Hillary Clinton bashed Donald Trump for what she said was his refusal to apologize to people he offends during Sunday night's debate.
The debate, during which both candidates traded blows as if they were boxing for a world title, began with a long discussion of Trump's recent comments that were disparaging toward women. Clinton pounced on that and other controversies have have followed Trump on the campaign trail.
"If this were just about one video, maybe what he is saying tonight would be understandable," Clinton said. "But everyone can draw their own conclusions that this point about whether or not the man in the video or the man on the stage respects women. But he never apologizes for anything to anyone.
"He never apologized to Mr. and Mrs. Khan, the family whose son died in the line of duty in Iraq, and Donald insulted and attacked them for weeks over their religion. He never apologized to the distinguished federal judge who was born in Indiana but Donald said he couldn't be trusted to be a judge because his parents were, quote, Mexican.
"He never apologized to the reporter that he mimicked and mocked on national television and our children were watching. And he never apologized for the racist lie that president [President Barack] Obama was not born in the United States of America. He owes the president an apology. He owes our country an apology and needs to take responsibility for his actions and his words."
In his reply, Trump turned the tables on Clinton and said her former aide and confidant Sidney Blumenthal was the one who started the controversy about Obama's birthplace.
"You owe the president an apology because as you know your campaign Sidney Blumenthal, another real winner that you have, he is the one that got this started, along with your campaign manager and were on television two weeks ago saying exactly that," Trump said. "You really owe him an apology."
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