The Carrie author has been an outspoken critic of the Republican party in recent years, and especially former President Donald Trump. In an interview with TV presenter and novelist Richard Osman for the SundayTimes, King said: “There is a strong right wing, a political right wing in America, and they have a megaphone in some of the media. “They are not fascists, but they are hard right,” he continued. “They are definitely climate change deniers, so this is a real problem. But, then again, it’s the crazy stuff like QAnon that gets the press. You have to remember that Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by three million votes [in the popular vote] and that Biden beat Trump by seven million votes.” King went on to claim that he believed that “most people” had fundamentally good intentions, regardless of political affiliation. “I happen to think that Trump has been a horrible president and he’s a horrible person,” he said. “I think he did have criminal behavior and, certainly, I felt that he was a sociopath who tried to subvert American democracy not out of any political desire of his own, but because he couldn’t admit that he had lost. “Well, I don’t really understand people who keep supporting him, but I do understand that a guy who drives a truck covered in Trump and NRA stickers — you know, ‘take my rifle when you’re out of my cold. dead fingers’ – he would stop and pick up a stranger if he was in a storm and say, ‘Where are you going, mate?’” Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort was recently raided by the FBI, with the former president now facing a new wave of legal scrutiny. Follow the latest updates here.
