Kamala Harris has released a health summary from her White House physician, stating that she “possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.”
In the summary released on Saturday morning, the vice president’s physician Joshua Simmons writes that she is in “excellent health.”
Harris is releasing her medical information in a challenge to Donald Trump, whose health and age are coming under increased scrutiny.
Former Trump ally Chris Christie is the latest to sound the alarm over Trump’s competency to serve, saying that he has seen a “significant” mental decline in the former president.
On Friday, Trump espoused more anti-immigration rhetoric at his rallies in Reno, Nevada, and Aurora, Colorado, calling for the death penalty for migrants who kill American citizens and saying he would enact the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
Mike Coffman, Aurora’s Republican mayor, hit out at the comments and insisted neither the city nor state has “not been ‘taken over’ or ‘invaded’ or ‘occupied’ by migrant gangs.”
Key Points
- Harris shares medical report saying she has ‘physical and mental resilience’ to be president
- Trump calls for the death penalty for migrants killing American citizens
- Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates
- Trump repeats lies about Venezuelan gang in Aurora
- Fox News to host town hall with Trump on October 16
- Trump calls for the death penalty for migrants killing American citizens
Harris shares medical report saying she has ‘physical and mental resilience’ to be president
13:40
Rachel Sharp
Kamala Harris has released a health summary from her White House physician, which states that she “possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.”
In the summary released on Saturday morning, the vice president’s physician Joshua Simmons writes that she is in “excellent health.”
Harris is releasing her medical information in a challenge to Donald Trump, whose health and age are coming under increased scrutiny.
Roy Cohn: The ‘evil’ master architect who mentored Donald Trump, as seen in The Apprentice
13:00
Ariana Baio
Decades before Trump erected his Tower, an insidiously well-connected New York power-player was cutting a ruthless path through US society, politics and courtroom battles. A new film charts Roy Cohn’s outsized influences on America and the 45th president, writes Sheila Flynn
Trump’s plan for mass deportations invokes 226-year-old law used to detain Japanese Americans
12:00
Alex Woodward
Donald Trump wants to immediately invoke a more than 200-year-old wartime law that grants the president unilateral authority to deploy federal law enforcement for rounding up and deporting immigrants as soon as he enters office.
The former president, speaking from Aurora, Colorado on Friday, told supporters that he plans to revive the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which would give the president unprecedented ability to target foreigners for removal, without a hearing or due process, based solely on their place of birth or citizenship.
His “Operation Aurora” — named after the Colorado city he has denigrated as a “war zone” from “migrant crime” — would also dispatch “elite squads of ICE, border patrol, and federal law enforcement officers to hunt down, arrest, and deport every last illegal alien gang member until there is not a single one left in this country,” he said.
Read more here:
Even Marjorie Taylor Greene’s GOP colleagues are outraged by her hurricane conspiracies
11:00
Mike Bedigan
House Republicans are becoming more and more frustrated with their colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene and her bizarre, and debunked, claims that Democrats are “controlling the weather” following the recent devastation caused by hurricanes in the southeastern US.
The Maga firebrand from Georgia has doubled down on her conspiracy, leading even her fellow party members to speculate that she “needs [her] head examined.”
Greene claimed online last week that “they” can control the weather after Hurricane Helene killed more than two dozen people in her state and more than 230 in total. On Wednesday she doubled down, clarifying that she was referring to governmental organizations including NOAA.
Her remarks have been met with outrage, including from representatives whose districts have been directly affected by both Helene and now Milton. One described Greene’s remarks about the weather to Axios as “loony tunes”.
Carlos Gimenez, who represents a Hurricane-prone district in South Florida, replied to one of Greene’s posts writing, “NEW FLASH —> Humans cannot create or control hurricanes. Anyone who thinks they can, needs to have their head examined.”
Barack Obama uses diaper joke to mock Donald Trump at Pittsburgh rally for Kamala Harris
10:00
Holly Patrick
Comedian laughs in Trump’s face when he claims ‘he’s basically a truthful person’
08:00
Rhian Lubin
Comedian Andrew Schulz laughed in Donald Trump’s face when the former president joined him on his podcast and claimed he “is basically a truthful person.”
