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Donald Trump was allegedly the target of a third assassination attempt, California police have said.
A Las Vegas man named Vem Miller was arrested Saturday outside of a Trump rally in Coachella Valley with guns and ID documents with multiple names, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Miller, 49, denies wrongdoing and says he is a non-violent Trump supporter.
The California rally came hours after Kamala Harris released her medical information in a challenge to Trump, whose health and age are coming under increased scrutiny, particularly in light of recent long, rambling, and at times incoherent speeches, which the vice president invited people to watch to make up their own minds about the mental state of the former president.
Elsewhere, Trump has claimed a major threat to America comes from what he termed “the enemy from within,” whom he characterized as “sick people, radical left lunatics”, a term he often applies to Democratic opponents.
The former president told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News‘ Sunday Morning Futures that they — US citizens — “should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military”.
Harris is on the campaign trail in the key battleground of North Carolina where she attended a church service before holding a rally in the city of Greenville.
ICYMI: Chris Christie becomes latest to sound alarm over Trump’s ‘significant’ mental decline
Rachel Sharp has the story.
Oliver O’Connell14 October 2024 03:45
How Melania Trump’s memoir sets the stage for her businesswoman revamp
Sheila Flynn writes:
The first image posted was arresting, an ethereal watercolor rendering of just Melania Trump’s eyes – specifically identified as cobalt blue – staring out intently from her’s personal Instagram page.
The design, the accompanying December 2021 announcement explained, was the inaugural in Melania’s new line of cryptocurrency digital artwork – NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, essentially online collectibles meant to hold value.
And alongside that intense ocular image, significantly, was the Instagram account’s first mention of MelaniaTrump.com.
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Oliver O’Connell14 October 2024 02:45
Would-be assassin or Trump-supporting ‘sovereign citizen’? What we know about suspect Vem Miller
However, the suspect – described as a “sovereign citizen” – is believed to be a Trump fan and told a news outlet he didn’t mean the Republican candidate any harm.
Here’s everything we know about suspect Vem Miller, 49, who has denied wrongdoing.
Josh Marcus14 October 2024 02:25
Are Pennsylvania and Arizona already in the bag for the Harris and Trump campaigns?
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Oliver O’Connell14 October 2024 02:00
Harris is trying to fix her Latino problem
Eric Garcia writes:
[There is a] thorny trail that Harris must navigate when it comes to immigration reform and Latino outreach. For decades, Democrats believed that Republicans’ anti-immigrant stance would render them unable to win over a population that largely came to the United States as migrants. But the data has not borne that out.
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Oliver O’Connell14 October 2024 01:30
Oliver O’Connell14 October 2024 01:00
Trump stops rally to remove sign from teleprompter despite mocking Harris for using one
After mocking Vice President Kamala Harris over her teleprompter use, Donald Trump’s rally in Reno, Nevada, ground to a halt as he was was forced to fix his on-stage after a campaign sign fell on it.
Ariana Baio has the story.
Oliver O’Connell14 October 2024 00:30
Harris was asked to name three of Trump’s ‘virtues’. She couldn’t
Vice President Kamala Harris could not come up with three virtues about former president Donald Trump when she was asked to do so on Thursday evening at a Univision town hall event.
The Democratic presidential nominee laughed upon hearing the question, posed by an audience member, and immediately shared a negative trait about Trump that she does not like.
Ariana Baio has the story.
Oliver O’Connell14 October 2024 00:00
‘Not going to happen’: Warnock brushes off Obama’s concerns about Black voters breaking from Harris
The former president directly called out Black male voters at Harris’s campaign rally in Pittsburgh, pointing to some national and state-level polling which shows a dropoff in Black support for Democrats in 2024, compared to past election cycles — including his own.
John Bowden reports.
Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 23:45
California sheriff stands by theory of thwarted assassination attempt, despite suspect’s denial
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco pushed back on Sunday against a statement from Vem Miller, a Las Vegas man arrested outside a Trump rally yesterday with illegal guns and fake ID documents.
Miller has claimed he wasn’t at the event to threaten Trump, while the sheriff maintains his department stopped a likely assassination plot.
“What we do know is he showed up with multiple passports with different names, an unregistered vehicle with a fake license plate, and loaded firearms,” Bianco said at a press conference.
“If you’re asking me right now, I probably did have deputies that did prevent the third assassination attempt. If we are that politically lost, that we have lost sight of common sense and reality and reason, that we can’t say, hold crap, what did he show up with all of that stuff and loaded guns, and I’m going to be accused of being dramatic? We have a serious, serious problem in this country.”
“I don’t know how else to explain it,” he added.
Josh Marcus13 October 2024 23:37
