Former President Donald Trump used a speech on anti-Semitism Thursday to repeatedly berate Jewish-Americans for voting heavily Democratic, repeating his line that Jews who back Vice President Kamala Harris this fall should “have their head examined.” “I really haven’t been treated very well, but that’s the story of my life,” Trump said in the speech, delivered at a Capitol Hill hotel. He said he received only 24% of the Jewish vote in the 2020 election after being “the best president ever” for them and Israel. The anti-Semitism event at which Trump spoke was organized by Miriam Adelson, a physician, philanthropist, and prominent…
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed he was being targeted by “radical left” forces and vowed to campaign with renewed purpose at his first full-fledged campaign rally since an alleged second assassination attempt on Sunday. “These encounters with death have not broken my will,” he told a raucous crowd in Uniondale, New York, 30 miles from Manhattan. “They have only hardened my resolve.” Trump spoke at a Long Island sports arena packed with more than 10,000 supporters even though New York, which leans heavily Democratic, is not considered to be a competitive state in the Nov. 5 election. Local Democrats…
Rep. Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho) suggested on Monday former President Trump consider hiring private security following the second apparent assassination attempt in the last few months. “If I’m President Trump, and my objective is to stay alive, I want to look at a lot of different options, including possibly even private security to enhance some of these needs,” Fulcher said in an interview on “The Hill” on NewsNation. “But the intelligence community has not been forthright in their communication with Congress,” he continued. Fulcher praised the Secret Service officials for preventing greater tragedy on the golf course on Sunday, but he…
Former President Trump said in a fundraising email Sunday that he “will NEVER SURRENDER” in the wake of what the FBI described as an apparent assassination attempt. “There were gunshots in my vicinity, but before rumors start spiraling out of control, I wanted you to hear this first: I AM SAFE AND WELL!” the former president said in the email sent Sunday. “Nothing will slow me down. I will NEVER SURRENDER! I will always love you for supporting me,” Trump continued. Trump communications director Steven Cheung said Sunday that “President Trump is safe following gunshots in his vicinity.” “No further details at…
The man in custody in connection with what is being described as a second attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump was vocal about U.S. support for Ukraine and has a long criminal and civil court history, including a conviction for possessing a machine gun. Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was taken into custody after shots were fired at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, three senior law enforcement sources said. In 2002, court records show, he was convicted of possessing a weapon of mass destruction — the machine gun. In that case, a man named Ryan Routh,…
Donald Trump unleashed new invective at superstar Taylor Swift after she endorsed VP Kamala Harris for president. “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” Trump posted Sunday morning on Truth Social in his trademark all-caps style, without context or elaboration. Responding to Trump in a post on X (formerly Twitter), Liz Cheney — the Republican former congressional representative who is backing Harris — quoted his comment and wrote, “Says the smallest man who ever lived,” referencing a track from Swift’s most recent album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” Ana Navarro, the GOP strategist and commentator who is a vocal Trump critic, posted on X, “Donald Trump has…
Donald Trump wanted to spend this week attacking one of Democratic rival Kamala Harris’ biggest political vulnerabilities. Instead, he spent most of the week falsely claiming that migrants are eating pets in a small town in Ohio and defending his embrace of a far-right agitator whose presence is causing concern among his allies. Trump’s repeated parroting of unfounded social media rumors about Haitian migrants in Ohio eating pets stole headlines during a trip West, including stops in Arizona and Nevada, late this week. The promotion of the claims overshadowed a series of speeches aimed at the economy and blaming Harris for border security failures. Trump,…
A spokesperson for Vice President Harris’s campaign went after former President Trump on Fox News, alleging he does not bring the same level of excitement as he used to and that it is reflected in the crowd sizes at his rallies. Fox News host Neil Cavuto asked Ian Sams, the campaign’s senior spokesperson, if he would acknowledge, that while the ex-president “might stretch certain truths a little far,” his crowd sizes “are significantly bigger than Kamala Harris’s crowds.” “I’m not sure if you have been watching crowds and rallies over the last couple of months, and I don’t think that’s…
Vice President Kamala Harris, who presents herself as the candidate of change as she runs for president against Republican Donald Trump, said Friday that she’s different from President Joe Biden because she offers “a new generation of leadership.” In her first solo television interview since she became the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris also criticized the “hate and division that we see coming out of Donald Trump” and said she thinks people are “exhausted” by his style of leadership. She also said she’s a gun owner and doesn’t want to take away anyone’s guns, but believes a ban on assault-style weapons is necessary and consistent with the…
The campaign of Kamala Harris on Friday stepped up its mockery of “chicken” Donald Trump for ducking out of another presidential debate, with the Democratic nominee telling her Republican rival he owes it to voters to face her again. The former US president announced on Thursday “there will be no third debate”, two days after a floundering performance during their testy meeting in Philadelphia in which Harris baited him on a range of subjects, including the crowd size at his rallies. Trump’s post to his Truth Social network insisted instead that he was the victor, citing imaginary polls and using a bizarre boxing analogy about a beaten prizefighter demanding a rematch. It…