You’re right, and that’s where surrogates come in.
Let surrogates push these stories about the Clintons and women, while Donald stays above it.
But it seems like something needs to be said, because the Clintons are going down this road. Actually it’s absurd, to think that they are making a major case out of something Trump said 20 years ago. But our politics have become the theater of the absurd.
“Actually it’s absurd, to think that they are making a major case out of something Trump said 20 years ago.”
Too bad Trump can’t do as the clintons always did ...
“That’s old news. The American people want to hear about the issues that affect them.”
I would use this counter-attack for a couple days, while at the same time hitting her on the issues.
The best way for him to counter adverse opinions on his treatment of women, is to talk not about his own past life, but the net impact on American women from the idiotic immigration policy of Mrs. Clinton & Obama; the crimes of those let in or allowed to stay illegally against American women; the disrespect for American women implicit in Obama/Clinton actions in harassing the Police; in policies that fail to recognize the importance of traditional female virtues.
Properly handled, this could also allow an incorporation of a few lines on some of Bill's antics--but very carefully handled. Nothing should be injected to make our candidate seem overly judgmental, petty or defensive.
Another prong of the counter-strategy; again not in Trump talking but in presentations of women who are supporting Trump, and who have a legitimate issue with papers like the New York Times, for falsely trying to use them as props against a man they highly admire. In other words attacks on a vicious press that will adopt any lie, in an effort to bring Trump down. (Properly handled, this can have a multi-barreled benefit.)