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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: J. Scott Applewhite, AP)
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Donald Trump will have to answer questions about his conduct toward women,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>but said Republicans voters aren't "judging" the party's presumptive nominee on his personal life.
"There are things he's going to have to answer for," Priebus said Sunday on ABC's This Week. "But I also think there are things from many years ago."
"I don't think Donald Trump is being judged based on his personal life," Priebus added.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"I think people are judging Donald Trump as to whether or not he's someone that's going to go to Washington and shake things up.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>That's why he's doing so well."
Republicans, including Preibus himself,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>have made it clear that they view former President Bill Clinton's personal conduct<span style="color: Red;">*</span>as fair game in the 2016 election that's shaping up as a battle between<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Trump and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Democrat Hillary Clinton.
"He’s a public figure. He’s a former president,"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Priebus told<span style="color: Red;">*</span>BuzzFeed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>last year.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"And they want to launch Hillary into the public eye. She deserves just as much scrutiny as anybody. And if Bill Clinton was up to things we find to be unscrupulous, I think that people ought to know about it.”
On Sunday, Priebus sought to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>blame<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Clinton and her allies for raising<span style="color: Red;">*</span>concerns about Trump's behavior. "It's when people live in glass houses and throw stones is when people get into trouble," he said. "It's a classic Clinton operation. Now, suddenly these things are coming out."
Priebus' comments came on the heels of a New York Times story, describing<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Trump's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"unsettling workplace<span style="color: Red;">*</span>conduct" toward<span style="color: Red;">*</span>women. Times journalists<span style="color: Red;">*</span>spent weeks interviewing more than 50<span style="color: Red;">*</span>women who worked for or with Trump over the past four decades, and the story unearthed complaints of unwelcome romantic advances and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>streams<span style="color: Red;">*</span>of inappropriate comments about women's bodies from the real-estate magnate.
USA TODAY
NYT: Donald Trump repeatedly crossed the line with women
Trump, already contending with fresh news<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that he often used pseudonyms to pose as his own spokesman in the 1990s, took to Twitter on Sunday to complain about the Times.
He called the story<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a "lame hit piece" and accused the paper of refusing to use the stories of women he told the newspaper he had helped. In a later tweet, he<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said the paper needs to "write the real story on the Clintons and women."
New York Times reporter Michael Barbaro<span style="color: Red;">*</span>countered that "we did interview and quote women his office suggested."
Paul Manafort, a key Trump aide, told CNN on Sunday that Bill Clinton's past conduct with women is a valid issue in Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House.
"She's talking about breaking the ceiling for women," Manafort said,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"and yet she was an enabler and made the victims of those dalliances<span style="color: Red;">*</span>into a real bad situation."
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