Trump attacks Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter again as he attends NYPD officer’s funeral: Updates

Mr Diller was shot and killed as he was doing traffic stops this week. On Monday, he approached a car that was illegally parked with a fellow officer. The suspects in the car – Lindy Jones and Guy Rivera – refused to roll down the windows or to move their car. They also didn’t show their hands when asked to. Mr Rivera then shot Mr Diller, who died after being taken to hospital.

In a statement to The Independent on Thursday, Mr Gonell said of Mr Trump:

Mr Colbert began his opening monologue by recapping the latest developments in the Republican presidential candidate’s numerous court cases before declaring: “If you ever thought that this avalanche of legal scrutiny would somehow shame Trump from his non-stop grifting of the rubes then you are a sweet, sweet child, one of God’s innocents who should not be allowed in the room where daddy keeps his sharp things because, yesterday, Donald Trump announced a deal to endorse a $60 ‘God Bless the USA Bible’.

The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg and Eric Garcia report on how the Trump and Biden campaigns plan to respond to polling data that suggest almost 25 per cent of Black voters would back the former president — mostly Black men.

Please enjoy the accompanying comedic music.

Here’s the increasingly invaluable Jessica Tarlov arguing on Fox yesterday that Trump is too busy visting courtrooms and golfing to campaign properly.

Speaking of that network, here’s a couple of other jaw-dropping clips from the airwaves yesterday, courtesy of Sean Hannity and Jeanine Piro.

Trump’s post-Twitter tech outfit and Reddit are the first notable social media companies to begin trading publicly in the last five years.

They’re also, thanks to the rabid reception among day traders coupled with the companies’ dubious profit outlooks, the latest meme stocks.

That term refers to shares in modish companies whose underlying business fails to justify the accompanying surge in their price.

The action is often driven by small investors who pile into a trending stock for a specific reason, be it belief that a struggling company can turn itself around, a disdain for so-called short sellers — or fidelity to a former president.

Here’s more on the Truth Social floatation.

Here’s Andrew Feinberg and Eric Garcia’s report on how the Trump and Biden campaigns plan to respond to polling data that suggests almost 25 per cent of Black voters are ready to back the Republican.

A new nationwide poll of voters shows President Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in a head-to-head matchup but narrowly trailing his once-and-future opponent when third-party candidates are included on the ballot.

The survey, released on Wednesday by Quinnipiac University, shows Mr Biden leading Mr Trump by three percentage points, 48 per cent to 45 per cent, but trailing him 39 per cent to 38 per cent when independent candidate Robert Kenendy Jr and Green Party candidate Dr Jill Stein are included in the running.

John Bowden looks at the numbers: