(Evan Vucci / Associated Press) 
 
 After Donald Trump hinted that he thinks Hillary Clinton is on drugs, the White House fired back Monday in kind -- with the same sort of oblique, maybe-maybe not accusation that now characterizes the presidential campaign. 
 
 "You’re telling me the candidate who snorted his way through the first two debates is accusing the other candidate of taking drugs?" White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said. "That’s a curious development in the campaign." 
 
 Trump didn't come right out and say he thought Clinton was high at their last debate. He just said he thinks there ought to be a drug test before the next one. ||||| In appearances on "The Howard Stern Show" between 2002 and 2013, Donald Trump discussed his interactions with women, including his ex-wife Ivana Trump and then-mistress Marla Maples. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) 
 
 In 2004, as Donald Trump was preparing to be married for the third time, he went on “The Howard Stern Show” and told a story from the end of his first marriage. It was about the day in 1990 when Trump invited both his wife and his mistress to go skiing in Aspen at the same time. 
 
 “This is a story I’ve never told about that mountain, because it was sort of a horrible thing,” Trump began, as Stern and co-host Robin Quivers egged him on. He said they were at a restaurant near the ski slopes. Lunchtime. Two thousand people eating lunch, in Trump’s retelling. 
 
 “I’m standing there putting on my skis, and I’m with one or the other, I didn’t know who,” Trump said, meaning then-wife Ivana Trump or then-mistress Marla Maples, later Trump’s second wife. “And the other one comes over, and they start screaming at each other. “I love him! I love him! Don’t you understand! I love! And they’re both screaming that I love them.” 
 
 It’s a story that has been told before by biographers, reporters and Ivana Trump herself. But this seems to be one of the rare times Trump himself told it in public. In his telling, but not the others, there was an important peripheral character: an obese man. 
 
 “And this big fat bald guy is standing next to me. Guy weighs like 325 pounds. And I’m standing there mortified. Everybody’s looking, like a thousand people watching these two women screaming at each other,” Trump said. “And this big fat guy is looking at me and he said, ‘Mr. Trump, that’s not the worst thing that could happen. I have never had a thing like that happen in my life.’ And I see this guy and I think, ‘You know, maybe this could be worse.’ ” 
 
 “You’re a smart guy,” Stern said. “What made you think you could get away with that?” 
 
 “Well, mountains are very big, Howard,” Trump said. 
 
 A few moments later, abruptly, Stern shifts the conversation to the question of whether actress Lindsay Lohan — then 18 years old — is attractive. 
 
 “There’s something there, right?” said Trump, who was then 58. “But you have to like freckles. I’ve seen a — you know, a close-up of her chest, and a lot of freckles. Are you into freckles?” 
 
 That conversation comes from one of six recordings, recently obtained by The Washington Post, of interviews Trump did on Stern's show between 2002 and 2013. Some of the recordings have been described in part in previous news reports. 
 
 The recordings follow the same pattern as previously released appearances by Trump on Stern's show. In these clips, the businessman brags about his sex life — both in the past and with third wife Melania. And he eagerly joins Stern in raunchy discussions about women's bodies and sex acts, and sits by as Stern quizzes his daughter Ivanka — then 25 — about her own sex life. 
 
 None of the clips contain language as lewd as the 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape first reported by The Post last week, in which Trump speaks explicitly about kissing and groping women. 
 
 [Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005] 
 
 In the past, Trump has said that his appearances on Stern’s show were a kind of over-the-top entertainment act. 
 
 “I never anticipated running for office or being a politician, so I could have fun with Howard on the radio and everyone would love it. People do love it,” Trump said in an interview with The Washington Post in April. “I could say whatever I wanted when I was an entrepreneur, a business guy.” 
 
 CLIP #1: June 20, 2002 
 
 Trump, who owned the Miss Universe pageant at the time, is quizzed by Stern about the sexual preferences of the pageant's most recent winner. 
 
 “Does she want to have sex with me, Donald?” Stern says. 
 
 “I think so,” Trump responds. “She says she was very attracted to you, Howard.” 
 
 CLIP #2: Dec. 14, 2004 
 
 This is the clip where Trump tells the story about the Aspen confrontation between his wife and his mistress. After the conversation shifts to Lohan, Stern and Trump talk about her troubled father — and the impact of his troubles on Lohan. 
 
 “Can you imagine the sex with this troubled [woman]?" Stern asks. 
 
 “You’re probably right. She’s probably deeply troubled, and therefore great in bed,” Trump responds. “How come the deeply troubled women, you know, deeply, deeply troubled, they’re always the best in bed?” 
 
 “You don’t want to be with ’em for the long term,” Trump says, concluding this thought. “But for the short term, there’s nothing like it.” 
 
