The corrupt Clintons have been given a free pass by the corrupt US media

Finally the Clinton campaign and complicit mainstream media have found the core issue they want to focus on between now and polling day: the allegation that Donald Trump gropes women. Or at least indulged in locker-room banter on the subject as recently as 2005. Hillary Clinton and the liberal sub-culture she represents are appalled by the degeneracy of the chief Deplorable in the basket.

Imagine if this monster Trump made it into the White House. What moral mayhem might follow? OMG! This lout might even be capable of salacious conduct with young women interns in the sacred precincts of the Oval Office – something that has never happened before. You would never get that from a Clinton presidency. Hillary is disgusted and no wonder: the men she has known in her life have not been the kind to debase or exploit women in that fashion.

‘Make America Pure Again’ may be an unlikely Clinton slogan, but the Democrats are hopeful they might just get away with it, massively assisted by the partisan liberal media that share their anxiety to divert public attention from innumerable unhelpful issues that threaten their candidate. So – who’d ha’ thunk it? – sexual continence and respect for women are now the mainstays of the Clinton crusade. It is rumoured Bill might do a Town Hall on the theme – changed days from his presidential term when he set so many Washington drycleaners on the path to becoming millionaires.

Never be astonished by any level of hypocrisy or mendacity when the Clinton clan is involved. They are emboldened in their shamelessness by the support of an American media that have lost all sense of what journalism is about. As Wikileaks has demonstrated, it is about putting Hillary the Entitled into the White House.

Imagine if Donald Trump had been filmed suffering an apparent seizure, his head swivelling à la Damian, of Omen notoriety. Is it not possible that disturbing phenomenon might have led a few news bulletins and found its way onto several front pages? But Received Opinion holds that Hillary’s health is A1. To question it is to succumb to “conspiracy theory”. Her funny turn on September 11 was impossible to ignore, but most of the media uncritically disseminated the “pneumonia” narrative. Nothing to see here, folks, move along now.

The liberal consensus would consider the following diagnosis absurd: “I think she should have had a neurological examination, a thorough neurological examination in 2016. We know what happens to football players who have had concussions, how they begin to lose some of their cognitive ability.” Obviously a scaremonger from the Trump camp. Well, no, in fact that was the verdict of Dr David Scheiner who was for 20 years Barack Obama’s personal physician and has few credentials to membership of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.

It is fashionable in liberal circles to express terror at the prospect of Donald Trump having his finger on the nuclear button, but the Left apparently entertains no misgivings about a possibly brain-damaged president, notoriously prone to rages, enjoying the same power.

The real embarrassment for the Clintons (they come as a job lot) is the stench of corruption that engulfs them and the extent to which it is in the public domain. The best-selling book Clinton Cash and the updated film of the same title currently on release have familiarized the American public with the monumental corruption of the Democrat candidate and her husband.

The film chronicles how their forays into Africa have allegedly enriched them at the expense of some of the poorest people on earth. Rwanda, Congo, Nigeria, earthquake-stricken Haiti, all have seen interventions by the Clintons that left donors to the Clinton Foundation and those who paid Bill high fees for speeches significantly enriched.

Bill Clinton’s speeches had routinely netted him slightly less than $200,000. After Hillary became Secretary of State his fees rocketed, beginning with $1.4m for two speeches in notoriously corrupt Nigeria and climaxing at $500,000 or more for 13 later speeches, 11 of them made while his wife was Secretary of State. The Clintons performed U-turns on environmental issues, notably when Hillary approved the Keystone XL Pipeline project, anathema to environmentalists and climate campaigners, longtime Clinton causes. This betrayal shocked fellow liberals, many of whom later defected to Bernie Sanders.

But the most controversial Clinton U-turn came when Hillary, as Secretary of State, signed off the purchase of UraniumOne by a subsidiary of Rosatom, the Russian government agency in charge of that country’s nuclear arsenal. The result is that 20 per cent of American uranium production is in the hands of Vladimir Putin. Four months before Hillary approved the purchase Bill was paid $500,000 for a speech in Moscow.

The feeble defence of Clinton apologists is that Hillary had no power to veto the Russian deal. Technically, no; but she was one of nine members of the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States with the right to object by referring the deal to the President to exercise his veto.

Wikileaks has published a 2010 e-mail in which a senior aide to Hillary Clinton asked a Foundation official to inform her which groups tendering for contracts for Haitian earthquake relief were “FOB” (Friends of Bill) or “WJC VIPs” (William Jefferson Clinton VIPs). American taxpayers and the ultra-poor of Haiti were apparently pawns of crony capitalism.

Add into the mix Benghazi and the e-mails controversy and you have a perfect storm. The allegations against the Clintons cannot be passed off as conspiracy theories: the donations and fees paid for speeches are too easy to trace on the public record. Why have armies of attorneys not descended on the whistle-blowers? Because, while some details may remain obscure, the greater part is in the public domain.

But the complicity of the American mainstream media, ignoring the evidence against the Clintons while doggedly hunting for women who were wolf-whistled at by Donald Trump in the 1980s, is arguably a greater threat to democracy than one squalid couple taking the American public for a ride.