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HuffPost'So Humiliating': Trump's Big Rally Boast Painfully Falls Apart In Real Time
The former president gets hit with an immediate fact-check.
- HuffPost
Podcaster Cracks Up After Donald Trump Calls Himself A 'Truthful Person'
Andrew Schulz couldn't help but respond to the presidential candidate's claim by doubling over in laughter.
- BuzzFeed
I Asked Independent Voters If They're Going With Kamala Harris Or Donald Trump, And The Results Made Me Gasp
"I've been voting since the ‘80s, voted for both sides at different times, and this is probably going to be my most difficult vote to cast."
- The Daily Beast
Trump Gets Unhinged, Even for Him, Over Kamala Harris ‘60 Minutes’ Interview
Donald Trump—who agreed to an interview with the CBS newsmagazine show 60 Minutes before backing out—has gone on the warpath at Kamala Harris for her performance on the show.“The Interview on 60 Minutes with Comrade Kamala Harris is considered by many of those who reviewed it, the WORST Interview they have ever seen,” he wrote, in a Tuesday morning post on Truth Social. “She literally had no idea what she was talking about, and it was an embarrassment to our Country that a Major Party Candidate
- HuffPost
Lara Trump Raises Eyebrows With ‘Beverage Napkins’ Reason For Trashing New Poll
Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law’s airplane claim prompted mockery on social media.
- The Daily Beast
Melania Sheds a Little Light on Trump’s Bedroom Habits
Melania Trump has been married to her husband for 19 years, during which time she had a front-row seat to the former president’s bedtime routine. She spilled on one detail of that regimen in a Tuesday appearance on Fox News Tuesday, suggesting that Donald Trump sleeps in something other than pajamas. She joined The Five to promote her new memoir, aptly titled Melania, which hit shelves earlier in the day.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get the Daily Beast's biggest scoops and scandals delivered rig
- HuffPost
Donald Trump: 'Wait Until You See What I’m Going To Do' To The New York Times
The former president issued an ominous threat to the venerable newspaper.
- The Hill
Democrats start to hit the panic button
Democrats’ nerves are at an all-time high. Two months ago — even a month ago — they were feeling bullish about Vice President Harris’s prospects of defeating former President Trump. But now, with less than a month to go until Election Day, they’re increasingly worried about a number of issues plaguing the Democratic nominee’s campaign. On…
- The Independent
Rudy Giuliani tries to block defamed election workers from going after money Trump owes him
Trump’s former attorney says his campaign owes him $2 million. But the women he defamed can’t touch it, he says
- The Independent
Trump calls Whoopi Goldberg ‘demented’ during Pennsylvania rally full of personal attacks
Former president used degrading language to speak about his opponents
- The Hill
Opinion - What will it take for Ukraine to ‘win’?
There is only one way to ensure that Russia’s territorial aggrandizement does not spell strategic defeat for Ukraine and the West.
- The Hill
Biden rips Trump’s hurricane claims as ‘un-American,’ calls for him to stop
President Biden on Wednesday called former President Trump’s claims about Hurricane Milton hitting Florida “un-American” and said he should stop spreading disinformation about the government’s response. “Over the last few weeks there’s been reckless and irresponsible and relentless promotion of disinformation and outright lies about what’s going on,” Biden said in remarks from the White…
- The Independent
Trump stuns social media as he dances along to YMCA at the end of speech about October 7 attacks
The event was billed by the Trump campaign as an October 7 ‘remembrance event’
- HuffPost
Donald Trump’s Increasingly Apocalyptic Campaign
This campaign is different. Trump used to be blabbering and idiotic, but he's mutated into something demonic, desecrating all that is good, noble and decent solely to satisfy his own emotional needs.
- Euronews
Iran: An earthquake — or a secret underground nuclear test?
Days after news broke of the earthquake in Iran's Semnan province, speculation has continued on social media that the tremors were caused by Tehran's first nuclear test.View on euronews
- The Daily Beast
Meet the ‘Dark MAGA’ Agent With a Dirty Past: Radical Touted as Movement’s ‘Secret Weapon’
Donald Trump wasn’t the only one thirsty for redemption at his second rally in Butler, Pennsylvania—the first time that the former president was back in the city since an assassination attempt was made on his life.Just before Trump took to the stage on Oct. 5 for an emotional roller coaster of a keynote speech—which included Elon Musk awkwardly jumping for “Dark MAGA”—a long-haired, right-wing conservative Scott Presler was introduced to the crowd.“And he wore shorts for us today so check out hi
- HuffPost
Chris Wallace Gives Unvarnished Brutal Truth About Why He Left Fox News
The veteran anchor didn't hold back this time in discussing his days at the conservative network.
- CNN
Analysis: John Roberts remains confounded by Donald Trump as election approaches
From the moment he was confirmed in 2005, Chief Justice John Roberts made it his mission to differentiate the Supreme Court from the political branches. Yet, the court is ensnared in politics perhaps more than ever – and by the chief’s own hand.
- HuffPost
Jimmy Kimmel Spots Moment Even Laura Ingraham Wasn’t Buying Trump’s ‘Load Of Crap’
The Fox News personality “is in trouble,” joked the late night host.
- NewsWire
‘Suicidal thoughts’: Top staffer drops bombshell
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles’ chief of staff has dropped bombshell allegations in a press conference announcing her resignation.