Election 2024 live: Trump issues new threat to enemies as he praises dictators ahead of Harris rally in Houston
Trump and Harris campaign in Texas with pop superstar Beyoncé set to star with VP, after Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen and other celebrities stumped for her in Georgia
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Former president Donald Trump repeated his familiar rhetoric and misinformation about immigration and the U.S.–Mexico border and praised Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin at a rally in Austin, Texas.
“Putin and the whole group, Kim Jong Un, they’re tough guys out there. They’re tough and they’re smart and they’re street wise and they’re at the top of their game,” Trump told rallygoers.
The former president is known to praise dictators. Thirteen former Trump administration officials have issued an open letter expressing their agreement with ex-chief of staff John Kelly’s assessment of the former president as a fascist.
Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris will appear alongside pop superstar Beyonce in Houston, Texas, later today as she focuses on the future of reproductive rights.
The Democrat held a start-studded rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday where she was joined by Barack Obama, Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee, Tyler Perry and Bruce Springsteen, the latter serenading her supporters and denouncing Trump as an “American tyrant”.
At his own rally in Las Vegas yesterday, Trump falsely claimed that Harris had “absolutely bombed” in Georgia, before spewing fresh bile about his opponent and immigrants.
He had earlier called America “a garbage can for the world” in Arizona.
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Kamala and Donald are both on 48 percent in the final pre-election opinion poll from those institutions as the Democrat continues to struggle to carve out an advantage, despite her Republican rival’s endless scandals, controversies and whackadoo pronouncements.
Sigh.
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Thirteen ex-Trump official sign open letter backing up Kelly’s ‘fascist’ criticism
The letter is signed by the likes of Olivia Troye, Stephanie Grisham, Anthony Scaramucci, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sarah Matthews and Miles Taylor, all of whom served in Trump’s administration between 2017 and 2021, and responds to John F Kelly’s comments in The New York Times thusly:
“The revelations General Kelly brought forward are disturbing and shocking. But because we know Trump and have worked for and alongside him, we were sadly not surprised by what General Kelly had to say.
“We applaud General Kelly for highlighting in stark details the danger of a second Trump term. Like General Kelly, we did not take the decision to come forward lightly. We are all lifelong Republicans who served our country.
“However, there are moments in history where it becomes necessary to put country over party. This is one of those moments. Everyone should heed General Kelly’s warning.”
Mel Gibson says Harris has the ‘IQ of a fence post’
“Mad Mel” might have lifted this diss from Tom Waits’s classic song “The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)”, which I realise is not the worst thing he’s ever done but still.
Greg Evans reports.
Mel Gibson gives Kamala Harris a scathing assessment: ‘IQ of a fence post’
‘I don’t think it’s going to surprise anyone who I’ll vote for’ said the Hollywood star
Democrats troll Trump with Hitler quote billboard outside Vegas rally
Despite Trump’s denials, this one is clearly not going away anytime soon...
Mike Bedigan has this on some timely trolling in Vegas.
Democrats put up billboard referencing Trump Hitler quotes outside of his Vegas rally
It comes following a recent report in which claimed Trump once told White House officials he needed generals as loyal to him as those of the German dictator.
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