The most vicious US presidential campaign of all time is plumbing new depths daily

An ugliness without end

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump kisses a ‘Women for Trump’ sign during a campaign rally Picture: AP Photo/ Evan Vucci

There is something Shakespearean about the closing days of this savage contest. Trump has become the narrator of his own downfall, the star witness in his own prosecution, the braggart-in-chief of wrongs he is now furiously denying. The denouement and final act of this epic tragicomedy is shocking, unimaginable and yet, somehow, inevitable.

The latest and most ironic twist sees Trump hoist firmly on his own petard. Having paraded Bill Clinton’s accusers in ...