Trump desires ‘apology’ from 60 Minutes after dropping out of interview: Live
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Donald Trump is holding a rally in Juneau, Wisconsin on Sunday afternoon, where he demanded that 60 Minutes give him an “apology.”
Trump backed out of the interview on Tuesday, just ahead of the vice presidential debate on CBS, the same network that airs 60 Minutes.
Earlier this week, CBS said that Trump committed to the interview while the Trump campaign told CNN that the interview was never “locked in” and that the network had “insisted on cutting out of the interview to do fact-checking.”
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris will go on a media blitz this week as she sits down for interviews with 60 Minutes,The View, late-night host Stephen Colbert and radio host Howard Stern with just 30 days left until Election Day.
In a preview for her 60 Minutes interview, Harris was pressed about the US’s relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nearly one year after Hamas attacks on October 7 — questions she largely dodged.
Trump’s Wisconsin rally comes just one day after he held a lie-filled event at the venue in Butler, Pennsylvania where he survived an assassination attempt just three months ago. At Saturday’s rally, he suggested that his political opponents “maybe tried to kill me.”
DeSantis administration threatens local TV station for airing abortion rights campaign ads
Ron DeSantis’s administration has appeared to threaten a local TV station with legal action for airing an abortion rights campaign ad.
The features a woman named Caroline who needed to have an abortion and cancer treatments after a brain tumor diagnosis in 2022. She praises Amendment 4, which would enshrine abortion access in the state that currently has a six-week ban on the procedure.
An October 3 letter from the Florida Department of Health sent to WFLA TV’s vice president Mark Higgins claiming the ad is illegal under section 386.01 of Florida law that allows the state to remove any “nuisance” that “threatens or impairs” people’s health.
Rhian Lubin has the full story.
Recap: Harris visited North Carolina after Hurricane Helene ravaged the state
Vice President Kamala Harris visited the state on Saturday and visited Asheville — a city hit by substantial flooding during the storm.
“We’re here for the long haul,” she told a volunteer leader.
The Democratic nominee’s visit juxtaposes Trump’s false claims that the embattled region hasn’t seen “anybody from the federal government yet.”
The internet is in hysterics over Elon Musk’s jump
Elon Musk spoke at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last night.
But the internet — namely users on his own social media platform — are focused less on his speech and more on his vertical.
An animated Musk leaped on the Butler stage, exposing his belly button.
Some users have even gone so far as to call the Space X owner as “the greatest jumper of all time.”
WATCH: Melania Trump discusses husband’s near-assassination in Pennsylvania
ICYMI: ‘Dark MAGA’ Elon Musk rallies onstage with Trump
Elon Musk, the CEO of X and Tesla, spoke during Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, and made the brazenly false claim that Democrats were going to eliminate elections in the US.
Trump — returning to the site where he was nearly assassinated in July— introduced Musk as the man who “saved free speech“ and as a “rocket builder,” claiming his company Space X was the only reason that American astronauts can return to space.
The world’s wealthiest man took the stage in a black “Make America Great Again” hat and told the crowd he was “dark MAGA” — seemingly referencing the fringe far-right meme — before taking a swipe at President Joe Biden.
Read the full story.
North Carolina’s scandal-ridden Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson is losing by double digits, poll shows
North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson is trailing his opponent by 17 points in the state’s gubernatorial race, according to a new poll.
Robinson faces an uphill battle as Josh Stein, North Carolina Attorney General, has 51 percent support of voters compared to the Republican’s 34 percent, the High Point University poll revealed.
Robinson, who has been rocked by public scandal in recent weeks, is also trailing Stein by double digits in two other polls released last week. The Washington Post poll puts Stein at 54 percent to Robinson’s 38 percent, while a poll from East Carolina University has the Democratic at 50 percent compared to Robinson at 33 percent.
Read the full story.
Trump returned to Butler three months after an attempt on his life. But since then, has he changed?
On Saturday, Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania — the site of his first assassination attempt.
The political landscape has totally shifted since the July 13 attack.
The ear bandage has come off, he has been named the Republican nominee, and he faces a new formidable rival, yet in the three months since the former president has sustained not one but two attempts on his life, shockingly, nothing about him seems to have fundamentally changed.
Read the full story.
Melania gives robotic response when asked why Trump returned to Butler
Trump’s return to the site of his assassination attempt on Saturday was politically significant.
John Bowden has the full story.
Donald Trump demands ‘apology’ from 60 Minutes after he backed out of interview
In Wisconsin on Sunday afternoon, Trump asked that the program “apologize” after he took issue with the network’s fact-checking about Hunter Biden’s laptop and crime rates.
Kamala Harris will appear on the program for an election special on Monday.
While the Trump campaign denies ever committing to the interview, CBS has insisted that he had committed to it but backed out on Tuesday.
In photos: Trump returns to Butler, the site of his first assassination attempt
Source: independent.co.uk
