Washington: This is the slugfest election - so Wednesday in the US was payback time as Donald Trump wiped the floor with Hillary Clinton; in pretty much the same fashion as she had wiped the floor with Trump on Tuesday...and again on Wednesday.

Billing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee as a 'world-class liar," Trump lashed out in New York, making wild unsubstantiated allegations and at the same time, using Clinton's record as a smorgasbord: "Just look at her pathetic email statements or her phony landing in Bosnia, where she said she was under attack, and the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers."

Clinton, he claimed, had perfected the "politics of personal profit and even theft," doing favours for reprehensible regimes "in exchange for cash." Criticising her multi-million speaking fees, Trump charged: "[The big banks] totally own her.