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Florida Politics reports: In a new ad from Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, Sgt. Aquilino Gonell says that when Trump calls the mob that tried to block certification of the 2020 election “warriors,” it’s an affront to him and his fellow officers. “He insults us,” Aquilino says in the 30-second clip, part of an aggressive, $370 million TV, radio and digital …

Raw Story reports: During a fact check of Trump’s latest inflammatory claims about immigrants, Daniel Dale was asked by host Sara Sidner about Trump’s claim this week that “they’re emptying out their jails in the Congo and they’re delivering them to the border and they’re saying, ‘Congratulations, this is America.'” Dale went on to say that “there is no evidence …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump’s campaign has accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party of “blatant foreign interference” in the U.S. presidential election after some volunteers travelled to help campaign for Kamala Harris. The Republican candidate’s camp has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington, calling for an investigation into what it termed apparently illegal contributions from …

Mediaite reports: John Kelly, Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, went on the record with The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and confirmed that Trump once told him that he wished he acted like the “German generals,” which he later clarified meant specifically “Hitler’s generals.” Goldberg wrote: This week, I asked Kelly about their exchange. He told …

The Atlantic reports: In April 2020, Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old Army private, was bludgeoned to death by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood, in Texas. The killer, aided by his girlfriend, burned Guillén’s body. Guillén’s remains were discovered two months later. Shortly after her remains were discovered, President Donald Trump himself invited the Guillén family to the White House. He …

CNN reports: National networks like CBS are not licensed, but local stations are. (And the parent company of CBS, Paramount Global, owns some local stations.) The licensing agency is the government’s FCC, which grants eight-year license terms, and hasn’t denied any license renewal in decades. Still, there is a conceivable chilling effect. Trump’s threats have grown so insistent that some …

Add another stupid lie to the mountainous pile: During a visit to the battleground state of North Carolina on Monday, former President Donald Trump claimed that his daughter Tiffany, graduated first in her class from Georgetown Law School. “She was a great student, and she went to a fantastic law school, graduated No. 1 in her class,” Trump said at …

The Daily Beast reports: Trumpo posted images to Truth Social on Monday night of a letter to the network from his legal representatives who claim “CBS and its 60 Minutes producers intentionally misled the public” and that the broadcaster’s “manipulative editing was aimed at causing confusion among the electorate regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’s abilities, intelligence and appeal.” The missive …

Axios reports: Former President Trump claimed Monday that he’s not familiar with the North Carolina governor’s race, despite having previously endorsed Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) for the job. Trump’s campaign and the GOP have been working to distance the former president from scandal-embroiled Robinson, with North Carolina being a must-win state for the party in the 2024 presidential race. …

“We’re moving them back from Washington, where you have people that don’t care about New York, frankly. You know, in Washington, I don’t know if you ever noticed that you got Department of Education, Department of Education. You got half the buildings are Department of Education. “I never saw – you don’t need any of them. You know, I want …

NBC News reports: The five men who comprise the Central Park Five, and now call themselves the Exonerated Five, have filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump for defamation in connection with his remarks during the presidential debate. The lawsuit focuses on the Sept. 10 presidential debate in Pennsylvania, where Trump said that the five men — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, …

Mediaite reports: Billionaire Elon Musk is accusing the “legacy mainstream media” of trying to encourage people to assassinate him and former President Donald Trump. Elon Musk took to his social media platform, X, where he posted a screenshot of an article from the German magazine Der Spiegel showing Musk’s face combined with a face of Trump. Under the headline labeling …

Via press release from CBS News: Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false. 60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes. Same question. Same answer. But …

Axios reports: Nearly one in five Republicans say that if Donald Trump loses the 2024 election, he should declare the results invalid and do whatever it takes to assume office, according to a new national survey. The survey from the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Brookings Institution is the latest sign of how Trump’s grievances and conspiracy …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump served up french fries Sunday at a Philadelphia-area McDonald’s, oversalting spuds and peppering in some jabs at Vice President Kamala Harris. The franchise in Feasterville was closed for normal business during Sunday’s photo op. The customers who went through the drive thru were pre-selected by the franchise and the local Trump campaign team, …

“I don’t know. I don’t know if it’s true or not true. Well, what about the goose? The geese? What about the geese? What happened there? They were all missing. “Howie, I have no idea. I said something. The big problem is that you can’t put 30,000 people into a 50,000-person town or city and expect this city to even …

“What they’ve done is so terrible. Who’s ever heard of anything like this? Adam shifty Schiff. He’s a crooked guy. He’s a crooked politician 100 percent. He’s going to be a senator now.  Can you believe it? “But again, he’s an enemy. An enemy. He wanted to put my son in jail, and my son didn’t even know what he …

Politico reports: Election observers, elected leaders and some of Trump’s own allies agree on one operating premise: On election night, no matter what the results show, how many votes remain uncounted and how many advisers tell him otherwise, Donald Trump will declare himself the winner. And from there, he could embark on a risky but plausible challenge to overturn the …

CNBC reports: “Mark Cuban is a Loser,” Trump wrote in a Saturday Truth Social post. “Wouldn’t take his phone calls anymore while at the White House, and he went rogue. A weak and pathetic ‘bully,’ he’s got nothing going. Really low clubhead speed, a total non-athlete!” Trump’s insults come several days after Cuban mocked the Republican presidential nominee’s tariff proposals …

The Daily Beast reports: A cringe-inducing video featuring Lara Trump dancing to a remixed Taylor Swift song has earned Donald Trump’s campaign ridicule and prompted calls for the pop superstar to sue over the track’s use. Posted to the Trump campaign’s official account Thursday, the clip features a bevy of women supporters of the GOP nominee—including the former president’s daughter-in-law, …