WASHINGTON: The second US Presidential debate between Republican candidate Donal Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, saw the former interrupting the woman presidential aspirant numerous times, and lurking behind her as she spoke. He did everything except admit not paying taxes for more than a decade and made it evident he had no plans to improve US healthcare and basically had no strategy to deal with the ISIS.
The 90-minute soul-destroying debate defined the candidates' personalities, as Hillary was poised, answered questions to the point, as opposed to Trump, who was in his standard defensive mode, stiff and wooden. Clinton came on strong as she bashed Islamophobia, outlined a coherent policy about US healthcare, chalked out a clear strategy on how to deal with the IS, and making sure the public knew Trump is an open misogynist. She, however, lost her step when asked about her deleted emails and was unable to defend her recently leaked comments about having "separate private and public positions."
Trump was recently in the news, this time for particularly lewd comments made by him about women in the past. In tapes leaked last weak, a younger Trump was seen making offensive statements about him groping and kissing women. Bringing up the topic, Clinton said the statements "clearly represented who he is. He says the video doesn't represent who he is. But it's clear it does. If this were just about one video, maybe what he's saying is understandable, but everyone can draw their own conclusion about whether the man on stage respects women or not. We've seen him insult women throughout the campaign." During his turn, the billionaire attacked Clinton saying there has "never been anybody in the history of politics that's been so abusive to women," as her husband and former president Bill has been. "Hillary attacked those same women," Trump said as he faltered to put much weight into his own statement.
Clinton took up on her opponent's position on immigrants, talked about how he never apologised to a federal judge who was born in Indiana to Mexican parents, and insulted the family of a US army captain Humayun Khan who was killed in Iraq in 2004. "He (Trump) runs his campaign any way he chooses without talking about agenda. He has never apologised to the people he insulted. That's his choice. When I hear his statements I'm reminded of what my friend Michelle Obama said, 'When they go low, you go high'. And he's never apologised for the racist lie about Obama not being American. He owes Obama and the country an apology," she said. In return, Trump referred to her Mailgate scandal, almost threatening that if he's elected President, he would instruct the Attorney General to appoint a special prosecutor to look into the emails issue.
