Most experts judged Hillary Clinton the winner of the first presidential debate on Monday. Republican Donald Trump made clear Wednesday that he disagrees.

“I don’t think she did well in the debate at all,” he said at a rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

“Hillary Clinton is an insider, fighting for her donors and her insiders — mostly fighting for herself. I am an outsider fighting for you.”

It was about the most mild criticism he leveled at his Democratic opponent during a speech urging voters to “follow the money” of her multiple scandals. Painting himself as a champion of the American people, he said Clinton is interested only in the advancement for herself and an inner circle of cronies.

“Hillary Clinton is an insider, fighting for her donors and her insiders — mostly fighting for herself,” he said. “I am an outsider fighting for you.”

Trump largely has stuck close to the prepared text in speeches for the last few months. On Wednesday in Iowa, he indulged in long deviations from the script, including a riff ridiculing Sen. Bernie Sanders for abandoning his trade principles by backing Clinton.

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“When he made that deal, it was over,” Trump said. “Now he goes and he has crowds of 100 people. Nobody wants to watch him. Nobody wants to listen … Had he not made that deal, he would have been legendary.”

Trump’s appearance in Iowa came a day before early voting starts in a crucial Midwestern state that generally has gone Democratic in presidential elections — a state that could be key to the New York billionaire’s hopes of cobbling together an Electoral College triumph in November.

Claiming the Clintons have “perfected the politics of profit,” Trump pointed to his rival’s massive war chest, which includes $100 million in contributions from Wall Street and hedge funds — money she has used to pummel him with TV attack ads nationwide.

The GOP nominee also pointed out that Clinton pocketed $4.1 million in speaking fees from financial firms.

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“The same groups paying Bill and Hillary for their speeches were lobbying the federal government,” he said, adding that Bill Clinton delivered 22 paid speeches to groups that lobbied the State Department while his wife was secretary of state.

Some Clinton donors also won appointments to advisory boards, Trump said. He ripped her for her role in approving Russia’s takeover of an American company that controls 20 percent of America’s uranium reserves. Some of the people connected to the company contributed to the Clinton Foundation, according to “Clinton Cash,” by Peter Schweizer.

“We’re going to end the Clinton corruption — total corruption,” Trump said.

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In short, Trump said, Clinton put the State Department up for sale.

“And if she ever got the chance, she would put the Oval Office up for sale, and nobody has any doubt about it,” he said.

Then Trump unloaded on Clinton’s most infamous scandal — her use of a home-brew server to store emails, including some containing classified information. He highlighted FBI investigative notes indicating that an employee of a contractor working for Clinton used a software program called BleachBit to destroy 33,000 emails after a congressional subpoena ordering the preservation of all electronic records.

Trump pointed to recent revelations that at least five Clinton staffers accepted immunity deals or invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to speak with investigators, comparing it to organized crime bosses.

“Like you see on the mob, right?” he said. “You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”

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How, Trump demanded, could Clinton have avoided criminal prosecution?

“Other people that have done 2 percent of what she did, their lives have been destroyed,” he said. “You tell me. You tell me what’s going on in our country — what’s going on with our government.”

Trump hit familiar themes — building a border wall; rebuilding roads, ports, tunnels, and bridges; and pursuing “America first” trade, and foreign and economic policies.

“The American people have had it with corrupt Clinton ways,” he said. “They’ve had it. They’ve had it. They’re tired of the lies. They’re tired of trivial politics … How many more Clinton scandals can this country take? One after another after another.”