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Judge Tanya Chutkan has unsealed Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page redacted motion on presidential immunity concerning the 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump.
The document is expected to include the fullest account and evidence of what happened in the lead-up to the 2020 election and the attempt to subvert the result as if it were an opening statement to a jury. Smith argues that Trump’s actions were not covered by presidential immunity.
With just a month to go before the election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remain deadlocked in the key battleground states according to new polling by The Cook Political Report.
The vice president leads Trump in Michigan by three percentage points, and she also leads by one or two points in Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and they are tied in North Carolina.
Trump leads in Georgia by two percentage points but is also losing his polling lead on key issues — inflation and immigration.
Vice presidential rivals JD Vance and Tim Walz met for their first and probably final debate last night, with the Republican appearing more confident, polished, and prepared than his Democratic counterpart, who nevertheless landed some important blows.
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When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office. With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin (the “targeted states”).
Trump ‘pursued multiple criminal means to overturn election’ new special counsel filing claims
Special counsel Jack Smith has outlined a sprawling criminal case against Donald Trump for his attempts to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election, detailing for the first time the former president’s “increasingly desperate efforts” to cling to power with “knowingly false claims of election fraud.”
Trump intentionally lied to voters, election officials, and his own vice president, Mike Pence, in what amounted to a criminal effort to stay in office, according to the document filed in federal court in Washington DC on Wednesday.
“When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office,” the filing says. “With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost.”
Hurricane Helene: Harris briefed on impact of storm on Augusta, Georgia
Vice President Kamala Harris joined a meeting at a utility building near downtown Augusta, Georgia, where the mayor and other officials briefed her on the unprecedented impact of Hurricane Helene.
“These are very difficult times,” she says, “and in a moment of crisis, I think that really does bring out the best in us.”
“I’m here to thank you and to listen,” she added.
BREAKING: Judge unseals Jack Smith’s redacted motion on presidential immunity in federal case against Trump
Federal judge Tanya Chutkan has unsealed Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page redacted motion on presidential immunity with regards to the 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump.
This is a developing story, more follows...
Why has Trump pulled out of his ‘60 Minutes’ interview?
Donald Trump pulled out of an election season interview with CBS News’s 60 Minutes that was set to air Monday, with the Republican’s camp citing fact-checking provisions and a long-running dispute over the Hunter Biden laptop story as reasons why.
60 Minutes announced the cancellation over X/Twitter, where many likened it to President Joe Biden’s decision to duck the traditional Super Bowl interview earlier this year triggering speculation about his cognitive abilities among conservative commentators and the MAGA faithful.
Josh Marcus reports.
Trump pulls out of ‘60 Minutes’ interview, after storming out of 2020 episode
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Recap: Vance and Walz remain civil in policy-driven debate but Trump is inescapable
Donald Trump was not the elephant in the room. He was the room.
During Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, his running mate JD Vance was tasked with wrangling policy positions out of Trump’s chaos, while Walz sought to make the case why the former president should never be elected again, even quoting his opponent’s statement that he once believed Trump “unfit” for higher office.
Alex Woodward reports.
Vance and Walz remain civil in policy-driven debate but Trump is inescapable
Candidates juggled detailed questions covering starkly different visions for America before sparring about democracy’s future
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Trump compares Israel and Hezbollah to ‘two kids fighting in the schoolyard’
Donald Trump likened the conflict in the Middle East to "two kids fighting in the schoolyard”. Just hours after Hezbollah clashed with Israeli troops on Tuesday (1 October), Trump used his Milwaukee campaign speech to warn of the impending danger of World War III. The former US president said: "I've been talking about World War III for a long time, and I don't want to make predictions because the predictions always come true. “We're not going to make predictions but they are very close to global catastrophe. This is a little bit like two kids fighting in the schoolyard, sometimes you just sort of let it go a little bit and we'll see what happens."
Who is JD Vance’s mother?
JD Vance often mentions her on the campaign trail, Amy Adams plays her in a movie and her Alcoholics Anonymous meeting attendees just know her as “Bev.”
Vance’s mother Beverly Aikins has been a fixture of the Ohio Senator’s life since he entered politics, and he mentioned her struggles again during the vice presidential debate on Tuesday night.
Kelly Rissman reports.
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