THE USA

One thing that was proved in the presidential debate yesterday is that those Republicans who have run away in the face of some 'locker room' banter by Donald Trump that was leaked to the media, have made complete fools of themselves. Given the scale of the condemnation heaped upon him, it was expected that The Donald would fail to present himself as a credible candidate. In the event, he acquitted himself very well. He had very significantly improved compared to the first debate. He bested Hillary Clinton.

Clinton did not properly explain herself regarding the deleted emails. She relied upon a suggestion of appointing a lawyer to enforce trade deals as a solution to the $800billion trade deficit. She further continually tried to stir up division and hatred in true politically correct fashion, and then had the gall to declare that 'when they go low, we go high', before hurling a lot of untruths about Muslims, a Mexican judge and the Birther issue. She continued to refuse to use the term 'radical Islamic terrorism'. Regarding her description of tens of millions of Americans as 'deplorables', Clinton merely said that she was 'sorry about the way [she] talked about that'.

Clinton did not explain her criticism that Donald Trump had not paid more taxes, even though his business had suffered losses. Enoch Powell once said: ‘You don’t tax a loss. You only tax a profit. You raise more, the more profit there is to tax’ (see the English Rights Campaign item dated the 3 May 2005).

How do you tax a loss? Taxes are levied on profits not losses. Clinton’s smear about this is rubbish.

On the economy, immigration and security, Donald Trump was the one offering change and a determination to tackle the USA's serious problems. Clinton only offers more of the same.