Melania says Trump has always known her pro-abortion views on Fox News as Harris set for media blitz: Live
Democrat set for interviews with The View, late night host Stephen Colbert and radio host Howard Stern with just 30 days left until the election.
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Melania says Trump told Fox News on Sunday that her views on abortion came as no surprise to her husband.
“Yes, he knew my position and my beliefs since the day we met, and I believe in individual freedom,” she told host Maria Bartiromo.
“I want to decide what I wanted to do with my body. I think I don’t want government in my personal business,” she added.
Hours later her husband will rally in Wisconsin, just one day after he held a lie-filled eventat the venue in Butler, Pennsylvania where he survived an assassination attempt just three months ago. Rather than trying to turn down the country’s political temperature, since July, Donald Trump’s rhetoric seems to have only gotten more volatile. At Saturday’s rally, he suggested that his political opponents “maybe tried to kill me.”
Billionaire Elon Musk joined the former president onstage at the rally, marking the first time he has publicly appeared at a Trump campaign event since he endorsed him shortly after the shooting.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris will go on a media blitz this week as she sits down for interviews with The View, late-night host Stephen Colbert and radio host Howard Stern with just 30 days left until the election.
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ICYMI: Trump falsely suggests at assassination attempt site that his rivals ‘tried to kill me’
Donald Trump returned to the site where he was nearly assassinated this summer, but his brush with death doesn’t appear to have changed him in the slightest.
On Saturday evening, Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania — walking out to a live rendition of “God Bless the USA” by Lee Greenwood — and opened with the words “as I was saying,” referencing the fact that his previous rally at the site ended abruptly when a gunman fired an AR-15 toward the stage, grazing his ear and killing one attendee and injuring two others.
Rather than giving the former president a new perspective on the political temperature in the country, Trump’s rhetoric appears to have become more volatile; during the rally, he suggested that his political opponents “maybe tried to kill me.”
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Trump claims rivals ‘tried to kill me’ as he returns to site of assassination attempt
The former president makes dramatic return to Butler, Pennsylvania stage for first time since July shooting
Howard Stern to interview Harris this week
TUESDAY: Howard Stern sits down LIVE with Vice President Kamala Harris. Tune in at 1 p.m. ET for their exclusive 1-on-1 interview only on @siriusxm #Howard100. pic.twitter.com/lKGTcP0z3u
— Stern Show (@sternshow) October 6, 2024
Trump falsely suggests his rivals ‘tried to kill me’ as he rallies at site of assassination attempt
Trump claims rivals ‘tried to kill me’ as he returns to site of assassination attempt
The former president makes dramatic return to Butler, Pennsylvania stage for first time since July shooting
Melania says Trump has always known her views on abortion
The former first lady gave an interview to Fox News on Sunday in which she said that her views on abortion came as no surprise to her husband.
“Yes, he knew my position and my beliefs since the day we met, and I believe in individual freedom,” she told host Maria Bartiromo.
“I want to decide what I wanted to do with my body. I think I don’t want government in my personal business,” she added.
Melania’s views on abortion have been included in her forthcoming memoir, despite the former president bragging that he brought an end to Roe v. Wade.
Trump insinuates Democrats may have been behind his first assassination attempt
Trump boasts he does not need teleprompter while flanked by one at Butler rally
Trump boasts he doesn’t need teleprompter while flanked by one at Butler rally
Donald Trump took to the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he asked “Isn’t it nice to have a president that doesn’t need a teleprompter?” while speaking next to one on Saturday (5 October), repeating a line he used at a Michigan rally. Speaking at the site where he was nearly assassinated in July, the former president declared: “Not that I use the teleprompters too much... We don’t need it. This one was right smack in the sun.” Minutes earlier, Mr Trump appeared to read off the teleprompter as he introduced Elon Musk on stage in Butler, describing how the billionaire “created the first major American car company in generations.”
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Elon Musk falsely claims Democrats will eliminate elections in US during Donald Trump rally in Butler
Musk falsely claims Democrats will eliminate elections in US during Trump rally
Elon Musk falsely claimed that elections would be eliminated in the US if Donald Trump does not win in November. Speaking at the former president’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania — where the Republican was nearly assassinated in July — the X and Tesla CEO warned “this will be the last election” if Mr Trump doesn’t win. "President Trump must win to preserve the Constitution. He must win to preserve democracy in America," Mr Musk, who does not have a background in politics, claimed.
Butler event site trashed after Trump rally
The Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania ended with a lot of cheers, and a lot of trash.
An image posted of the rally site on X showed the area littered with garbage following the event.
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