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Donald Trump isn’t loving the accusations that Elon Musk is the one really running the show in the Republican Party.
New Republic

Donald Trump dismissed the “President Musk” jokes Sunday, and it was less than convincing.

During his address at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona, the president-elect pushed back on claims that Musk planned to supplant him as president.

“No, he’s not gonna be president, that I can tell you,” Trump said. “And I’m safe, you know why? He can’t be, he wasn’t born in this country.”

But Trump carefully elided the actual criticism of Musk’s growing political influence. People aren’t worried that Musk is plotting to steal the presidency—they’re worried he already has.

Last week, Musk issued his own set of marching orders to Congress, ordering Republicans to oppose a massive spending bill to avert a government shutdown, or face being primaried by a Musk-backed candidate. Meanwhile, Trump stayed more or less silent, and Democratic leaders began to criticize the president-elect for allowing Musk to lead his party.
Story by Sean O'Driscoll

What's New
President-elect Donald Trump has started a quarrel with Panama over the fees it's charging American ships to use the Panama Canal, while the Trump Organization is fighting a court case over taxes in the central American country.

What to Know
In June 2019, the owners of a Panama City hotel that was managed by Trump's businesses, and carried the Trump brand, accused two companies, Trump Panama Hotel Management LLC and and Trump International Hotels Management LLC, of not paying taxes on their Panamanian earnings.

In a filing to the U.S. district court in New York, private equity manager Orestes Fintiklis and his company, Ithaca Capital Partners, alleged that the Trump businesses failed to pay 12.5% taxes on the millions of dollars they earned from managing the Panama City hotel. They also alleged that the Trump units failed to correctly report the number of people the hotel employed so that he could avoid Panamanian social security payments.

The filing documented how the Panamanian government later conducted a tax audit on the hotel and found major irregularities. Fintiklis and his company were forced to pay the money Trump owed, the court filing alleged.
Elon Musk joined a wave of right-wing fury against a bill to keep the government open. Now, the president-elect says he wants big changes, too, before this weekend's
By Sahil Kapur, Ryan Nobles, Kyle Stewart, Julie Tsirkin and Ali Vitali

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump excoriated a bipartisan government funding bill Wednesday afternoon, throwing the stopgap measure into chaos just as leaders of both parties were hoping to pass it.

The joint statement by Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance gravely jeopardizes the bill’s prospects in the Republican-controlled House, where Trump wields significant influence.

The bill would have kept the government open until March 14. A shutdown will occur at 12:01 a.m. Saturday without action from Congress. There is currently no fallback plan.

“Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF,” Trump and Vance said. “It is [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer and [President Joe] Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief.”

In a shocking twist, Trump also demanded that the legislation include a debt ceiling increase, which neither party had even been considering. It’s expected to come up in the middle of next year, and Trump made it clear he wanted it to happen on Biden’s watch.
By Curt Devine, CNN

CNN — President-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail to do everything in his power to benefit American workers. “We will build American, buy American and hire American,” he said during a rally in August.

Despite that pledge, Trump’s own businesses sought to hire more foreign guest workers this year than any other year on record, according to a CNN review of government labor data. Companies linked to some of Trump’s top political backers and administration picks also have been given the green light to use guest workers this year.

Trump’s businesses, including the Mar-a-Lago Club, some of his golf courses and a Virginia winery, have collectively increased their reliance on temporary foreign laborers over the years.

Just this year, Trump’s businesses received approval from the US government to hire 209 foreign workers, nearly double the number of such laborers his companies received permission to hire about a decade ago.

The workers include cooks, housekeepers, servers and desk clerks.

Trump has said the seasonal nature of some of his clubs necessitates some temporary jobs that Americans looking for full-time work are reluctant to take. Forbes first reported on Friday Trump’s businesses hired more foreign workers than ever in 2024.
By Nina Joudeh

Sources are claiming President-elect, Donald Trump, pooped himself while in France after a video appeared to show people sat around the President-Elect covering their noses and looking confused.

The video posted by the group @Anonymous shows a lone Trump seated in the front row among other patrons and the footage - according to some internet users - captured the visible display of disgust on the attendee's faces. One woman seems to cringe, while others shift in their seat.

There is no evidence to suggest the claims are actually true, but the viral moment harks back to a similar incident in which Joe Biden was accused of pooping himself at a D-Day event . These claims were debunked by a body language expert, but it didn't stop the rumors.
Story by David Badash

As a candidate, Donald Trump campaigned—and won—this year on the promise he would lower prices for Americans angry after the COVID pandemic’s inflation brought steep price increases, but now he’s backtracking, saying he’s not sure he will actually be able to fulfill those vows. Outrage at Trump, and the people who voted for him based on that pledge, was palpable on Thursday.

As recently as Sunday, MSNBC reports, Trump insisted, “We’re going to bring those prices way down.”

On Monday, Fox News reported: “Pointing to high grocery prices, Trump says, ‘I won an election based on that'”

But in his TIME magazine “Person of the Year” interview, Trump suggested he might not be able to lower prices as he promised to do. Appearing to remove himself from the equation, he declared: “It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.”

Sam Stein of The Bulwark and MSNBC noted via social media, “’Prices will come down,’ Trump told voters during a speech last week laying out his vision for a return to the White House. ‘You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.'”
Story by Jessica Kwong

President-elect Donald Trump has for the second time joined an exclusive club in the company of global figures and leaders – some controversial.

Time magazine named Trump its 2024 Person of the Year, and he thanked the news outlet and beamed while ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange shortly after on Thursday morning.

