Trump accuses Biden of working with Iran over hack and says Haiti migrants are ‘destroying’ US: Live
Former president says he will visit Springfield, Ohio after making false claims about city’s migrant population
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Donald Trump spoke at a rally in suburban New York on Wednesday evening where he accused President Joe Biden of working with Iran because of the recent hacking operation against his campaign.
“The FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, they just released a report confirming that Iran actors hacked into the Trump campaign's e-mail accounts, and in turn, sought to give the hacked materials to the Biden-Harris campaign,” Trump said at the rally in Uniondale on Long Island.
Trump also said he would visit Springfield, Ohio as he continued to make false claims about the migrants in the city.
The former president said, “We’re getting them out of our country. They came in illegally. They’re destroying our country ... They’re going to be brought back to the country from which they came.”
Trump began to speak at the Nassau Coliseum shortly after 7pm and continued for roughly 90 minutes. The former president said early in his rally remarks that Vice President Kamala Harris is a threat to democracy as he tried to turn Democratic attacks back onto his rival.
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In it, the more youthful and progressive Vance slammed Republicans for being “tone deaf” on immigration and “openly hostile to non-whites.”
Now, more than a decade later, as Donald Trump’s running mate, he has been accused of amplifying this same anti-immigrant rhetoric – most recently pushing false claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.
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Kentucky rape survivor hits out at Trump for overturning Roe in powerful new Harris ad
Kentucky rape survivor Hadley Duvall narrates a new ad for the Harris campaign in which she severely criticizes former President Donald Trump for the overturning of Roe v Wade.
During his term in the White House, Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices who voted for the overturning of the landmark 1973 ruling which made abortion a constitutionally protected right. It was overturned in the summer of 2022.
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Duvall said this meant she “had options.”
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Adirty secret about Senator JD Vance that probably would not endear him to the MAGA faithful is that on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump’s running mate is fairly friendly to reporters of all stripes.
The bestselling author is more than comfortable talking to the press and frequently lets reporters ride the elevator with him on his way to votes. Indeed, he’s shown himself willing to go on the Sunday shows to defend his Trump and his lie about pets being eaten by Haitian migrants.
But on the campaign trail as Trump’s top surrogate, the Ohio senator does something different. During his rally at Union Station in Raleigh, North Carolina, a crucial swing state, Vance dinged his boss’s opponent Kamala Harris for only doing two sitdown interviews since she became the Democratic nominee for president.
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“Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails,” according to a joint statement from the FBI, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), obtained by The Hill.
“There is currently no information indicating those recipients replied,” the agencies added.
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