Donald Trump Jr. was deployed on the campaign trail in Iowa Thursday, mocking his father's rivals, former U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, while former President Donald Trump was stuck in court.
The younger Trump headlined an event at the Machine Shed Restaurant in Urbandale, where he was a guest of the Bull Moose Conservative Club, a 45-and-under political group.
He gleefully spoke about former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's 'amazing' hot mic moment - in which the now ex-2024 candidate said that Haley was going to get 'smoked' by Trump and 'she's not up to this,' while saying DeSantis called him and sounded 'petrified.'
Trump Jr. said that Christie said the quiet part out loud - which was that Haley 'has no chance.'
'If the deep state could make a candidate in a lab, as like a fake conservative, you get Nikki Haley,' Trump Jr. said. 'She'd be a wonderful candidate for the Republican Party in 2008. It's like Hillary Clinton pretending to be a conservative,' he added, garnering laughs.
