Trump news – live: President takes stand against movement to defund the police as he tanks in 2020 polls
Donald Trump has offered a back-handed compliment to Utah senator Mitt Romney after he became the first Republican senator to join a George Floyd protest march over the weekend, gloating that the ex-presidential candidate’s poll numbers are “tanking” in his state.
The president’s anger follows Romney, 43rd president George W Bush and ex-US secretary of state Colin Powell all saying they will not vote for him in November, prompting Trump to attack Powell as “pathetic”, “highly overrated” and “a real stiff” and to criticise his record on the Iraq War.
Meanwhile, Derek Chauvin, the disgraced ex-Minneapolis cop charged with the killing of Floyd – whose senseless death on the city’s streets sparked two weeks of nationwide protests against police brutality – is due in court for the first time on Monday afternoon.
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