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Trump sons' assassination conspiracies fuel risk of 'bloodshed': expert

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are continuing to push unfounded claims that President Joe Biden or the Democratic Party had something to do with orchestrating the assassination plot against former President Donald Trump, reported Mother Jones Tuesday — and it's pushing the country closer to widespread violent unrest.

The attack was carried out by 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, who fatally shot a rallygoer at a Trump event in Pennsylvania with an AR-15 style rifle before injuring Trump and two others.

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J.D. Vance repeatedly suggested Trump is a rapist and a liar: report

J.D. Vance repeatedly voiced his belief that Donald Trump had sexually assaulted women and questioned his credibility, according to a report resurfaced Tuesday.

The former president's newly tapped running mate appeared on MSNBC in October 2016 after former salesperson Lisa Leeds accused Trump of groping and forcibly kissing her on a flight in the 1970s, and Vance said it was difficult to believe his denials, reported CNN.

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Eight years ago Vance wondered how many Americans Trump had ‘sexually assaulted’

Before he became a Donald Trump-endorsed Republican U.S. Senator and now Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate, JD Vance indicated he believed Donald Trump had committed sexual assault, according to a new CNN report.

In 2016, JD Vance appeared countless times on television, as he did that September, less than two months before the election that would put Donald Trump in the White House. Vance at the time was promoting his new bestselling memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," when he sat down with PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff who told the audience his book is, "a timely portrait of Americans who are often ignored and misunderstood."

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Biden withdrawal speech set for Wednesday: report

President Joe Biden will give a formal speech announcing his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, reports the Washington Post's Tyler Pager.

Biden announced on Sunday that he would not be seeking a second term in office and instead through his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris has his successor.

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'Sit down and shut up': Ex-Reagan speechwriter torches MAGA GOP for bogus 'coup' claims

After President Joe Biden announced, on Sunday, July 21, that he was ending his reelection campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president, it didn't take long for countless Democrats to rally around her.

Harris now has more than enough delegates for the nomination, and according to Fortune, her fundraising haul had brought in at least $100 million by Tuesday morning. The vice president is now the presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, with everyone from Biden to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer rallying around her presidential campaign.

Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), radio host Erick Erickson and other far-right Republicans have been claiming that replacing Biden with Harris constitutes a "coup."

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But veteran conservative columnist and former Nancy Reagan speechwriter Mona Charen, in a blistering article published by The Bulwark on July 23, finds that claim highly audacious coming from supporters of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

"This is rich," the Never Trump conservative argues. "Here is indeed a candidate in this race who attempted to stage a coup, and we know who that is. Trump submitted his false electoral votes, pressured his vice president, and sent his goons to Capitol Hill because he would not accept the verdict of the voters."

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Trump reacts to Secret Service resignation: 'It was my great honor' to be shot

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday reacted to the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle by claiming that it was "an honor" for him to survive an assassination attempt on his life earlier this month.

Posting on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that "the Biden/Harris Administration did not properly protect me, and I was forced to take a bullet for Democracy. IT WAS MY GREAT HONOR TO DO SO!"

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George Conway: Trump’s now the only one 'the issue of cognitive decline' applies to

Having secured more than enough delegates following President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the United States' 2024 presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris is now the presumptive Democratic nominee.

During an interview with MeidasTouch, conservative attorney George Conway — a Never Trumper who fundraised for Biden — weighed in on the ways in which having Harris rather than Biden as the Democratic nominee changes the dynamics of the race.

Conway argued that GOP nominee Donald Trump's mental fitness will now be a focal point.

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"I've always thought this election was relatively simple," Conway explained. "In 2016, Trump won because Hillary became the issue…. 2020, Trump was the incumbent, he was the issue — because of his behavior, because of Clorox, because of everything. And what happens again this year is whoever becomes the issue loses. And the problem we were having over the last three or four weeks was that Biden was becoming the issue when Trump has to be the issue."

The conservative attorney added, "And now, Donald Trump isn't going to be able to avoid being the issue."

Conway emphasized that Trump's campaign won't be able to keep him "under wraps" because his "narcissism" will inevitably assert itself.

Conway told MeidasTouch, "He had a good night at the debate. Now, he's the old man in the race. Now, after having raised the issue of cognitive decline, he's the only one left that argument applies to. And so, he's got a big problem."

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Conway urged Democrats to "go right back on offense" now that Harris is the presumptive nominee.

"This is the way that Trump loses — Trump loses if he is the issue," Conway emphasized. "And the other thing: Trump helps on that, because Trump is a narcissist — and he can't help but make himself the issue. He wants to be the issue; he wants to be the center of attention. And that, in the end, is what I think would defeat him."

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'It's a disgrace': Trump Jr. catches heat for planned fundraiser with infamous anti-Semite

Donald Trump Jr. is catching some heat from many conservatives who are upset that he is scheduled to take part in a fundraising event featuring notorious anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Candace Owens.

Trump Jr.'s appearance was flagged by the Stop Anti-Semitism Twitter account, which regularly calls out anti-Semitism on both ends of the political spectrum.

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'Why in the world?' Analyst sees Trump's own allies now turning against J.D. Vance pick

Donald Trump's allies are already second-guessing his decision to name Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate.

The 39-year-old first-term senator is the least experienced major-party running mate in nearly a century, and the Trump critic-turned-Trump lieutenant adds little to the ticket – especially after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and threw his support behind his own running mate, Kamala Harris, wrote MSNBC columnist Steve Benen.

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U.S. Secret Service chief resigns after Trump assassination attempt

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned, MSNBC reported Tuesday.

Cheatle appeared before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Monday at which members of both parties berated her over the failures of the agents at a rally where Donald Trump was shot in the ear in an assassination attempt.

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'Keep lying': Late night Trump rant about Harris quickly turns against him

Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be keeping former President Donald Trump up at night.

The convicted felon and Republican nominee blasted off a barrage of Truth Social posts after midnight Tuesday to attack President Joe Biden, Harris and the media outlet he claimed was propping up the transition from one Democratic Party candidate to the other.

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'Terrified' Trump knows Harris is zeroing in on his biggest vulnerability: analysis

Former President Donald Trump and his team were caught by surprise when President Joe Biden ended his bid for re-election and threw support behind Vice President Kamala Harris, in part because they had planned a whole campaign on highlighting Biden's age and cognitive fitness.

But there's another reason why they're "terrified" to run against Harris, wrote Amanda Marcotte for Salon. As a former prosecutor, she will turn up the scrutiny on Trump's history of alleged rape and sexual assault.

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Scathing N.Y. Times column warns J.D. Vance and Aileen Cannon are working hand-in-hand

Former President Donald Trump's allies are working to reshape American law into a weapon to be used against their political enemies, wrote Jesse Wegman in a scathing editorial for The New York Times.

Trump's pick of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) underscores this, he wrote, because Vance embodies the far-right's commitment to a key goal of the controversial Project 2025 plan to transform the government into an authoritarian loyalty cult to the GOP.

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