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.

Trump recalls 'as I was saying' as he speaks in Butler first time since assassination attempt

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.

Key Points

• Trump returned to the scene of his assassination attempt. A lot has changed since then
• Melania says Trump has always known her views on abortion
• Elon Musk in a ‘dark MAGA’ hat joins Trump in Butler
• Trump falsely suggests Democrats ‘tried to kill me'
• Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates
• Harris will go on a media blitz this week, interviewing with Stephen Colbert and Howard Stern, just one month ahead of the election

[6 October 2024 00:14 · Alex Woodward]

Trump repeatedly claims Biden-Harris response to Hurricane Helene is ‘worse’ than Katrina

Thoughout his rally, Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed that the Biden-Harris administration response to Hurricane Helene is “the worst job ever done on helping people through the ravages of a hurricane” — including Hurricane Katrina.

Trump has falsely claimed that the federal government’s emergency agencies have misspent billions of dollars or not at all.

“This is a Katrina for them,” he said on Saturday. “They say it’s the worst job ever done on helping people through the ravages of a hurricane.”

[6 October 2024 00:04 · Alex Woodward]

Photos: Elon Musk joins Trump onstage in Butler

Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, spoke onstage at a campaign rally alongside Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, marking the first time that the billionaire has publicly campaigned with the former president since declaring his support this summer.

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[5 October 2024 23:50 · Graig Graziosi]

“Dark MAGA” Elon Musk rallies onstage with Trump in Pennsylvania, suggests Democrats will eliminate elections in America

Elon Musk, the CEO of X and Tesla, made a plea for Americans to vote for Trump during the former president’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

He said he believed that if Trump loses, it would be the last election in America, insinuating that Democrats would eliminate elections under a Kamala Harris administration.

There is no evidence supporting that claim.

[5 October 2024 23:47 · Graig Graziosi]

Trump calls Elon Musk to the stage

Donald Trump Elon Musk up to the stage during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and claimed that SpaceX was the “only reason” America can still send astronauts into space.

Musk came up tot he stage and took a swipe at Joe Biden, calling him a president who “couldn’t climb a flight of stairs” before comparing him to Trump, praising the former president for taking a bullet.

He then falsely claimed that Democrats were trying to take away Americans’ rights to vote, their right to bear arms, and their right to free speech.

[5 October 2024 23:45 · Graig Graziosi]

WATCH: Trump recalls 'as I was saying' as he speaks in Butler first time since assassination attempt

[5 October 2024 23:41 · Graig Graziosi]

Trump says countries across the globe have released more than “13,000 murderers” into the US

Trump said more than “13,000 murderers” have been let into the US during Joe Biden’s administration.

During his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, he said countries “all over the world” were releasing muderers and human traffickers into the US.

There is no evidence supporting Trump’s claim that countries are intentionally “releasing” anyone into the US.

[5 October 2024 23:35 · Graig Graziosi]

Trump talks about his “beautiful life” before a medical issue in the crowd stalls the rally

Trump boasted about his properties and the “beautiful life” he could have if he weren’t running for president during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“I could have such a beautiful life,” Trump said, before boasting of his properties. “I could be in Monte Carlo, but I’d rather be in Butler.”

A short time later, someone in the crowd suffered a medical issue, briefly interrupting the rally. Trump stopped, saying “take your time, doctor” and waited for the individual to receive medical care before continuing.

During the downtime, the crowd started singing the national anthem.

[5 October 2024 23:29 · Graig Graziosi]

Trump suggests the government is paying for “sex change operations for illegal aliens"

Trump suggested on Saturday during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania that migrants in “holding bins” were being given government sponsored “sex change operations.”

“Who wants sex change operations for illegal aliens in holding bins?”

The dubious claim has been a frequent talking point among Republicans, who have made both illegal immigration and opposition to transgender individuals a main focus of the 2024 campaign.

[5 October 2024 23:25 · Graig Graziosi]

Trump insinuates Democrats “maybe tried to kill me"

Donald Trump said that Democrats “maybe tried to kill me” during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania — the site of his attempted assassination by Thomas Matthew Crooks in July — after which the crowd chanted “fight fight fight.”

There is zero evidence that Democrats had anything to do with Crooks’s shooting.

Earlier in the night Trump’s son, Eric, made similar false insinuations.

[5 October 2024 23:21 · Graig Graziosi]

Conservative campaigner courts Amish voters with “raw milk” before Trump walked out at Butler rally

Conservative social media influencer and campaigner Scott Presler made an appeal to the Amish in Pennsylvania on Saturday before Donald Trump appeared at his Butler rally.

He told them Trump’s White House would protect their “raw milk” and would provide them a country where they could afford to have families with 10 children.

It’s not the first time Republicans have courted the Amish vote in Pennsylvania.