US politics live: Trump calls Biden a ‘destructive moron’ in Easter message

Donald Trump has delivered an Easter message by taking aim at those critical of his policies.

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US President Donald Trump has marked Easter Sunday with an epic tirade against those trying to foil his deportation policies, including former President Joe Biden — who he called a “highly destructive Moron”.

And that was just the start.

Earlier, the US Supreme Court, in a dramatic night-time intervention blocked Mr Trump’s unprecedented use of an obscure law to deport Venezuelan migrants without due process.

It comes as thousands of protesters rally across the US for a second major round of demonstrations against Mr Trump and his hard-line policies.

Meanwhile, US Vice President JD Vance met the Vatican’s second-highest official, discussing the thorny issue of refugees just two months after Pope Francis incurred the wrath of the White House after lambasting the new US administration over its migration policies.

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