During the interview on Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant with Akaash Singh podcast, released on Wednesday, Trump launched into his familiar attacks on Kamala Harris calling her “a liar” and saying that she “lied” that he is against access to IVF treatment.
“Everybody knows that’s false,” Trump said on the podcast.
Referring to the election, he continued: “But this is a thing [that’s] gonna end in 29 days, so they can say what they want,” Trump said. “I have a hard time doing it to them, because … I’m basically a truthful person, but —”
Schulz struggled to compose himself when Trump said this.
Finding the statement so amusing, the comedian leaned back in his chair and laughed out loud.
“What does that mean?” Schulz asked the former president, who tried to continue talking over the laughter.
Detroit mayor slams Trump after trashing his ‘mess’ of a city
06:00
Gustaf Kilander
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has slammed Donald Trump after he criticized his city in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club, saying Detroit would be badly impacted if Vice President Kamala Harris was elected in the two-hour address on Thursday.
“The whole country is going to be like, you want to know the truth? It’ll be like Detroit. Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president. You’re going to have a mess on your hands,” he said. “We’re not going to let her do that to this country. We’re not gonna let it happen.”
Duggan responded to Trump on X.
“Detroit just hosted the largest NFL Draft in history, the Tigers are back in the playoffs, the Lions are headed to the Super Bowl, crime is down and our population is growing. Lots of cities should be like Detroit. And we did it all without Trump’s help,” Duggan wrote. “Numbers and Facts don’t lie. Detroit is the beacon of light. The beacon of progress. The beacon of resurgence.”
Duggan added on Instagram: “We’ve got record low homicide rates and we’re growing our population for the first time since the 1950s.”
Detroit just hosted the largest NFL Draft in history, the Tigers are back in the playoffs, the Lions are headed to the Super Bowl, crime is down and our population is growing. Lots of cities should be like Detroit. And we did it all without Trump’s help.
— Mayor Mike Duggan (@MayorMikeDuggan) October 10, 2024
Harris was asked to name three of Trump’s ‘virtues’. She couldn’t
05:00
Ariana Baio
Vice President Kamala Harris could not come up with three virtues about former president Donald Trump when she was asked to do so on Thursday evening at a Univision town hall event.
The Democratic presidential nominee laughed upon hearing the question, posed by an audience member, and immediately shared a negative trait about Trump that she does not like.
“Let me start with this, based on a life experience I know that a vast majority of us have much more in common than what separates us and part of what paints me is the approach that, frankly, Donald Trump and some others have taken – which is to suggest that it’s us vs. them, whoever that may be,” Harris said.
“Donald Trump loves his family […] But I don't really know him, to be honest with you. I only met him one time on the debate stage. I'd never met him before. So I don't really have much more to offer you.”
— The Recount (@therecount) October 11, 2024
— VP Harris was asked to name 3 of Trump's virtues and came up short pic.twitter.com/H2DCQdqDMm
Harris campaign launches ‘Hunters and Anglers for Harris–Walz'
04:30
Ariana Baio
The Harris campaign has launched yet another organization to engage with and mobilize a specific group of voters: hunters and anglers.
The new coalition will target sportspeople, conservationists and rural gun violence prevention voters in key swing states across the country as the candidates enter their final three weeks of campaigning before Election Day.
“In rural America, hunting and fishing is more than just a hobby,” Matthew Hildreth, the Harris campaign’s National Rural Engagement Director, said.
“For generations, it’s been our way of life that not only brings together friends, family, and neighbors; but also creates countless jobs in small towns and rural communities nationwide. While Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would disinvest in critical conservation efforts to support wildlife and limit access to hunting and fishing, Vice President Harris cast the tie-breaking vote on the most consequential climate and conservation agenda in decades.”
The launch occurs just as Governor Tim Walz prepares to participate in an early hunt in Minnesota.
Trump mocks Harris for using a teleprompter while using a teleprompter
04:01
Ariana Baio
At the same time Donald Trump falsely accused and criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for using a teleprompter, the former president removed a piece of signage that fell on his teleprompter at a rally in Reno, Nevada on Friday evening.
