I CONFESS to deep disappointment and disbelief at reading Rosemary Goring's opinion contribution ("The United States finally has the president it deserves", The Herald, January 17). The country she describes is not one I recognise. Her article reflects the "post-truth" utterances of the media which appeared determined to get Hillary Clinton elected at all costs.

Probably the most important factor in the presidential election was trust or lack of it. Mrs Clinton had a track record of serious contraventions of the law and in fact details have just been released which shows that she sent highly secret emails to one of her team and that these emails were hacked by at least three countries, Russia, China and Israel. This in itself is a crime punishable by up to 10 years’ imprisonment. Couple that with the proven cheating to ensure she beat Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination and you can understand why a large proportion of the voters would have voted for a stray dog rather than her.