Donald Trump is a “far more appealing” candidate than Hillary Clinton, according to a UKIP MEP.
West Midlands MEP Bill Etheridge said: ”While Trump comes across as a flawed human being, Clinton is more of a robot.”
He also described Mrs Clinton as "the type of person that I completely detest."
He criticised Mr Trump's "sexist" comments but added: "I’m sure many of us say things that we wouldn’t want to see splattered all over the news."
Mr Etheridge, one of the candidates in UKIP’s leadership contest, made the comments about the US Presidential election in a column for the Express and Star newspaper.
He criticised Mr Trump’s comments, caught on tape in 2005 and published this month, in which the candidate boasted of grabbing women.
The MEP said: “His sexist comments that were caught on tape are more serious.
“They were unpleasant and ungentlemanly at best, although I’m sure many of us say things that we wouldn’t want to see splattered all over the news.”
He said Donald Trump’s proposal to build a wall between the USA and Mexico was “just ridiculous”.
Mr Etheridge said: “He clearly thinks the only way he can win is by being controversial, but he’s pushed it too far.”
But he continued: “For all Trump’s faults I consider him to be a far more appealing candidate than Clinton.
“I instinctively rail against anything she stands for. She is the epitome of an establishment figure and the type of person that I completely detest.
“Her family has been involved at the top of American society for decades and the country has suffered as a result.
“Many of her views, particularly on foreign policy and state control, reflect everything I stand against.
“While Trump comes across as a flawed human being, Clinton is more of a robot. She lacks warmth and I consider her efforts to identify with ‘ordinary’ Americans to be embarrassingly contrived.”
The US election takes place on November 8.
