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'Spurious' lie: Ex-conservative cuts down Trump's latest election 'fearmongering'

Former President Donald Trump's latest bogeyman is to demand passage of legislation that would force people to produce proof of citizenship to register to vote — and it's all based on a pernicious lie, wrote former conservative turned anti-Trump columnist Jennifer Rubin for the Washington Post.

"This might sound familiar. Former President Donald Trump cooked up the excuse for losing the popular vote in 2016: Millions of illegal immigrants voted for Hillary Clinton!" wrote Rubin.

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'Real peril': Expert says growing religious group seeks world domination with Trump's help

A powerful fringe Christian movement behind the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attacks believes former President Donald Trump will help them take over the world, a theologian reveals in his soon-to-be published book.

Salon's Amanda Marcotte spoke with Dr. Matthew Taylor about the dark implications of "The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy" about the rise of the New Apostolic Reformation, a group even evangelicals find extreme.

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Trump's 'fascist' rhetoric now sounds 'better in the original German': analyst

Former President Donald Trump has gone past flirting with fascism and now his campaign speeches just sound like something taken straight out of the rise of Nazi Germany, Catherine Rampell warned for The Washington Post on Tuesday.

This has become all too clear as Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), have promoted false claims about Haitian migrants eating people's pets in Springfield, Ohio, and pursued the lie even as it resulted in harassment and bomb threats in the community.

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Mitt Romney concerned about Trump 'retribution': 'How am I going to protect 25 grandkids?'

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is worried about Donald Trump's campaign promise to be "retribution" for his supporters.

The retiring Utah senator and former GOP presidential nominee has drawn MAGA ire as the only Republican to vote to convict in both impeachment trials involving the former president, and he worries that his family and himself could be targeted by the Justice Department and the FBI if Trump is re-elected to a second term, reported The Atlantic.

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'Chaotic flailing' marks 'the final stage of the Trump campaign': analysis

Former President Donald Trump's recent forays into leveling false and repeatedly debunked claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are not part of some grand master design, argues The Bulwark's A.B. Stoddard.

Rather, she believes his campaign is in the terminal stage of its decline.

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'Astonishing': UK government minister blames Trump for triggering nation's racism crisis

Donald Trump's racism is so conspicuous that he inspires hate across the globe, according to a new report Tuesday.

British government minister Angela Eagle told the Labour Party's annual conference Monday in Liverpool that the former U.S. president's "vitriol" had made racism more acceptable and contributed to "toxic discourse" in the U.K., reported The Guardian.

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'Terrible Run': Report reveals staggering amount Truth Social has lost

Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social media company has lost nearly 75 percent of its value in recent months as investors hedged their bets on his presidential campaign and stock prices tumbled, according to a new analysis.

Barron's revealed on Tuesday morning that Trump Media, trading as DJT, was worth just $2.4 billion when markets closed Monday night — a stark fall from the $8 billion valuation the Times stamped on the publicly traded company in March.

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Trump leans into 'lynching and white vigilantism' as his campaign comes apart: columnist

Former President Donald Trump is falling back on his oldest and most dangerous tactic as his campaign falters near the finish line, Salon's Chauncey DeVega wrote Tuesday — inciting racial hatred and violence.

This, the columnist wrote, is how best to understand his promotion of the lie that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating people's pets, which has triggered harassment and even bomb threats in the community.

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Trump campaign hit with yet another hack: report

Former President Donald Trump's campaign is apparently still suffering from security lapses even though it's been known for months now that individuals believed to be associated with the Iranian government have been hacking its staffers.

Popular Information's Judd Legum on Tuesday reported that he had received hacked materials from Trump's campaign from a pseudonymous person named "Robert," who claimed to have also sent hacked Trump campaign materials to other news organizations.

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'Worked out poorly for Pence': Buttigieg highlights fundamental flaw in Vance campaign

Sen. J.D. Vance isn't that hard to understand if you know one thing about him, according to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Buttigieg made this claim to the New York Times journalist Ezra Klein in a newly released interview about playing Vance to help Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) prepare to debate former President Donald Trump's running mate on Oct. 1.

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'Clever strategy': GOP pushes deep South legal case that could upend elections across U.S.

Republicans are teeing up a legal challenge before three judges appointed by Donald Trump in deep-red Mississippi that could boost similar lawsuits in more competitive states.

The Republican National Committee and other plaintiffs argue that Mississippi is violating federal law by counting mail ballots that arrive within five days after Election Day, which resembles statutes on the books in nearly two dozen other states and jurisdictions. A ruling in their favor could help them in similar cases elsewhere, reported CNN.

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GA election board probes handling of mass voter challenges in eight Democrat-led counties

The Georgia State Election Board voted Monday to investigate claims that several county election boards are failing to properly investigate challenges disputing voter eligibility.

Three State Election Board members loyal to former President Donald Trump agreed to request that the board’s executive director look into whether eight election boards in counties led by Democrats are improperly dismissing complaints questioning if tens of thousands of voters are eligible to vote.

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The 16 electoral votes question: Will Mark Robinson’s freefall help scuttle Trump in NC?

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign to be the next governor of North Carolina appears to be collapsing before our eyes. Last week’s bombshell report from CNN that Robinson had made a series of cringe-inducing comments on a pornography website in the years before he commenced his political career has sent Republican elected officials and candidates scrambling to scrub photographs and favorable mentions of Robinson from their campaign websites and social media accounts.

On Sunday, Robinson’s campaign – which was already trailing Attorney General Josh Stein in the polls before the story broke – announced a mass exodus of staff. By Sunday night, WUNC Radio reported that Robinson was down to having just “three people working on his campaign — two campaign spokesmen and a bodyguard.” On Monday, the Republican Governors Association cut off its financial spigot.

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