Trump doubles down on election lies after new filing as Springsteen brands him ‘most dangerous candidate’: Live
While Republican nominee campaigns in Saginaw, Michigan, Kamala Harris is heading to the birthplace of the GOP to campaign with anti-Trump conservative Liz Cheney
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Donald Trump has lashed out at Special Counsel Jack Smith after he outlined a sprawling criminal case against the Republican presidential nominee over his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
Smith’s latest filing in a Washington DC federal court was unsealed by Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday and detailed the former president’s alleged “increasingly desperate efforts” to cling to power with “knowingly false claims of election fraud”.
Responding on Truth Social, Trump furiously – and baselessly – claimed the allegations are an “obvious attempt by the Harris-Biden regime to undermine and Weaponize American Democracy, and INTERFERE IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.”
While the Republican nominee fields his legal problems, Kamala Harris is heading to the birthplace of the GOP to campaign with anti-Trump Republican Liz Cheney.
The Vice President will be joined by the former Wyoming representative in Ripon, Wisconsin – the site of political meetings in 1854 that led to the formation of what became the Republican Party.
Meanwhile, Melania Trump has publicly voiced her support for abortion rights in her new memoir and in a new post on X – despite her own husband’s pivotal role in rolling back protections.
Harris now tied with Trump on who voters think will best handle inflation
Tim Walz’s viral VP debate friendship bracelets were a gift from his daughter Hope
Trump pursued ‘multiple criminal means’ to overturn election, new special counsel filing claims
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Cybersecurity head says no chance foreign country could change US election results in November
Trump Media COO resigns
Trump Media & Technology Group’s chief operating officer Andrew Northwall resigned in late September, the company revealed in a regulatory filing on Thursday.
The Nasdaq-traded company did not provide an explanation for Northwall’s resignation, but said it “plans to transition his duties internally”.
In the same filing, former president Donald Trump’s company — parent of social media platform Truth Social — said it will release nearly 800,000 shares of its stock to an early investor, in accordance with a recent order by a Delaware judge.
At today’s closing price, those shares would be worth around $12.7m, CNBC reports.
County clerk who pushed Trump’s lies sentenced to nearly a decade behind bars
A judge sentenced a former Colorado county clerk to nine years behind bars Thursday for leading a voting system data-breach scheme inspired by the rampant false claims that fraud altered the 2020 presidential outcome.
Judge Matthew Barrett handed down the sentence after jurors found Tina Peters guilty in August for allowing a man to misuse a security card to access to the Mesa County election system and for being deceptive about that person’s identity.
The man was affiliated with My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell, a prominent promoter of false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election from Trump.
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County clerk sentenced to nearly a decade behind bars for election data scheme
A former Colorado county clerk has been sentenced to nine years behind bars for leading a scheme to breach voting system data in her county
Bruce Springsteen endorses Harris, calls Trump ‘most dangerous candidate’ in his lifetime
Bruce Springsteen has endorses Kamala Harris for president and Tim Walz for vice president, while offering a damning condemnation of Donald Trump.
The boss says in an Instagram video: “Donald Trump is the most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime. His disdain for the sanctity of our constitution, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of law, and the sanctity of the peaceful transfer of power should disqualify him from the office of president ever again. He doesn’t understand the meaning of this country, its history or what it means to be deeply American.”
Watch: Trump accuses Biden and Harris of stealing money from FEMA for illegal immigrants
IN FOCUS: How an ‘October surprise’ could change everything in the US election
Craig Unger writes:
Today, former president Jimmy Carter is in hospice care in Plains, Georgia, where he has just celebrated his 100th birthday. But even now, some 44 years after his presidency ended, he has not gotten his due. Carter was defeated at the polls by Ronald Reagan in 1980, having been wrongfully characterised as a failed leader who allowed America to be humiliated by Iran.
In fact, he was the victim of a traitorous covert operation for which the Republicans were never held accountable. The real story has never been fully told. In 1980, the term “October Surprise” first became widely used in reference to efforts to win the release of 52 American hostages incarcerated at the American embassy in Tehran. Obtaining their freedom became a decisive factor in determining who would win the election – Ronald Reagan or Jimmy Carter.
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How an ‘October surprise’ could change everything in the US election
It is the name of a sinister covert action that stole the White House more than 40 years ago... or so the story goes. Was Jimmy Carter’s defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980 evidence of dark forces poisoning American democracy, or a compelling conspiracy theory? Craig Unger is in no doubt it’s all too real – and must never happen again
Elon Musk has been sending millions of dollars to GOP-aligned groups for years
Elon Musk was reportedly giving tens of millions of dollars to conservative political causes years before he made headlines this summer for creating a pro-Trump political action committee.
Beginning in 2022, the X billionaire funneled an estimated $60m to groups affiliated with former Trump adviser Stephen Miller and 2024 candidate and Florida governor Ron DeSantis, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter.
The Independent has contacted Musk, DeSantis, and Miller’s legal advocacy group for comment.
Josh Marcus reports from San Francisco.
Elon Musk has been sending millions of dollars to GOP-aligned groups for years
Donations make Musk one of most prominent funders of conservative politics in U.S.
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Judge agrees to let Trump respond to Jack Smith immunity filing after election
Judge Tanya Chutkan has agreed to let Donald Trump file his response to Special Counsel Jack Smith's immunity filing after the election.
Trump had asked for late November, but Chutkan split the difference and gave him until November 7 — two days after the election — which could be the day the race is called if the vote is close in any of the key battleground states.
Chutkan’s order reads as follows:
MINUTE ORDER as to DONALD J. TRUMP: Defendant’s 253 “Motion to Extend Page Limits and Time to Respond to Government’s Motion for Immunity Determinations and for Leave to File a Sur-Reply” is hereby GRANTED in part and DENIED in part. The court’s 233 Order is MODIFIED as follows: Defendant’s combined Response and Renewed Motion to Dismiss Based on Presidential Immunity is due November 7, 2024 and may include up to 180 pages; the Government’s combined Reply and Opposition is due November 21, 2024; and Defendant may file a combined Reply and Sur-Reply by December 5, 2024. Signed by Judge Tanya S. Chutkan on 10/3/2024.
Watch: Trump doubles down overtime remarks that saw him labelled a ‘scab’ by Harris campaign
It ‘felt emotionally true’: Trump biopic writer explains decision to include controversial rape scene
Journalist and author Gabriel Sherman, who wrote the script for the forthcoming Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice, has spoken about his thought process behind one of its most controversial scenes.
Directed by Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi, the film, which is described as an “origin story,” stars Sebastian Stan as a young Trump, alongside Succession’s Jeremy Strong as his mentor, lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.
The Eighties-set movie, which had its world premiere in May at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, features several unflattering scenes, including Trump using drugs and undergoing cosmetic operations.
More controversially, it shows Trump raping his first wife Ivana, to whom he was married from 1977 to 1990.
Inga Parkel reports.
Trump biopic writer explains decision to include controversial rape scene
‘The Apprentice,’ releasing in theaters next month, stars Sebastian Stan as the former president
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