Trump news today: Former president slammed for sharing post ‘calling for civil war’

Donald Trump considered dropping out of the 2016 presidential race after the leak of the notorious Access Hollywood tape, according to former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway’s new memoir.

On the tape, which was released just days before Americans went to the polls, the one-term president was heard boasting about his behaviour towards women.

In a 2005 conversation his TV host Billy Bush, Mr Trump was caught on tape bragging about grabbing women “by the p****, kissing women before they could stop him, and “moving on” a married woman “like a b****.”

Ms Conway writes in Here’s The Deal that Mr Trump was concerned that the Republican Party “could force him off the ticket or hold a vote to expel him”, according to an excerpt obtained by Daily Beast.

Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans tore into the former president after he shared a post on his social media platform that suggested a “civil war”.

“Any of my fellow Republicans wanna speak out now? Or are we just wanting to get through ‘just one more election first’,” asked Trump critic and Republican leader Adam Kinzinger.

Democrat Eric Swalwell, accusing Mr Trump of “calling for civil war”, wrote: “Of course, like Vietnam and the walk to the Insurrection, he won’t be man enough to fight it.”

Cindy Banyai, Democrat candidate for Florida, wrote: “I condemn former president Trump’s actions promoting civil war.”

Former president Donald Trump has shared a post on his social media platform Truth that appeared to propose or predict a civil war in the US, triggering an uproar.

The “truth” shared by the former president on Sunday was from an anonymous account with the name ‘Maga king Thanos’.

The post contained a screengrab of a 19 March tweet from El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, where he is asking how “the most powerful country in the world is falling so fast,” responding to a news update about inflation.