“This election is being rigged by the media pushing false and unsubstantiated charges, and outright lies, in order to elect Crooked Hillary!” Trump tweeted. | AP Photo Trump accuses Clinton and media of trying to 'poison the minds' of voters

Donald Trump, reeling from a steady emergence of new female accusers, kicked off his Saturday by lashing out at the media and “Crooked Hillary” for trying to “poison the minds” of voters with claims that Trump has a long history of forcing himself on women.

The Republican nominee fired off two tweets before 8 a.m. – using the Android phone that indicates the tweets are from Trump himself – advising supporters to shrug off the accusations that are piling up against him.


“100% fabricated and made-up charges, pushed strongly by the media and the Clinton Campaign, may poison the minds of the American Voter. FIX!” Trump tweeted early Saturday.

He followed up with, “This election is being rigged by the media pushing false and unsubstantiated charges, and outright lies, in order to elect Crooked Hillary!”

Two more accusers came forward on Friday, as Trump is trying to spin the fallout from the 2005 tape of him talking cavalierly about sexual assault as a vast “conspiracy” against his candidacy.

Trump has vehemently denied the charges of the female accusers who have followed, and has questioned whether the women were attractive enough to be targets of the Manhattan billionaire.

Late on Friday, Trump’s campaign trotted out a statement from the cousin of Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice” who accused the nominee of sexually harassing her when she sought career advice from him after her time on the show.

"I am completely shocked and bewildered by my cousin, Summer Zervos, and her press conference today. Ever since she was on The Apprentice she has had nothing but glowing things to say about Mr. Trump,” John Barry, the cousin, said in a statement pushed out by Trump’s campaign.

In the final stretch of the presidential campaign, Trump has faced a number of elected Republicans who have abandoned him, but the number of defectors has slowed as the party has reckoned with the prospect of a fractured party also losing their majorities in the House and Senate.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, who said earlier this week he would no longer work to support Trump’s candidacy, on Friday appeared to invoke Trump’s dark language to describe the dangers of Democratic control.

“In the America they want… government is taken away from the people, and we are ruled by our betters, by a cold and unfeeling bureaucracy that replaces original thinking,” Ryan told an auditorium of students. “It is a place where the government twists the law — and the Constitution itself — to suit its purposes. A place where liberty is always under assault, where passion — the very stuff of life — is extinguished.”

“That is the America Hillary Clinton wants,” he continued, adding, “If given control of Washington — if given control of Congress — it is the kind of America she will stop at nothing to have."

Trump himself has sought to steady his campaign by riling up his supporters, insisting the media and Clinton’s camp have been trying to rig the election against him.

“These are lies being pushed by the media and the Clinton campaign to try and keep their grip on our country,” Trump argued at a rally on Friday. “They are all false. They’re totally invented fiction. All 100 percent totally and completely fabricated. Never met this person, these people. I don’t know who they are.”

On Saturday morning, Trump assailed Clinton for the scandal over use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, and hinted at his threat to jail her if he triumphs in November.

“Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and should be in jail. Instead she is running for president in what looks like a rigged election,” he tweeted.

