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‘Trump bragged, lied, bullied; Clinton stole best Green Party line’

Tuesday, 27 September 2016 11:25 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 27 September 2016 11:34 AM ]

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the Presidential Debate at Hofstra University on September 26, 2016 in Hempstead, New York. (Photo by AFP)

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton have both performed predictably at their first presidential debate, an American political analyst and activist says.

“Trump was Trump. Clinton was Clinton. He bragged. He lied. He bullied,” Myles Hoenig, a Green Party candidate for Congress, told Press TV on Tuesday.

The analyst said former secretary of state Clinton was prepared. “She evaded questions regarding the emails. She hid her own history as she claimed she cared for workers, families, others.”

“In the end, she stole Green Party’s Jill Stein’s usual closing line, ‘...like your life depends on it, because it does,” he stated.

During the debate at Hofstra University in Hampstead, New York, Trump attacked Clinton over her use of a private email server as secretary of state and she criticized him for not releasing his tax history.

“I'm not going to make any excuses, it was a mistake,” Clinton said referring to her use of private email.

She also said Trump is “trying to hide” his tax history, adding, "it must be something really important, even terrible.”

Trump reacted by saying, "I will release my tax returns against my lawyer's wishes when she releases her 33,000 emails that have been deleted."

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greets supporters during the Presidential Debate at Hofstra University on September 26, 2016 in Hampstead, New York. (Photo by AFP)

Green Party presidential nominee Stein and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson were not invited to participate in the debate by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

The commission said the two candidates had failed to garner the 15 percent support in five polls required to qualify for the debate.

But Stein rejected the standards set by the commission and staged her own live stream Q&A session on social media on Monday evening from outside the presidential debate venue in New York.

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