Halfway through Trump’s rally, he walked away from the lectern to pick up a piece of signage that fell onto the teleprompter which caused it to stop projecting a script.
“Thank god I don’t use teleprompters too much,” Trump told rallygoers. “I look at the teleprompter, it’s totally gone. I say ‘What the hell happened’. The sign fell on top of it.”
The irony of the incident comes to light when reflecting on the number of times the former president has accused Harris of relying on a teleprompter and mocking her for it.
Trump told supporters on Friday he would “level” with them, admitting to his teleprompter usage and yet still asserted Harris uses one more.
“Isn’t it nice to have a guy that doesn’t need a teleprompter, a president, a potential president that doesn’t need a teleprompter?” Trump asked supporters moments after fixing his teleprompter.
He went on to, again, falsely accuse Harris of using one during her town hall with Univision on Thursday.
Jon Bon Jovi endorses Harris
03:30
Ariana Baio
Singer and songwriter Jon Bon Jovi announced he is endorsing Kamala Harris for president in a post on X today and wrote a new song about unity.
“The People’s House is a song that celebrates this beautiful place that we call home, from sea to shining sea. The truth matters. And the truth is on election day I’ll be voting for [Harris and Walz] because I believe in the power of we, not of me. I’ve written a song reminding us that out of many, we are still one,” he wrote.
The People’s House is a song that celebrates this beautiful place that we call home, from sea to shining sea.
— Jon Bon Jovi (@jonbonjovi) October 11, 2024
The truth matters. And the truth is on election day I’ll be voting for @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz because I believe in the power of we, not of me. I’ve written a song… pic.twitter.com/XOH6d25oZA
Harris says she would form bipartisan group of advisors
02:59
Ariana Baio
Vice President Kamala Harris said if she is elected in November she will create an advisory group comprised of people on both sides of the aisle.
“Wherever they come from, I love good ideas,” Harris said at a campaign event in Scottsdale, Arizona. “We have to have a healthy two-party system.”
The proposal is the Harris campaign’s latest effort to appeal to moderate Republican voters. Harris has promoted a list of Republicans or former Republicans who endorsed her, even campaigning with former Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney.
Trump rants about ‘60 Minutes'
02:35
Ariana Baio
Despite turning down the opportunity to appear on 60 Minutes, Trump went on an angry rant about Vice President Kamala Harris appearing on the CBS show – claiming they edited her interview to appear better.
Trump accused the show of “election interference” and their “license” should be “revoked.”
60 Minutes asked Trump to appear for an interview – a tradition for presidential elections. He turned it down.
Trump repeats lies about Venezuelan gang in Aurora
02:20
Ariana Baio
Trump, once again, repeated lies about Aurora, Colorado being taken over by violent Venezuelan gangs at a rally in Reno on Friday night.
The former president claimed the gangs were taking over apartment complexes, “shooting people, smashing skulls, breaking down doors, collecting the rent”.
Officials in Aurora have said Trump’s claims are inaccurate and exaggerated. After Trump held a rally in Aurora on Friday afternoon, Republican Mayor Mike Coffman released a statement saying, “the city and state have not been ‘taken over’ or ‘invaded’ or ‘occupied’ by migrant gangs.”
While there was a group of people, associated with a Venezuelan gang, that were involved in crimes in Aurora – authorities and officials have said they did not take over apartment complexes and 10 of those individuals were arrested.
Trump teases economic plan
02:08
Ariana Baio
Donald Trump teased his plan to release a comprehensive economic policy at his rally in Reno on Friday evening.
So far, Trump has shared economic ideas like implementing tariffs, not taxing on tips or overtime and extending his 2017 tax plan. But has not released a comprehensive plan.
The former president told rallygoers his campaign would release something soon.
JD Vance was asked 5 times if Trump lost the 2020 election. He refused to answer
02:00
Ariana Baio
With only three weeks left before the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump’s running mate repeatedly refused to answer whether he believes the former president lost the last race.
JD Vance was asked five times by The New York Times within two minutes if he believes Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, but he refused to acknowledge his loss.
