A fair and well written column. Trump has amply demonstrated on many occasions that he is a racist. For five long years he denigrated President Obama with his birther nonsense, an accusation that would never have been made about a white man. The birther rubbish was a simple strategy to lock up the racist vote in the US.

Lewis is an American hero, one of a number that Trump has attacked and vilified. I'll mention only the case of the US war hero, Senator John McCAin, who served bravely in Viet Nam and was treated brutally while a prisoner of war. Trump announced that he didn't like people who got captured, although this clearly happens to fighter pilots when their aircraft are ripped apart by missiles and other hostile fire. Pretty sad stuff from Trump, who used a number of dodges to avoid military service.