Trump and Harris have clashed over crime, as they have so often during this campaign.
“All over the world crime is down, all over the world except here. Crime in this country is through the roof,” Trump says. He says there’s a new form of crime now, “migrant crime”.
When it was pointed out that the FBI says crime is actually down, Trump accused the bureau of fraud. “The FBI – they were defrauding statements, they didn’t include the cities with the worst crime,” he said.
Harris, the former prosecutor and attorney-general in California, responded by hammering her key message that Trump is himself accused of multiple felonies.
“I think this is so rich coming from someone who has been prosecuted for national security crimes, economic crimes, election interference. Has been found liable for sexual assault,” she said.
Trump claimed he was winning most of his cases “and I’ll win the rest on appeal”.
In an extraordinary election with as many unprecedented moments as this one, it is easy to forget that one of the candidates has been charged with 88 criminal offences, and already been found guilty of 34 of them.
He was meant to be sentenced next week for falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal with a porn star. He also faces three other trials, including one in Washington for trying to subvert the 2020 election, another in Georgia for trying to overthrow Joe Biden’s electoral college victory in that state, and another one in Florida for his handling of classified documents.