Trump said: ‘Time Magazine, getting this honor for the second time – I think I like it better this time, actually.

‘It is an honor. And this is a double, because usually they don’t coordinate the man of the year – or the Person of the Year – with the ringing of the bell.

‘And brilliantly, you’ve picked them both at the same time.’

Trump was last named Time’s Person of the Year in 2016, when he won his first US election. Every American president since Franklin D Roosevelt, except for one, has received Time’s prestigious title at least once.

The incoming president is a two-time winner of the title like former Soviet Union Prime Minister Joseph Stalin, still considered among the most brutal authoritarian leaders in modern history. Notorious leaders who won the recognition once include former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, former Soviet Union Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev and former Supreme Leader of Iran Ruhollah Khomeini.

Time picks its Person of the Year based on ‘the greatest impact on the news, for good or ill’.
Story by Martha McHardy

President-elect Donald Trump has announced a sweeping plan to change the way U.S. elections are carried out.

"We need to get things straightened out in this country, including elections," he said, after accepting the "Patriot of the Year" award at a Long Island event organized by Fox Nation on Thursday. Trump, 78, accepted the award, designed to resemble the American flag, after a live performance of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" – the president-elect's go-to entrance song.

"We're gonna do things that have been really needed for a long time," he said. "And we are gonna look at elections. We want to have paper ballots, one day voting, voter ID, and proof of citizenship."

He went on to denounce a recent law passed in California that prohibits local governments from requiring voters to present identification when casting their ballots at the polls. "In California they just passed a law that you're not even allowed to ask a voter for voter ID. Think of that. If you ask a voter for their voter ID, you've committed a crime. We're gonna get the whole country straightened out," he said.
The president-elect’s campaign pledges cover immigration to education to energy.
By Greta Reich, Emmy Martin and Kierra Frazier

If President-elect Donald Trump lives up to his promises, he is going to have a prolific first week in office come January.

Trump has pledged action on dozens of policy fronts on Day One or Week One in the White House as part of an aggressive agenda to reverse immigration flows, juice American energy production, reorient global commerce and purge his political enemies. Some of his promises are improbable — such as ending the war in Ukraine in his first 24 hours — but he can achieve many of his aims through executive actions, which aides are already scrambling to prepare.

POLITICO compiled a list of the biggest promises Trump made on the campaign trail or since winning the election to provide a snapshot of what his first week in office might look like:

Education
Repeatedly: Trump promised to sign a new executive order on Day One that would cut federal funding to any school “pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content onto our children.”
By David McAfee

Ukraine is having a tough time as its neighbor Russia wages war against it and "it’s going to get so much worse under the Trump administration," according to a Trump family member.

Donald Trump's niece, trained psychologist Mary Trump, on Wednesday wrote about the war in Ukraine. Specifically, she talked about all the terrible things Ukraine has already gone through, and then issued a warning about what could come next.

"Of all the unthinkable scenarios we’ve been forced to consider since Donald won the election on November 5th is the possibility that all of this will have been for naught," Mary Trump wrote. "After all, the fate of Ukraine and Zelesnkyy may rest with Donald Trump, Putin’s puppet, a man who is enamored of and beholden to the very autocrat who wants to destroy our ally."
By Flynn Nicholls
US News Reporter

VoteVets, a progressive veterans group, has warned that President-elect Donald Trump's proposal to fire top generals would politicize the military and transform it for the worse.

On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump's transition team was considering a draft executive order that would establish a "warrior board" to review top military officers.

According to a draft of the executive order reviewed by the outlet, the proposed board would consist of retired senior military members tasked with reviewing three- and four-star generals and recommending the removal of those deemed unfit. The draft order proposes the retirement, within 30 days, of any officer deemed "lacking in requisite leadership qualities."

In a statement posted to X, formerly Twitter, Paul Eaton, a retired major general and the chairman of VoteVets, said the move would "be remembered as the first step in remaking the military from an apolitical force loyal to the Constitution into a MAGA Military, pledging fealty to Donald Trump."
By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN

CNN — The Justice Department on Friday announced federal charges in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump before the presidential election.

According to court documents, Iranian officials asked Farhad Shakeri, 51, in September to focus on surveilling and ultimately assassinating Trump. Shakeri is still at large in Iran, the Justice Department said.

This is a newly disclosed plot and marks yet another alleged attempt on Trump’s life by the Iranian regime.

Prosecutors allege Shakeri – who participated in recorded conversations with law enforcement – was originally tasked by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps to carrying out other assassinations against US and Israeli citizens inside the US. But IRGC officials told Shakeri on October 7 to focus only on Trump, court documents say, and that he had seven days to formulate an assassination plan.

Shakeri, who is an Afghan national residing in Tehran, told investigators that if he was unable to do come up with a plan in that timeframe, the IRGC would wait until after the presidential election to move forward as they believed Trump would lose.
Story by Julianne McShane

On Wednesday morning, some of Trump’s favorite fans finally felt comfortable joking about what the next president has long denied: Project 2025 has always been the plan for a second Trump term.

“Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda. Lol,” right-wing podcast host Matt Walsh wrote in a post on X of the 900-plus-page extremist guidebook. Walsh’s message soon got picked up and promoted by Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist who was recently released from prison, where he landed after ignoring a subpoena from the House January 6 Committee. “Fabulous,” Bannon said, chuckling, after reading Walsh’s post out loud on his War Room podcast today. “We might have to put that everywhere.”

