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Kamala Harris will take part in an interview with Anderson Cooper in Pennsylvania on Wednesday as Donald Trump campaigns in Georgia
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Donald Trump is facing a fresh storm of criticism following a report that he once said he needed “the kind of generals that Adolf Hitler had.”
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” the Republican presidential nominee allegedly declared, according to The Atlantic. “People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.”
The claim has been vehemently denied by Trump’s campaign.
Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly also told The New York Times that the former president praised Hitler multiple times, warning that the GOP candidate meets the definition of a fascist.
Kamala Harris responded to the reports in remarks at Naval Observatory on Wednesday lunchtime, warning that the former president is “increasingly unhinged and unstable,” and in a second Trump term “people like John Kelly will no longer be there to rein him in.”
Harris meanwhile took part in an interview with NBC News on Tuesday night and will follow that with a CNN town hall with Anderson Cooper in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, today taking questions from undecided swing state voters.
Trump is campaigning in Georgia today and JD Vance is in Nevada.
Trump reportedly said he needs ‘the kind of generals that Hitler had’ as Kelly brands him a ‘fascist’
Watch: Barack Obama raps popular Eminem song at Detroit rally
Trump said of murdered soldier ‘it doesn’t cost $60k to bury a f****** Mexican,’ report says
Tim Walz attacks Elon Musk as Trump’s ‘running mate’ for ‘skipping around like a dips***’
Watch LIVE: Harris makes remarks before traveling to Pennsylvania
Watch LIVE: JD Vance speaks in Las Vegas, Nevada
Watch live: JD Vance rallies Las Vegas voters in critical swing state of Nevada
Watch live as JD Vance rallies Las Vegas voters in the critical swing state of Nevada on Wednesday, 23 October.
Watch: Harris campaign launches hard-hitting ad on reproductive freedom
A new ad from the Harris-Walz campaign centered on reproductive freedom has been launched ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech in Houston, Texas on Friday, which will focus on the state’s draconian abortion laws.
Today, The Independent has published an investigative series and released a new documentary, The A-Word, which examines the state of abortion access and reproductive care in the US after the fall of Roe v Wade.
Read more about it here and watch the full documentary:
The Independent launches documentary and investigative series on abortion in America
‘The A-Word’, a new documentary by The Independent, investigates the state of reproductive rights two years after the Supreme Court revoked a constitutional right to abortion, sending shockwaves through American healthcare
Harris adds remarks to scheduled, expected to address Kelly comments on ‘fascist’ Trump
Vice President Kamala Harris has added remarks to her schedule today at 1 pm at Naval Observatory, her official residence in Washington, DC.
Neither the White House nor her campaign has said what she plans to speak about, though it is likely to be centered on comments about Donald Trump made by John Kelly, his longest-serving chief of staff, according to two people briefed on the plans who spoke with The New York Times.
Kelly told the paper in an interview that the former president praised Hitler multiple times and warned that the Republican nominee meets the definition of a fascist.
Stay tuned...
MAGA youth pastor charged with coercing minors to have sex with him
A MAGA youth pastor favored by the evangelist Jerry Falwell Jr has been charged with coercing minors to have sex with him and send him pornographic images.
Zachary Radcliff, 29, of Saline in Michigan, is accused of a string of offenses relating to sexually abusive activity going back as far as 2011, according to state police.
Rhian Lubin reports.
MAGA youth pastor charged with coercing minors to have sex with him
Zachary Radcliff, the music and youth pastor at Oakwood Church in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, is accused of a string of offenses relating to sexually abusive activity
Judge upholds decision to remove election-denying lawyer from Dominion defamation case
A US District judge has upheld a decision to remove an election-denying, pro-Trump attorney from the Dominion defamation case.
Judge Carl Nichols denied the motion to reinstate attorney Stefanie Lambert that was filed after her removal from the case in August.
District Judge Moxila Upadhyaya booted attorney Stefanie Lambert from representing former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne in the case after she publicly leaked the company’s internal emails.
Dominion Voting Systems sued Byrne for defamation after he repeatedly falsely accused the company of rigging the election against Donald Trump.
And here’s Alex Woodward’s report on Lambert’s initial removal.
Judge boots election-denying, pro-Trump lawyer from Dominion case in scathing order
Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne’s attorney was booted from the case for ‘truly egregious misconduct’
House Oversight Dems push Trump and Vance to commit to orderly transfer of power
Democratic ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, Rep Jamie Raskin, has written to Donald Trump and JD Vance pressing them to sign key documents to ensure the continuity of government and to commit to a smooth transition of power should they win the election.
“Breaking the precedent set by every other presidential candidate since 2010, you have rejected these resources and refused to commit to a smooth transition. It appears your decision may be at least partially driven by your intent to circumvent fundraising rules that put limits on private contributions on the transition effort and require public reporting. You may also be acting out of a more general aversion to ethics rules designed to prevent conflicts of interest in the incoming administration. With fewer than two weeks left until an election in which the American people will select a new President of the United States, we urge you to put the public’s interest in maintaining a properly functioning government above any personal financial or political interests you may perceive in boycotting the official transition law and process,” wrote Ranking Member Raskin.
Until this election, no eligible major party candidate has ever failed to sign the documents or submit an ethics plan.
Here’s Gustaf Kilander with more on what the Trump transition team have been planning:
Trump’s transition team will require ‘loyalty’ if people want to work in White House
Prospectice appointees will be handed roles based on ‘fidelity and loyalty to the policy, as well as to the man,’ Trump transition co-chair says
Rattled Elon Musk goes on late-night attack against Tim Walz
Elon Musk went on a late-night attack against Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz after he called the billionaire a “dips***” during a rally in Madison, Wisconsin.
Gustaf Kilander has the story of what Musk had to say as he was yet again publicly mocked for this Trump rally appearance.
Rattled Elon Musk goes on late-night attack against Tim Walz after ‘dips***’ comments
Billionaire compares Minnesota governor to clown emoji: ‘Saving the American people from the torture of hearing you speak for four years was worth it’
Hedge fund billionaire defends Trump on foreign policy, fascist allegations, sexual assault, and disinformation
In an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning, hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman made a foreign policy case for Donald Trump implying that dictators fear him because he might actually do what he says, such as “bomb Moscow”.
He also blamed the invasion of Georgia and Crimea by Russia on the Biden administration when they happened during the Bush and Obama presidencies, respectively, and dismissed John Kelly calling Trump a fascist as “one person stating a series of things”.
Ackman also didn’t seem to have faith in the judgment of the jury that found Trump liable for sexual assault.
Host Andrew Ross Sorkin then challenged Ackman over the former president’s spreading of disinformation and his own tweets...
I’m raising my rapist’s baby: One woman’s devastating story
This story is part of an investigative series and new documentary, The A-Word, by The Independent examining the state of abortion access and reproductive care in the US after the fall of Roe v Wade.
Kelly Rissman reports.
For more than a decade, ‘Melinda’ has raised a child she never wanted — a child that was the product of rape.
“I love my child. But if I could go back in time and get an abortion, I would 100 percent of the time,” she told The Independent.
Melinda, whose name was changed at her request to protect her child, said her perspective often “trips people up,” but it doesn’t mean she hates her child — she just wishes she’d been able to get an abortion.
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I wasn’t able to get an abortion. Now I’m raising my rapist’s baby
‘I love my child. But if I could go back in time and get an abortion, I would 100 percent of the time,’ says Melinda. Kelly Rissman reports on a story that exposes the hurdles women faced before the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022.
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