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Trump claims he had ‘right to interfere’ in election as Harris, Biden hold first joint campaign event: Live

Former president said lack of American strength and leadership to blame, baselessly accusing Biden and Harris of only caring about weaponizing Justice Department

James Liddell,Oliver O'Connell
Monday 02 September 2024 10:13
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Harris-Walz camapaign releases ad attacking Donald Trump over Project 2025

Donald Trump boasted that he had “every right” to interfere in the 2020 presidential election as he vies to reclaim the White House in November.

“Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election, where you have every right to do it, you get indicted, and your poll numbers go up,” he told Fox News anchor Mark Levin on Sunday evening.

Trump’s comments come as he faces a slew of legal challenges, including a fresh indictment from the Department of Justice’s Special Counsel Jack Smith over the former president’s election subversion case.

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are heading back out on the campaign trail for a Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Monday, marking the first time they have shared a speaking slot on the political stage since the President stepped off the Democratic ticket in July.

The vice president also accused Trump of “disrespected sacred ground” as he and his campaign team continue to face backlash from his controversial Arlington National Cemetery visit last week.

The Trump team hit back releasing video messages and a joint statement from Gold Star families who lost loved ones in the US withdrawal from Afghanistan under the Biden administration.

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Trump boasts he had ‘every right’ to interfere in 2020 election

Donald Trump boasted that he had “every right” to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, he told Fox News host Mark Levin on Life, Liberty and Levin on Sunday evening.

When Levin segued to the former president’s legal troubles and the Department of Justice’s intentions to “keep smearing you,” in the host’s words, Trump replied: “Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election, where you have every right to do it, you get indicted, and your poll numbers go up,” he said.

“When people get indicted your pull numbers go down.”

Taking a swipe at President Joe Biden, Trump added: “The people who go around indicting their political opponents, especially when their political opponent didn’t want to do it to them. I could’ve done it so easy.”

James Liddell2 September 2024 10:00
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Watch: George Clooney praises ‘selfless’ Joe Biden for dropping out of presidential race

George Clooney praises ‘selfless’Joe Biden for dropping out of presidential race

George Clooney has praised Joe Biden for dropping out of the US presidential race. Speaking at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday (1 September), the Hollywood actor praised Biden for his “selfless act”. Clooney said: “The person who should be applauded is the President who did the most selfless thing anyone has ever done since George Washington. “This is a selfless act. It is very hard to let go of power, we know that, we’ve seen it around the world. “For someone to say there’s a better way forward, all credit goes to him.” Clooney’s comments were met with applause by Wolf co-star Brad Pitt.

James Liddell2 September 2024 09:40
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Maga loyalists and conservatives divided over Trump IVF proposal

Donald Trump’s new proposal for the government or insurance companies to be mandated to pay for in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment for Americans has already divided the Republican party – with two GOP senators giving opposing stances on the matter on Sunday.

The ex-president has been trying to navigate the post-Roe landscape since 2022, with limited success. As his presidential campaign has progressed throughout 2024, Trump has repeatedly claimed credit for appointing Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn federal protections on abortion — while he has simultaneously sought to distance himself from hardline opponents of abortion who are seeking to ban IVF and other fertility treatments, as well as the stricter end of GOP-led proposals to ban abortion at various points during the pregnancy.

Over the past week, the former president made his latest attempt.

John Bowden reports.

Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham reveal Republican split over Trump’s IVF proposal

Senator Tom Cotton said he was ‘open’ to the plan while Senator Lindsey Graham quickly dismissed the idea

James Liddell2 September 2024 09:33
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Trump implements new line of Harris attack: her McDonald’s job

Donald Trump is parroting a new line of attack against Kamala Harris, and he’s lovin’ it.

The vice president formerly claimed that she worked at McDonalds during an appearance on the Drew Barrymore Show in April.

Now, Trump has cast doubts over whether Harris really did flip burgers back in her youth.

“She also said, ‘I worked at McDonald’s.’ Turned out she didn’t work at McDonalds,” he baselessly claimed while speaking to conservative parental rights group, Moms for Liberty on Friday.

“After an exhaustive study that took about 20 minutes, they found out she never worked there. There’s a lot of fake stuff going on,” he added.

