Trump claims he is ‘not allowed to say’ if he will be running for president in 2024

Donald Trump has claimed that he is “not allowed” to say whether he is running for president in 2024 because of campaign finance laws.

In the closing moments of an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News which aired on Tuesday evening, the former president was asked if he will be attempting to become president again in three years.

In response, he said: “So because the campaign finance laws are extremely complicated and unbelievably stupid, I’m actually not allowed to answer that question, can you believe that? I’d love to answer it.

“Let me put it this way; I think you’ll be happy and I think that a lot of our friends will be happy but I’m not actually allowed to answer it. Makes it very difficult if I do.”

It is unclear why Trump claimed that he cannot say if he running for president again but he continues to receive donations to PACs that are meant to be only spent on campaign efforts.

Trump has not said publicly if he will attempt to win the 2024 US election but his former press secretary Sean Spicer told the Washington Examiner earlier this month that he believes Trump will run again, as a reaction to Joe Biden’s handling of several key issues such as immigration.

The majority of Trump’s interview with Hannity focused on Biden and the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of American troops.

He claimed Biden isn’t “calling the shots” and added: “What you need more than anything is a president that is respected, and you need a president that got rid of ISIS and got 100 per cent got rid of ISIS.”

Trump bizarrely also admitted that he had no idea how important the role of the president was and thought that somewhere like Afghanistan could be run by bureaucracy. The 75-year-old said: “We need a president that’s respected. I have never realised how important, frankly – and it is a horrible thing to say – how important a president, the head of this country is. I thought it would maybe run through bureaucracy, it doesn’t. You need somebody up there that they are going to respect.”

Slightly worrying that he didn’t realise this and now might want to run again...