Donald Trump

Fears Grow Over Trump’s Actions In Lame Duck Period

Politico reports: Even if Trump calmly walks out the door of the White House on the morning of January 20th, a more immediate problem looms: What might Trump do with the final 77 days of his presidency if he loses? There are 1,860 hours between Wednesday, Nov. 4, and noon on Jan. 20, when Trump’s first term expires. And that’s …

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Trump To Hold 11 Rallies In Final 48 Hours Of Race

CBS News reports: Trump will attempt to hold 11 rallies in several key states in the final 48 hours before Election Day, according to a campaign official. Trump is expected to spend the majority of his time in Pennsylvania, Florida and North Carolina — although a final schedule hasn’t been set. According to the campaign official, the strategy is to …

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Cryptocurrency Hackers Deface Trump Campaign Site

The New York Times reports: President Trump’s campaign website was briefly taken over by hackers who defaced the site late on Tuesday. The defacement lasted less than 30 minutes, but the incident came as Mr. Trump’s campaign and that of his opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., as well as law enforcement and intelligence agencies, have been on high alert for …

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Trump Supporters Stranded In Cold After Omaha Rally

The Washington Post reports: By the time President Trump finished speaking to thousands of supporters at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield on Tuesday night and jetted away on Air Force One, the temperature had plunged to nearly freezing. But as long lines of MAGA-clad attendees queued up for buses to take them to distant parking lots, it quickly became clear that something …

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CBS News Hires 24-Hour Security For Lesley Stahl After Death Threat, Trump Calls Her “Angry, Rude, Crazy”

TMZ reports: The “60 Minutes” interview President Trump cut short over what he felt was unfair questioning from Lesley Stahl has left her, and her family, in a dangerous situation, TMZ has learned. Multiple sources tell us CBS is now providing Stahl with around-the-clock security due to a death threat made to the home of one of her immediate family …

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Cash-Strapped Trump Camp Pulls Ads Out OF Florida

Bloomberg News reports: President Donald Trump’s campaign has all but pulled its advertising out of Florida, as it stakes its relatively small bank account on the industrial northern states that carried him to victory in 2016. Since the beginning of the fall campaign on Labor Day, Trump has cut $24 million from his national ad budget, while former Vice President …

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South Park Creators “Deep Fake” Trump And Others

Mediaite reports: This genius “through the looking glass” creation comes from the minds behind South Park, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone, who have created a YouTube series based on a fictional reporter to warn Americans of the perils of deep fakes. Oh, and their Fred Sassy is a deep fake of President Donald Trump. It’s a brilliantly hilarious, or hilariously …

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20 Republican Former US Attorneys Endorse Biden: Trump Is “A Threat To The Rule Of Law In Our Country”

The Washington Post reports: Twenty former U.S. attorneys — all of them Republicans — on Tuesday publicly called President Trump “a threat to the rule of law in our country,” and urged that he be replaced in November with his Democratic opponent, former vice president Joe Biden. “The President has clearly conveyed that he expects his Justice Department appointees and …

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Twitter Launches “Pre-Bunks” To Fight Election Disinfo

NBC News reports: Twitter said Monday it would begin placing messages at the top of users’ feeds to pre-emptively debunk false information about voting by mail and election results, an escalation of the tech company’s battle against misinformation. Twitter is calling the messages a “pre-bunk,” something it says it has never done, because the debunking is not a reaction to …

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Trump: Reporting On The Pandemic Should Be Illegal

Talking Points Memo reports: President Donald Trump argued on Monday morning that it ought to be against the law for the news media to cover the pandemic ahead of the elections as the COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. surpasses 225,000. Amid his failure to address the pandemic, Trump has publicly griped several times about the media reporting on COVID-19, …

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New Trump Ad Portrays Biden As A Zombie [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: This is a real thing. The Trump campaign has released a new advertisement that aims to make fun of former Vice President Joe Biden by comparing him to a “zombie.” Yes, you read that correctly. The ad is titled “How to Spot a Zombie,” which the Trump campaign says will air during zombie TV shows Fear the Walking …

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Trump Says He No Longer Identifies As Presbyterian

Religion News Service reports: In an exclusive interview with Religion News Service, President Trump said in a written statement that he no longer identifies as a Presbyterian and now sees himself as a non-denominational Christian. “Though I was confirmed at a Presbyterian church as a child, I now consider myself to be a non-denominational Christian,” Trump, who has repeatedly identified …

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CBS Poll: Biden +2 In FL, Biden +4 In NC, Tied In GA

CBS News reports: In the final stretch of the campaign, we find three Southern battlegrounds that could still go either way. Our estimates show Joe Biden with just a two-point edge over President Trump in Florida, Biden up four points in North Carolina, and the contest even in Georgia. Millions have already voted and many others say they’ve already decided. …

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Trump Reveals Vote For Racist Nutbag Laura Loomer

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump says he voted “straight Republican” when he voted early in Florida on Saturday. Trump had been asked whether he voted for House nominee Laura Loomer, a far-right Republican candidate who has been banned from social media sites because of her racist and anti-Muslim speech. She is facing incumbent congresswoman Lois Frankel, who has …

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Trump Seats “MAGA Nuns” Behind Him At Ohio Rally

Fox News reports: A group of Trump-loving nuns grabbed attention on social media Saturday after they were spotted wearing MAGA masks with their habits and cheering the president on in Circleville, Ohio. Three nuns were behind the president’s podium, two holding rosaries and a third holding a Bible. During the Republican National Convention, another nun, Sister Deirdre Byrne, called the …

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Joe Biden +3 Over Trump In New Texas Poll

The Dallas Morning News reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden has regained a narrow lead over President Donald Trump in Texas, after wooing more independents and Hispanics, according to a poll released Sunday by The Dallas Morning News and University of Texas at Tyler. Biden’s lead among likely voters is 48%-45%, within the poll’s margin of error. In the Texas …

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Borat Hits Back After Trump Calls Him Unfunny “Creep”

USA Today reports: President Donald Trump called Sacha Baron Cohen “a creep” after previously unseen footage from the new “Borat” movie was shared to Twitter on Friday by Borat’s official account. While speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Friday, Trump was asked whether he was worried about security breaches after footage showed an actress from the movie apparently …

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Trump To Donors: Holding Senate Will Be “Very Tough” And I Don’t Even Want To Help Some GOP Senators

The Washington Post reports: President Trump privately told donors this past week that it will be “very tough” for Republicans to keep control of the Senate in the upcoming election because some of the party’s senators are candidates he cannot support. “I think the Senate is tough actually. The Senate is very tough,” Trump said at a fundraiser Thursday at …

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Politico: Trump Team Mired In Paranoia And Blaming

Politico reports: President Donald Trump’s top advisers have plunged into a bitter round of finger-pointing and blame-shifting ahead of an increasingly likely defeat. Accusations are flying in all directions and about all manner of topics — from allegedly questionable spending decisions by former campaign manager Brad Parscale, to how White House chief of staff Mark Meadows handled Trump’s hospitalization for …

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Trump Casts Early In-Person Vote In West Palm Beach

The Palm Beach Post reports: President Donald Trump is casting his vote this morning at the Palm Beach County main library on Summit Boulevard. It marks the first time an incumbent president votes, in-person, in Florida. Trump did vote in both the March 17 presidential primary and the Aug. 18 general primary, but those ballots were sent as absentee votes. …

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