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'Horrible statements': Angry Trump makes strange claim about Liz Cheney's Harris comments

Former President Donald Trump on Friday evening complained bitterly about an outspoken Republican foe who received praise after campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris, a candidate she once criticized.

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, appeared outraged that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) praised Harris at a campaign event on Thursday and, with insulting language, suggested she lacked the intelligence to remember past critiques.

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'Somebody is using his name!' Trump gives odd excuse for fake CEO endorsement

Former President Donald Trump took no responsibility for pushing a fake endorsement from prominent investment bank CEO Jamie Dimon on Friday, according to a new report.

The former president bragged about the supposed endorsement on his Truth Social platform Friday morning, saying, “New: Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has endorsed Trump for President."

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Biden and experts roast Rubio: ‘Anything MAGA Republicans don’t like they call fake’

The September jobs report released Friday was so stunningly great one economist literally exclaimed “wowza.”

Fox News was forced to praise the numbers, with one guest lamenting he had expected “more red flags than a communist parade in this report, and there’s not a single one,” then having to admit, “There’s not one data point in here that I can point to that is not good.”

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Project 2025 masterminds probe NASA workers' comments on SpaceX CEO Elon Musk — and Trump

The far-right think tank behind the controversial pro-Trump Project 2025 plan is filing a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to find out what employees at NASA said privately about former President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk, Reuters reported on Friday.

This plan, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, "is part of that organization's ongoing push to help Trump weed out uncooperative civil servants if he is reelected to the White House in November," an executives told Reuters.

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'Seriously the best they’ve got?' Drag Queen drags Trump — and hints at legal smack-down

A well-known drag queen who found himself part of a Trump campaign ad threatened legal action against the former president for claims the campaign did not have permission to use the video.

Released last week, the advertisement highlighted Vice President Kamala Harris’ support for transgender people and features her saying in the 2020 campaign that she would support giving trans inmates access to gender affirming care, NBC News reported.

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'What it should not do': Analyst warns Supreme Court loophole may let them pick next prez

The Supreme Court left the door open to interfere in the 2024 election in a year-old case that might let them set up another Bush v. Gore situation, Mother Jones' Pema Levy reported Friday.

Critics warn right-wing justices have already put a thumb on the scale by punting any resolution of the federal charges against former President Donald Trump until after the election, while stripping states of the power to disqualify him under the Fourteenth Amendment.

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'Pieces falling into place': Analyst sees Harris breaking 'doom loop' as election nears

Vice President Kamala Harris is drawing undecided voters to her campaign with policy proposals and messaging on a crucial issue, according to a new report.

The release of a stunning September jobs report as early voting gets underway is taking the wind out of former President Donald Trump's primary attack on Harris' economic policy, the New Republic reported Friday.

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'Stab of recognition': Cult escapees' daughter warns Trump's coming for American believers

Cyd Chartier felt a stab of pain when she watched then-presidential hopeful Donald Trump glide down his golden escalator in 2015. It was then she knew her family was about to be sucked into yet another cult.

Chartier in a Huffington Post essay published Friday drew a disturbing parallel between the Republican presidential nominee and Sam Fife, founder of the Move of God cult, who she said took her parents from her and their life savings from them.

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'He appears to have little clue': Fact-checker shames Trump over latest Harris accusations

Former President Donald Trump completely made up his accusation that President Joe Biden is robbing Federal Emergency Management Agency relief funds from Hurricane Helene-ravaged areas, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler wrote in a Four Pinocchios review of Trump's latest claims made at a Michigan rally Thursday.

And worse, Kessler wrote — Trump is actually accusing Biden of something he did himself as president in 2019.

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Trump smacked down by Wall Street CEO minutes after bragging about his endorsement

Donald Trump bragged Friday about winning the support of a powerful Wall Street leader — just minutes before the supposed backer debunked his claim.

Trump went on his Truth Social platform, claiming JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has endorsed him for president.

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'I just broke down': Corey Lewandowski accuser 'upset' by his return to Trump campaign

A woman who previously accused Donald Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski of making unwanted sexual advances toward her at a holiday party seven years ago is speaking out now that he's returned to the former president's orbit.

Lewandowski, who was Trump's first campaign manager, ultimately reached an agreement with prosecutors to dismiss misdemeanor battery charges in exchange for community service, a $1,000 fine, enrollment in an impulse control class and an apology to Trashelle Odom, who spoke to CBS News about the 2021 ordeal.

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Trump regaled donors with jokes about rallygoer killed by would-be assassin: leaked audio

Donald Trump mocked the widow of his supporter killed by a would-be assassin's bullet at one of his rallies, according to a leaked audio recording of him speaking to donors in Colorado.

The former president's dinner guests erupted in laughter as he quipped about the woman grieving her slain husband after he presented her with a check, according to the recording, and he suggested that some of the donors' wives would gladly trade their lives for money, reported The Guardian.

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'Scares the hell out of me': J6 expert warns of disinformation ramp-up in mid-October

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Denver Riggleman, who served as senior technical advisor to the January 6th Committee, said he believes there is a significant risk of violence during the vote count of the Nov. 5, 2024 election because supporters of Republican nominee Donald Trump are so deeply immersed in conspiracy theories.

“They still have a plan to probably use lawfare to go after some of these certain states, but violence is certainly possible,” Riggleman told Raw Story. “I would say it’s actually probable. And I think it’s because you have people that are so riled up with these conspiracy theories and this good-against-evil vendetta that Donald Trump and I think a lot of the far right and the Christian nationalist type of individuals have been pushing into sort of the MAGA communications ecosystem.

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