Trump shooting suspect left note outlining assassination attempt, court documents reveal: Live updates

It’s a big week for morning TV shows in New York as both President Joe Biden and former first lady Melania Trump are set to make appearances on two of the most-watched shows.

The president will sit down with all six co-hosts of ABC’s The View on Wednesday (he is in town for the United Nations General Assembly) in his first interview since the Democratic National Convention and ABC News presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

Then on Thursday, Melania Trump will appear on Fox & Friends over on Fox News to promote her new book, Melania.

These days, “Project 2025” is nothing but a dirty word (or pair of words) to staffers on Donald Trump’s third bid for the presidency. After months of negative coverage and attacks from Democrats, Trump and his top aides are both engaged in a conscious effort to distance the former president from the project whenever possible. That effort drew to a heated pitch this summer as top Trump campaign officials Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles released a statement crowing over the resignation of a top Project 2025 operative and declaring the various groups involved with the plan to be speaking on the former president’s behalf without his permission.

This wasn’t supposed to be how the election went at all. The question remains: How did the Heritage Foundation and the other conservative groups behind Project 2025 fumble the bag this badly?

The answer seems obvious: Donald Trump. But that wasn’t obvious to anybody working on the effort.

John Bowden reports.

Donald Trump was asked by Sharyl Attkisson of Sinclair’s Full Measure what he would specifically do to bring down prices.

His rambling response was... not exactly specific but seemed to revolve around drilling and magically bringing down energy costs.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is accusing Donald Trump of being “deranged” for his stances on abortion and women.

The comments came in reaction to a Saturday speech where the former president claimed women’s lives had been improved by the end of the constitutional right to an abortion.

Josh Marcus has the story.

Violent crime in the U.S. dropped in 2023, according to FBI statistics that show a continued trend downward after a coronavirus pandemic-era crime spike.

Overall violent crime declined an estimated 3% in 2023 from the year before, according to the FBI report Monday. Murders and non-negligent manslaughter dropped nearly 12%.

Violent crime has become a focal point in the 2024 presidential race, with former President Donald Trump recently claiming that crime is “through the roof” under President Joe Biden‘s administration. Even with the 2020 pandemic surge, violent crime is down dramatically from the 1990s.

Here’s what to know about the FBI’s report and the state of crime in the U.S.:

More and more mainstream Republican officials are calling on Mark Robinson, their party’s nominee for governor in North Carolina, to sue CNN if he really believes a damning report about his history of comments on an online porn site is false or step aside in the race.

Robinson was trailing his Democratic opponent, Josh Stein, before the release of the report on Thursday. CNN’s article uncovered a deep history of shocking and outrageous comments apparently made by Robinson on a porn site years before he entered politics.

In the comments, the account linked to an email address and username known to be used by the Lt. Governor described himself as a “Black Nazi” while making graphic descriptions of his sexual preferences.

John Bowden reports.

Shares in Trump Media continue to fall today after closing out last week at a 52-week low on Friday, a day after former President Donald Trump, the majority shareholder, was allowed to start selling his stocks in the company.

Other early investors had also been prevented from selling their shares because of the “lockup” restrictions imposed on them.

How’s the rest of the market doing?

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The Florida man accused of a botched September 15 assassination attempt against Donald Trump sketched out his plan in a handwritten note that offered a six-figure payout to anyone who could finish off the former president.

In the missive, which was shared with the FBI by a “civilian witness,” according to a Monday court filing by federal prosecutors, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, seemed to predict he would ultimately be unsuccessful at killing Trump.

“This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you,” read the note, which began, “Dear World.”

Justin Rohrlich has the details.

The Republican-controlled Georgia State Election Board has given the green light to a controversial voting measure that local officials warned against.

The new rule requires local precincts to hand count the upcoming November election results and match them to the machine counts before certifying them.

Three Trump-backed Republican members have been the majority on the board since May. They passed the measure despite being told by Republican Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr that the board would illegally be seizing the power of the state legislature, board Chair John Fervier said, according to USA Today.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

NBC News reports that Vice President Kamala Harris had her biggest single-day fundraiser in New York on Sunday, bringing in $27m.