Donald Trump needs to "just shut up" about former Miss Universe Alicia Machado and focus on people who had some relationship with former President Bill Clinton and were "savaged by Hillary," political strategist Dick Morris told Newsmax TV on Friday.
"His talking about Miss Universe is ludicrous and is continuing this controversy is ludicrous," Morris told "America Talks Live" in an interview. "The issue here is Hillary's use of a squat of private detectives… to go after any woman within five miles of Bill Clinton."
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Referencing such individuals as Paula Jones, Elizabeth Grayson, Monica Lewinsky and Kathleen Willey, Morris told Malzberg that "their past is dug out.
"Their own problems are aired. Their own dirty laundry is in public.
"Hillary has shown history of abusing women and Trump has not," Morris continued. "Trump has shown a history of saying indiscrete things.
"Things that you probably wouldn't want to see on the front page of the newspaper, but what is that compare with having paid assassins to go out and destroy the reputations of women whose only sin was that they were near her husband?"
Morris is the co-author of The New York Times best-selling book, "Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary."
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