VIDEO-Debate Organizers Put A Stop To Trump Campaign's Plan For Bill Clinton Confrontation

" ... we were going to have a big incident on national TV ..."

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The commission organizing Sunday’s presidential debate threatened to remove women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct if Donald Trump’s campaign went through with its plan to seat them at the edge of the debate stage Sunday night.

“We were going to put the four women in the VIP box,” said former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani. “We had it all set. We wanted to have them shake hands with Bill, to see if Bill would shake hands with them.”

Prior to the debate, Trump had appeared with Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Kathy Shelton. Broaddrick, Jones and Willey have all accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct. Shelton was 12 when she was raped and saw her accuser get off on a lesser charge after being defended by then defense lawyer Hillary Clinton.

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The Washington Post reported that the idea, as crafted by Trump campaign chief executive Stephen K. Bannon and Jared Kushner, Ivanka’s Trump’s husband, was to have the four women enter the hall at the same time as Bill Clinton so that the national TV audience could see what ensued. Trump approved the plan, the Post reported.

However, Frank J. Fahrenkopf, the debate commission’s co-chairman, got wind of the plan and told the Trump campaign he would not allow it, the Post reported.

“Fahrenkopf said, ‘no’ – verbally said ‘no,’ that ‘security would throw them out,'” Giuliani said.

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Fahrenkopf did not comment on the matter.

Giuliani said the campaign only dropped the plan minutes before the debate started, and seated the women elsewhere.

“… we pulled it because we were going to have a big incident on national TV,” Giuliani said. “Frank Fahrenkopf stopped us and we weren’t going to have a fight on national TV with the commission to start the debate.”

Giuliani said that allowing Trump nemesis Mark Cuban to have a VIP seat at the first debate, and then rejecting Bill Clinton’s accusers, smacked of a double standard.

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“In the first debate with Mark Cuban, Fahrenkopf said we’ll make a deal and everybody will (be able) to approve who’s in the shot and if it’s not family, they have a right to object and we have a right to object,” Giuliani said. “So we object. But 10 minutes before that debate he tells us he can’t do anything about Cuban sitting in the first row, that security can’t throw him out.”

Giuliani said that Clinton’s accusers were angry that their chance to stand up to him was taken away.

“The women were outraged,” Giuliani said. “They were in the holding room and ready to go. No one was pushing them. They volunteered. But I knew the minute we got pushback that we had gotten into their heads. (Hillary Clinton) was rattled. They were rattled.”

Prior to the event, the women appeared with Trump.

“I’m here to support Mr. Trump because he’s going to make America great again … I think they should all look at the fact that he’s a good person and he’s not what other people say he’s being, like Hillary,” said Jones, a former Arkansas state worker who sued Clinton in 1994 for sexual harassment.

“Actions speak louder than words,” Broaddrick said. “Mr. Trump may have said some bad words, but Bill Clinton raped me and Hillary Clinton threatened me. I don’t think there’s any comparison.”

Broaddrick has said she was raped by Clinton in 1978.

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