Don slams Clinton ‘crime syndicate’

White House hopeful Donald Trump branded Hillary Clinton’s operations a “criminal enterprise” Monday as he assailed her for creating conditions for a rigged election, and accused the US media of wanting to “poison” voters’ minds.

Trailing in national polls and in key battleground states just three weeks before Election Day on November 8, Mr Trump came out swinging on the campaign trail, accusing Ms Clinton of colluding with the US authorities to cover up misconduct regarding her private email system and denouncing it as “one of the great miscarriages of justice” in the US history.

Mr Trump, whose campaign has been reeling in the face of lewd comments about women and accusations of sexual assault, has doubled down on claims of massive voter fraud in 2016, despite denials from within his own party.

And his team has deployed his wife Melania in a media blitz to try to tamp down the furore over the allegations, with interviews airing late Monday on CNN and early Tuesday on Fox News.

A firestorm erupted earlier this month when a 2005 video was made public and caught Mr Trump saying lewd things about women, in a mostly off-camera conversation with host Billy Bush of the show Access Hollywood.

The Republican nominee will take the stage Wednesday with his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in their final debate before voters make their choice.Meanwhile, Mr Trump has said that if elected as the US president in the November general elections, he might meet Russian President Vladi-mir Putin even before he takes the oath of presidency in January next year.“...I could see myself meeting with Putin and meeting with Russia prior to the start of the administration,” Mr Trump told the WND Radio station in an interview on Tuesday.

A President-elect meeting a foreign leader before the inauguration is quite unusual.“The problem is Putin has no respect for Obama at all,” the Republican said.