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Former president Donald Trump asserted Vice President Kamala Harris was “born mentally impaired” in the first few minutes at his Wisconsin rally on Saturday afternoon.
"Joe Biden became mentally impaired, Kamala was born that way,” Trump told a room of rallygoers in Prairie du Chien while criticizing the administration’s position on immigration.
The former president falsely asserted, once again, that Harris was appointed “border czar” and allowed migrants to cross the border and commit violent crimes.
“Only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country,” Trump said.
There is no evidence of mass “migrant crime” happening across America nor any indication Harris was born with a disability that impacts her mental or cognitive functioning.
Trump also blamed the Biden administration for not allocating enough Secret Service resources to accommodate a large outdoor rally. He complained the indoor space only held “2,000” people or less but that “40,000” people wanted to attend his rally.
The former president is also expected to attend a college football game between Alabama and Georgia. Meanwhile, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz will attend the game between Michigan and Minnesota.
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Stanley McChrystal, a retired Army general once dubbed “the finest warrior” in the U.S. military, has endorsed Kamala Harris for president.
McChrystal, who oversaw the Afghanistan war during the Obama administration, wrote in a New York Times op-ed on Thursday that the decision was “starkly simple.”
“Ms. Harris has the strength, the temperament and, importantly, the values to serve as commander in chief,” the retired general wrote. “When she sits down with world leaders like President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, representing the United States on the global stage, I have no doubt that she is working in our national interest, not her own.”
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Former first lady Melania Trump is now a bestselling author, as calculated by Amazon’s sales rankings.
Her forthcoming memoir, Melania, is the #1 seller in Amazon’s “Books” category, as of Friday afternoon. It is scheduled for an October 8 release.
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The Colorado Republican butted heads with a journalist from Colorado Public Radio, saying she was “extremely disappointed in the bias” of the interview, which covered inflation, immigration and climate change.
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ICYMI: Trump says he’ll make Elon Musk ‘cost cutter’ for country
Donald Trump claimed Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, will be the country’s “cost cutter” if he’s elected.
Trump made the comments at a Michigan rally on Friday afternoon.
“I’m gonna get Elon, and he’s great at this, he’s gonna be our cost cutter...I don’t think I can get him full-time because he’s a little bit busy sending rockets up and all the things he does but, but he’s so much into that, he said the waste of this country is crazy, and we’re going to get Elon Musk to be our cost cutter,” Trump said.
“He’s going to do it for zero, but he wants to see this country be great, and he’ll do it,” he added.
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