Nice try Donald: Clinton camp says Republican won't 'intimidate' Hillary with mud-slinging

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Hillary Clinton's campaign maintains that the former first lady was not 'rattled' by the news conference Donald Trump held just before yesterday's debate with women who say the ex-president sexually assaulted them. 

'She’s been through a number of trials over the course of her career and she’s certainly not going to let him throw her off or intimidate her from speaking out,' Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri told reporters Monday. 

Adding, 'And that is what that was about.' 

Trump was 'intent on throwing Hillary Clinton off of her game, trying to sling a lot of mud,' Campaign Manager Robby Mook declared on CBS. 

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Hillary Clinton boarded her plane in White Plains, New York today to head to Detroit for more campaigning a day after the second presidential debate 

Hillary Clinton's top aides said that she would not be intimidated by Donald Trump's antics nor with his mud-slinging 

If the Republican is planning an 'encore,' he'll fail in that effort, too, Palmieri said to journalists aboard Clinton's campaign plane.

Clinton castigated Trump on her flight back to New York Sunday for spewing an 'avalanche of falsehoods' at her during their debate.

'I really find it almost unimaginable that someone can stand and just tell a falsehood after a falsehood,' she told reporters traveling with her from St. Louis.  

Mook contended that Trump was 'completely incoherent' much of the time and the answers he gave were 'riddled with non-facts, with lies.'

Clinton campaign chairman, John Podesta, deplored Trump for dragging the race into the 'gutter' as he spoke to press from the debate spin room and vowed that the Democratic candidate wouldn't follow him there.

The former first lady's aides argued then as they did today that she wasn't distracted by the forum he held 90 minutes before the debate with three of Bill's accusers and a woman who raped as a child by one of Hillary's former clients.

'We’re not happy with how he’s chosen to run his race and the discourse that that has brought into the campaign. But that’s his choice,' Palmieri said Monday.

On CBS Mook said the 'whole situation is very disappointing' and as he beat on Trump for a 'sting of disasters' in the two weeks between the first and second debate.

'Donald Trump’s trying to change the dynamic. But I would argue he’s just digging the hole deeper with these attacks,' Mook stated.

Clinton castigated Trump from her campaign plane Sunday evening for spewing an 'avalanche of falsehoods' at her during their debate

Clinton spoke to media aboard her campaign plane as she flew from St. Louis back to New York

Trump attempted to make up lost ground by coming at Clinton with everything he had on her emails, her judgement, her trustworthiness, even hitting her with her husband's alleged transgressions. The Clintons are pictured boarding Hillary's campaign plane in St. Louis

The 'stunt' was distasteful, Clinton's senior staffers said, and is indicative of the state of Trump's flailing campaign.  

'This was a painful moment in their marriage and it was litigated very heavily 20 years ago,' Mook said Sunday evening. 'Hillary is strong, she is steady, that is what people saw in that room, and she is not going to get thrown off on things like this.'

Trump, on the other hand, began to 'unwind' in the forum, the senior Clinton staffer said. 

'He is bleeding Republicans at this point, we see dozens of Republican leaders and certainly senators that are backing away from him. I expect in the next few days we will see independent and Republican voters begin to walk away from him absolutely.' 

Snap polls gave Clinton the win in the debate. Trump's campaign manager said Monday as she made rounds that his team was pleased and praised the businessman for a 'masterful performance.'

'I hear her team really trying to spin the heck out of it last night and this morning ... I don't think it was her best night. She seemed very much off her game and rattled,' Kellyanne Conway said on MSNBC's Morning Joe program. 

Trump attempted to make up lost ground by coming at Clinton with everything he had on her emails, her judgement, her trustworthiness and her character.

He blindsided her team before the debate by broadcasting a meeting with Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick and Paula Jones at which the women deplored Bill for sexually assaulting them.

'Bill Clinton raped me. And Hillary Clinton threatened me,' said Broaddrick, who alleges that Bill forced himself on her when he was running for governor of Arkansas.

Trump attempted to make up lost ground by coming at Clinton in the bruising debate with everything he had on her emails, her judgement, her trustworthiness and her character

GHOSTS FROM THE CLINTONS' PAST: (L-R) Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, Donald Trump, Kathy Shelton and Paula Jones held a photo-op in St. Louis, Missouri on Sunday before the second presidential debate

Trump promoted the women as he tried to deflect scrutiny from his own charges of sexual misconduct.

A 2005 recording published on Friday by the Washington Post shows a married Trump boasting about his sexual exploits with married and non-consenting women.

'And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything ... Grab them by the p***y. You can do anything,' he says.

Trump said Sunday night, during the debate, that it 'was locker room talk.

'I'm not proud of it. I apologize to my family. To the American people. Certainly I'm not proud of it. But this is locker room talk.'

The billionaire claimed he did not do any of the things he said he did in the tape.

'If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse, mine are words, his was action,' Trump stated. 'This is what he has done to women. There’s never been anybody in the history of politics in this nation that's been so abusive to women.'

He contended that 'Hillary Clinton attacked those same women and attacked them viciously.

'BILL CLINTON RAPED ME': Juanita Broaddrick (left) appeared alongside Donald Trump to point an accusatory finger at the former president and blame his wife – Trump's opponent Hillary – for cowing her into silence

The former first lady's aides argued that she wasn't 'rattled' by the forum Trump held 90 minutes before the debate for the women

'One of the women, who is a wonderful woman, at 12 years-old, was raped at 12. Her client she represented got him off and she's seen laughing at the girl who was raped. She is here with us tonight, so, don't tell me about words.'

Responding to the declaration in the spin room, Podesta, a chief of staff to Bill in the White House said, 'Trump is desperate. He’s trying to take this race to a place in the gutter, and we’re not going there.' 

Trump surrogate Omarosa Manigault let out a hefty laugh as DailyMail.com asked her about Podesta's indictment.

'Are we talking about the Clintons?' she asked, in disbelief.

One was 'investigated by the FBI, and the other one was impeached. You’re talking gutter? I don’t even know how to respond to the ridiculousness of that.'  

AWKWARD: Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Chelsea's husband Marc Mezvinsky watch the debate from the audience

Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson spurned the opposing campaign's contention, as well.

'If you're going to run a race on gender issues, then it has to go both ways. You can't talk about one person's actions and not the other and that's what was happening,' she stated. 

Pierson said Trump handled the situation well in the debate, in her opinion, apologizing and accepting 'responsibility' for his language.

And she argued that the 70-year-old's 'locker room' talk did not constitute as sexual assault.

'If he had done it, maybe,' she proclaimed.

Manigault said she hadn't spoke to Trump about the lewd commentary she believes is 'inexcusable' and 'indefensible.'

Still, she said he's apologized publicly and that is enough for her. 

'I think when you apologize to your wife and your family and they accept your apology, that’s the end of it. You move on. I’ve accepted his apology,' the former Apprentice contestant said.