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Trump’s son blasts Lammy for ‘clickbait’ comments

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Donald Trump’s second son Eric made a visit to Scotland this weekend, for a round of golf and a rather interesting media interview. While Eric Trump insisted that the Trumps have ‘tremendous respect’ for the country, the ex-president’s son was, however, a little less complimentary about David Lammy…

The Foreign Secretary has a history of making rather, um, heated remarks about the former president – even calling Donald Trump a ‘neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath’ as a backbench MP in 2018. That wasn’t the only criticism Lammy levelled at the presidential candidate. In 2017, Lammy slammed Theresa May’s invitation to Trump and his wife to the UK, writing: ‘A state visit to suck up to president Trump? Not in my name, no way.’ He later called the former president a ‘troll’ over Trump’s social media posts about Sadiq Khan following the London Bridge terror attack, and branded him a ‘liar and a coward’ after Trump cancelled a visit to a US war cemetery.

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