In public, former President Donald Trump has repeatedly and perniciously insisted that he’ll only lose tomorrow’s election if Democrats somehow steal it from him. Inside his campaign, however, staffers quietly acknowledge that the GOP presidential nominee could lose without any hijinks. In an internal email obtained by Axios, Trump co-campaign manager Susie Wiles laid out … Read more
After weeks of aggrieved posting about Vice President Kamala Harris’s October 7 interview with 60 Minutes, former president Donald Trump filed a $10-billion lawsuit against the program’s network on Thursday—alleging “unlawful acts of election and voter interference.” The lawsuit is frivolous, First Amendment attorneys agree. But it will appear before Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an activist … Read more
Canvassers in Michigan hired by Elon Musk’s America PAC were reportedly flown in from out of state, driven around in a moving van, and threatened with financial penalties if they didn’t meet aggressive performance targets. The allegations, which appear in a new report from Wired, are just the latest blow for America PAC’s get-out-the-vote operation. … Read more
Donald Trump’s penchant for paranoid conspiracies isn’t exactly a deep-state secret. But between March and September of this year, the former president shared such theories to his anything-goes social network, Truth Social, at a rate of almost two posts a day. That statistic is one of several brow-raising takeaways in a new New York Times … Read more
Former president Donald Trump is an “authoritarian” and apparent “fascist” who admires Adolf Hitler and craves unchecked power, according to his former chief of staff. John Kelly, the retired Marine general and homeland security secretary who served 18 months in the Trump White House in 2017 and 2018, told The New York Times that Trump … Read more
Former president Donald Trump blamed his speechwriters for the unfunny and mean-spirited jokes he made at a charity event on Thursday, calling them “idiots” and later telling Fox News that he “didn’t like” some of the jokes that were drafted for him. “That’s a nasty one,” Trump said Thursday night, when a joke about Doug … Read more
Former President Donald Trump—speaking in Detroit to a crowd of Detroiters—characterized the Motor City as a “decimated” ruin that looked “a hell of a lot more” like the developing world “than most places in China.” If Vice President Kamala Harris is elected, he warned, “our whole country will end up being like Detroit.” Trump’s remarks … Read more
A month after definitively losing his first and only debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Donald Trump is refusing to face Harris again—even from the safe and friendly shallows of Fox News, which had hoped to host a follow-up on October 24 or 27. Trump’s campaign seems to have calculated that it makes more sense … Read more
Less than a week after attempting to make people believe abortion rights aren’t absolutely on the line should he and Donald Trump win the election, JD Vance accidentally admitted he and his potential boss have plans to gut Planned Parenthood if voters are crazy enough to send them to the White House. Asked over the … Read more
Donald Trump has spent days trying to capitalize politically on Hurricane Helene, which has wrought destruction across six states in the southeast and left at least 200 dead. Not only has he claimed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have received “POOR GRADES” for the administration’s handling of the storm, despite bipartisan praise for their response … Read more
