Trump shooting suspect left note outlining assassination attempt, court documents reveal: Live updates
Justice Department filing shows handwritten note saying Ryan Wesley Routh intended to kill former president as well as list of dates and venues where Trump would appear
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The man accused in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump at a golf course in Florida left behind a note saying that he intended to kill the former president and maintained in his car a handwritten list of dates and venues where Trump was to appear, the Department of Justice has revealed.
The new allegations were included in a detention memo filed ahead of a hearing Monday at which the Justice Department was expected argue that Ryan Wesley Routh should be detained as the case moves forward.
Meanwhile, Trump said he won’t run for president again in 2028 if he loses to Kamala Harris in November. On Sunday Trump was asked if he could see himself running again in 2028 if he loses, to which he told news broadcaster Sinclair’s Full Measure: “No, I don’t.” He added: “That will be it.”
A new poll from The New York Times shows him leading in Georgia and North Carolina, and in Arizona by five points.
The poll, conducted from September 17-21, found the race is closest in North Carolina, where Trump currently sits at 49 percent and Harris at 47 percent. In Georgia, the poll puts Trump four points ahead of Harris at 49 percent to 45 percent.
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Kamala Harris’s campaign raised more than four times what Donald Trump’s campaign raised in August, The Washington Post reports.
Harris has consistently beat Trump’s fundraising numbers ever since entering the race this summer. The vice president even raised $47 million in the 24 hours after her debate with Trump.
This marked the largest single-day amount since she announced her candidacy.
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Trump experiencing ‘anxiety’ after assassination attempts, says long-time observer
Politics reporter and longtime Trump watcher Maggie Haberman has said that the former president appears unusually anxious after two assassination attempts against him.
Haberman, senior political correspondent for The New York Times and a CNN commentator, has reported extensively on Trump since he took office in 2016, and has penned a book about his presidency. Haberman told CNN on Friday that she sensed anxiety in Trump during his Uniondale, New York rally earlier this week.
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Majority of voters say the threat of political violence will increase if Trump is elected in November
More than half of voters say the threat of political violence will be greater if Donald Trump is elected this November, a poll from CBS News released Sunday reveals.
While 58 percent of voters think the threat will rise, 21 percent say it will fall under Trump, while another 21 percent say there will be no change, according to the poll.
Just over 40 percent of voters say the threat of political violence will rise under Harris, while 27 percent say it will decrease and 30 percent expect it to stay the same.
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Trump unveils new commemorative coin for $100 in latest merchandise grab
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But now, a top White House spokesman has admitted that talks have essentially stalled.
John Kirby made the admission Sunday on ABC’s This Week when he was asked about a Wall Street Journal report which seemed to drain the optimism surrounding Gaza talks, indicating that senior-level Biden officials no longer believe peace is achievable this year.
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US postal service urges voters to return mail-in ballots early, insists it is equipped to handle election
The US Postal Service is asking voters to return their mail-in ballots early as they brace for the upcoming election.
“We engage in heroic efforts intended to beat the clock,” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said earlier this week, the Associated Press reports.
“These efforts are designed to be used only when the risk of deviating from our standard processes is necessary to compensate for the ballot being mailed so close to a state’s deadline,” he added. “This is commonly misunderstood in the media and even by election officials.”
This comes after the National Association of Secretaries of State and the National Association of State Election Directors told DeJoy the USPS had not fixed persistent problems that could disenfranchise some voters.
“It’s extremely troubling that the USPS dismissed our concerns about disenfranchising voters by failing to postmark and timely deliver ballots, rather than working with us to find solutions,” Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab said.
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