On Sunday, the former president took to his Truth Social to once again brand Harris a liar over her fast food chain claim, along with a photoshopped picture of the vice president.

“Kamala said she worked at McDonalds - she never did. Lie!”

Trump posted the photoshopped image of Harris to his Truth Social on Sunday
Trump posted the photoshopped image of Harris to his Truth Social on Sunday (RealDonaldTrump/Truth Social )
James Liddell2 September 2024 09:00
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Trump says Israeli hostage murder ‘wouldn’t have happened’ if he was in office

Donald Trump said that the murder of six Israeli hostages, including US citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, would have never happened if he was still president.

The Israeli Defense Forces confirmed the deaths in an early-morning briefing on Sunday, declaring that the hostages were “brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists,” just days before military personnel retrieved their bodies from a tunnel several dozen feet deep in the southern Gazan city of Rafah.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded streets on Sunday night, urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree a deal with Hamas to return the remaining hostages.

Now, Trump has spoken out declaring that he will stop the war upon his prospective return to the White House.

“This terror would have never happened if I were President, and it will stop the day I am back in the Oval Office,” he wrote on X on Sunday evening.

James Liddell2 September 2024 08:40
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Scaramucci claims he’s met only one person who hates former president more than Melania

Anthony Scaramucci, a former aide to Donald Trump, has claimed he has only met one person who hates his ex-boss more than his wife Melania Trump.

Speaking in an interview with MeidasTouch on Saturday, Scaramucci suggested that the former president’s wife might be the only person who would like to see Vice President Kamala Harris win the presidential election more than he does, because “she hates him.”

Michelle Del Rey has the story.

Ex-aide says he’s met only one person who hates Trump more than Melania

‘The Mooch’ Anthony Scaramucci said he judges people’s hatred of the former president using the ‘Melania standard’

Oliver O'Connell2 September 2024 08:30
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Lindsey Graham brands Harris a ‘wrecking ball’ on Israel

Donald Trump loyalist Lindsey Graham went on the offense against Kamala Harris on Sunday calling her a “wrecking ball” for her stance on Israel’s war with Hamas, after it was announced that six hostages had been found dead in Gaza.

Graham appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday and opened up a line of attack against Harris’s foreign policy credentials – something that the Trump campaign has been trying to get off the ground this past week as it pushes back on criticism over a controversial visit to Arlington National Cemetery and a host of issues related to his running mate JD Vance.

“I would say on foreign policy, she [Harris] has been a wrecking ball,” Graham said on Sunday.

John Bowden reports.

Lindsey Graham brands Harris a ‘wrecking ball’ on Israel after 6 hostages found dead

Republicans intensify attacks on Biden-Harris foreign policy as Middle East conflict escalates

Oliver O'Connell2 September 2024 07:30
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Even as polling shows her beating Trump, Harris campaign embraces ‘underdog’ label

A memo sent out by the Harris campaign on Sunday morning claimed that the vice president was still the “underdog” in the race and projected “razor-thin” margins for the race in November.

John Bowden has the story.

Harris’s campaign embraces ‘underdog’ label – even as polling shows her beating Trump

Harris team says they won’t take polling surge for granted as they enter race’s home stretch

Oliver O'Connell2 September 2024 06:30
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JD Vance attacks working women as being ‘on path to misery’

In a resurfaced podcast interview from September 2021, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said that professional women “choose a path to misery” by prioritizing their careers over having children

Donald Trump’s running mate also claimed the masculinity of men in America is “suppressed”, and attacked immigrants and Democratic Rep Ilhan Omar.

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JD Vance attacks working women as being ‘on path to misery’ in unearthed audio

In the 2021 podcast recording, Trump’s running mate also hits out at Democratic Rep Ilhan Omar and immigrants

Oliver O'Connell2 September 2024 04:30
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Melania’s plea for Trump to control his swearing flops

Melania Trump’s apparent plea to her husband Donald Trump to control his language fell on deaf ears on Friday night when he torched Kamala Harris saying that everything she touches turns to “s**t.”

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Melania’s plea for Trump to not swear flops as he tears into Harris at rally

Former first lady and Rev Franklin Graham have asked Trump to control his language, he told a crowd in Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Oliver O'Connell2 September 2024 02:30

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