Donald Trump has questioned whether or not President Joe Biden might be bodily able to working 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 party colleagues clashed on TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

But Trump mentioned it will 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.”

The former president, who was defeated by Biden within the 2020 presidential election, mentioned 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 mentioned he would nonetheless “love” to run in opposition to the present occupant of the White House, who he dubbed “crooked Joe Biden” – just like the nickname he used for Hillary Clinton in the course of the 2016 election marketing campaign.

However the Republican hopeful is dealing with 4 separate units of criminals fees and it got here as his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani surrendered to authorities in Georgia on Wednesday on fees of making an attempt to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election.

But Trump dismissed the assorted allegations as politically motivated – and mentioned 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 network earlier this year.

Trump declined to be drawn on Carlson’s suggestion that he may very well be assassinated by political rivals, and was additionally reluctant to agree with the host’s suggestion that financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in August 2019, was murdered.

When requested if he thought Epstein had been killed, Trump replied: It’s attainable, [but] I do not actually imagine – 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 mentioned was “like a lunatic”.

Explaining his resolution not to participate within the debate, he mentioned: “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 may be, and get harassed by those that should not even be working for president?”

He added: “I’m going to have all these folks screaming at me, shouting questions at me, all of which I really like answering, I really like doing, but it surely would not make sense to do them, so I’ve taken a go.”

Meanwhile Trump also called for the war in Ukraine to be ended “instantly”.

He claimed: “if I have been president, it will by no means [have] began.”