Bill Clinton: Donald Trump is a 'master brander' by Nick Allen on Sep 30, 2015, 8:30 AM Advertisement
 Bill Clinton has accused Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, of running a "fact free" campaign and trying to "insult his way to the White House." The former US president also defended his wife Hillary Clinton against accusations from Mr Trump that she was "perhaps the worst Secretary of State in history." Mr Clinton has called Mr Trump a "master brander" and told CNN: "Well the thing about branding is, you don't have to be...you can be fact-free." He cited his wife's success in securing sanctions against Iran, in turn leading to a nuclear deal, as an achievement of her time as Secretary of State. Mr Clinton said: "That was a major achievement to get Russia and China to agree to sign off on these sanctions and enforce them. She did that. That's what made the talks possible, so even the people who don't like the Iran deal, like the sanctions." The former president said he believed Mr Trump could become the Republican nominee and face Mrs Clinton in a race for the White House. But he said Mr Trump would suffer from fact checking later in the process.  Mr Clinton said: "If he becomes the nominee he'll have to sort of hone his criticisms a little more finely because the facts will be easy to marshal.
"At some point you also have to say what are you going to do. You can't just spend all your time saying everything everybody else did was wrong and they were all doofuses." Mr Clinton said he intended to take a more high profile role campaigning on behalf of his wife. He said: "I'll go talk to her supporters and tell them what I think they should know, and answer their questions, and free her up to campaign more."
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