Read more from Alex Woodward:
Texas congressman describes US as ‘back to back World War champs'
01:38
Ariana Baio
Texas Representative Wesley Hunt opened for Donald Trump’s rally in Reno, Nevada on Friday by using an interesting description to describe the United States.
“This is a country that became back-to-back World War champs, you’re welcome world,” Hunt said.
Wesley Hunt describes the US as “back to back world war champions” pic.twitter.com/E7lxCaoIbW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 12, 2024
Trump to rally in Reno, Nevada soon
01:10
Ariana Baio
Donald Trump is expected to take the stage in Reno, Nevada around 8:30 p.m. ET for another campaign rally.
Nevada is a swing state, recent polling shows Trump is essentially tied with Vice President Kamala Harris
Trump calls Harris a ‘criminal’ in rally
01:03
Ariana Baio
Trump: “[Kamala Harris] is a criminal, if you think about it”
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 11, 2024
(Donald Trump is a convicted criminal. Kamala Harris has spent her career locking up criminals) pic.twitter.com/dsmVNPqgb2
Fox News to host town hall with Trump to be broadcast on October 16
Saturday 12 October 2024 00:35
Gustaf Kilander
Harris Faulkner of Fox News will host a town hall with former President Donald Trump to be recorded on October 15 and broadcast the following day.
The event will take place in Cumming, Georgia, with the audience being “entirely composed of women,” Fox News said in a press release.
“Women constitute the largest group of registered and active voters in the United States, so it is paramount that female voters understand where the presidential candidates stand on the issues that matter to them most,” Faulkner said in a statement. “I am looking forward to providing our viewers with an opportunity to learn more about where former President Trump stands on these topics.”
Biden calls Trump ‘biggest mouth’ in spreading misinformation
Saturday 12 October 2024 00:15
Gustaf Kilander
Reporter: Do you think Trump is singularly to blame for all of this?
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 11, 2024
Biden: No… but he’s just biggest mouth pic.twitter.com/GLbkEntnl3
Bill Clinton to campaign for Harris in Georgia and North Carolina
Friday 11 October 2024 23:55
Gustaf Kilander
Former President Bill Clinton will campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris in battleground states, with swings through Georgia and North Carolina, according to CNN.
Clinton is set to attempt to increase Harris’s support among rural voters, a subset of voters that the vice president has been struggling to attract.
President Joe Biden became the first Democratic nominee in 2020 to win Georgia since Clinton managed to eke out a win in 1992.
Clinton will focus on counties previously won by former President Donald Trump and is set to appear at local fairs and porch rallies with at most a few hundred attendees at a time.
Walz mocks Trump for Bibles he endorsed being made in China
Friday 11 October 2024 23:30
Gustaf Kilander
Tim Walz has some thoughts about Trump's “God Bless the USA” Bibles being printed in China:
— The Recount (@therecount) October 11, 2024
"This dude even outsourced God to China. ... I don't blame him. He didn't notice the 'Made in China' sticker because they put it inside, a place he's never looked in the Bible." pic.twitter.com/88Z49UYLvM
Walz slams Trump for Detroit comments
Friday 11 October 2024 23:05
Gustaf Kilander
Tim Walz slams Trump for saying whole country under Harris will be like Detroit:
— The Recount (@therecount) October 11, 2024
"If the guy would have ever spent any time in the Midwest, like all of us know, we'd know Detroit's experiencing American comeback ... Alls they know about manufacturing is manufacturing bullshit." pic.twitter.com/yK2cAcXdCZ
Harris campaign releases ad focusing on Trump’s Detroit comments
Friday 11 October 2024 22:45
Gustaf Kilander
The Harris campaign has released a new ad focusing on Trump’s disparaging comments about Detriot to run during Lions games.
The vice president is set to visit the city on Tuesday.
Trump ends rally by promising to close the border
Friday 11 October 2024 22:07
Gustaf Kilander
Trump ended his rally in Aurora, Colorado on Friday, pledging to “close the border” and “stop the invasion of illegals into our country.”
“We will defend our territory. We will not be conquered. We will not be conquered,” he added. “We will reclaim our sovereignty, and Colorado will vote for Trump as a protest and signal to the world that we are not going to take it anymore.”
