Trump lashes out at ‘average at best’ Haley as $370m fraud trial ruling delayed: Latest updates

Appearing in a pre-recorded Fox News interview last night, Trump has claimed to be unaware of the red blotches seen on his hands as he departed Trump Tower in New York earlier this month, which prompted speculation and mockery across social media and the late-night talk shows.

Pressed about the mysterious dots by Fox reporter Mark Meredith, Trump insisted he did not know what the journalist was talking about before eventually suggesting they could have been added by AI.

Gustaf Kilander has more.

Is that what annoyed him so much?

The orange one has pivotted back towards anrgily attacking his last remaining primary opponent.

“Her False Statements, Derogatory Comments, and Humiliating Public Loss, is demeaning to True American Patriots,” he froths.

“Her anger should be aimed at her Third Rate Political Consultants and, more importantly, Crooked Joe Biden and those that are destroying our Country – NOT THE PEOPLE WHO WILL SAVE IT.”

The Trump campaign has denied he was even asked…

At conservative America’s favourite news source, the Republican nomination process is essentially over and has been for a while, leaving DeSantis and Haley annoyed at perceived favouritism to Trump. Hardly grateful, the former president regularly tears into Fox for what he sees as disloyalty, even ripping his former White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, now a Fox contributor.

The discontent illustrates the ongoing importance of Fox News as an agenda-setter that frequently drives, and not simply reflects, Republican politics. No one can get to the top of the GOP’s hill without it.

It’s also a testament to Fox’s power and influence, said Brian Stelter, media critic and author of two books about Fox News.

And allies of the former president are preparing for a “holy war” against the pop superstar…

“Yeah, I wonder why,” the host said on his Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday night, while trolling the former president with a headline about him being ordered to pay $83m in defamation damages to E Jean Carroll.

“Suddenly, 50 bucks just ain’t cutting it anymore,” Mr Meyers mocked.

Alina Habba, the attorney for Donald Trump who recently defended him in the E Jean Carroll defamation trial, walked back her claim that Ms Carroll’s attorney had a “mentor type relationship” with the judge who oversaw the trial after being threatened with sanctions.

Ms Habba accused Judge Kaplan of displaying “preferential treatment” toward Ms Kaplan and her associates and asked the court to provide more information on the “troubling matter.”

Here’s what happened next:

“Donald Trump was instrumental in facilitating the first new peace agreements in the Middle East in almost 30 years,” she claimed in a statement posted on her website.