Benny Johnson, a conservative YouTuber with 2.59 million followers who has called affirmative action “Nazi-level thinking” and said Trump should prosecute Biden for human trafficking of immigrants, also chimed in: “It is my honor to inform you all that Project 2025 was real the whole time,” he posted on X.
Opinion by Max Burns, opinion contributor

A presidential campaign defined by personal hatreds, threats of political violence and two foiled assassination attempts ended on Tuesday in a mostly orderly election. No matter what the results ultimately show, Americans’ commitment to a fair and peaceful vote is a thumb in the eye to authoritarians both at home and abroad.

That’s about all the joy Democrats (and lovers of democracy) will find in yesterday’s election results. The fleeting optimism that washed over the party after Ann Selzer’s storied Iowa poll showed Kamala Harris unexpectedly leading Donald Trump by 3 points has crashed back to reality. In its place is the realization that democracy’s worst-case scenario is unfolding in real time.

Our democratic institutions are not ready for what comes next. Neither are the American people.

The Trump who will walk into the White House on Jan. 20 is a man steeped in unsettled vendettas, who came within a hair’s breadth of a string of federal felony convictions that he is now empowered to wipe away with a self-pardon — as if those offenses and so many others had never even happened. Trump will see his priorities as he has always seen them: party over country and self over all.
Story by Reuters

(Reuters) - Reactions from around the world began flooding in on Wednesday as Fox News projected that Republican Donald Trump had defeated Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, which would cap a stunning political comeback four years after he left the White House.

Here are views from financial market participants.
Opinion by Eleanor Clift

We saw it coming. America’s fascination with celebrity and wealth kept Donald Trump in the public eye even after he lost his bid for reelection. He stood at a lectern on the Ellipse with the White House as a backdrop and urged the crowd of his supporters to march to the Capitol, telling them he would join them, which turned out to be a lie.

The Secret Service refused to transport him to the Capitol, so he sat instead in the room adjoining the Oval Office watching television of the Jan. 6 insurrection, telling an aide who informed him that Vice President Mike Pence was under attack, “So what.”

In the almost four years since that day, Trump nurtured his grievances, convincing his supporters that he had been cheated out of a second term and that the Biden-Harris administration had weaponized the Justice Department to falsely accuse him of whatever wrongdoing the courts found him guilty of.

His third nomination as the Republican standard bearer was about his own motivation to stay out of jail more than it was about the fate of the country.

His 2024 presidential election victory means a wholesale rearrangement of U.S. alliances with the prospect of Trump kowtowing to Putin, who he calls a “genius,” and breaking bread with Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea’s hermit kingdom, who Trump exchanged admiring letters with.
Story by Niall Stanage

Former President Trump completed an extraordinary comeback early Wednesday morning, becoming the first president to win nonconsecutive terms in more than a century by defeating Vice President Harris in an unprecedented battle for the White House.

The comeback is remarkable for a host of reasons.

Trump’s political career seemed to be over after he sought to overturn his 2020 election defeat and spurred his supporters to march on the Capitol, an event that led to a riot and the evacuation of Congress.

Before that event, Trump became the first president ever to be twice impeached; was charged in four separate criminal cases; was found liable for sexual abuse in a civil case; and was convicted in criminal court of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

But Trump was buoyed up by a fervently loyal support base — most of whom believe his narrative that he has been unfairly victimized by a corrupt political, legal and media establishment.

“We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible,” Trump told supporters at West Palm Beach, Fla., in the early hours, calling his win “a magnificent victory for the American people.”
Experts warn of ‘slide to authoritarianism’ as Trump promises to crack down on critics, enact hardline policies.
By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours

He has suggested using the United States military against an “enemy from within”.

He has threatened to prosecute lawyers, Democrats and others whom he falsely accuses of committing electoral fraud, and pledged to carry out the “largest deportation operation” of undocumented immigrants in US history.

And once he is back in the White House, he has said he will be a dictator during his first day.

Now, Donald Trump has crossed the 270 Electoral College votes he needed to win the presidency, according to the Associated Press – and it remains to be seen whether the Republican will follow through on these incendiary campaign promises.

Experts have warned that Trump, if taken at his word, is gearing up to lead a loyalist-filled, authoritarian administration intent on “revenge” – and the programme he has in mind will have dire consequences for the country.
By Andrew Goudsward and Luc Cohen

WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's claimed U.S. presidential election victory on Wednesday will essentially end the criminal cases brought against him, at least for the four years he occupies the White House.

The first former U.S. president to face criminal charges, Trump for much of this year faced four simultaneous prosecutions, over allegations ranging from his attempt to cover up a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign to his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat. A New York jury in May found him guilty of falsifying business records tied to the Daniels payment, making him the first former U.S. president convicted of a felony.
Story by Jonathan Allen

Donald J. Trump, the once and now future president, capped an improbable political comeback by defeating Vice President Kamala Harris on promises to turbocharge the economy and deport undocumented immigrants by the millions.

NBC News projected the Trump victory over Harris, who was the first woman of color to win a major party nomination for president, early Wednesday morning. She took the reins of the Democratic campaign after President Joe Biden abandoned his bid for a second term, a decision made in the wake of a disastrous June debate performance.

The most polarizing figure in modern American politics, Trump now must preside over a nation deeply riven by social, racial, cultural and economic hostilities that he has strategically exploited on the campaign trail for nearly a decade. It was, for him, a successful strategy. The last time a defeated U.S. president avenged his loss was Grover Cleveland — in 1892.

“This was the greatest political movement of all time,” Trump said just before 2:30 a.m. Wednesday at a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida. “Now it’s going to reach a new level of importance because we’re going to help our country heal.”