Trump calls for the death penalty for migrants killing American citizens
Friday 11 October 2024 21:50
Gustaf Kilander
Trump called for the death penalty “for any migrant that kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer.”
The comments came after he announced that he would institute a federal “operation Aurora” to “expedite the removals of the savage gangs.”
“I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798,” he added.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, “This detention and deportation power poses an alarming risk of abuse and rights violations in both wartime and peacetime.”
Trump said he would use the law “to target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil.”
WATCH: Trump claims to not be using teleprompter with one feet away
Friday 11 October 2024 21:40
Gustaf Kilander
Trump brags about not using a teleprompter with a teleprompter visible right next to him pic.twitter.com/TjEoKgpNA2
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 11, 2024
Trump says ‘enemy within’ is bigger threat than China and Russia
Friday 11 October 2024 21:29
Gustaf Kilander
Trump argued that the “enemy within” is a bigger threat to the US than either China or Russia.
“It's the enemy from within, all the scum that we have to deal with that hate our country. That's a bigger enemy than China and Russia,” he said.
“Every day Americans ... are living in fear, all because Kamala Harris decided to empty the slums and prison cells of Caracas and many other places,” Trump said.
He added: “Prison populations all over the world are down. Crime all over the world is down because they take the world's criminals, gang members, drug dealers, and they deposit them into the United States, bus after bus after bus.”
‘These people are the most violent people on earth’
Friday 11 October 2024 21:25
Gustaf Kilander
Trump on migrants: "They're rapists ... these are the worst criminals in the world ... these people are the most violent people on earth." pic.twitter.com/KUAyTqY9FK
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 11, 2024
WATCH: Trump calls for CBS’s license to be taken away
Friday 11 October 2024 21:23
Gustaf Kilander
Trump: So, CBS gets a license and the license is based on honesty. I think they have to take their license away pic.twitter.com/d79morZkaP
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 11, 2024
Trump says Election Day will be ‘liberation day in America'
Friday 11 October 2024 21:09
Gustaf Kilander
Trump claimed during his rally that Election Day will be “liberation day in America.”
“To everyone here in Colorado and all across our nation, I make this pledge and vow to you. November 5, 2024, will be Liberation Day in America,” the former president said. “I will rescue Aurora and every town that has been invaded and conquered. These towns have been conquered. Explain that to your governor, he doesn't have a clue.”
WATCH: Trump falsely claims Harris used teleprompter during town hall
Friday 11 October 2024 21:06
Gustaf Kilander
Trump: "Did you see where she did a town hall yesterday and she used a teleprompter?" (Harris did not use a teleprompter) pic.twitter.com/w2u84c1jtP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 11, 2024
Town hall host Enrique Acevedo said on X, “The prompter displayed my introduction (in Spanish) and then it switched to a timer. Any claim to the contrary is simply untrue.”
Trump says Colorado has to ‘flip’ in November
Friday 11 October 2024 21:02
Gustaf Kilander
Trump said Colorado has to “flip” into Republican hands in November’s election. The last Republican to win the state on the presidential level was George W Bush in 2004.
“That's why I'm here ... I'm not here for my health,” Trump said.
“I could be with the beautiful beaches all over the world. I could be in Monte Carlo. I could be all over the world ... And where am I? I'm right now in Aurora, and that's where I want to be,” he added.
Even Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Republican colleagues are outraged by her ‘loony toons’ hurricane conspiracies
Friday 11 October 2024 21:00
Mike Bedigan
House Republicans are becoming more and more frustrated with their colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene and her bizarre, and debunked, claims that Democrats are “controlling the weather” following the recent devastation caused by hurricanes in the southeastern US.
The Maga firebrand from Georgia has doubled down on her conspiracy, leading even her fellow party members to speculate that she “needs [her] head examined.”
Greene claimed online last week that “they” can control the weather after Hurricane Helene killed more than two dozen people in her state and more than 230 in total. On Wednesday she doubled down, clarifying that she was referring to governmental organizations including NOAA.
