US presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are sharpening their attacks, hoping to create a lasting impression of their rival.

Hillary targeted Trump's business record, noting firms run by the New York businessman filed for bankruptcy protection four times. "How could anybody lose money running a casino?" Hillary asked on Monday.

Trump released an advert on Monday re-airing sexual assault allegations against Hillary's husband.

The advert featured two women - Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick - who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting them years ago.

The video includes footage of Clinton with a cigar in a mouth and Hillary in laughing. It ends with the tagline: "Is Hillary really protecting women?"

Clinton repeatedly denied that he assaulted the women, and he was never criminally charged as a result of the accusations.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump gave us a window into the future of the 2016 general election campaign, and it looks like it will be all about the past.

Trump seems intent on rehashing the political battles of the 1990s and Bill Clinton's uneven legacy - perhaps to tarnish Hillary directly or just to emphasise exactly how long she's been on the political scene. Hillary is diving into Trump's lengthy, and relatively unexploited, track record of questionable business dealings and inflammatory statements.

The two candidates already have record-setting negative ratings, and if this is the shape of things to come it seems highly unlikely either White House hopeful will be able to improve their image.

Get ready for five months of mud-slinging, alarm-sounding and umbrage-taking. The least reviled candidate left standing can claim the prize - but may be in no position to do much with it.

Trump and his supporters charged that Hillary tried to discredit her husbands' accusers. The businessman signalled his campaign will bring scandals from the Clinton administration into the 2016 race.

On Monday, Mr Trump said he thought the death of White House aide and Clinton friend Vince Foster was "very fishy".

Law enforcement officials and a subsequent federal investigation ruled that Foster killed himself in 1993, but conspiracy theorists have long tried to connect the Clintons to his death, according to BBC. –RH  [Read More]

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Source: The Financial Express