Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump has described the $350 million fine levied against the former US President in New York as “so egregious” and “all about politics”.

Lara, who is running for co-chair of the Republican National Convention told Nigel Farage on GB News: “It’s so egregious. The truth is, this was all about politics from the beginning.

“You have Letitia James, the Attorney General of the State of New York, supposed to be running to, of course, protect citizens of that state. No.

“Instead, she ran a campaign on one thing: taking down Donald Trump. She was going to find something to take him down no matter what it cost her no matter what she had to do.

Speaking to Farage at the annual CPAC gathering of Republicans in Washington DC, she went on: “By the way, at a time when New York is in a shambles, we have people getting pushed in front of the subway, you have criminals running rampant in the streets in New York, this is where the top law enforcement officer put her time, energy and effort in a civil trial, where as you said: no damages.

“All of these banks made hundreds of millions of dollars. They actually called Donald Trump and the Trump Organisation a ‘whale’, they wanted to do more business with them.

“It’s so insane and it’s so egregious that I think people look at this and they say, if these communist tactics take root, because that’s exactly what it is, it’s election interference. It’s about destroying a man who they don’t want to see back in the White House here in the United States.

“If that sort of thing is able to happen in this country, we will lose the United States.”

Asked if it was getting him down, she said: “He is in such a positive state. And I have honestly never seen him more focuse on anything than he is right now….they’ve come after him for a long time.

“He’s the only person to go into the White House for his first four years and come out on the other side with less money in his pocket, he didn’t take a salary and of course funded his own campaign until he was the nominee.

“He’s also the only person who can do the things we need to do to give this country back to the people. People in this country right now in America feel like our rights are being stripped away, that we are losing the country that we’ve all known and loved and I think he understands that there’s a reason they’re fighting him so hard.”