Trump pushes claim rejected by police that Aurora apartment complexes has been taken over by gangs
Friday 11 October 2024 20:58
Gustaf Kilander
Trump said during his Friday rally in Aurora that he was in the city to “call the attention of the world ... to one of the most egregious betrayals that any leader in any nation has ever inflicted on its own people.”
“We are being led by stupid people, we cannot take it anymore,” he added.
“Kamala has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the Third World,” the former president argued.
“From prisons and jails, insane asylums and mental institutions, and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to pray upon innocent American citizens,” he added. “That's what they're doing. And in no place is it more evident than right here. Because in Aurora, multiple apartment complexes have been taken over by the savage Venezuela prison gang known as Tren de Aragua.”
Police in the Denver suburb have rejected the claim that apartment complexes have been taken over.
Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates
Friday 11 October 2024 20:30
Alicja Hagopian
Vice President Kamala Harris will go head-to-head with Donald Trump in less than a month as Americans cast their votes in the 2024 election.
With just weeks to go, a new poll now finds Trump leading in multiple swing states, with margins mostly too close to call between the two candidates.
But Trump may be losing his grip on older generations of voters, with the latest New York Times polls showing the two candidates split by a hairline — and Harris ahead by 3 points.
Live: Harris campaigns in Arizona as election day nears
Friday 11 October 2024 20:25
The Independent
Trump campaign uses mug shots of gang members as backdrop during Colorado event
Friday 11 October 2024 20:25
Gustaf Kilander
The Trump campaign is using mugshots of gang members arrested in Aurora as a backdrop for his speech in the city on Friday afternoon.
Jose Miguel Reyes-Perez and Juan Carlos Mejia-Espana were two of 10 members identified by the Aurora Police Department last month, according to TND. Their mugshots were seen on stage behind Trump’s podium on Friday.
Aurora Police Identifies Known Tren de Aragua Members
— Aurora Police Dept (@AuroraPD) September 11, 2024
The Aurora Police Department has been actively investigating reports that members of a Venezuelan prison gang, Tren de Aragua, have been living in Aurora and committing acts of violence against members of the migrant… pic.twitter.com/U42ldlOGr7
Police said they arrested Reyes-Perez earlier this year for aggravated assault, menacing, and vehicle theft.
Meija-Espana was detained following an alleged domestic dispute involving a weapon.
The polls are clear: Kamala Harris’s honeymoon period is over
Friday 11 October 2024 20:00
John Bowden
Where will the 2024 election be decided?
In short, everywhere.
A new batch of polls came out this week, with a little less than one month to go in the presidential election. Kamala Harris’s “honeymoon” surge is now officially over.
Donald Trump is on the rise. A new Quinnipiac poll of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan this week showed him leading in the latter two; RealClearPolitics’s polling average now has him ahead for the first time in months in the state of Michigan, a state which spurned Hillary Clinton in 2016 but flipped back to Democratic control in 2020.
But what’s really clear — what Quinnipiac’s poll and every other survey of the race indicates this week — is how close the race is in every state. No candidate has a lead higher than the low single digits in more than a half dozen states, all of which will play a significant role in the Electoral College.
Maryland’s Senate race was friendly — until it really, really wasn’t
Friday 11 October 2024 19:30
John Bowden
The conversation between Angela Alsobrooks and her opponent Larry Hogan started off cordial, even friendly on Thursday evening.
It was a vibe that lasted for all of about thirty seconds.
Within moments of the debate hosted by NBC’s Chuck Todd kicking off on Maryland Public Television (MPT), the two candidates had dropped the cordiality and were trading accusations of dishonesty. That’s a sign of not just the passionate state of politics in 2024, but the stakes on the line in Maryland, where Hogan’s candidacy puts a formerly safe Democratic seat in the US Senate in real contention for the first time in many years.
Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’ and ‘most dangerous person to this country,’ new book says
Friday 11 October 2024 19:00
Andrew Feinberg
Mark Milley, the US Army general who Donald Trump appointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, now says the current Republican presidential nominee is a “fascist to the core” and says no person has ever posed more of a danger to the United States than the man who served as the 45th President of the United States.
