Niall Stanage has been based in America for more than two decades. Here he tells us what he thinks about Trump 2.0.
Reporting from the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, August 2024
When Northern Irish journalist Niall Stanage first arrived in the United States in late 2003, George W Bush was a president navigating a post-9/11 nation in the midst of his ‘war on terror’.
“Obviously there was a lot of opposition to him, primarily rooted in opposition to the Iraq War, but for other reasons as well. But that was still, I would say, opposition within the normal parameters of politics,” he tells the Belfast Telegraph.