Donald Trump news today: Trump branded Putin’s ‘buddy in vileness’ and ‘without values’ by Nancy Pelosi

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:

I thought the most outlandish celebrity-scented product I’d see in my lifetime was Gwyneth Paltrow marketing a candle called This Smells Like My Vagina on her website Goop for $75. But, in a race to the, um, bottom, no one’s going to outdo the nuclear levels of toxic chutzpah wielded by Donald Trump.

On Saturday, former president Donald Trump will attend the Conservative Political Action Conference just outside of Washington, DC right before he hops over to the South Carolina primary, where he will almost certainly declare victory.

His address to the conservative faithful at CPAC — largely comprising snake oil salesmen, College Republican chapters looking for a fun weekend in DC, and the most dieheard conservative activists out there — will serve as a sort of homecoming.

Trump first addressed the conference in 2011. Doing so began his tease of running for the 2012 Republican nomination, during which he promoted the racist conspiracy theories that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and that he somehow did not deserve to have graduated from Columbia University or Harvard. Trump ultimately elected not to run that year, but his CPAC appearance marked a turning point. The reality television host from New York who spent much of his adult life as a Democrat would become the standard bearer of the Republican Party just five years later, in 2016.