Politics Without UM

The former president attempted to "weave" his way through an interview with Bloomberg News, but couldn't escape his own policy black hole

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20897404

Former president makes remark during Las Vegas campaign event and says: ‘Honestly, they’re crazy’

Vice President Kamala Harris has called Trump, 78, unstable and questioned his mental acuity.

The former president’s remarks seemed to contradict what he said last week about reporting that he had phone calls with Putin since leaving office.

*David Duke — former Ku Klux Klan leader and antisemitic white supremacist— endorsed Jill Stein on his radio show on Monday. Duke said he carefully considered what was “good for white people, Europeans” when deciding who to endorse and called it “one of most important statements that [he has] ever made politically.” *

If you needed just one fact to show that in the world’s greatest democracy one of the two major parties is perversely devoted to suppressing and even subverting the vote, you couldn’t do better than this: The senior counsel for the Republican National Committee’s “election integrity team” — Orwellian doublespeak come to life — is a criminal defendantin Arizona’s case against 18 Republicans who tried to overturn the state’s 2020 vote for Joe Biden.

But there are so many more such facts, alas, and they provoke trepidation about post election chaos of the sort that Donald Trump and his party unleashed four years ago.

WASHINGTON (AP) — During his first term as president, Donald Trump tested the limits of how he could use the military to achieve policy goals. If given a second term, the Republican and his allies are preparing to go much further, reimagining the military as an all-powerful tool to deploy on U.S. soil.

Donald Trump and his Republican allies have repeatedly claimed that the Democrats are planning to get illegal immigrants to vote in the US election. 

“Our elections are bad, and a lot of these illegal immigrants coming in, they're trying to get them to vote,” Trump said during the presidential debate with Kamala Harris.

BBC Verify has identified more than 100 paid-for ads on Facebook and Instagram posted by Republicans since the start of September focusing on the issue.

It is illegal for a non-US citizen to vote in a national election, but studies suggest cases of this actually happening are very rare.

CNN — 

Donald Trump’s campaign is making a last-minute push to advocate for early and mail-in voting, methods the former president has falsely vilified for years as dangerous and fraudulent.

With less than a month to go in a tight race, Trump’s campaign is urging people to vote early and by mail, while also working to expand voting access in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday will survey the devastation inflicted on Florida’s Gulf Coast by Hurricane Milton as he urges Congress to approve additional emergency disaster funding. Vice President Kamala Harris will spend a second day in North Carolina, hard-hit by Hurricane Helene, to attend a Black church and hold a campaign rally.

“I think there is going to be some cheating in this election. I think non-citizens are going to vote,” Johnson said.

Journalist who published vetting document on Republican running mate was kicked off site formerly known as Twitter

Russia has confirmed that Donald Trump sent the Kremlin sample Covid-19 tests in the early days of the pandemic, after revelations in veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s new book raised further questions about the former US president’s relationship with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Trump, 78, pledged to CBS in August that he would release his records, as presidential candidates typically do.

Former president says he will use obscure 18th century law to ‘expedite’ deportation of what he claims are ‘illegal alien gang members’