Milley, a decorated military officer who became a target for right-wing scorn after it became known that he expressed concerns over Trump’s mental stability in the wake of his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, is described by journalist Bob Woodward in his new book, War, as incredibly alarmed at the prospect of a second Trump term in the White House. The Independent obtained a copy ahead of the book’s October 15 release date.
In the wake of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by a riotous mob of the then-president’s supporters, Woodward writes that Milley insisted on securing a meeting with the then-newly-minted attorney general, Merrick Garland, to urge him to investigate domestic violent extremism and far-right militia movements.
Trump, trailing badly with women, goes after ‘The View’ host in latest rant
Friday 11 October 2024 18:30
John Bowden
Donald Trump is watching Kamala Harris’s post-debate media blitz. He’s watching, and he’s not happy about it.
And as the former president struggles to mend his own self-inflicted wounds, Harris has taken on an energetic campaign schedule. The vice president has held multiple rallies and smaller events, while also hitting the interview circuit to reach wider audiences. Trump, meanwhile, has remained on the trail as well, with multiple events on his weekly calendar.
As the former president plays to the crowds of supporters at his rallies, however, he clearly has his mind on the larger audiences Harris is reaching with appearances on 60 Minutes, The View and even the Spotify podcast Call Her Daddy.
On Wednesday, at a rally in Pennsylvania, he highlighted some of his opponent’s media tour onstage, playing a clip of Harris’s interview with The View. Sunny Hostin, who asked Harris what she would have done differently than Joe Biden over the last four years had she been president, was a target of ridicule.
Trump ally Roger Stone suggests sending ‘armed guards’ to voting stations in undercover video
Friday 11 October 2024 18:00
James Liddell
Newly surfaced video footage reveals former Donald Trump adviser and longtime ally Roger Stone suggesting the deployment of Trump-backed “armed guards” at vote counting areas.
The notorious self-styled GOP “dirty trickster” was secretly recorded responding to a question about how Democrats can be stopped from “stealing” the election while mingling with attendees at his Jacksonville, Florida, event: ‘A Night with Roger Stone.’
“We have to fight it out on a state-by-state basis, but you have to be ready,” Stone can be heard replying in the undercover recording first given to Rolling Stone by documentarian Lauren Windsor.
Trump expected to go on anti-immigrant rant during Colorado rally
Friday 11 October 2024 17:38
Gustaf Kilander
Donald Trump is expected to go on an anti-immigrant rant as he visits Aurora, Colorado on Friday for a rally.
The Republican has claimed the Denver suburb has become overrun by immigrants and turned it into a “war zone,” suggestions that have been rejected by local officials.
“Aurora, Colorado has become a ‘war zone’ due to the influx of violent Venezuelan prison gang members from Tren de Aragua,” the Trump campaign said in a statement as the rally was announced.
During the debate on September 10, Trump said that members of the Tren de Aragua had taken control of a number of apartment buildings in the suburb, claims that have been denied by city leaders.
“They are taking over the towns. They’re taking over buildings. They’re going in violently,” Trump said at the time. “These are the people that she and Biden let into our country.”
The rally is set to begin at 3pm ET at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center.
Trump’s ghostwriter says ‘The Apprentice’ biopic gets ‘most things’ right
Friday 11 October 2024 17:35
Joe Sommerlad
Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter who wrote Trump’s The Art of the Deal, has said the new biopic about the former president gets the most important thing about him right.
Gustaf Kilander has more.
Trump’s campaign racks up $750,000 in unpaid bills for police protection at his rallies
Friday 11 October 2024 17:15
Joe Sommerlad
Cities across the US have tried to chase down money they say Donald Trump’s campaign owes them for providing law enforcement and other public safety measures at his hours-long rallies.
Trump’s campaign has been routinely accused of dodging invoices from local governments for the costs of increased police presence and other expenses that come with hosting large-scale events where crowds begin lining up hours ahead of his remarks, which typically go on for 82 minutes, on average.
In just five cities, that total is at least $750,000, with many of those bills dating back to rallies held while he was running for president in 2016, according to a new review from NBC News.
Here’s Alex Woodward’s
