Trump hits back at Clinton, calls her ‘world class liar’

WASHINGTON: Republican Party nominee Donald Trump fired back at his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, calling her a “world class liar” in his first

WASHINGTON: Republican Party nominee Donald Trump fired back at his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, calling her a “world class liar” in his first major speech of the general election for the White House.

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Reading from a teleprompter, Trump said Clinton was the “most corrupt” person ever to run for the White House and that she had “perfected the art of politics of personal theft”.

Clinton had called him the “King of Debt” in a speech on Tuesday, slamming his business experience — his strong suit — and practices in what her campaign said was “Evisceration Part II”.

Part I came some days ago when Clinton questioned his foreign policy credentials, or the lack of them, and remarks that have left his own party supporters and surrogates squirming.

Trump, who prides himself as a counter-puncher, had let that attack pass with a remarkably low-intensity push-back. But he counter-tweeted Clinton’s Tuesday speech live.

He hit back with full intensity on Wednesday in a speech replete with insults and questionable claims and facts, but one that was the kind of disciplined attack Republicans had long wanted from him.

Trump lashed out at Clinton, attacking her on expected lines — paid speeches, Benghazi, her use of her private email server as secretary of state, and her behaviour in the White House as the first lady.

“Her decisions spread death, destruction and terrorism everywhere she touched,” he said of Clinton’s term as secretary of state, which, he added, cost thousands of American lives.