Trump’s path back to the White House ran through Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin, states he reclaimed after losing them in 2020. He remained locked in close contests with Harris in Michigan, Arizona and Nevada as he looked to pad his Electoral College margin.
Story by Nicholas Liu

Election officials in battleground states say that voter turnout is surging in what is projected to be one of the closest presidential elections in a generation. Despite the massive voter turnout, swing state officials say, there is no evidence of any significant fraud or cheating.

"The only talk about massive cheating has come from one of the candidates, Donald J. Trump," Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Tuesday. Reports from the City of Brotherly Love suggest record-setting turnout. For his part, Donald Trump has targeted the area in a Truth Social meltdown Tuesday.

“A lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia. Law Enforcement coming!!!” Trump wrote on his social media site.

"There is no factual basis whatsoever within law enforcement to support this wild allegation. We have invited complaints and allegations of improprieties all day. If Donald J. Trump has any facts to support his wild allegations, we want them now. Right now. We are not holding our breath," Krasner pushed back against the former president.
NSC-131 founder Chris Hood says Trump vote will help “preserve and improve” plight of race separatists
By Tim Dickinson

Chris Hood, the founder of the thuggish neo-Nazi group NSC-131, has endorsed the MAGA candidate for president, calling on fellow fascists in the swing states “to vote for Donald Trump.”

In a long statement on Telegram, Hood described Trump as providing a small step forward to his goal of “ultimate victory,” and insisted that casting a ballot for Trump provides a no-regrets way for race separatists to act — “even if it means just one less Somalian in Maine, one less Haitian in Ohio, and one more foot of wall built.” He added, “It costs you nothing.”

The embrace by the Trump movement by a literal neo-Nazi — who was previously a member of the Proud Boys, Patriot Front, and another hate group called The Base — offers evidence that Trump’s late, ugly, attempts to expand his appeal to the fetid fringe of the American right could have met with some success. The Trump campaign did not respond to Rolling Stone’s request for comment.
Story by Sophie Clark | Newsweek

A summons in a defamation case against Donald Trump was served at Mar-a-Lago last month, an Election Day court filing has revealed.

The summons in the lawsuit brought by the Central Park Five, now often referred to as the Exonerated Five, was served to Trump's director of security, Dan Freeman, on behalf of the former president at the Florida resort at 4:10 p.m. on October 24, the filing seen by Newsweek showed.

Trump was campaigning in the Sun Belt that day, holding a rally in Tempe, Arizona, that afternoon, visiting a Cuban restaurant in Las Vegas, and phoning in to a televised town hall in Detroit to ask his running mate, Senator JD Vance, "How brilliant is Donald J. Trump?"
Newsweek

There have been a thousand warnings about former President Donald Trump. If polls are to be believed these warnings have fallen on deaf ears. What accounts for this imperviousness despite clear evidence of his dangerous and egregious flaws? This question has stumped many. As a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has long worked with complexities of mind, let me offer psychological explanations then suggest remedies that could help permeate this apparent impenetrability.

He offers a sense of omnipotence. Trump makes it seem like nothing is hard, meaning it's easy to be all powerful. The Civil War? Piece of cake. He would have settled it. Same with Ukraine. Never mind that he would have given away the nation with the former and imperiled the free world with the latter. He's the strongman who can handle anything. By extension, you can, too.

He helps people deny painful realities and threats, instead trivializing them. He pulls for living in a fantasy world where the true existential threats don't exist. Climate change? Just a big scam. The promise and peril of artificial intelligence? Outsource the techno-state to one man, Elon Musk, who surely will handle it in the nation's best interests not his own. The real enemies are "out there" (illegal immigrants, cancel-culture, trans people) or "within" (Democrats, political opponents, radical left lunatics).
Story by Ewan Palmer

Former President Donald Trump has been heavily criticized by the biggest newspaper in the key swing state of Pennsylvania in an editorial published on Election Day.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, which has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 race, warned that Trump's "dark and deranged campaign—fueled by anger, lies, racism, hate, and misogyny—demonstrated he is unfit" for another term in office.

"Regardless of what many of his MAGA followers believe, a second Trump presidency is perilous for red and blue America," the editorial board wrote on Tuesday.

Newsweek has contacted the Trump and Harris campaign teams for comment via email.

The Philadelphia Inquirer has the largest circulation of any Pennsylvania newspaper, and ranked 18th in the country overall in 2023, according to Press Gazette figures. The Keystone State is considered the most vital of all the battleground states this election, with its 19 Electoral College votes key to both Harris' and Trump's election hopes.
Story by Charlie Jones

A sinister plot by covert Russian operatives to set fire to US bound planes has been uncovered.

The discovery came after two incendiary devices went off at DHL logistic hubs in Leipzig, Germany, and Birmingham, England.

The explosions triggered a massive global hunt to identify the perpetrators with investigators now thinking they were a test run to figure out how to get such incendiary devices aboard planes bound for the US.

European investigators and spy agencies have now determined how the devices - electric massagers implanted with a magnesium-based flammable substance - were made and concluded that they were part of a broader Russian plot, according to security officials and individuals familiar with the investigation.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Donald Trump doesn't have the mental capacity to be president for four more years
By Gina Martinez

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said former president Trump’s latest comments about having an assailant “shoot through the fake news” is a sign of his continuing mental decline.

Pelosi appeared on MSNBC's “Inside with Jen Psaki” on Sunday and responded to Trump’s comments from a rally earlier that day where he described the protective gear surrounding him on stage put in place following his assassination attempts.

