Trump did what he had only a week prior said was too cruel to do: he made an issue of sexual assault claims against Bill Clinton. There was a press conference with the women, front row seating for them in the debate hall followed by verbal broadsides against Hillary, who he asserted had enabled her husband’s bad behavior.

Never mind that, according to ABC news, Donald Trump “once called Bill Clinton’s accusers ‘terrible,’ ‘unattractive’ and former president ‘terrific.’“

Never mind that approximately five minutes ago Trump was patting himself on the back for not “going there” in the first debate. “I did hold back. I thought it was just inappropriate to say what I was really thinking I would say,” he said in a town hall on Thursday night in Sandown, New Hampshire. “I’d much rather have it be on policy and I don’t like getting into the gutter.”