--- title: Hillary Clinton Fires Back Against Donald Trump’s Attacks description: Hillary Clinton on Sunday fired back against Donald Trump’s repeated personal attacks that draw on her husband’s sex scandal canonical: https://time.com/4174336/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-attacks/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-10T19:06:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T09:04:37.820Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Fires Back Against Donald Trump’s Personal Attacks og:description: "Didn't work before, won't work again" og:url: https://time.com/4174336/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-attacks/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf1db52a23d2add4/6988785dbc6cfcae203db28a/hillary-clinton3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses an audience during an event Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, in Hooksett, N.H., during which Planned Parenthood endorsed Clinton in the presidential race. The endorsement by the group's political arm mark og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Fires Back Against Donald Trump’s Personal Attacks twitter:description: "Didn't work before, won't work again" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf1db52a23d2add4/6988785dbc6cfcae203db28a/hillary-clinton3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Fires Back Against Donald Trump’s Personal Attacks  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Jan 10, 2016 7:06 PM UTC  Hillary Clinton during an event in Hooksett, N.H., on Jan. 10, 2016. Hillary Clinton during an event in Hooksett, N.H., on Jan. 10, 2016.Steven Senne—AP  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Jan 10, 2016 7:06 PM UTC Hillary Clinton on Sunday fired back against [Donald Trump’s repeated personal attacks](http://time.com/4171454/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bill-cosby-anthony-weiner/), saying hit pieces that draw on her husband’s sex scandal “didn’t work before” and “won’t work again.” The former secretary of state’s response comes after [Trump released an Instagram video](https://www.instagram.com/p/BAPvZ-1GhbP/) earlier this week comparing Bill Clinton to the embattled Bill Cosby, who is facing sexual assault allegations. Trump also called the former president “one of the great abusers of the world” and said he “has a terrible record of women’s abuse.” “If he wants to engage in personal attacks from the past, that is his prerogative. You know, so be it,” [Clinton told John Dickerson on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-trump-attack-emails/) “He can say whatever he wants about me,” she added. “But I am not going to let him or any of the other Republicans rip away the progress that we have. It has been too hard fought for. And I am going to stand up and make it clear there is a huge difference between us.” Clinton also said her husband’s scandal has been “fair game going back to the Republicans for some years.” “They can do it again if they want to. That can be their choice as to how to run in this campaign. Didn’t work before, won’t work again,” she said. Trump’s video shows images of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, followed by a photographs of Hillary Clinton standing near Anthony Weiner and Bill Cosby, as audio of the presidential hopeful’s speech about women’s rights play in the background. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4174336/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-attacks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4174336/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-attacks/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Fires Back Against Donald Trump’s Personal Attacks","datePublished":"2016-01-10T19:06:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T09:04:37.820Z","description":"\"Didn't work before, won't work again\"","url":"https://time.com/4174336/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-attacks/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf1db52a23d2add4/6988785dbc6cfcae203db28a/hillary-clinton3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf1db52a23d2add4/6988785dbc6cfcae203db28a/hillary-clinton3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses an audience during an event Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, in Hooksett, N.H., during which Planned Parenthood endorsed Clinton in the presidential race. 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