“I have a piece of glass over here, and I don’t have a piece of glass there, and I have this piece of glass here,” Trump said. “But all we have really over here is the fake news.”
Story by Graeme Demianyk

Donald Trump is closing out his election campaign by bringing up the fact that he’d like to “hit back” at former first lady Michelle Obama.

At a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Monday, the GOP candidate asked a crowd of supporters whether he was “allowed to hit her now” after claiming that the former first lady had “hit me” — an apparent reference to her recent speech calling Trump “a criminal and an abuser.”

Trump had already appeared to threaten Michelle Obama at a previous rally, noting ominously that she’d made “a big mistake” by criticizing him, but his latest outburst is an escalation in his language and appears to deliberately lean into the ambiguity of the word “hit.”

Apparently recounting a conversation with his advisers, Trump said, “Michelle ... I was so nice to her out of respect. She hit me the other day. I was going to say: ‘Am I allowed to hit her now?’ They said: ‘Take it easy, sir.’ My geniuses, they said, ‘Just take it easy.’ ‘What do you mean? She said that about me, I can’t hit back?’ ‘Sir, you’re winning. Just relax.’”
Story by Lee Moran

Former President Donald Trump spewed yet more divisive, violence-themed rhetoric on the campaign trail Sunday, earning fierce backlash this time for talking about members of the media being shot.

“I have this piece of glass here but all we have really over here is the fake news, right? And, to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don’t mind that so much, coz, I don’t mind, I don’t mind that,” Trump told a rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania.

The comment drew laughter from the audience.

Trump, who was the subject of an assassination attempt at a rally in July, later complained about how the protective glass installed to ensure his safety meant he didn’t look great on TV.
ABC News

Shortly before former President Donald Trump's unlikely return to the Democratic stronghold of Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Thursday -- just five days ahead of Election Day, Albuquerque's Democratic Mayor Tim Keller sent a special welcome message for the former president.

"Still waiting for Trump to pay the half million he owes. Maybe he's making a special Halloween delivery to the Duke City? We won't hold our breath," Keller posted on his social media, with a photo of a skeleton sitting at a desk.

Thursday was Trump's first visit to Albuquerque in five years, after officials say he left an unpaid bill of $211,176 in public safety costs from his 2019 rally at the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho, which is a part of the Albuquerque metropolitan area.

Fast forward five years, the bill has now snowballed into $444,986 including interest over the years, according to the city of Albuquerque.

Albuquerque is just one of many cities where Trump's campaign -- over his three tries for the White House -- has accrued hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid bills after holding campaign events, often leaving local governments with hefty sums of unexpected expenses that cause them to go over their budget.
Story by Natalie Venegas

Former President Donald Trump mocked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's endorsement of him on Sunday as a "painful day" for the senator during a campaign rally in North Carolina.

McConnell, who has led the Republican Party in the U.S. Senate since 2007, has notably clashed with Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, following the 2020 election. In private, McConnell called Trump "stupid" and "despicable," according to a biography about the senator that was published last week and while in public, he said that Trump was "practically and morally responsible for provoking" the U.S. Capitol riot that occurred on January 6, 2021.

Meanwhile, Trump has also bashed McConnell after his election loss, claiming the senator was "hanging by a thread."

Ultimately, McConnell put his concerns aside and endorsed Trump in the 2024 election against Vice President Kamala Harris rather than stand against the former president as some high-profile Republicans have done throughout the cycle. McConnell had promised to support the Republican nominee "regardless of who it is" and that Trump "earned the nomination."

During a campaign rally in Kinston, North Carolina, on Sunday, just days before Election Day, Trump mocked the endorsement stating that it "must've been a painful day in his life."

"Hopefully we get rid of Mitch McConnell pretty soon...Can you believe he endorsed me? Boy, that must've been a painful day in his life. Every time I think of it, he didn't have to do that. He provided the necessary votes. What a disgrace," Trump said.
Story by Joe Sommerlad

The New York Times’s editorial board has issued a strongly-worded denunciation of Donald Trump as the presidential election looms, telling readers the Republican nominee “is unfit to lead” and a serial liar whose policies are “cruel” and will only “wreak havoc” on the nation.

Without explicitly endorsing his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in the piece, the board wrote a searing 112-word op-ed warning of a possible Trump second term.

“You already know Donald Trump. He is unfit to lead. Watch him. Listen to those who know him best,” it reads.

“He tried to subvert an election and remains a threat to democracy. He helped overturn Roe, with terrible consequences.
Story by Peter Wade

A savvy camera operator fact checked Donald Trump live.

During his rally in Greensboro, N.C. on Saturday night, Donald Trump bragged, "We have had the biggest rallies in history of any country, and every rally is full. You do not have any seats that are empty. You did not have anything."

But immediately after that comment, a cameraman for NTD.com smartly panned the stadium, zooming in on sections of empty seats and people exiting the arena, although it's unclear whether those attendees are leaving the venue entirely.

News Nation reporter Libbey Dean also captured dozens of empty seats in a post on her X (formerly Twitter) account, including seats that Trump likely would have been able to see from his position at the podium.
Story by Liam Archacki

The editorial board of The New York Times just eviscerated Donald Trump in a single paragraph.

The piece, published on Saturday, was only the Times’ latest attack on the former president during the run-up to the election, but the searing indictment was all the more brutal for its brevity.

