Trump says he ‘won’t pay the bill’ for audio company after his rally mic went out for 15 minutes: Live
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are both speaking in Michigan this evening as former president Barack Obama campaigns for the vice president in Arizona
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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are both holding rallies in Michigan this evening as they try to win voters in the key swing state.
Trump is speaking in Detroit, where his microphone has malfunctioned. The former president was forced to pace the stage for over 15 minutes, occasionally waving at attendees.
“I won’t pay the bill for the stupid company that rented us this crap,” he said.
Before the audio error, Trump was telling supporters that his Democratic opponent is “grossly incompetent” and he will “save” the city. Meanwhile, Harris is speaking in Oakland County. The latest Emerson College poll shows the two candidates are tied in the key swing state with just over two weeks until Election Day.
Also tonight, former President Barack Obama is campaigning on the vice president’s behalf in Tuscon, Arizona.
Ahead of tonight’s rally, the former president called Judge Tanya Chutkan “the most evil person” and labeled special counsel Jack Smith a “sick puppy” after new evidence was released in the January 6 case against him.
Trump has called the case against him “a terrible thing” and “election interference” as he navigates indictments in Washington and Georgia for his efforts to subvert his 2020 loss.
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Kelly Rissman took a look at what’s happening.
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The younger Trump appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show following the former president’s rambling interview with Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday.
Joe Sommerlad reports.
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Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing Donald Trump’s election interference case in Washington, DC, agreed to unseal nearly 2,000 pages of heavily redacted pages of evidence submitted by the special counsel’s office, with handfuls of pages across four massive filings tracing the history of the former president’s election denialism.
The filings included transcripts of his remarks, interviews from the House select committee that investigated the January 6 attack, campaign emails, and the so-called “coup memo” outlining the legally dubious attempt to reject the electoral college certification — most of which was previously made public. But the documents are baked into roughly 1,800 pages of appendices to bolster Jack Smith’s case against the former president.
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“It sounds, to me, like a pretty good idea, frankly,” Trump told the Catholic news channel EWTN on Thursday evening while attending the annual Al Smith dinner in New York City.
“Certainly if there’s a religious problem I think people should go with that. I really think they should be able to do that but we’ll look at that,” Trump said.
Ariana Baio reports.
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