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"One thing I will say, you know, right after the debate they left and said, 'Oh, Donald was right in her space.' I never walked near her. I was at my lectern and all of a sudden she walks over to me, stands right in front of me and the next day I read that I was in her space," he said in an interview with Bill O'Reilly.

"I was standing at my lectern and all of a sudden from nowhere she walks right in front of me. I never walked near her. She stands right in front of me. The next day it was I was in her space. I was standing at my chair, my lectern," Trump reiterated on "The O'Reilly Factor" Tuesday.

He then proceeded to blame the incident on the Clinton campaign, stating that the Democratic nominee is responsible for pushing the story.

"This is typical Hillary Clinton. She’s a phony person. You know it, I know it. It was the Hillary Clinton camp that spun the press, and the press is extension of Hillary Clinton. I mean it’s part of the rigged system," he said.

"The press is a total extension. If Hillary Clinton didn’t have the press right now, she wouldn’t be running, she would have lost immediately. If she didn’t have the press on her side, and it’s a total fixed job, if she didn’t have it, she’d be at 10 percent right now. Nobody wants her,” he added.