Rhetorically matter-of-fact, the piece succinctly lays out many of the reasons Trump’s critics think his second term would be disastrous for the country—the implicit point being that nobody really needs a lengthy review of all Trump’s actions; everyone already knows what he’s about.

Here it is in full, with its original hyperlinks to other Times’ coverage of Trump preserved: “You already know Donald Trump. He is unfit to lead. Watch him. Listen to those who know him best. He tried to subvert an election and remains a threat to democracy. He helped overturn Roe, with terrible consequences. Mr. Trump’s corruption and lawlessness go beyond elections: It’s his whole ethos. He lies without limit. If he’s re-elected, the G.O.P. won’t restrain him. Mr. Trump will use the government to go after opponents. He will pursue a cruel policy of mass deportations. He will wreak havoc on the poor, the middle class and employers. Another Trump term will damage the climate, shatter alliances and strengthen autocrats. Americans should demand better. Vote.”
Donald J. Trump, who sought to overturn his loss of the 2020 election, also joked that he didn’t mind if reporters were shot.
By Michael Gold and Maggie Haberman

Former President Donald J. Trump told supporters on Sunday that he “shouldn’t have left” the White House at the end of his term during an end-of-campaign rally where he vented angrily about a spate of new public polls showing him losing ground to Vice President Kamala Harris and joked about reporters being shot at.

The former president also described Democrats as a “demonic” party at the rally, at an airport in Lititz, Pa., his first of three swing-state stops planned for his second to last day on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump’s voice was audibly hoarse and his speech sluggish as he made unfounded claims about election interference. He praised himself for ditching his prepared remarks, saying it meant the “truth” could come out.

“We had the best border, the safest border,” Mr. Trump said of his time in the White House. He said that the economy had been in good shape, before mentioning the chart he had been pointing to featuring immigration statistics when he was shot at during a rally in Butler, Pa., in July.
By Robert Faturechi, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski

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Former President Donald Trump’s social media company outsourced jobs to workers in Mexico even as Trump publicly railed against outsourcing on the campaign trail and threatened heavy tariffs on companies that send jobs south of the border.

The firm’s use of workers in Mexico was confirmed by a spokesperson for Trump Media, which operates the Truth Social platform. The workers were hired through another entity to code and perform other technical duties, according to a person with knowledge of Trump Media. The reliance on foreign labor was met with outrage among the company's own staff, who accused its leadership of betraying their “America First” ideals, the person said.

The outsourcing to Mexico helped prompt a recent whistleblower letter from staff to Trump Media’s board that has been roiling the company.

That complaint, reported by ProPublica last month , calls for the board to fire CEO Devin Nunes, a former Republican congressman. The letter alleges he has “severely” mismanaged the company. It also asserts the company is hiring “America Last” — with Nunes imposing a directive to hire only foreign contractors at the expense of “American workers who are deeply committed to our mission.”
Trump said Mexico would pay for the wall they did not. Trump also said Covid would go away it has not and if Biden won the markets would crash they did not.


Former President Donald Trump will campaign in several battleground states with a closing message focused heavily on painting a dark image of what America will look like without him as president. A new poll in Iowa shows him trailing Vice President Kamala Harris after he previously was ahead of her by 4 points in September. NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard reports for Sunday TODAY.
The former president’s vow to take aggressive and quick executive action makes his acting attorney general pick unusually pivotal.
By Josh Gerstein

Finding a Donald Trump loyalist in a bureaucracy full of Joe Biden appointees might sound difficult.

But if Trump is elected president again, it could be his first order of business.

That’s because he has promised, on Day 1, to harness the power of the Justice Department in novel and legally dubious ways. To do that, he’ll likely need a pliant official to lead the department temporarily while his permanent choice for attorney general navigates Senate confirmation.

This “acting” attorney general couldn’t be just anyone. Federal law limits who can be installed as an acting department head, so Trump would have to find someone who already holds a high-ranking position in government.

The vast majority of current senior DOJ officials would be nonstarters; Trump and his closest aides would not trust them to implement Trump’s radical vision for the department. But there are a few lesser-known officials throughout the government who might pass Trump’s loyalty test and could also qualify under federal law to fill the job of acting attorney general.
If Trump is reelected will he send Seal Team Six to kill people he does not like or people who do not like him?

By Eric Bradner, CNN

CNN — Donald Trump said former Rep. Liz Cheney is a “war hawk” who should be fired upon, as he raged against one of his most prominent intra-party critics while campaigning Thursday night in Arizona.

“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?” the former president said at a campaign event in Glendale with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

Trump also hurled insults at Cheney, once the third-ranking Republican in House leadership, calling her “very dumb,” a “stupid person” and “the moron.”

Trump’s suggestion that Cheney be fired upon represents an escalation of the violent language he has used to target his political foes. And it comes days before an election in which the former president — who never accepted his 2020 loss — has already undermined public confidence. In recent weeks, he has also suggested a military crackdown on political opponents he has described as “the enemy within.”
Story by Rhian Lubin

Donald Trump’s latest boast about the crowds at his campaign events backfired when he claimed that “no one” leaves his rallies early – just as a supporter got up and exited the stands directly behind him.

The unfortunate timing occurred while Trump was speaking at a campaign event in Rocky Mount, in the swing state of North Carolina on Wednesday.

“Everybody watches our rallies, everybody loves our rallies, we never have an empty seat,” Trump told the crowd, before he did an impersonation of opponent Kamala Harris.

“They try and demean us like that horrible, horrible person that I debated when she said ‘and people leave early.’ Nobody leaves early.”

