Trump threatens to have Gennifer Flowers attend first presidential debate

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 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted Saturday that he would invite former Bill Clinton paramour Gennifer Flowers to sit in the front row at Monday's first presidential debate against Hillary Clinton.
Trump extended the invitation to Flowers via social media after the Clinton campaign invited Mark Cuban, a fellow billionaire and prominent Trump critic, to the debate.
Trump initially misspelled Flowers' first name, with a J, then tweeted again to fix the mistake.
In response, Flowers' personal assistant wrote in an email to Buzzfeed News that the former model would be attending Monday's debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.
A message from a Twitter account purporting to belong to Flowers said, "Hi Donald. You know I'm in your corner and will definitely be at the debate!" followed by a lipstick kiss emoji. A Facebook account linked from Flowers' personal site posted two stories about the debate invitation, but no confirmation that she would attend.
It was not immediately clear whether Trump's tweet constituted an official invitation and his campaign had no further comment on the matter Saturday.

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Clinton campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri responded: "Hillary Clinton plans on using the debate to discuss the issues that make a difference in people's lives." She added: "It's not surprising that Donald Trump has chosen a different path."
Hours later, Trump told supporters in Virginia that if elected, he would do more to help women than Clinton.
"My opponent likes to say that for decades she's been fighting for women, that she's been fighting for children. Why, then, are 70 million American women and children living in poverty or on the brink of poverty in our country?" Trump asked a rally crowd in Roanoke. "For years she's been doing this and she's done nothing."