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Donald Trump sat for rambling live interview with Bloomberg at Economic Club of Chicago as Kamala Harris set for radio sitdown with Charlamagne tha God
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In a combative appearance at the Economic Club of Chicago, Donald Trump clashed with Bloomberg editor John Micklethwait over his tariff plans, refused to accept basic mathematics, swerved a question on his interactions with Vladimir Putin since leaving office, offered his revisionist version of January 6, and again trash-talked Detroit.
This comes amid concerns over his health and mental acuity and the accusation by Democratic rival Kamala Harris that he is “increasingly unstable and unhinged” after a threat over the weekend to deploy the National Guard or even the military against American citizens.
The former president appeared in that state on Monday night when his town hall event in suburban Philadelphia turned into a confused, impromptu dance party when two people in the audience suffered medical emergencies.
Trump was left bizarrely bopping his head on stage for 39 minutes to a selection of pop music and show tunes leading Harris to tweet: “Hope he’s okay.”
Meanwhile, in a move to reach out to Black male voters, Harris will appear at a town hall hosted by Charlamagne Tha God, who is especially popular with the demographic. On Monday the vice president announced a series of new proposals dubbed the “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men.”
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Perhaps this explains those $1m Madison Square Garden tickets...
Kelly Rissman checks the receipts in disbelief.
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Republicans have reportedly spent about 28 times as much as Democrats at McDonald’s
Trump is selling a near-$1m ‘Ultra MAGA Experience’ package at his Madison Square Garden rally
Donald Trump is offering a special package to those looking for the “Ultra MAGA Experience” during his planned New York City rally – but nobody knows what it entails.
And it costs nearly $1m.
The Republican presidential nominee is planning an October 27 rally at Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden along with running mate JD Vance. While they have no chance of winning Manhattan, Trump is still pressing ahead with the gathering in his old hometown.
Now, Trump is offering six different tiers of donation packages along with the rally. At the top of the list is the $924,600 “Ultra MAGA Experience” but there are no details as to what the package includes and whether or not a personal meeting with the big man might feature.
The nearly-seven-figure package is on the same day and at the same location as the rally, but no other information is disclosed.
Alex Lang reports.
Trump is selling a nearly $1m ‘Ultra MAGA Experience’ package
Trump has announced packages to go along with his planned New York City rally at Madison Square Garden
Trump tells people to vote on January 5 – and social media users are all making the same joke
Speaking in Oaks yesterday, Trump called on voters to get out and vote on January 5 2025, two months after Election Day – inviting very much the snorts of derision you might expect.
James Liddell has the details.
Trump tells people to vote on January 5 – and social media users all make same joke
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Stumping for Harris-Walz in Georgia, the 44th president took the opportunity to lay into the local MAGA congresswoman over her latest line of nonsense.
Here’s Graig Graziosi on his being mistaken for Joe Biden during a stop at McDonald’s during the same trip.
Bill Clinton pops into McDonald’s on campaign trail, server mistakes him for Biden
Clinton’s love for McDonald’s was so well known it was once parodied on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Conservative media icon Geraldo Rivera ditches ‘sore loser’ Trump and backs Harris
Here’s an unlikely Democrat voter.
Rivera, a long-time Fox News commentator, explained his decision to break with Trump at length on X yesterday, noting that he had stuck with the 45th president throughout his many scandals in office but has not spoken to him since November 2020, shortly after he began his election denial narrative.
“Geraldo who?” was Steven Cheung’s only comment when asked about this yesterday but it’s hard to see Trump being able to resist attacking his old friend on Truth Social.
Ex-Trump official endorsing Harris to ensure Trump ‘never sets foot in Oval Office again’
Here’s Sarah Matthews, the Republican’s own former White House deputy press secretary, not holding back on what’s at stake in conversation with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell yesterday.
Trump’s economic plans would worsen inflation, experts say
Speaking of the cost of living, economists are warning that the Republican’s nominee’s proposals would actually make matters worse for American consumers, not better.
Trump's economic plans would worsen inflation, experts say
Donald Trump has vowed that if voters return him to the White House, “inflation will vanish completely.”
Trump finally explains why he keeps comparing southern border migrants to Hannibal Lecter
Not much of any substance came out of the Republican’s weird failed town hall in Pennsylvania last night but he did explain why he keeps going on about Thomas Harris’s fictional cannibal gourmet.
“You know when I go Hannibal Lecter, you know what I am talking about,” Trump told his audience, having been asked about, er, inflation.
“It’s a way of demeaning, they say ‘Hannibal Lecter, why would he mention him?’ Well you know why – because he was a sick puppy, and we have sick puppies coming into our country.
“I figure that’s better than wasting a lot of words, you just say, ‘Hannibal Lecter, we don’t want him’.”
This was another excruciating moment, since we’re on the subject.
Trump-backed gubernatorial candidate promises update on probe into ‘Black Nazi’ posts on porn websites
North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson says he will give an update today on his own investigation into last month’s CNN report alleging that he posted lewd and racist comments on a website called Nude Africa 10 years ago.
Robinson has threatened to sue the network over its reporting, which alleged, among other things, that he declared on the site that he was a “Black NAZI” and dreamed of owning slaves.
Robinson has since hired a Virginia law firm to investigate and will speak about the matter at a press conference in Raleigh at 9am today, local time.
Fireworks assured.
Here’s Rhian Lubin’s most recent report on his faltering race for the governor’s mansion against the state’s Attorney General Josh Stein.
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Scandal-hit Republican candidate is trailing Democrat Josh Stein and faces an uphill battle in North Carolina
Harris campaign hits back after right-wing activist accuses VP of plagiarism in 2009 crime book
A conservative activist has accused the Democratic presidential nominee of plagiarising passages in her 2009 book Smart on Crime, co-authored with Joan O’C Hamilton.
Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute think-tank, published a thread on X yesterday featuring analysis by Austrian “plagiarism hunter” Stefan Weber, alleging that the VP lifted “verbatim language” from uncited sources in the book 15 years ago.
The book in question focuses on policy and draws on Harris’s experience prosecuting crimes ranging from child sexual assault to murder in Alameda County and San Francisco, California.
The Harris campaign responded to the allegation by saying the candidate “clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout”.
“Right-wing operatives are getting desperate as they see the bipartisan coalition of support Vice President Harris is building to win this election, as Trump retreats to a conservative echo chamber refusing to face questions about his lies,” said Harris campaign spokesperson James Singer.
“This is a book that’s been out for 15 years, and the Vice President clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout.”
That hasn’t stopped the likes of JD Vance making merry with the accusation, naturally.
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