Here are 4 campaign promises from Trump. What are their chances if he wins? Hailey Branson-Potts Wed, October 16, 2024, 6:00 AM EDT·11 min read Here are 4 campaign promises from Trump. What are their chances if he wins? excerpt: "The Peterson Institute for International Economics, a nonpartisan think tank, projected that if Trump were to enact a 20% across-the-board tariff along with a 60% tariff on China, it would cost a middle-income household roughly $2,600 a year. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said in September that he's "not a fan of tariffs" because "they raise the prices for American consumers.""
Big Tech billionaires became Trump's biggest donors, the group he used to say he hated. That includes Elon Musk and his electric cars that Trump says will destroy Detroit. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/magazine/trump-donors-silicon-valley.html excerpt: "Musk was born in South Africa, became a Canadian citizen and once admitted that his immigration status was in a “gray area” when he founded his first company in the United States. But in recent months, he became obsessed with a conspiracy theory that Trump and his followers were promoting: that Democrats were allowing immigrants to pour into the country to create more Democratic voters, in effect stealing the election. In the months leading up to the gathering at Peltz’s home, Musk helped spread the idea — a central plank of MAGA’s election denialism — across his own social media platform, X. (Musk did not respond to a detailed request for comment.) Now, over a dinner of shrimp and lobster tails, he put the matter in stark, existential terms: Were Biden to win in November, the Democrats would use the ongoing flood of immigrants to create a permanent majority. If they failed to get Trump into office, Musk said, this would be America’s last free election."
Momentum shifts against Harris in presidential race excerpt: But Zelizer said what’s “most striking historically is that he can hold his position with the party despite threatening to use military force against opponents, spreading false stories about immigrants that is stoked in nativist rhetoric, and play to racial and gender backlash. The fact that this doesn’t depress his support in 2024 says more about the state of the GOP than anything else.”
More evidence to be unsealed in Trump criminal case. Judge in Trump's Jan. 6 case rules additional evidence will be unsealed Friday
Trump is still blaming Harris and Biden for assassination attempts on him. He thinks it was caused by people saying he's a threat to democracy (which he is). https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ris-rhetoric-potential-assassination-attempt/
Trump demands Harris be taken off presidential ticket so that Biden can resume his rightful place. Trump Calls For Biden To Reenter Presidential Race In Weird Rant About CBS excerpt: In a Thursday post on his Truth Social platform, former President Donald Trump argued that Vice President Kamala Harris “should be investigated and forced off the Campaign,” thereby allowing President Joe Biden “to take back his rightful place” at the top of the Democratic ticket.
Trump unintelligible. The video shows Trump swaying and nodding to the music which went on for 39 minutes until people finally exited the event which was supposed to be a question-answer town hall. Trump answered only four questions. His cohorts on the stage were swaying along with him and clapping to the music, not knowing what to do. ‘Unintelligible’: Trump’s mental decline on display in final stretch to election
Trump calls himself the 'Father of IVF'. https://www.politico.com/live-updat...sis/trump-father-of-ivf-enemy-within-00183982
Trump reveals targets on his military hit list. Trump Reveals First Targets on Military Hit List in Shocking Interview
Trump has canceled an NBC News interview and a CNBC interview. On Friday Trump abruptly ended a Fox interview with Dan Bongino a few minutes into the questioning. He hasn't fully committed to a planned CNN town hall event. He didn't accept a second debate with Harris. He canceled a scheduled appearance on CBS' "60 Minutes.". He canceled "Defend the 2nd" event in Savannah, Georgia He canceled an NRA event this week. Trump cancelled an appearance in Pennsylvania alongside Polish President Andrzej Duda, He canceled a planned interview with the Detroit News after the newspaper asked him about crime data. He stopped a town hall event near Philadelphia after taking only four questions and spent 39 minutes on stage swaying to music. It seems like his mind can't process more than a few questions at a particular event. He does have the capacity to rant for as long as two hours and 45 minutes at an event. https://www.axios.com/2024/10/18/trump-cancels-interviews-2024
He probably did and ignored it like always. Odd that the king of the party of homophobes and alphas uses the gayest song on earth and has a running mate who wears eye liner. He’s circling the drain but his hypnotized, idiot followers would vote for his corpse.
Trump compares imprisoned Jan. 6 rioters to Japanese Americans during WWII excerpt: "The former president during a Tuesday interview with Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait claimed there was a peaceful transfer of power in 2020 because he eventually left office."
A 'peaceful transition of power' after Trump's violent insurrection failed and he was forced to leave the White House..