

'She believed we had to deal with the issue directly,' said Kantor, without confirming Clinton's role in the hiring.

Longtime Clinton loyalist Betsey Wright, who fended off what she called 'bimbo eruptions' during the campaign, passed on damaging information about Flowers.

Hillary Clinton had to stand by her man and 'savage his enemies,' George Stephanopoulos wrote

Clinton Clinton said of Flowers in an appearance on the Arsenio Hall show, 'She's got lots of problems.'

Her campaign said Hillary Clinton was not involved in hiring the private investigator.

Former Bill Clinton campaign manager James Carville said in a statement, 'Hillary wanted us to defend the governor against attacks. It's just ridiculous to imagine that she was somehow directing our response operation. That was my job, not hers.'

By the time the Monica Lewinsky story came around, a problem that was itself begat by Paula Jones' charges that she got groped by Bill Clinton, 'She had to do what she had always done before: swallow her doubts, stand by her man and savage his enemies,' according to Stephanopoulos' memoir.