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Former President Donald Trump recently vowed that he would soon be releasing his positions on potentially restricting access to abortion-related medication should he win a second term in office.

However, CNN reports that Trump still has not released any such plans and has now learned that he has no plans to do so.

A longtime election official in tiny Esmeralda County, Nevada, is facing recall after being accused of being a “clerk of the deep state cabal” because Donald Trump only got 82 percent of the vote of the county in 2020.

According to a deep dive by the New York Times, election official Cindy Elgan has served in her position for over two decades, running as a Republican, but that hasn't stopped some locals in the town of 620 of accusing her of election interference because they believe Trump should have gotten more votes.

That led local Republican Party official and elementary school teacher Mary Jane Zakas, 77, to spearhead a recall drive that gained enough signatures to force Elgan out of her job.

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The report notes that Elgan was confronted by Zakas at her office who presented her with the petition for certification and, according to a video, Zakas first wished her a "blessed day" before submitting the paperwork, saying she was "beyond" wanting to hear how the election process works later adding, "Prophecy says stand your ground and start in your own backyard. I’m sorry it had to come to this.”

With the Times noting that Elgan "flew a flag at her own home that read: 'Trump 2024 — Take America Back,'" that hasn't kept some locals from now referring to her as “Luciferinda.”

According to the report, Elgan has faced an onslaught of criticism since the 2020 Trump election loss, with the Times' Eli Saslow reporting locals have, "...falsely claimed the election was stolen by voting software designed in Venezuela, or by election machines made in China. They accused George Soros of manipulating Nevada’s voter rolls. They blamed 'undercover activists' for stealing ballots out of machines with hot dog tongs. They blamed the Dominion voting machines that the county had been using without incident for two decades, saying they could be hacked with a ballpoint pen to 'flip the vote and swing an entire election in five minutes.' They demanded a future in which every vote in Esmeralda County was cast on paper and then counted by hand."

The report also noted that "Nevada allowed a period of 20 days for voters to reconsider and remove their names from the petition" and that "after that, Elgan’s office would work with the secretary of state to confirm signatures and determine if the petition was successful and whether Elgan still had a job."

Tests on a leading AI tool allowed the creation of deceptive and incriminating images of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, a watchdog said Wednesday, despite pledges to block fake photos of the presidential contenders ahead of elections in November.

Disinformation researchers fear rampant misuse of AI-powered applications in a year of major elections around the world, thanks to proliferating online tools that are cheap and easy to use and lack sufficient guardrails.

In an electoral system in which money is the ultimate kingmaker, Donald Trump has been courting the country's billionaires -- and they have their checkbooks ready.

The ability of the 77-year-old presumptive Republican presidential nominee to raise money from average Americans is unchallenged, and his historic criminal conviction in New York has not dented the operation in the slightest.

The dark cloud of 34 felony convictions in a Manhattan courtroom has done deep psychological damage to Donald Trump that he will never be able to shed after the public humiliation.

That is the opinion of former federal prosecutor Kenneth McCallion in an interview with Salon's Chauncey DeVega where he also said there is no way the former president will get the conviction tossed on appeal even if he can get it before the Supreme Court.

Early Thursday morning the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson and MSNBC's John Lemire pounced on Donald Trump's boast in a campaign-oriented clip that President Vladimir Putin will do him a favor and release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich if he is re-elected.

Trump doubled down on the claim that he made in May, saying this week: “Evan Gershkovich, the reporter for The Wall Street Journal who is being held by Russia, will be released almost immediately after the election," before adding, "But definitely before I assume office, he will be home. He will be safe. Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, will do that for me. And I don’t believe he’ll do it for anyone else. And we will be paying nothing. Biden likes to pay massive numbers. We will be paying nothing. Thank you very much."

After Lemire shared the clip with the Washington Post columnist, Robinson expressed his disgust, explaining, "It's obscene. It is absolutely obscene and disgusting that he would use this as some sort of a campaign ploy."