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'Just flat wrong': ABC host busts J.D. Vance over claim FEMA not helping red states

ABC News host Martha Raddatz grilled Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance after he struggled to defend former President Donald Trump's claim that FEMA was not helping red states recover from recent hurricanes.

"During Hurricane Helene, as we heard, former President Trump suggested the federal government was not only sending FEMA aid meant for the hurricane to migrants, but going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas," Raddatz told Vance on Sunday.

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‘It is bull’: Fox News host says Trump’s hurricane misinformation ‘cannot be tolerated’

Fox News host Neil Cavuto blasted former President Donald Trump for spreading misinformation about hurricane recovery efforts.

During a Thursday interview with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Cavuto noted that misinformation about federal hurricane recovery efforts was a "huge disservice."

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'I just end the speech': Trump explains how he handles people 'fleeing' his rallies early

Former President Donald Trump admitted Thursday that he had ended some speeches early because people decided to leave his rallies.

During a speech to the Detroit Economic Club, Trump said he waited until the end of his remarks to announce news of a plan to allow tax deductions on auto loan interest.

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Biden tells Trump to 'get a life, man' over hurricane misinformation

President Joe Biden urged former President Donald Trump to "get a life" instead of spreading misinformation about recent hurricanes.

At a press conference Thursday, Biden was asked if he had spoken to Trump.

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'Crazy or dumb': Trump uses economic speech to resurface personal grievances

Former President Donald Trump used a speech to the Economic Club in Detroit to air personal grievances about the media.

The former president began his speech Thursday by taking credit for stock market records set under the Biden-Harris administration.

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'They can't rig Alexa': Trump rallygoer cites Amazon assistant for weather control claim

A woman attending a Donald Trump campaign rally cited Amazon's Alexa to falsely claim the government controlled hurricanes.

The Good Liars' Jason Selvig spoke to the Trump supporter at a rally in Pennsylvania on Wednesday.

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Trump claims Kamala Harris should be forced to 'concede the election' over CBS interview

Donald Trump early Thursday morning amplified his calls to have CBS investigated for its editing choices in an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, declaring that the development is "totally illegal" and demanding the government "take away the CBS license."

Trump on Wednesday lobbed an unproven accusation against CBS's "60 Minutes" over the program's taped interview with Harris, accusing the show of deceptively editing its interview to present Harris in a better light. Trump was criticized for his response, which was compared to "dictator talk."

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Trump launches bitter attack on 'beta male' Howard Stern after Kamala Harris interview

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump lashed out at his former friend Howard Stern Wednesday after the radio host interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump, once a frequent guest on Stern's show, resorted to schoolyard insults after the interview with Harris.

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'Butler is big, big': Mike Johnson mocks Trump with impersonation

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) attempted to do a short impersonation of former President Donald Trump.

At a recent rally with evangelicals in Arlington, Texas, Johnson said that he had tried to speak to the former president at an earlier event but wasn't able to because the Wi-Fi on Trump's plane was not working.

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'Russia has recordings': Ex-FBI agent says Trump's Putin calls mean more 'leverage' on him

Former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa pointed out that the Kremlin likely has recordings of recently-reported calls between former U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to journalist Bob Woodward, Trump has had as many as seven phone calls with Putin since leaving office in 2021. The former U.S. president went so far as to reportedly provide COVID-19 tests to the Russian dictator.

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'Another form of slavery': MAGA host lectures Black co-anchor on supporting Democrats

MAGA TV host Gina Loudon lectured her co-anchor, Terrance Bates, about how Democrats had imposed "another form of slavery" on African-Americans.

During a Wednesday panel discussion on Real America's Voice, Loudon reported that Vice President Kamala Harris was seen favorably by Black voters while former President Donald Trump was not.

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Trump aide: Tim Walz a 'threat to democracy' because he wants to 'count the popular vote'

Lynne Patton, a senior advisor to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, argued that Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) are a "threat to democracy" because they are pushing to "count the popular vote" instead of relying on the Electoral College.

During a Wednesday interview on the right-wing network Real America's Voice, Patton was asked what Trump's team was doing to combat voting by undocumented immigrants.

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'This is dictator talk': Critics blast Trump for threatening CBS broadcast license

Donald Trump is said to have threatened to revoke the broadcast license for CBS News in an apparent response to a report by a right-wing news site that claimed "60 Minutes" made misleading edits to make Vice President Kamala Harris look better during her recent interview.

The vice president sat down for an interview with correspondent Bill Whitaker, who asked at one point whether Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was listening to the Biden administration's concerns about the war in Gaza, and the Trump campaign pointed out that her answer was different in a promotional clip posted on social media from what she said in the full interview that aired Monday night.

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