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Trump will 'blow' J.D. Vance 'to smithereens' rather than be upstaged: ex-aide

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has a big problem, former Trump administration communications chief Anthony Scaramucci told CNN's Boris Sanchez Thursday. He is constantly at risk of overshadowing former President Donald Trump himself.

And that is a dangerous thing for anyone in Trump's orbit to do, he warned.

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DA Alvin Bragg responds to Trump's demand to kill verdict in hush money case

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg issued a response Thursday to Donald Trump's attempt to dismiss the ruling in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for official acts carried out when president. Justices left it to lower courts to decide what is and is not an "official act."

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Watch: Kamala Harris overwhelmed as applause drowns speech to teachers

Vice President Kamala Harris was overwhelmed by enthusiastic applause on Thursday as she addressed the American Federation of Teachers National Convention in Houston, Texas.

The applause started as Harris took the stage and wished members of the AFT "good morning."

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'Let's go!' Kamala Harris hits Trump for 'backpedalling' on debate

Vice President Kamala Harris slapped back at former President Donald Trump during an impromptu talk with reporters on the tarmac Thursday.

As she departed a plane, Harris accused Trump of trying to duck out of a presidential debate on Sept. 10 after President Joe Biden stepped down from his campaign and endorsed his running mate.

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'You do you': KY Governor Andy Beshear roasts J.D. Vance for drinking Diet Mountain Dew

Andy Beshear — Kentucky's two-term Democratic governor under consideration to be Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate — recently suggested Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) was an impostor Appalachian due to his preference for drinking Diet Mountain Dew.

The Ohio senator, who is former President Donald Trump's running mate, recently suggested at a campaign rally that he would be called racist for drinking Diet Mountain Dew.

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D.C. prosecutor 'manipulated evidence' in cases against anti-Trump protesters: report

A prosecutor in Washington, D.C., is being accused of "manipulating evidence" to strengthen criminal cases against demonstrators who years ago protested against former President Donald Trump.

The Washington Post reports that prosecutor Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens is being accused of working with Washington, D.C., Police Detective Greggory Pemberton of deceptively editing videos of people who demonstrated at Trump's inauguration in 2017.

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'Did you not hear?' Fox's Peter Doocy gets swift scolding from Karine Jean-Pierre

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday swiftly rebuked Fox News' Peter Doocy for ignoring a dramatic decline in illegal crossings at the United States-Mexico border.

During a press briefing, Doocy needled Jean-Pierre over Vice President Kamala Harris' work in trying to address the root causes of mass migration to the southern border that have caused President Joe Biden political headaches for the past four years.

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Trump's claims of 'big wins' in court torn to shreds by legal expert

Former President Donald Trump has sought to play up "big wins" in court on the campaign trail — but those wins are grossly overstated at best and outright mischaracterizations at worst, legal expert Lisa Rubin wrote for MSNBC on Thursday.

This comes as Trump struggles to find his campaign footing after President Joe Biden exited the race, clearing the way for Vice President Kamala Harris to take over as Democratic nominee.

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WaPo columnist buried in mockery as he claims Harris too 'left-wing' to defeat Trump

A Washington Post columnist was hit by mockery for suggesting that Vice President Kamala Harris was too "left-wing" to be elected president.

The California Democrat quickly locked down enough delegates to become the party's presumptive nominee after President Joe Biden ended his campaign Sunday and endorsed his running mate.

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'Completely unhinged': Trump stuns with demand that Iran be 'obliterated'

Former President Donald Trump said Thursday he hopes the U.S. "obliterates Iran" in a post quoting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump suggested Iran's approximately 88.55 million citizens should die if an Iranian plot to assassinate him — first revealed to the public earlier this month and denied by Irani officials — proves successful.

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'Potential heir': Report suggests Trump sees J.D. Vance as future of MAGA

Before Donald Trump picked Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his 2024 running mate, some GOP strategists were hoping he would go with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) or North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum instead — as they believed that having a more traditional conservative on the ticket would increase Trump's appeal to independents and swing voters who aren't ultra-MAGA in their views.

But Trump went full MAGA by choosing Vance. And according to Axios reporters Zachary Basu and Andrew Solender, some House Republicans believe Trump hurt his campaign by picking a "hardline MAGA" candidate like Vance.

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Judge threatens to sell Giuliani's NYC apartment after he fails to pay bankruptcy costs

A federal judge said that Rudy Giuliani's bankruptcy has not been officially dismissed because the former New York City mayor has refused to pay administrative expenses — even though he seems to have the funds to do so.

In July, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane said he would dismiss the bankruptcy case at the request of Giuliani and two former Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. Giuliani had initially declared bankruptcy after a court ordered him to pay Freeman and Moss $148 million for defamation.

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Associated Press deletes fact-check debunking story about J.D. Vance and the couch

Conspiracy theories continue to spread through the 2024 election cycle, but one that began as a joke turned into an internet explosion in which even the Association Press got caught up.

An X account under the user name @rickrudescalves posted a fake story that has since been deleted but remains on the Internet Wayback Machine. He claimed that J.D. Vance's book "Hillbilly Elegy" described a sexual indiscretion involving a couch. He even went so far as to cite the pages of the book.

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