At that very moment, a rallygoer donning a black t-shirt featuring the Republican’s mugshot got up out of his seat and left.
Story by Griffin Eckstein

Former President Donald Trump had a hard time finding a spot for his Halloween rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico rally, as unpaid bills came back to haunt his campaign.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reported that the campaign’s original plans to use the Albuquerque Convention Center were dashed, , due in part to an unpaid bill of nearly $445,000 from a 2019 rally.

“If you’re not going to pay your bills, we’re just not going to entertain you using city facilities, and that’s the way it should be,” Albuquerque mayor Tim Keller told the outlet.

Albuquerque is just one of many cities seeking to recoup unpaid fees from Trump's campaign stops over the last decade. Municipalities in Texas and Pennsylvania are still after more than $750,000, per an NBC News analysis shared earlier this month.
Story by Sara Boboltz

Former President Donald Trump admitted to a crowd of supporters that he was only there in Albuquerque, New Mexico, because he thought it would improve his image among Hispanic and Latino voters.

Trump’s popularity among voters in the demographic took a steep dive on Sunday, when a comedian called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. The former president has refused to offer a personal apology.

“New Mexico, look, don’t make me waste a whole damn half a day here, OK?” Trump told the crowd on Thursday.

“First of all, Hispanics love Trump, they do. True. I like them. They’re smart. They’re a lot smarter than the person running for president on the Democrat side,” he said, once again taking a shot at Vice President Kamala Harris’ abilities.

“So I’m here for one simple reason,” Trump said. “I like you very much, and it’s good for my credentials with the Hispanic or Latino community.”
Joey Garrison, Savannah Kuchar | USA TODAY

WASHINGTON ― Five days before the election, former President Donald Trump and his campaign are trying to milk President Joe Biden's "garbage" remark for everything its worth − telling supporters it shows what Democrats really think about half the country.

Yet Trump, the Republican nominee, has a well-documented, long list of disparaging remarks himself, including using the word "garbage" to refer to his adversaries in September, just last week referring to the United States as the "garbage can for the world," calling his adversaries the "enemy within" and labeling political opponents "scum."

Trump pounced − and hasn't let up − after Biden appeared to call Trump supporters "garbage." During a Harris campaign Zoom call Tuesday night, Biden said, "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters − his − his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American."
Brad Reed

Former President Donald Trump had noticeably physical difficulty in trying to enter a garbage truck during a campaign stunt in Wisconsin on Wednesday, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was quick to pounce on the mishap while campaigning on Thursday.

During an appearance in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania, Walz used Trump's stumble to again raise concerns about the 78-year-old former president's age.

"This dude is nearly 80 years old," said Walz. "He damn near killed himself getting into a garbage truck!"
Story by Lee Moran

The Las Vegas Sun ― in the 2024 election swing state of Nevada, where polling puts former President Donald Trump less than one point ahead of Democratic rival Kamala Harris ― has delivered a stinging rebuke of the GOP nominee.

The newspaper warned in an editorial published Wednesday that not only does Trump’s “racism, sexism, xenophobia” and more make him totally “unfit for any public office” but that his “mental acuity and sharpness are also in decline.”
Story by Bryce Covert

Though former President Donald Trump presents himself as a champion of the working class with promises to cut taxes on overtime, his record as both a businessman and president paints a different picture.

Trump and his businesses have faced multiple accusations of failing to pay workers overtime they were owed. Once he was in office, Trump’s Department of Labor issued a rule that reduced by millions the number of workers who would have become eligible for overtime pay under an Obama era rule.

Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation blueprint for a potential second Trump term that the former president has alternately embraced and distanced himself from, goes even further. The 900-page document outlines plans for a sweeping overhaul of overtime protections that would give employers ways to avoid paying overtime to workers who have long qualified for time-and-a-half pay after 40 hours.
Opinion by Sara Pequeño, USA TODAY

When asked outright if she believed former President Donald Trump was a fascist at a CNN town hall last week, Vice President Kamala Harris’ answer was simple.

“Yes, I do,” the Democratic presidential nominee told Anderson Cooper. She used the term later in the night when asked what she’d say to someone considering a third-party candidate due to her stance on the Israel-Hamas war.

“For many people who care about this issue, they also care about bringing down the price of groceries,” Harris said. “They also care about our democracy and not having a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist.”

I was surprised to hear her use such a loaded word on the presidential campaign trail, though people have called Trump one before. Historians and scholars have been debating whether Trump is a fascist for years, and the answer has shifted over time. So I decided just to ask the question. Is Trump a fascist?

Is Trump a fascist? This professor says yes.
Jason Stanley, a Yale philosophy professor, is the author of “Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.” He has been describing Trump’s rhetoric and actions as fascist since 2018. In a Vox interview from the time, he described fascism's key components as "identifying enemies, appealing to the in-group (usually the majority group) and smashing truth and replacing it with power."
Story by Janna Brancolini

Newly leaked video shows one of Donald Trump’s former top administration officials detailing his plans to give the Republican presidential candidate unchecked power to unleash the military on Americans if he wins re-election.

The plan involves creating “shadow” government offices that would create flimsy legal justifications to override objections from military leaders and carry out executive orders, including sending in soldiers against protesters and other perceived enemies, according to a stunning new report from ProPublica.

“We’re trying to build almost a shadow Office of Management and Budget. We’re trying to build a shadow Office of Legal Counsel,” said Russell Vought, who oversaw Trump’s OMB in 2019 and 2020, in a video from 2023.

Throughout his latest presidential campaign, Trump has repeatedly described Democratic lawmakers as “the enemy within” and mused about using the military against his fellow Americans.