 Asked for comment Friday, Lohan's spokesman Hunter Frederick said in a statement, "Right now, Lindsay is choosing to focus on the positive things happening in her life and has decided to disregard the comments made about her by Presidential nominee Donald Trump. She is focusing on helping children around the world in need and that’s where her passion is.” 
 
 Soon after the comments on Lohan, Stern turns the conversation to Melania, who Trump was set to marry in a few weeks. Repeating a tactic described in a recent Politico piece, Stern builds Trump with flattery, then turns abruptly to ask him to surrender deeply personal information, including details about his soon-to-be wife. 
 
 “She must be good in bed, like I don’t even know, if she’s going to marry you,” Stern says. “I mean, you could have any chick, so she must be doing tricks. God knows what she’s doing.” 
 
 “Well, she is good, and she’s a good girl,” Trump says. 
 
 Stern won’t let it go at that. 
 
 “Favorite position with Melania, and then I’ll let you go,” he asks. 
 
 “Favorite position? Normal,” Trump says. “I’m a very normal guy.” 
 
 CLIP #3: Feb. 27, 2006 
 
 In this interview, Trump is accompanied by daughter Ivanka and son Donald Trump Jr. Stern presses Ivanka, then 25, about her sex life. 
 
 “You didn’t give into him sexually, I hope, you did not give into him sexually,” Stern asks, referring to an ex-boyfriend of Ivanka's. 
 
 “Of course not, Howard,” Ivanka says. 
 
 “You’re still a virgin, I assume. 
 
 “Of course,” Ivanka says. 
 
 “Donald, do you ever discuss sex with your daughter?” 
 
 “No,” Trump says. 
 
 Later in the interview, Stern asks Ivanka for more details 
 
 “How many dates before you would make love to a guy?” he asks. 
 
 “You already established I was a virgin, Howard,” she says. 
 
 “Well, what about Bingo, seriously? Did you wait a long time with Bingo?” Stern says, referencing a past boyfriend of Ivanka's. 
 
 “I’m not going to talk about that, Howard.” 
 
 “Why, because your dad is here?” 
 
 “Yes, among other reasons,” Ivanka Trump says. 
 
 “Actually, I don’t want to know,” her father says. “I don’t want to hear it.” 
 
 CLIP #4: April 12, 2010 
 
 Back to the Aspen story. Stern says that Trump had cheated in previous marriages. Trump playfully disputes that. 
 
 “First of all, did anyone ever say that I cheated?” Trump said. 
 
 “Well, I’m saying you did,” Stern said. 
 
 What about the ski-resort story, Quivers asks. 
 
 “Yeah, but nobody ever said I really cheated,” Trump says. “I guess they implied it. In fact, come to think of it, they implied it in the strongest of tones.” 
 
 Stern returns to flattery, and Trump plays along. 
 
 “You have banged some of the greatest beauties on the planet. True,” Stern says. 
 
 “That is true. Some of the greats in history,” Trump says. 
 
 Stern wonders: What is the secret behind Trump’s rare — apparently historic — success with women? “What is it about you? There’s a lot of billionaires out there,” Stern says. 
 
 “I honestly [think] it’s because I’m a very handsome guy,” Trump says. “Looks are very important.” 
 
 CLIP #5: Feb. 6, 2013 
 
 Trump and Stern discuss Trump’s views on abortion — he says he’s antiabortion, with an exception for cases of rape — and same-sex marriage. Trump says he’s against same-sex marriage, but “it’s never been an argument that I’ve been, you know, that’s been discussed with me very much,” he says. “People know it’s not my thing one way or another.” 
 
 Later in their conversation, Trump speaks derogatorily of a fellow reality-TV star, Kim Kardashian. 
 
 “Does she have a good body? No,” Trump says. “Does she have a fat ass? Absolutely.” 
 
 CLIP #6: Feb. 27, 2013 
 
 Trump and Stern discussed a Delaware contestant in the Miss Teen USA pageant who had recently withdrawn because she had appeared in an adult movie. 
 
 “She figured she’ll do porn, she’ll make some money,” Trump says. 
 
 “Will you watch the porn? I’m going to see it,” Stern responds. 
 
 “Will you call me and let me know how good it is?” Trump asks. 
 
 Later in the interview, Trump offers a blunt assessment of Pope Benedict XVI, who was about to resign his office. 
 
 “He should just give up and die. He looks so bad,” Trump says. 
 
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 Two speeches in two hours crystallize the state of Campaign 2016 
 
 Amid crisis, Trump spreads another conspiracy theory — about his campaign 
 
 Matea Gold, Rosalind S. Helderman, Mary Jordan, Ed O'Keefe and Katie Zezima contributed to this report. ||||| Howard Stern has been engaging in "locker room talk" for more than 35 years, but during his return to the air on Monday morning (Oct. 17) after a week off, the notorious shock jock claimed he's never heard anyone use the phrase uttered by frequent guest Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a now-infamous hot mike moment with entertainment reporter Billy Bush. And he had some harsh words for reporters who are claiming to have "discovered" some damning interviews Trump did on Stern's show between 2002-2013. 
 
