Trump labels Hillary Clinton ‘the devil’, suggests poll will be rigged

“I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged, I have to be honest,” Trump said on Monday during a town hall in Columbus, Ohio.

The 70-year-old White House hopeful who emerged as the winner of a tough Republican presidential primary of 17 candidates claimed his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton had to fight only against Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont.

“I had 17 people. I wasn’t running against two people. I had 17 people. I got a similar number to Hillary Clinton, and she had Bernie and she had a hard time putting Bernie away, and Bernie, poor Bernie. He looked so upset. You know what, he made a mistake. He shouldn’t have made a deal. He lost, he lost,” Trump said.

“First of all, it was rigged, and I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged, I have to be honest. Because I think my side was rigged, if I didn’t win by massive landslides, I mean, think of what we won in New York and Indiana, California, 78 per cent. That’s with other people in the race,” he said.

At another rally, Trump branded the 68-year-old former secretary of state as a “devil”.

Trump used this extreme characterisation of Clinton when speaking about the decision of Senator Sanders to support her in the election. “He (Sanders) made a deal with the devil. She’s the devil,” Trump alleged.

In his rallies, Trump for the past several weeks has been using the word “crooked” against her.