Trump shrugs off Romney’s attack (BBC)

Donald Trump has shrugged off a stinging personal attack on his presidency from senior fellow Republican Mitt Romney.

Mr Romney, who stood and lost for the Republicans against Barack Obama in 2012, suggested in an article that Mr Trump was not fit to be president.

Mr Trump had not “risen to the mantle”, he wrote in the Washington Post.

The winner of the 2016 presidential election hit back by tweeting, “I won big and he didn’t.”

Mr Trump drew a comparison with Jeff Flake, an outgoing Republican senator who also attacked him last year.

But the president sounded conciliatory, calling for Mr Romney to be a “team player”. Read more

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