Salman Rushdie has made his comments clear about the US election

If you look at the political landscape in the US at the moment, there’s not much to envy, but there’s plenty to fear.

Neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump is going to come out of this smelling of roses after what must be one of the dirtiest battles for presidency ever fought.

Name calling, allegations and suggestions of criminality of been flying left, right and centre.

All that leaves for the American people to do is vote for the lesser of two (probably alleged) evils.


But Salman Rushdie has perhaps summed it up in the most succinct way yet in a single Facebook post.



Here’s what he said:

https://www.facebook.com/rushdie/posts/10209515743068062?pnref=story

The allegation is that he raped a 13-year-old girl. The first case was dismissed in May 2016 in California and was refiled in New York in June. the case will be subject to a ‘status conference’ in December.

He’s also facing racketeering law suits in November (pretty much straight after the election result) in relation to allegations about Trump University.

Of course, he’s innocent until proven guilty and his spokesman said the allegations are: ‘categorically untrue, completely fabricated and politically motivated.’

But it does make you think… most other men or women facing this level of scrutiny, allegation and wrong-doing would stand down.