Former US president Donald Trump, having been criminally charged in New York, on Tuesday pledged to “never drop out” of next year’s race for the White House and said US President Joe Biden is not fit to run again.
The Republican real-estate magnate, who is facing 34 felony counts in New York over alleged hush money paid to an adult film actress, told Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson that nothing would prevent him from running — even a conviction.
“I’d never drop out,” he said. “It’s not my thing. I wouldn’t do it.”
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Trump, 76, in his first major interview since being arrested and fingerprinted last week, cast doubt on whether Biden, 80, would be in the race.
“I don’t see how it’s possible,” he said. “It’s not an age thing... I don’t think he can.”
“I just don’t see Biden doing it from a physical or a mental standpoint. I don’t see it,” he added.
Trump and other senior Republicans have repeatedly cast doubt on Biden’s mental acuity and apparent frailty.
MACRON ‘KISSING ASS’
Trump during the interview also said that French President Emmanuel Macron has been in China meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) and “kissing his ass.”
He told Carlson that the US had lost influence in the world since he left office.
“You got this crazy world, it’s blowing up and the United States has absolutely no say,” Trump said. “And Macron, who’s a friend of mine, is over with China, kissing his ass. Okay, in China. I said: ‘France is now going to China.’”
Macron caused a storm after a state visit to China last week in which he cautioned Europeans should not chain themselves to US foreign policy.
In remarks to journalists Macron said European countries should not get caught in the tense standoff between Beijing and Washington over the fate of Taiwan.
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