Donald Trump is “unhinged” and “more diminished” than when he was in office according to former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. She gave her blunt assessment of the former president in a new interview, making a similar critique of President Joe Biden, as she reiterated the need for generational change in US leadership.
Meanwhile, the verdict in the former president’s New York civil fraud trial will be known by the end of this week, with Judge Arthur Engoron expected to reveal whether the Trump Organization routinely inflated the value of assets to secure favourable terms from lenders. New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking $370m in financial penalties.
Mr Trump has hit out at New York Republican Mazi Pilip after she lost the race for George Santos’s old seat to Democrat Tom Suozzi, labelling her a “very foolish woman” for not adopting his MAGA brand and for not understanding “modern politics in America”.
Elsewhere, the fallout over Mr Trump’s remarks that he would abandon America’s Nato allies in the face of Russian aggression if they did not meet their financial commitments to the military alliance was slammed by Joe Biden as “dumb”, “shameful”, “dangerous” and “unAmerican”.