From Domainfax:
Tony Abbott has defended Donald Trump and taken a swipe at Hillary Clinton, saying the Republican nominee’s positions are “reasonable enough” and his supporters are “not deplorables” but voters simply seeking change in America.
Mr Abbott described the tapes as “absolutely disgusting” but condemned NSW MPs for wasting parliamentary time to pass a motion calling Mr Trump a “revolting slug”.
“The tapes that have been playing over the last few days are gross, gross beyond belief and I think they are completely indefensible,” Mr Abbott told right-wing Sky News commentator Paul Murray on Thursday night.
But the former prime minister said the motion passed in the NSW upper house was just an “exercise in moral vanity.”
“Posturing of any sort is something which is not really fitting for a parliament,” he said.
“The point that I want to make is that the vast majority of Trump supporters are not deplorables, they really aren’t,” he said.
“They are decent people who want to see change inside their country and that’s fair enough.”
“Many of the Trump positions are reasonable enough,” he said.
If all parties don’t wake up to their economically, strategically and socially backward immigration policies then he is coming.
