Donald Trump has questioned whether or not President Joe Biden shall be bodily able to operating for re-election in 2024 – as he skipped the primary Republican debate of the marketing campaign.
The former president made the feedback as he took half in a 46-minute interview uploaded to X, previously generally known as Twitter, on the identical evening as eight of his social gathering colleagues clashed on TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
But Trump stated it might not have made sense for him to be concerned within the debate, hosted by Fox News, as a result of he was to date forward opinion polls within the race be the Republican Party’s candidate.
Instead, he spent a lot of the interview lashing out at Biden, who he described as “the worst president in the history of our country”.
Trump, 77, additionally claimed that Biden, 80, “can’t put two sentences together, can’t speak, can’t walk, can’t talk”.
He added: “I don’t think he gets to the starting gate, but these people do miracles.”
Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump in the course of the interview on X
The former president, who was defeated by Biden within the 2020 presidential election, stated his rival was “worse mentally than he is physically and physically he’s not exactly a triathlete… You’re waiting for him to collapse and he almost always does”.
But Trump stated he would nonetheless “love” to run in opposition to the present occupant of the White House, who he dubbed “crooked Joe Biden” – much like the nickname he used for Hillary Clinton in the course of the 2016 election marketing campaign.
However the Republican hopeful is going through 4 separate units of criminals costs and it got here as his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani surrendered to authorities in Georgia on Wednesday on costs of making an attempt to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election.
But Trump dismissed the varied allegations as politically motivated – and stated he was assured that “the people see it’s a fraud”.
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The interview was performed on-line by controversial former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who left the US community earlier this yr.
Trump declined to be drawn on Carlson’s suggestion that he could possibly be assassinated by political rivals, and was additionally reluctant to agree with the host’s suggestion that financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail in August 2019, was murdered.
When requested if he thought Epstein had been killed, Trump replied: It’s attainable, [but] I do not actually consider – I feel he in all probability dedicated suicide…
“But a lot of people think he was killed. He knew a lot on a lot of people.”
But Trump was enthusiastic in lashing out at different rivals, together with Republican presidential hopefuls Asa Hutchinson – who he described as “weak and pathetic” – and former ally Chris Christie – who he stated was “like a lunatic”.
Explaining his determination not to participate within the debate, he stated: “I’m leading by 50, 60 points, and some of them [his opponents] are at one and zero…
“Do I sit there for an hour, two hours, no matter it’ll be, and get harassed by folks that should not even be operating for president?”
He added: “I’m going to have all these individuals screaming at me, shouting questions at me, all of which I like answering, I like doing, nevertheless it does not make sense to do them, so I’ve taken a move.”
Meanwhile Trump also called for the war in Ukraine to be ended “instantly”.
He claimed: “if I had been president, it might by no means [have] began.”
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