 "These conversations that I had with Donald Trump weren't done in private like the Billy Bush tapes, this was on the radio," said SiriusXM host Stern, lashing out at reporters who claim to have unearthed the chats. "Why don't I play all the tapes? I have to tell you why: I feel Donald Trump did the show in an effort to be entertaining and have fun with us and I feel like it would be a betrayal to any of our guests if I sat there and played them now where people are attacking him." 
 
 Stern -- who said he's exhausted by the whole election cycle -- did a 25-minute segment at the top of Monday morning's (Oct. 17) show reacting to reporting last week about a number of his old interviews with Trump that painted the GOP candidate in a dim light. In the trove of tapes, the billionaire real estate mogul talked about inviting his first wife and mistress to go skiing in Aspen at the same time, bragged about his sex life, said "deeply troubled women" are "always the best in bed" and playfully batted away questions about his alleged past infidelities. 
 
 An avowed supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Stern said he was honored the chats are sparking controversy and conversation, saying it would be very easy to play all the Trump tapes in their entirety. But, he argued, that they weren't made in an effort to "f--k someone over... we were having a good time. I fully knew what I was doing when I interviewed Trump," he said. "I knew I had a guy who loved to talk about sex... I had a guy who loved to evaluate women on a scale of 1-10. These are avenues I went down because I knew it would entertain the audience." 
 
 He said Trump called him at home last year when the unlikely GOP candidate began winning some primaries and the radio talker tried to figure out what the endgame was. "I said, 'why are you doing this?'" Stern recalled asking Trump. "Why would a guy with billions of dollars [run for president]?... Don't you know what they're gonna do to you? Don't you know they're gonna open up everything?" Stern then praised a CNN segment from last week that noted he has not tried to inject himself into the election by dredging up the tapes with the billionaire, whom he considers a friend. 
 
 "I wasn't imagining that I would be in the middle of this election and literally so prominently mentioned," said Stern, who has hardly shied away from controversy and attention seeking in the past for his probing interviews and studio stunts. "Quite frankly, as someone just said, I'm surprised they didn't find these earlier," he said, adding that he hasn't spoken to Trump since just before the Republican convention this summer. "There's nothing to find. As the guy said, they were right there in the open." 
 
 Stern, who rarely grants interviews, claimed he'd turned down "500" requests from a variety of publications seeking to chat with him about his Trump talks. 
 
 After decades of pumping out thousands of hours of the most explicit "locker room talk" ever heard on radio, Stern also weighed in on that phrase, which Trump used in last week's second presidential debate to explain his vulgar comments on the now-infamous Access Hollywood hot mic recording. But, because he's still got a radio show to do, not before he played a Clinton-focused parody of the hot mic moment (as well as a series of explicit parody songs). "Do you think this is locker room talk?" asked Stern's longtime sidekick Robin Quivers. "A lot of the show that I've been doing for my entire life, radio show publicly, is an effort to sort of do 'locker room talk,' to express all kinds of s--t and just not even care what anyone thinks," said Stern. 
 
 "But this idea of 'locker room talk'... all the times I've been around guys -- and believe me when I'm around guys 85 percent of the times you're talking about p---y-- but I have never been in the room when someone has said 'grab them by the p---y," said Stern, repeating Trump's boast from the bus. "No one's ever advocated going that step where you get a little bit, 'hey I'm going to invade someone's space.' ... A lot of [locker room banter is] real kind of desperate talk. The reason it's in a locker room is because no one's proud of it."
– Howard Stern has had Donald Trump on his radio show quite a few times, and last week, the Washington Post used clips from his appearances between 2002 and 2013 in a disparaging story about Trump. The paper noted that though none of the tapes are as lewd as the 2005 Billy Bush tape currently making waves, they do feature Trump rating women's bodies, discussing his sex life, and listening to Stern quiz Ivanka Trump about her own sex life, among other things. On his show Monday, Stern lashed out at the idea that the media "discovered" the tapes, since the shows were aired to the general public, Billboard reports. He also explained that he considers Trump a friend and that he won't be re-airing the interviews because that would be a "betrayal," the Los Angeles Times reports. "Donald Trump did the show in an effort to be entertaining and have fun with us," he said. "I fully knew what I was doing when I interviewed Trump. I knew I had a guy who loved to talk about sex … I had a guy who loved to evaluate women on a scale of 1 to 10. These are avenues I went down because I knew it would entertain the audience." But Stern did not defend the 2005 tape, and he disagreed with Trump's insistence that his words were simply "locker room talk." "I have never been in the room when someone has said, 'Grab them by the pussy,'" Stern said. "No one's ever advocated going that step where you get a little bit, 'Hey I'm going to invade someone's space.'" Billboard notes that Stern supports Hillary Clinton for president.