Don Jr attacks Republicans in Iowa while his father's in court: Trump's son compares Nikki Haley to 'Hillary Clinton pretending to be a conservative' and believes the 'deep state' could have made her 'in a lab'

Donald Trump Jr. was deployed on the campaign trail in Iowa Thursday as his father appeared in court in New York Trump Jr. went after U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, while mocking President Joe Biden's old age and calling Hunter a 'crackhead' 'If the deep state could make a candidate in a lab, as like a fake conservative, you get Nikki Haley,' Trump Jr. said

Donald Trump Jr. was deployed on the campaign trail in Iowa Thursday, mocking his father’s rivals, former U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, while former President Donald Trump was stuck in court.

The younger Trump headlined an event at the Machine Shed Restaurant in Urbandale, where he was a guest of the Bull Moose Conservative Club, a 45-and-under political group.

He gleefully spoke about former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s ‘amazing’ hot mic moment – in which the now ex-2024 candidate said that Haley was going to get ‘smoked’ by Trump and ‘she’s not up to this,’ while saying DeSantis called him and sounded ‘petrified.’

Trump Jr. said that Christie said the quiet part out loud – which was that Haley ‘has no chance.’

‘If the deep state could make a candidate in a lab, as like a fake conservative, you get Nikki Haley,’ Trump Jr. said. ‘She’d be a wonderful candidate for the Republican Party in 2008. It’s like Hillary Clinton pretending to be a conservative,’ he added, garnering laughs.

Donald Trump Jr. was deployed on the campaign trail in Iowa Thursday, mocking his father’s rivals former U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, while former President Donald Trump was stuck in court

Trump Jr. said of Nikki Haley, captured campaigning in Ankeny, Iowa on Thursday: ‘If the deep state could make a candidate in a lab, as like a fake conservative, you get Nikki Haley … It’s like Hillary Clinton pretending to be a conservative’

He also chided DeSantis for calling Christie to thank him.

‘Like, wait a minute, so you thank a neo-con, designed basically put in there to go after the American First movement?’ Trump Jr. mused.

Trump Jr. claimed that the coverage of the primary race amounted to a ‘psy-op’ because the race wasn’t really close.

They’re trying to have you to have that apathy. Donald Trump is winning by 7,472 points. You should stay home. That’s what they’re trying to do,’ the younger Trump said.

He charged that Christie, DeSantis and Haley were ‘working at this point for the Democrats.’

‘They’re working for the D.C. insiders. They want you to stay home so they can drag that out. So the consultant class can say “no, no, no, we should fight this primary out for another six months,”‘ he continued.

He name-dropped former DeSantis super PAC head Jeff Roe claiming he was taking ’68 percent of every dollar raised.’

Former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters Thursday after departing the New York State Supreme Court as part of his civil trial over his business practices. He’ll return to Iowa this weekend to campaign in the Hawkeye State ahead of Monday’s caucuses

‘So we can keep enriching ourselves,’ Trump Jr. said of D.C political consultants.

Trump’s legal troubles have pulled him twice away from Iowa this week – once for a court appearance in D.C. and then again Thursday in New York.

The ex-president has had to make sure of surrogates to spread his message in the meantime.

He’ll return to Iowa over the weekend for a series of rallies before Monday’s Iowa caucuses, the first time Republican voters will have their way in the 2024 primary election.

The Real Clear Politics polling average has Trump 36.4 percent ahead of Haley, who has leapfrogged over DeSantis in recent days in the Hawkeye State.

She’s also gaining ground against Trump in New Hampshire, which will hold the nation’s first presidential primary on January 23 – though the ex-president is still 14.3 points ahead, according to Real Clear.

With that advantage, Trump Jr. also took on President Joe Biden, Trump’s likely competitor in the general election should he again become the GOP nominee.

‘I hear about Bidenomics, Bidenomics,’ Trump Jr. said. ‘Hey man, full disclosure, I’m the son of a billionaire from Manhattan and if I’m p***ed off when I go to the supermarket – I’m not supposed to notice the difference!’

Trump Jr. recalled a recent trip with his two sons where they went to McDonald’s.

‘And it was $39,’ he said. ‘But if I’m sitting there being like, “man that’s crazy,” like what is it doing to someone making $60,000, working their a** off.’

Trump Jr. ragged on the broader Democratic Party and not just Biden ‘because, in all fairness, like no one believes this guy’s in charge of anything.’

‘He’s not in charge of his own faculties, let alone the decisions,’ he continued.

Parroting his father he added, ‘He can’t find his way offstage like this.’

The former president often pretends to be Biden and gets lost onstage during his political rallies.

‘Hey, everyone makes a mistake. No one makes a mistake like every day. He falls upstairs, he falls downstairs, he can’t find his way off the stage, he can’t remember who he’s introducing,’ Trump Jr. said.

The younger Trump said that Biden spent more time ‘on vacation’ than his father – who often spent weekends away at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida or his Bedminster golf retreat

Biden, in turn, travels to his Wilmington, Delaware home as frequently as possible.

‘I mean, you know, everybody likes a little vacation. If you’re the president of the United States you don’t get to vacation and you certainly don’t get to vacation 40 percent of the time,’ Trump Jr. said.

He also mocked the younger Biden, who was also in court Thursday, calling Hunter several times a ‘crackhead.’