Trump posts video of truck showing hog-tied Biden

Donald Trump has been criticised by Joe Biden's campaign team for sharing a video on social media featuring a truck bearing the image of the US president with his hands and feet tied together.

The Biden campaign team accused Mr Trump of "regularly inciting political violence" ahead of November's election.

A spokesman for the Trump campaign accused Democrats of calling for "despicable violence" against Mr Trump.

Mr Trump posted the video on his social media site Truth Social on Friday.

The video shows two passing trucks on the road, both covered in US flags and flags claiming support for the police.

The second truck was emblazoned with the words "Trump 2024", and the rear of the vehicle features an image of Mr Biden with his hands and feet tied.

Mr Trump's promotion of the video drew criticism from Mr Biden campaign's team.

"Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it's time people take him seriously - just ask the Capitol police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on 6 January," spokesman Michael Tyler said, referring to the former president's attempt to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election that culminated in the storming of Congress.

But Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, responded: "That picture was on the back of a pickup truck that was travelling down the highway. Democrats and crazed lunatics have not only called for despicable violence against President Trump and his family, they are actually weaponising the justice system against him."

The Republican presidential nominee faces four legal cases, with an election subversion case and New York hush money case the most likely to be heard in court before the election on 5 November.

Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty in all the cases, and claimed he is being politically persecuted.

The row over the tailgate image is the latest in a series of heated exchanges between the two presidential candidates in the run-up to the polls.

In his bid to return to the White House, Mr Trump has ramped up his rhetoric, saying at a rally in Ohio earlier this month: "If I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole - that's going to be the least of it. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country."

In his State of the Union Address, Mr Biden criticised Mr Trump for his handling of the Covid pandemic, his comments about Russia and Nato, for the Supreme Court decision to overturn the Roe v Wade ruling which guaranteed abortion rights and for blocking bipartisan immigration reforms.