Donald Trump attempted to right his struggling presidential campaign on Wednesdayyesterday, delivering a stinging but carefully-crafted attack on Hillary Clinton that accused her of being a “corrupt” politician more interested in enriching herself than helping average Americans.
Eschewing his freewheeling style, the Republican candidate used a rare scripted speech to call Mrs Clinton a “world-class liar” who had “spread death, destruction and terrorism everywhere she touched” and later took money from regimes that repress women and gays.
The on-message broadside came after weeks in which his campaign had become sidelined by a public spat with a Mexican-American federal judge adjudicating a case against Trump University and controversy over perceptions he attempted to exploit the Orlando shootings for political gain.