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Oliver O'Connell and Arpan Rai

Trump news - live: Ex-president mocks Biden for 14th row seating at Queen’s funeral

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Trump claims his supporters are jailed for refusing to say bad things about him

Donald Trump mocked Joe Biden for being seated in the 14th-row for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in London after he did not receive an invite to the ceremony in London, attended by world leaders and royals.

Writing on Truth Social on Monday night, the former president wrote: “This is what’s happened to America in just two short years. No respect!” He continued by calling other nations represented at the event “Third World countries”.

Mr Trump had earlier attacked FBI agents for allegedly ruining his bedroom carpet at Mar-a-Lago during the execution of a search warrant last month, as he returned to his estate in southern Florida on Sunday.

Speaking in a weekend interview, Mr Biden said that the FBI’s discovery of top-secret documents at Mar-a-Lago raised concerns that sensitive data was compromised by Mr Trump, and called it “irresponsible”.

An Axios report meanwhile revealed why his lawyers had chosen Raymond Dearie, a rumoured FBI “skeptic”, as special master in the case brought by the Justice Department against him.

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