If the US presidential elections weren't about a pretty serious business (global survival and shit) I'd so enjoy the macabre humor that keeps cropping up!
Well, I think it's macabre. Your mileage might vary.
Take Trump's political tactic which is a twisted version of the old Republican strategy: attack the strength of your opponent. It's a twisted version, because Trump first assigns his own political weaknesses to his opponent, then attacks them. That makes a weird kind of sense, since the relative absence of those Trumpish weaknesses is, of course, Hillary Clinton's strength.
So Trump has for some time called her "crooked Hillary" on Twitter and elsewhere. Now compare that to the Trump University scam, or Trump's contractor's use of undocumented foreign workers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, some of whom never got fully paid, and the resulting pensions fund lawsuit in the 1990s which Trump settled out of court.
The Trump University case is, by the way, partly about racketeering charges against Trump. Racketeering, as in violating the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act sounds a lot like being accused of --- what's the word I'm looking for? --- crookedness.
Now Trump has questioned Hillary Clinton's religious faith:
The video, taken by E.W. Jackson, a minister and former Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in Virginia, appeared to show part of Trump's private meeting with evangelical leaders in New York City. Trump went on the attack during the conversation, saying there's no information out there about Clinton's faith.
"Now, she's been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there's no — there's nothing out there,” Trump says in the video. “There's like nothing out there."
That is not just true, that there would be "nothing out there" about Hillary Clinton's religious affiliation. I have been unable to avoid seeing references to it, starting from the 1990s.
But what I have not seen, at all, are public references to Donald Trump's religion, whatever it might be. Some Playboy mansion version of the Manly Man Christianity, with perhaps occasional polygyny allowed? I must admit that imagining the evangelical Christians and Trump as political bed-mates is just delicious.
What can we expect next from the Trump camp? What kind of an attack?
How about complaining that Hillary Clinton's hairdos are unbecoming?