{"id":51731,"date":"2016-10-10T11:33:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T15:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51731"},"modified":"2016-10-10T11:34:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T15:34:06","slug":"donald-trump-like-silverback-gorilla-in-debate-nigel-farage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=51731","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump &#8216;like silverback gorilla&#8217; in debate &#8211; Nigel Farage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The interim UKIP leader tells Sky News Mr Trump &#8220;dominated&#8221; Hillary Clinton and says the Republican can still win the election.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sky News<\/p>\n<p>[youtube_sc url= http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oxuiLUUjgl4&amp;amp;w=560&amp;amp;h=315]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sky-component-story-article\">\n<p class=\"sky-component-story-article__intro\">Donald Trump was like a &#8220;silverback gorilla prowling the studio&#8221; during the second presidential debate, according to Nigel Farage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sky-component-story-article__body\">\n<p>The interim UKIP leader, who has been informally advising the Republican candidate ahead of the 8 November election, told Sky News Mr Trump &#8220;dominated&#8221; Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Farage said: &#8220;I thought he was like a big silverback gorilla prowling the studio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think he did it in a particularly aggressive way. I think what you saw tonight is the way he is.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blackjack-sdc-article-widget blackjack-sdc-article-video blackjack-sdc-article-video--active\" data-component-name=\"blackjack-sdc-article-video\">\n<div class=\"blackjack-sdc-article-video__inner\">\n<figure class=\"blackjack-sdc-article-video__content\"><span class=\"blackjack-sdc-article-video__media-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"blackjack-sdc-article-video__media\" src=\"http:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/16\/10\/536x302\/35a50e71521b64f231bd14e3c13d22e4290c3d5460bff018a01b7f3f8309f342_3805121.jpg?20161010021011\" alt=\"Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton enter the debate\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blackjack-sdc-article-video__media\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/trump-fends-off-sexism-claims-in-clinton-debate-10611933\" target=\"_blank\">:: Trump fends off sexism claims in Clinton debate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He took control. He dominated Hillary Clinton. She was very much on the back foot all evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He came into this debate absolutely needing a good performance after a horrendous 48 hours and an embarrassing, cringe-makingly embarrassing 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was real backs to the wall stuff. He&#8217;s come out of this very well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;ll be leaving here a happy man tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Farage said he believed Mr Trump could still win the election, but admitted it was awkward to watch the first portion of the debate, which was dominated by Mr Trump&#8217;s lewd comments about women and his claim that Bill Clinton was &#8220;abusive to women&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blackjack-sdc-article-widget blackjack-sdc-article-video blackjack-sdc-article-video--active\" data-component-name=\"blackjack-sdc-article-video\">\n<div class=\"blackjack-sdc-article-video__inner\">\n<figure class=\"blackjack-sdc-article-video__content\"><span class=\"blackjack-sdc-article-video__media-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"blackjack-sdc-article-video__media\" src=\"http:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/16\/10\/536x302\/b83097979bd6701b2d4668dd7a3cc61e32bdc527d6f7ab82c90ff9cd88e03308_3805125.jpg?20161010022250\" alt=\"Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton take the stage at the start of their presidential town hall debate\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blackjack-sdc-article-video__media\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"blackjack-sdc-article-video__caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/youd-be-in-jail-key-moments-from-trump-v-clinton-debate-10611953\" target=\"_blank\">:: &#8216;You&#8217;d be in jail: Key moments from Trump v Clinton debate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Farage said: &#8220;Once we got through that excruciating first 15 minutes &#8211; almost a race to the bottom in terms of the way the debate was going &#8211; then when we got on to security, dealing with terrorism, business, things like that, suddenly he was winning and winning quite big.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t suppose there has ever been a presidential debate that plumb the depths that this did in the first 15 minutes but it&#8217;s been a pretty extraordinary series of revelations that have come out against both of the candidates frankly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I must admit I sort of thought, &#8216;This is quite awkward to watch. It&#8217;s so bad it&#8217;s awkward to watch&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But once it was out of the way, it was a very good television spectacle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/donald-trump-like-silverback-gorilla-in-debate-nigel-farage-10612023\">http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/donald-trump-like-silverback-gorilla-in-debate-nigel-farage-10612023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blackjack-sdc-article-tags blackjack-sdc-article-widget\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interim UKIP leader tells Sky News Mr Trump &#8220;dominated&#8221; Hillary Clinton and says the Republican can still win the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}