--- title: Inside Donald Trump's Latest Meltdown description: There are new allegations of inappropriate behavior by Donald Trump and new Wikileaks hacked emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign. canonical: https://time.com/4529509/inside-donald-trumps-latest-meltdown/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-13T14:40:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T17:48:21.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Inside Donald Trump's Latest Meltdown og:description: There are new allegations of inappropriate behavior by Donald Trump and new Wikileaks hacked emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign. og:url: https://time.com/4529509/inside-donald-trumps-latest-meltdown/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Morning Must Reads og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Inside Donald Trump's Latest Meltdown twitter:description: There are new allegations of inappropriate behavior by Donald Trump and new Wikileaks hacked emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Inside Donald Trump's Latest Meltdown > Sponsored content. 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Mark Wilson—Getty Images by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:48 PM UTCPublished: Oct 13, 2016 2:40 PM UTC **_If you only read one thing:_** _In the space of one hour Wednesday night, at least four news outlets brought to light new allegations of inappropriate touching against the Republican presidential nominee. Coming on the heels of the explosive 2005 video in which he bragged about such incidents, the first-person accounts of Trump’s alleged actions have sent his campaign reeling once more, after it briefly felt a shift in momentum amid the release of hacked Clinton campaign documents by Wikileaks. Trump’s team is bunkered down with the candidate as they try to combat the reports. Trump took to Twitter to try to discredit the accounts by arguing they were from so long ago, and his lawyers demanded a retraction and sent a legal threat to the New York Times, but the candidate never disputed the factual claims made by the women. And there’s no indication that the parade of allegations is going to stop._ Hillary Clinton’s campaign’s dirty laundry is being aired in the ongoing Wikileaks release, as emails from chairman John Podesta reveal some embarrassing details about how the Democratic campaign functions. A aide’s insulting jokes about Catholics, internal backbiting and strategic disagreements are hardly going to derail the campaign, but paint a picture of a campaign not nearly as well-oiled as polls suggest. Inside Donald Trump’s meltdown. Trump plans to intensify his attacks on the Clintons. 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