Trump mocks Haley after South Carolina sweep as clock ticks on him posting $500m bonds: Live

Trump tells Joe Biden ‘You’re fired’ as he wins South Carolina Republican primary

Donald Trump has derided his rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Nikki Haley, after the Charles Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity Action donor network announced it would no longer be supporting her campaign after she lost the South Carolina primary.

A gleeful Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday that Mr Koch and his partners “got played for suckers right from the beginning”.

The GOP front-runner delivered a rambling victory speech after his fourth straight primary win on Saturday, deliberately neglecting to even mention Ms Haley as he turned his sights on Joe Biden, telling the president: “You’re fired!”

Earlier in the day, Mr Trump had addressed CPAC and compared himself to the notorious Depression-era gangster Al Capone, likening illegal immigrants to Hannibal Lecter, warning they threatened to bring fresh waves of crime to the United States and boasting about refusing to step aside in the face of his ever-mounting legal problems.

Meanwhile, the candidate is facing a cash crunch as deadlines loom on two court-ordered financial payouts: the $454m (including interest) he owes in the New York fraud case and the $83.3m he owes to sexual assault accuser E Jean Carroll.

Here’s John Bowden’s analysis on what Saturday’s result means for Trump’s dogged opponent, who is down but still not definitively out.

Former governor suffers another defeat in state she led for eight years through crises

Trump took to the stage roughly 10 minutes after the close of polls in South Carolina on Saturday night and introduced Republican senator Lindsey Graham, describing him as “a little bit further left than some people on this stage”.

“I