Donald Trump rallied supporters in Mosinee, Wisconsin on Saturday, in his first visit to the deep-red, mostly rural part of the important swing state.
Amid a familiar list of grievances, the former president made a new attack against Harris. He suggested expanding the 25th Amendment to include the possiblity of removing a vice president. Trump has been openly bitter about President Joe Biden’s decision to exit the 2024 race.
Accusing Harris and other Biden allies of pushing him out of the race in a “cover-up,” Trump told the crowd: “I will support modifying the 25th Amendment to make clear that if a vice president lies or engages in a conspiracy to cover up the incapacity of the president of the United States — if you do that with a cover-up of the president of the United States, it’s grounds for impeachment immediately and removal from office, ‘cause that’s what they did.”
At another point during the rally, Trump offered an explanation for his frequent references to the ficitional cannibal Hannibal Lecter. The Silence of the Lambs character is a “representative of people that are coming into our country,” he said.
This type of explanation, similar to his explanation last weak for his ability to “weave”, has prompted one of his biographers to say he is “hyper-aware” that he is mentally slipping.
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Trump tries to manage expectations for Tuesday’s debate by predicting media will say he was humiliated
Donald Trump wants his supporters to know that even if he loses his upcoming debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, he really won.
During a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin on Saturday, Trump prepped his base, telling them that even if he does well in his debate with Harris, he’ll still be blasted by the media.
“If I destroy her in the debate, they’ll say Trump suffered a humiliating debate tonight,” he told a crowd of MAGA faithful on Saturday.
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Supreme Court Justice Alito says he got $900 concert tickets from German princess
Justice Samuel Alito reported Friday that he accepted $900 worth of concert tickets from a German princess, but disclosed no trips paid for by other people, according to a new financial disclosure form.
The required annual filing, for which Alito has often sought an extension, doesn’t include details of the event tickets gifted by socialite Gloria von Thurn und Taxis of Germany. Alito didn’t report any outside income from teaching or book contracts.
The financial disclosures filed by Supreme Court justices come against the backdrop of a heightened focus on ethics at the high court amid criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices. The other eight justices filed their forms in June; Alito received an extension.
Trump biographer believes he is ‘hyper-aware’ that he is mentally slipping
Donald Trump, now the oldest candidate to run for president, is facing intense scrutiny over his age and mental sharpness — and his biographer thinks Trump is “hyper-aware” that he is cognitively slipping and trying to make up for it with “convoluted explanations,” according to a report.
President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race after a fumbled debate performance that had voters questioning his mental acuity. Now Trump is facing similar questions and is trying to provide explanations for his frequent mentions of Hannibal Lecter, garbled words, incomplete thoughts, conflating the names of prominent figures, and his penchant for rambling.
But the explanations caused one Trump biographer to believe the GOP nominee knows full well that he is losing his mental footing.
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Why the mediocre jobs numbers might be a good thing for Kamala Harris
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest jobs numbers, which showed that the US economy added 142,000 jobs. That is higher than the 99,000 jobs that ADP predicted, but still lower than most expectations.
E Jean Carroll’s lawyer says ‘all options on the table’ after Trump attacks her again in rambling remarks
As he detailed sexual assault allegations against him in two defamation cases he lost, Donald Trump said he was “very disappointed” in his legal team while half a dozen of his attorneys surrounded him in the lobby of Trump Tower on Friday.
Trump attended brief oral arguments in a federal appeals court hearing in Manhattan on Friday morning, where attorneys argued to reverse a $5 million defamation verdict against the former president, who a jury found liable for sexually abusing the writer E Jean Carroll in a department store in the 1990s.
Trump insists that he has never met Carroll and has labeled her a liar, claims that landed him a second defamation lawsuit, which he lost earlier this year. A separate jury awarded Carroll more than $83 million.
Trump threatening the EU with more tariffs for not taking US cars and agriculture products
Trump threatened the EU with more tariffs for not taking American cars and agriculture products.
“The European Union … is one of the most egregious. They don’t take our cars, they don’t take our farm products, and we have a $300 billion trade deficit with them,” he claimed. “They’re going to have to pay a price now, because we’ve been supporting them for a long time, and it’s no longer sustainable. So I’m a tariff president, I’m not a tax increase president, because we’re going to lower your taxes when I’m back in the White House.”
The last time Trump put tariffs on the EU, it retaliated with tariffs on goods from red states like Harley-Davidson and Jack Daniels, threatening their share prices.
Trump bizarrely claims children are subject to ‘brutal’ operations
Source: independent.co.uk