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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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Ex-NYPD chief rubbishes Trump's plan of mass deportation
Former New York Police Department Chief Bill Bratton dismissed Donald Trump’s mass deportation pledge, wishing the former president “good luck” executing the plan.
“Former President Trump is talking about deporting 10 million to 15 million people. Good luck with that one,” Bratton said on the Catsimatidis Roundtable Show on Sunday. “I spent enough time in Latin America consulting and understand the desperation [of the] that people are fleeing [from] those countries.”
“But the idea of getting rid of 10 million or 15 million people, I don’t think Mr. Trump is doing himself a favor or the Republican Party by raising that,” he added.
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Donald Trump says he doesn’t believe he will run in 2028 if he loses in November
Donald Trump likely would not run for president again in 2028 if he loses the election this November.
During an interview that aired Sunday on TV news broadcaster Sinclair’s Full Measure, the former president was asked if he could see himself running in 2028.
“No, I don’t,” Trump said.
If Trump wins this election, the 22nd Amendment would bar him from running again in 2028, but a loss now would leave another campaign on the table for the future.
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For Haitians in North Carolina, Trump’s attacks are just the latest indignity
When Mirlesna Azor-Sterlin heard former president Donald Trump repeat the lie that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating pets during his debate with Kamala Harris, she was reminded of her job as an educator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“We teach our students to — when they’re writing papers in class — to really have the facts right, the evidence,” she told The Independent on a Thursday evening in a suburban neighborhood in Durham, North Carolina. She was surprised that Trump and Vance failed to do the same.
The story was repeatedly debunked until Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, admitted himself that the story was made up.
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Janet Jackson apologizes for shocking comments about Kamala Harris’s race
Janet Jackson has issued an apology after claiming that Kamala Harris is not Black, echoing an outrageous, false claim made by Harris’s White House rival, Donald Trump.
The singer, 58, whose brother Tito passed away aged 70 last week, made the surprising comments about the Vice President when asked how she felt about the US having its first female Black president.
In a new statement to Buzzfeed, Jackson’s manager Mo Elmasri said: “She deeply respects Vice President Kamala Harris and her accomplishments as a Black and Indian woman.”
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Former president Obama raises $4 million for Harris
Former president Barack Obama has raised $4 million for Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, The Washington Post reports.
Obama hosted a solo fundraiser for the vice president in Los Angeles on Friday. He told supporters that Harris “can make us proud on the world stage about what America stands for, as opposed to embarrassing us.”
“We’re still going to have free markets and we’re still going to have our liberties, and Americans are still going to be doing the weird things that we do,” Obama said at the event. “But we can make sure that it’s a little bit gentler, a little bit kinder, a little bit more generous, a little bit less unequal, a little bit more inclusive.”
Hillary Clinton makes rare comments about marriage to Bill: ‘No one but those two people know what goes on’
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened up and gave a rare insight into her marriage with former president Bill Clinton while promoting her recent memoir, Something Lost, Something Gained.
CNN host Fareed Zakaria, in an interview airing Sunday, asked Hillary about the “dark periods” in her relationship with Bill, wondering, “Do they stay with you?”
“Nobody really knows what happens in a marriage except the two people in it,” Hillary responded. “Every marriage I’m aware of has its ups and downs, not public hopefully for everyone else. And you have to make the decisions that are right for you.”
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Trump worries that his family could be targeted after two assassination attempts weeks apart
Donald Trump has revealed that he worries about the safety of his family after two assassination attempts against him in a matter of weeks.
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Alina Habba says tries on Trump's life are an 'embarrassment' for Biden administration
Alina Habba, attorney for Donald Trump, called the two assassination attempts against him this summer an “embarrassment” for President Joe Biden’s administration.
“No president in this country, and I mean, no president, Republican or Democrat should be in this situation, not once, but twice,” Habba told Fox News.
“It’s an embarrassment to our country. It’s an embarrassment to President Trump,” she continued. “It’s an embarrassment frankly, to Harris and Biden, because they’re the ones in charge right now, and denying assets to a president and future, frankly, future president and the candidate that’s doing the best right now is a serious concern of mine.”
After the second attempt on Trump’s life earlier this month, Biden said the Secret Service “needs more help.”
“Thank God the president is okay,” Biden said last week. “But one thing I want to make clear — the Service needs more help.”
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