Trump threatens to bring Gennifer Flowers to debate

“You know I’m in your corner and will definitely be at the debate!”

“If dopey Mark Cuban of failed Benefactor fame wants to sit in the front row, perhaps I will put Jennifer Flowers [sic] right alongside of him!” While Hillary Clinton had been criticized for her decision to invite Mark Cuban, most of that has now shifted to Trump who took it one step further.

Longtime aide and confidant Philippe Reines – who sources confirmed to NBC News was tapped to play Republican rival Donald Trump – was also in attendance.

An assistant to Flowers told BuzzFeed News in the past she had declined such invitations, not wanting to be a “sideshow”, but said she would forward the invite to Flowers.

Shortly after, Trump deleted the tweet and reposted it with the correct spelling of Gennifer Flowers’s first name. “Maybe I will get an invitation to the next one”, she said in a Twitter message.

Clinton was reportedly spending the weekend preparing for Monday’s debate, which will be held at Hofstra University in NY.

Cuban has emerged as one of Clinton’s most prominent backers, and a relentless critic of the NY real estate mogul. Trump was scheduled to address a rally in Roanoke, Virginia, on Saturday evening.

The decision was the latest play in a freakish bit of gamesmanship between the Clinton and Trump campaigns over the debate. Flowers’ name became well known in the 1990s, after former President Bill Clinton admitted under oath in 1998 that he’d had a sexual affair with her. “I don’t know what I’m going to do that exactly”, Trump said during an interview on “The O’Reilly Factor”.

“I don’t think I’m looking to do that Bill”.

Flowers came to national prominence in January 1992, when Bill Clinton first campaigned for the White House, with an allegation of a 12-year affair and tapes of conversations between the two.