Trump bemoans Fox showing Harris rallies as he spends $1.7m on TV ads after she dominates polls – live
Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into his attempted assassination, an official said on Monday.
The expected interview is part of the standard protocol to speak with victims of federal crimes during the course of their investigations. On Friday, the FBI said that Trump was struck by a bullet or a fragment of one during the July 13 assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
It comes as text messages between members of the Beaver County Emergency Service obtained by The New York Times show that some officers noticed Thomas Crooks acting suspiciously ahead of the assassination attempt at the Trump rally.
Meanwhile, there is outrage after Trump appeared to suggest that he would end elections in the US if he’s re-elected.
Trump told “The Believers’ Summit”: “Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore … You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”
Many Democrats interpreted the comments as Trump being prepared to put an end to American democracy.
‘Racist’ Mountain Dew, cat ladies — and is that eyeliner?
Oliver O’Connell29 July 2024 23:45
Resurfaced emails show JD Vance calling Trump ‘morally reprehensible’
JD Vance’s evolution from Donald Trump critic to the former president’s running mate is under the spotlight as resurfaced emails reveal that he once privately considered Trump a “demagogue,” a “disaster” and a “morally reprehensible human being.”
Kelly Rissman has the details.
Oliver O’Connell29 July 2024 22:45
‘We’ll see if Trump shows’: Harris will be at September 10 debate says campaign
Kamala Harris’s campaign is doubling down on its accusation that Donald Trump is backpedaling away from their scheduled debate on September 10 hosted by ABC News.
In a statement first shared with The Hill, campaign communications director Michael Tyler said that the vice president will be at the debate as scheduled, regardless of whether the former president shows up.
“As Vice President Harris said last week, the American people deserve to hear from the two candidates running for the highest office in the land and she will do that at September’s ABC debate,” Tyler said. “If Donald Trump and his team are saying anything other than ‘we’ll see you there,’ — and it appears that they are — it’s a convenient, but expected backtrack from Team Trump. Vice President Harris will be there on September 10th — we’ll see if Trump shows.”
Trump adviser Jason Miller told MSNBC over the weekend that the former president will “of course” debate the Democratic Party nominee but they need to formalize who that is “before we go and lock in all the debates”.
Oliver O’Connell29 July 2024 22:15
Trump rails against Fox News for showing Harris rallies and Lincoln Project ads
Donald Trump is once again angry at Fox News. Specifically, this time he is fuming that the network is showing rallies for Kamala Harris and ads for anti-Trump conservative group The Lincoln Project.
Here’s what he had to say on Truth Social this afternoon:
Why is FoxNews putting on Crazy Kamala Harris Rallies? Why do they allow the perverts at the failed and disgraced Lincoln Project to advertise on FoxNews? Even Mr. Kellyanne Conway, a man so badly hurt and humiliated by his wife (she must have done some really NASTY things to him, because he is CRAZY!), is advertising on FoxNews. We have to WIN WITHOUT FOX!
Oliver O’Connell29 July 2024 21:58
A joke? A ‘classic Trumpism’? Or the end of democracy?
Now Republican allies are walking back the remarks as Katie Hawkinson reports.
Oliver O’Connell29 July 2024 21:45
Melania Trump’s former confidant lays into her over US citizenship post
Melania Trump’s former close acquaintance has attacked the former first lady after she celebrated a “personal milestone” on her US citizenship.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff was once Trump’s closest confidant and ex-adviser. The pair became friends two years before Trump became a naturalized US citizen in 2004.
Since the pair have been embroiled in a feud, Wolkoff has launched a series of personal attacks criticizing Trump as being inauthentic and her relationship with former president Donald Trump as “transactional” in a series of scathing social media posts.
James Liddell has the latest.
Oliver O’Connell29 July 2024 21:15
In depth: Everything that went wrong and how a would-be assassin was able to put Trump in his bullseye
New details about the hours leading up to the Trump rally shooting show gaping holes in the Secret Service’s security detail that allowed a 20-year-old gunman to have a clear shot at Donald Trump and a crowd of his supporters.
Oliver O’Connell29 July 2024 20:45
Trump announces he will embrace cryptocurrency as part of plan to become bitcoin president
Donald Trump has said he will fully embrace cryptocurrency as part of apparent plans to put bitcoin at the heart of his presidential campaign.
The former president appeared at a bitcoin conference over the weekend in which he said he would make the US a “bitcoin superpower” and turn the country into the “capital of the planet for cryptocurrency.
Oliver O’Connell29 July 2024 20:15
Schumer notes clock ticking if Trump considering replacing Vance
If Donald Trump is having doubts about JD Vance as his running mate, he doesn’t have long to choose a replacement, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
“The addition of JD Vance on this ticket is an incredibly bad choice,” Schumer said Sunday on Face the Nation. “Donald Trump, I know him, and he’s probably sitting and watching the TV, and every day it comes out Vance has done something more extreme, more weird, more erratic.”
Oliver O’Connell29 July 2024 20:00
Vance defends ‘childless cat ladies’ comments
JD Vance has defended his sexist comments branding Kamala Harris and other women “childless cat ladies” and is now trying to flip the narrative by accusing Jennifer Aniston of making “disgusting” remarks about his daughter.
Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick continues to face backlash after a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News resurfaced and went viral last week.
Oliver O’Connell29 July 2024 19:45
