Donald Trump news: Trump branded Putin’s ‘buddy in vileness’ and ‘without

Trump has unexpectedly asked his supporters who they think he should pick to be his running mate for the presidency, assuming he sews up the Republican nomination, as is widely expected.

The likes of New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik, South Carolina senator Tim Scott, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem and Arkansas governor and one-time Trump White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, have all been linked to the role in recent weeks but Trump has remained uncharacteristically tight-lipped, saying only that it will definitely not be GOP rival Nikki Haley or Mike Pence this time around.

Here’s more on his latest campaign email straw poll.

An oddly quiet evening in Donald Trump’s social media torture chamber last night, other than this evident that he is still continuing to stew furiously over Judge Arthur Engoron’s costly verdict in the fraud trial.

Pelosi is not the only one calling out Trump over Russia.

My god, it feels like 2018 all over again.

“Time is a flat circle, Marty.”

Here’s John Bowden and Gustaf Kilander on Never Trumper Liz Cheney’s latest comments about his near-total takeover of the Republican Party.

Donald Trump has been branded Vladimir Putin’s “buddy in vileness” by former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, incensed by the ex-president’s self-serving comments about the suspicious death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny last week.

Mr Trump waited three days before saying anything about the heroic politician’s passing in an Arctic prison and when he did, rather than paying tribute or condemning Mr Putin, the candidate used the case to draw a ludicrous parallel with his own legal plight.

“Trump speaking out the way he did about Navalny shows you he is a person without values,” Ms Pelosi told Jen Psaki on MSNBC on Monday evening.

“He looks like he’s going to be a person without dollars,” she added.

Here’s our original report on his remarks about Navalny.

The former president has 30 days from the ruling to come up with the cash or secure a bond to appeal the $364m verdict against him, a figure that is growing to nearly half a billion dollars with daily interest.

Alex Woodward breaks down the numbers:

And Mr Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba says they’re going for it:

Now, he is making history in another way.

According to a new poll, Mr Trump has now been labelled as the worst president that the United States has ever seen.

You might say… Be Worst.

Amelia Neath has the details: