Donald Trump lost patience with a pair of malfunctioning teleprompters on Friday night, playfully knocking one over and pulling the other from its stand as he returned to the freewheeling improvisational style that built his reputation during the Republican primaries.

'These teleprompters haven't been working for the last 20 minutes,' he said before dismantling the glass panels that carry scrolling texts from a computer. 'I actually like my speech better without teleprompters. It's sort of cooler without it.'

Moments later he unscrewed the second one.

As he has whenever technical issues threaten to ruin a rally, Trump said he would refuse to pay the bill.

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Donald Trump dismantled his own teleprompters Friday night in Charlotte, N.C. after they failed him, amusing thousands as he knocked one glass panel over and unscrewed the other from his stand

Trump is shown unscrewing one glass teleprompter panel from its stand and pulling the whole assembly apart as his amused crowd looked on

The Republican nominee introduced 10 members of 'Women for Trump' onstage, including daughter-in-law Lara (right), who is married to his middle son Eric

'Here's the way government works: So the teleprompter is a bummer. It doesn't work,' Trump said in Charlotte, North Carolina. 'That means – the company doing the teleprompter is in the back – that means they didn't do a good job, so I won't pay them!'

'And tomorrow,' he predicted as cheers swelled, 'I'll have a story in the newspaper: "Donald Trump did not pay a contractor who put up the teleprompters!"'

'Well, why should I? They don't work! And they'll make me a bad guy, like I'm a bad person.'

A stack of public-address speakers hanging from the ceiling switched off 15 minutes later, leaving half the crowd listening only to distant reflections of Trump's voice.

'Great job, fellas!' he exclaimed. 'So now we don't have to pay for this, and now we don't have to pay for that!'

'Man! Who the hell runs this place?' he asked as his backers roared with approval.

Before the prompters went on the fritz, Trump used them to guide himself through a condemnation of Hillary Clinton for accepting money from the Saudis while she believed they were funding the ISIS terror army

Trump continued to push back against claims from eight different women that he touched or kissed them in the past without consent

As he wrapped up his speech, Trump thanked the people who stood in line for hours to see him.

'Your speakers were no good, your teleprompters were no good,' he said, before joking that 'as long as Trump was good, that's all that matters.'

Hillary Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon mocked Trump's equipment stunt, writing on Twitter: 'Trump's teleprompter, like his campaign, comes apart very easily.'

Trump, though, was laser-focused, demanding Friday night that Clinton return the money her husband and their foundation have received from the Saudi government, citing a hacked email showing she believed the Middle Eastern country was secretly funding the ISIS terror army.

'In the email sent to John Podesta on August 17, 2014,' Trump said, 'Hillary wrote that the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia are "providing clandestine financial and logistical support to ISIL." Yet in that same year Bill and Hillary accepted a check from Saudi Arabia.'

Hillary Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon jabbed at Trump in light of his campaign's disastrous week of sexual assault and harassment allegations

'So Hillary thinks they are funding ISIS, and still takes their money! And you know their views on gays and you know their views on women.'

'She takes a lot of money,' he said. 'I think she should give back the 25 to 35 million dollars she's taken. Absolutely. And she should give it back fast.'

The email cited by Trump laid out a proposed eight-point plan to battle ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

It quotes Clinton saying that the U.S. should 'use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.'

Another Wikileaks disclosure from hacked emails that belonged to Podesta, Clinton's campaign chairman, was that the Qatari government presented Bill Clinton with a $1 million check for the Clinton Foundation on his birthday in 2011.

Bill Clinton collected $600,000 for delivering two speeches in Saudi Arabia while his wife was secretary of state – money that is legally also considered hers.

The swashbuckling billionaire promoted his campaign as female-friendly on Friday, and repeated his semi-regular boast that 'I actually think I'm doing well with women'

Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway (right) and press secretary Hope Hicks (left) made rare appearances where photographers could see them at a time when their boss needs as much female validation as he can get

Trump hammered Clinton over the summer for accepting Saudi money, but cited only the Islamic regime's treatment of gays and women.

Clinton's apparent acknowledgement that Riyadh is funneling money to the world's gravest organized terror threat group will provide him with added ammunition in the last weeks of the presidential campaign.

Trump also counter-punched Friday night for the fifth time in two days at critics who he says concocted a series of '100 per cent false' allegations that he groped and pawed eight different women decades ago.

'I am a victim of one of the great political smear campaigns in the history of our country,' he said.

The swashbuckling billionaire also promoted his campaign as female-friendly in a way he hasn't often done, although he repeated his semi-regular boast that 'I actually think I'm doing well with women.'

The jab at Clinton's willingness to accept money from a stridently anti-female regime was just the opening move.

His entrance was accompanied by a group of 10 self-described 'Women for Trump.' Trump's daughter-in-law Lara, a native North Carolinian, introduced them and told a crowd of thousands how they had been hard at work on relief work following Hurricane Matthew.

'Donald Trump is a man who sees a problem and wants to fix it,' she said. 'So when he saw the devastation that had happened in Greeneville, in Lumberton, in Fayetteville .... He gave us $30,000 worth of supplies and food, and sent us to help.'

'So for the past two days we were able to help people who have nothing, whose homes and lives have been destroyed. And that is the way that Donald Trump wants to lead this country.'

Photographer Kristen Anderson (left) says Trump went up her skirt at a Manhattan nightclub in the early '90s, and Jessica Leeds (right) insists the Republican nominee groped her on an airplane more than three decades ago

Feminist attorney Gloria Allred introduced new Trump accuser Summer Servos on Friday during a Los Angeles news conference

Omarosa Manigault followed her, hinting at the sex-assault controversy without naming it.

'It's time for us to turn this thing around,' she said. 'We got lemons, but we gonna make a hell of a glass of lemonade!'

Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and press secretary Hope Hicks also walked through the press seating area, making themselves visible to photographers at a time when their boss needs as much female validation as he can get.

The candidate said from the stage that women who have lined up to call him a sexual predator are trying to derail his uncommonly energetic campaign that has attracted millions of faithful followers.

'These claims defy reason, truth, logic common sense. They're made without witnesses. No witnesses!' he said.

He insisted that he hadn't made any physical advances on women against their will.

'Not me. Believe me. Not me. Not me,' Trump said. 'You would be very impressed, actually, with my life in so many regards, including that regard. No. Not a single shred of evidence.'

And the Republican nominee put the blame squarely on Clinton.