Trump accuses Biden of working with Iran over hack and says Haiti migrants are ‘destroying’ US: Live

Former president says he will visit Springfield, Ohio, after making false claims about city’s migrant population

CNN shows Vance blasting Democrats for calling Trump a ‘fascist’ before showing Trump calling Harris the same term

Donald Trump spoke at a rally in suburban New York on Wednesday evening where he accused President Joe Biden of working with Iran because of the recent hacking operation against his campaign.

“The FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, they just released a report confirming that Iran actors hacked into the Trump campaign's e-mail accounts, and in turn, sought to give the hacked materials to the Biden-Harris campaign,” Trump said at the rally in Uniondale on Long Island.

Trump also said he would visit Springfield, Ohio, as he continued to make false claims about the migrants in the city.

“We’re getting them out of our country,” the former president said.

“They came in illegally. They’re destroying our country... They’re going to be brought back to the country from which they came.”

Trump began to speak at the Nassau Coliseum shortly after 7pm and continued for roughly 90 minutes.

The former president said early in his rally remarks that Vice President Kamala Harris is a threat to democracy as he tried to turn Democratic attacks back onto his rival.

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• JD Vance makes the press part of his show as he doubles down on his attacks on migrants in North Carolina

[19 September 2024 08:30 · Oliver O'Connell]

Melania Trump defends nude modeling career

Melania Trump has taken the media to task over its interest in her past nude modeling career in the latest video promoting her new memoir Melania.

“Why do I stand proudly behind my nude modelling work?” the former first lady and wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, 54, asks in the video posted on X and Instagram.

“The more pressing question is why has the media chosen to scrutinize my celebration of the human form in a fashion photo shoot?”

Joe Sommerlad reports.

[19 September 2024 07:30 · Oliver O'Connell]

Feature: The anti-abortion and anti-IVF campaigners who feel betrayed by Trump

Eric Garcia writes:

Trump has tried to walk a tightrope on both abortion and IVF. He knows that such hardline stances are unpopular with the wider American populace, and he fears what that could do at the ballot box — especially when even deep red states like Kansas ended up voting against abortion bans in recent referenda. His position is endlessly confused: He recently said that Florida’s six-week ban on abortion is “too short”, before he backtracked and said he would vote against a proposed constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights that will be on the ballot in his home state in November.

It’s not just progressives and those who fight for reproductive rights who are worried. For many conservative anti-abortion activists, Trump’s waffling feels like a confirmation of their worst fears.

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[19 September 2024 06:30 · Oliver O'Connell]

Trump mixed up an Afghan airbase with an oil-rich region of Alaska

Donald Trump has been roasted after he bizarrely mixed up an Alaskan wildlife refuge and an Afghanistan airbase during a town hall in Michigan.

The former president appeared on stage in Flint on Tuesday for the event which was moderated by his former White House press secretary and current Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

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[19 September 2024 05:30 · Oliver O'Connell]

Vance once penned a blog post slamming Republicans for anti-immigrant stance — oh how times have changed...

JD Vance once penned a furious blog post sharing his disdain for the Republican party’s hostility toward immigrants – then urged his professor to delete it years later as he sought to enter politics.

As a 28-year-old Yale law student back in November 2012, the Ohio senator wrote an article titled: “A Blueprint for the GOP.”

In it, the more youthful and progressive Vance slammed Republicans for being “tone deaf” on immigration and “openly hostile to non-whites.”

Now, more than a decade later, as Donald Trump’s running mate, he has been accused of amplifying this same anti-immigrant rhetoric – most recently pushing false claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.

James Liddell has the story.

[19 September 2024 05:00 · Josh Marcus]

Fake story claiming Kamala Harris was involved in a hit-and-run was created by Russian troll farm: Microsoft

A Russian troll farm was behind false claims Kamala Harris was involved in a 2011 hit-and-run accident and other inflammatory stories that spread online, according to a report from the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center.

A Kremlin-aligned group, dubbed Storm-1516 in the report, created a fake San Francisco-area website in August to publish a video featuring a paid actor talking about the alleged incident.

In the video, a young Black woman claimed she “cannot remain silent anymore.”

[19 September 2024 04:30 · Oliver O'Connell]

Jimmy Kimmel brings up Trump’s glowing past comments about Diddy

Jimmy Kimmel has reminded Donald Trump of the glowing comments he previously made about Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was arrested by federal agents in New York on Monday following months of civil lawsuits accusing him of sex trafficking, sexual abuse and rape.

After the judge denied the rapper bail on Tuesday, the Jimmy Kimmel Live host said: “in the meantime, he’s getting his character referenes lined up.”

Myriam Page has the story.

[19 September 2024 03:45 · Oliver O'Connell]

PREMIUM: I traveled with Tim Walz after the second attempted Trump assassination. Here’s how he reacted

Flying with Harris’s running-mate — and trailing him from campaign event to campaign event, all while trying to get a reaction to breaking news — can be a surreal affair, as Andrew Feinberg reports.

[19 September 2024 03:00 · Oliver O'Connell]

Latest poll updates: Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump?

Alicja Hagopian looks at the latest numbers.

[19 September 2024 02:30 · Gustaf Kilander]

Kentucky rape survivor hits out at Trump for overturning Roe in powerful new Harris ad

Kentucky rape survivor Hadley Duvall narrates a new ad for the Harris campaign in which she severely criticizes former President Donald Trump for the overturning of Roe v Wade.

During his term in the White House, Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices who voted for the overturning of the landmark 1973 ruling which made abortion a constitutionally protected right. It was overturned in the summer of 2022.

In the ad, Duvall speaks about how she was abused by her stepfather from the age of five, and how he impregnated her at the age of 12 before Roe was overturned.

Duvall said this meant she “had options.”

[19 September 2024 02:00 · Eric Garcia]

JD Vance makes the press part of his show as he doubles down on his attacks on migrants in North Carolina

Adirty secret about Senator JD Vance that probably would not endear him to the MAGA faithful is that on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump’s running mate is fairly friendly to reporters of all stripes.

The bestselling author is more than comfortable talking to the press and frequently lets reporters ride the elevator with him on his way to votes. Indeed, he’s shown himself willing to go on the Sunday shows to defend his Trump and his lie about pets being eaten by Haitian migrants.

But on the campaign trail as Trump’s top surrogate, the Ohio senator does something different. During his rally at Union Station in Raleigh, North Carolina, a crucial swing state, Vance dinged his boss’s opponent Kamala Harris for only doing two sitdown interviews since she became the Democratic nominee for president.