Month: August 2024

Donald Trump, flirting with authoritarianism, is making excuses for what’s plainly in front of him: Democrats are finally excited about this election.

Familiar vitriol, and Musk the enabler: key takeaways from Trump’s X interview  The Guardian USsource

The GOP’s presidential nominee is dishing out increasingly bizarre and outlandish claims as Vice President Kamala Harris rises in the polls.

Trump flew in Epstein’s plane; campaign had ‘no idea’: Report  NewsNation Nowsource

FBI investigating attempts to hack Biden-Harris and Trump campaigns  CBS Newssource

Fifty years ago last week, Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency. His resignation was compelled by the impending release of the infamous White House tape recordings, which the Supreme Court, in a case that I argued, had just ordered disclosed. The batch of subpoenaed tapes included the “smoking gun tape,” proving that Nixon himself had…
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After a glitchy start, Trump encounters a sympathetic interviewer in Elon Musk  Los Angeles Timessource

Jon Stewart poked fun at former President Trump on Monday’s episode of “The Daily Show” for appearing to confuse two Black politicians while recounting a story about hearing negative things about now-Vice President Harris during a troubled helicopter flight. In Trump’s recollection, which he relayed to reporters at a press conference last week, he was…
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Trump falsely claims Harris crowd was faked  BBC.comsource

Trump to sue justice department over ‘improper purpose’ to Mar-a-Lago raid  The Guardian USsource

Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview. It was an unmitigated disaster.  USA TODAYsource

Cybersecurity expert weighs in on Trump’s claim his campaign was hacked by Iran  PBS NewsHoursource

Elon Musk’s X suffers tech failures at start of Donald Trump interview  The Guardiansource

Republican National Committee co-Chair Lara Trump suggested in an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Monday night that the “deep state” is responsible for tribulations former President Trump has faced — from the hacking of his campaign to the technical glitches that delayed the start to his interview with Elon Musk on Monday. “Yeah,…
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Musk Claims Hackers Turned Trump’s X Interview Into Disaster  The Daily Beastsource

Their decisions stand in marked contrast to the 2016 presidential campaign, when a Russian hack exposed emails to and from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager.

Former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway offered former President Trump advice in an interview Monday, urging the GOP nominee to throw fewer insults at his political opponents and focus more on policy differences. “The winning formula for President Trump is very plain to see,” Conway told Fox Business anchor Larry Kudlow. “It’s fewer insults, more insights…
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Trump rehashes vitriol and falsehoods in rambling talk with Musk – as it happened  The Guardian USsource

Break-in reported at Trump campaign office in Virginia  POLITICOsource

Democratic strategist Van Jones said Monday that former President Trump is “freaked out” that he’s not getting as much press attention as Vice President Harris and is responding by sharpening his rhetoric about the threat he says his political opponents would pose on the country. “He‘s failing and flailing. Listen, they‘re saying that these are…
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Opinion | The debate is a critical opportunity for media to regain credibility  The Washington Postsource

Jon Stewart Breaks Bad News to Trump: ‘Biden’s Not Coming Back’  The Daily Beastsource

Feeling the heat from Harris, Trump makes changes  Axiossource

A sudden shift of enthusiasm  Daily Montanansource

Vice President Harris’s campaign responded to former President Trump’s interview with Elon Musk Monday, calling them “self-obsessed rich guys” and jabbing them over their livestream issues. “Trump’s entire campaign is in service of people like Elon Musk and himself — self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a…
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