Republican pundits have tried to dismiss the comments as all talk, but Vought is expected to be given another high-level government role in a second Trump administration—perhaps even as White House chief of staff, according to ProPublica. He declined the news site’s requests for comment.
By Brian Bennett / New York City

Donald Trump was the headliner at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. But the more than two dozen warm-up acts showed the country a lot about the party he’s built around him.

Speaking from a podium on the arena floor that read “Trump will fix it,” comedian Tony Hinchcliffe compared Puerto Rico to an “island of garbage,” and made lewd sexual jokes about Latinos. When a Black man stood to cheer him on, Hinchcliffe said the two of them had been at a Halloween party the night before, adding "We carved watermelons together."

Tucker Carlson said it’s going to be hard for Trump supporters like him to believe the election results if Kamala Harris wins. He also mocked Harris—whose mother was from India and father from Jamaica—for her biracial identity, saying she would be “the first Samoan Malaysian low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected President.”
Fact-check: Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York City
Trump rallied his MAGA troops with angry words about immigration and mocked Kamala Harris. We fact check the claims he made.
By Matthew Crowley, Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe and Amy Sherman | PolitiFact

Former President Donald Trump hammered home an anti-immigration theme in his closing argument pitch to voters on October 27 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

But before Trump spoke, the event made headlines for a series of racist jokes by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe. He called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” and disparaged Black Americans, Latinos and Jewish people. Democrats and at least two Florida Republicans, including Senator Rick Scott, swiftly condemned Hinchcliffe’s remarks about Puerto Rico.

“This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” Danielle Alvarez, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign said in a statement after the rally addressing the comedian’s comment about Puerto Rico.

At the rally, Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, said he presided over the most secure border in United States history (he did not), that the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not deliver hurricane relief because the government spent its money bringing immigrants into the country illegally (it did not) and that foreign nations were emptying their prisons and sending convicts to the US (they are not).
Damning New Montage Show How Trump's Rhetoric Has Taken A Nazi Turn
A new "Daily Show" video shows how the former president's language lines up with that of Hitler.
By Ed Mazza

Donald Trump has used language shockingly similar to that of Adolf Hitler as he’s attacked immigrants, political rivals and others.

Now, a new “Daily Show” video montage shows just how close the former president’s rhetoric matches the Nazi dictator’s:

The video comes days after former Trump chief of staff John Kelly, in recorded interviews with The New York Times, said the former president told him Hitler “did some good things” and praised the Nazi dictator’s generals for being “totally loyal.”
Trump supporters who bought his lies about the last election face reality in court
Story by Ryan J. Reilly

WASHINGTON — With just days left until the 2024 election, Donald Trump supporters who fell for his lies about fraud in the last election continue to face legal consequences for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, even as Trump managed to stave off his own criminal trial and again become the Republican presidential nominee.

On Friday afternoon, a young Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol faced sentencing inside a federal courthouse in Washington, just a few hundred feet away from the crime scene. Caleb Berry, a now 23-year-old who stormed the Capitol along with members of the far-right Oath Keepers group, stood before the judge in a black shirt and apologized to everyone in the courtroom, and to the country.

Berry had pleaded guilty to conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding and cooperated with the government, testifying at two trials for fellow Oath Keepers. At one trial, Berry testified that Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs — who was convicted of seditious conspiracy — told a group of fellow members on the east front of the Capitol that they "were going to stop the vote count" before they formed a military stack and headed into the building "like a battering ram."
Story by Nikki McCann Ramirez

Donald Trump refused a request for federal disaster relief funds from Washington Gov. Jay Inslee in 2020 after wildfires tore through the eastern portion of the states, Politico's E&E News reports.

The dispute between the former president and Democratic governor adds yet another entry to Trump's record of injecting partisan politics into disaster response efforts - all while he attempts to accuse President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of intentionally withholding aid from Republican areas affected by hurricanes in the southeastern United States.

According to E&E News, Inslee requested $37 million in federal disaster funds in September 2020 to respond to the fires. According to the governor, Trump ignored the request, refusing to approve the aid even after a FEMA inspection confirmed that the damage to Washington communities met the threshold for federal assistance. The aid was ultimately approved by President Biden two weeks after he took office - about five months after the fires swept the region.

"It really was an outrageous abuse of power," Inslee told E&E News.

Trump and Inslee had been engaged in a public back-and-forth over the Trump's administration's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. In March 2020, the former president called Inslee a "snake" after Inslee tweeted that pandemic mitigation efforts would "be more successful if the Trump administration stuck to the science and told the truth."
Story by Suzanne Gamboa

A racist comment former President Donald Trump is reported to have made about murdered soldier Vanessa Guillén is drawing backlash from some Hispanics, but it could be tempered by her sister’s support for Trump and the current political divide among Latinos.

The Atlantic magazine reported that Trump, when he was president, complained about the cost of paying for Guillén’s funeral as he had promised her family he would do in a meeting at the White House in July 2020. Citing two unnamed sources who attended a December 2020 meeting and notes from the meeting, when he was told the $60,000 price tag, Trump responded, “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f---ing Mexican!” He told his chief of staff at the time, Mark Meadows, not to pay for it, the magazine reported.

NBC News has not confirmed The Atlantic's reporting.

Meadows and Trump campaign spokesman Alex Pfeiffer denied he made such a comment, the magazine reported.

Guillén’s sister, Mayra Guillén, who was not at the White House meeting at which Trump is alleged to have made the comment, came to his defense on X.
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