Donald Trump ridiculed his Republican rivals and claimed that President Biden would not be fit enough to contest the next election in an interview that was broadcast last night as fellow candidates for his party’s nomination were taking part in the first presidential debate.
During a freewheeling interview, released the night before he was due to turn himself in at a jail in Atlanta, Georgia, charged with 13 counts related to efforts to an effort to overturn the 2020 election, Trump revelled in the fact that his poll numbers seemed to improve, with each successive criminal indictment.
“When someone gets indicted, your poll numbers go down,” he said. “When someone gets indicted, you announce: ‘Er, ladies and gentlemen, I will be looking to spend time
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