Trump campaign melts down over Harris having beer with Colbert amid deadline to commit to final debate: Live

Kamala Harris cracked open a beer on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday and took the opportunity to lash out at election rival Donald Trump, calling him a “loser” and joking: “This is what happens when I drink!”

The Democratic presidential nominee sipped a Miller High Life with the late-night host as she discussed Trump’s politicization of federal hurricane relief efforts, her plans for the economy, the prospects for peace in the Middle East and her opponent’s admiration for “strongman” dictators like Vladimir Putin.

The drink in particular attracted an angry response from Trump’s campaign spokesman Steven Cheung, who posted on X: “Kamala drinks a beer to show Americans how relatable she is, but she ends up looking like an out-of-touch elitist trying to gaslight everyone into thinking she’s one of them.”

Harris has ramped up her media appearances in recent days, guesting on the Call Her Daddy podcast, CBS’s 60 Minutes, ABC’s The View and Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show.

Trump is meanwhile running out of time if he plans to accept CNN’s offer to host a final presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 23, which Harris has already agreed to.

Key Points

• Trump campaign melts down over Kamala Harris having beer with Stephen Colbert

• Donald Trump facing deadline to accept CNN’s final debate offer

• Trump sent Vladimir Putin Covid-19 testing machines early in pandemic, new books alleges

• Joe Biden reportedly called Trump ‘f***ing a**hole’ and Benjamin Netanyahu a ‘bad guy’

• Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles printed in China

‘Sexual matador’ Stephen Miller advises men to vote Trump to ‘impress the ladies’

13:40 , Joe Sommerlad

Trumpworld really is another planet isn’t it?

Harris says even the toughest Floridians should not attempt to wait out ‘historic’ Hurricane Milton

13:20 , Joe Sommerlad

It’s worth drawing attention to the Vice President’s warning regarding Hurricane Milton on Colbert last night as Floridians brace for landfall.

Here’s what she had to say:

“The hurricane that is about to hit Florida is extremely serious. And it is predicted to be historic in proportion, in terms of the damage it will cause. And I know a lot of tough Floridians that have waited out many hurricanes and may think they can do the same with this one.

“This one’s going to be different.

“I ask anyone who’s watching, if you’re in Florida in the predicted path, if you have a family member who might think they can wait it out, please get in touch with them and tell them it’s not going to be like the ones we’ve seen before.

“Please follow your local leader’s instructions. And if they’re telling you to evacuate, grab your stuff and get out.”

You can, incidentally, follow live coverage of Hurricane Milton via our dedicated liveblog below.

Hurricane Milton latest: Florida braces for ‘historic’ category 5 storm

Truth Social: Trump accuses 60 Minutes of doctoring Harris interview

13:00 , Joe Sommerlad

Here’s the Republican nominee baselessly attacking the celebrated news show he backed out of being interviewed by because they presumed to fact-check him after seeing how well Kamala’s appearance on it on Monday night has gone down.

Tim Walz: ‘We do not have dictators on speed dial’

12:40 , Joe Sommerlad

Speaking in Reno, Nevada, Harris’s deputy took Trump to task over Woodward’s reporting on his frequent phone calls with Putin with a characteristically neat line.

Meanwhile, in Michigan, JD Vance broke with his boss by insulting one of his favourite despots, fat-shaming North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.

Here’s Kelly Rissman on Vance being trolled for praising Barack Obama after saying he would never do so.

Vance trolled for claiming he’d ‘never’ praise Obama - despite writing op-ed doing so

Harris guests on The View to bash Trump and announce Medicare policy

12:20 , Joe Sommerlad

Kamala was also on ABC’s female-led panel show The View yesterday, where she received a very warm reception indeed and again attacked Trump for his Hurricane Helene lies as “the height of irresponsibility and frankly callousness” and indicative of his general lack of empathy.

She also rebuked him for his preoccupation with his own “grievances”, unveiled a new policy to expand the remit of Medicare and pledged to have a Republican in her Cabinet in the interests of bipartisanship.

Here’s Inga Parkel on what she had to say about being spoofed by Maya Rudolph on Saturday Night Live.

Kamala Harris reviews Maya Rudolph’s SNL impression of her on The View

Trump attacks Woodward and advises Israel to target Iranian nuclear facilities on Newsmax

12:00 , Joe Sommerlad

In return, here’s Trump on Newsmax rubbishing the great Bob Woodward, advising Israel on how best to blow up Iran, saying he considers all Haitians immigrants “illegal” even if they arrived in Springfield, Ohio, legally, warning against taxing the rich (he’s a billionaire!) and fantasizing about winning California while spreading election denialism.

And, for a bonus, here’s Melania selling magic beans on Fox News’s The Five.

Howard Stern interviews VP Harris about Trump’s ‘chaos’ and ‘insanity’

11:40 , Joe Sommerlad

In the interests of impartiality, we’re going to have to juggle back and forth between Harris and Trump’s duelling media appearances for a bit.

First up, here’s Kamala talking to the largely-reformed shock jock Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show yesterday, a mostly-friendly hour-long conversation focused on the threat posed by Trump, “an unserious man”, Harris said, whose re-election would have “hugely serious” consequences for everyone.

Alex Woodward was tuning in.

Howard Stern interviews Kamala Harris about Trump’s ‘chaos’ and ‘insanity’

Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles printed in China

11:20 , Joe Sommerlad

Of course they are. How utterly perfect.

Beyond parody.

It turns out Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles were made in China

Joe Biden called Trump ‘f***ing a**hole’ and Benjamin Netanyahu a ‘bad guy’, Woodward says

11:00 , Joe Sommerlad

The same book finds the 46th president on angry form, frequently cursing out his various enemies.

In one incredible passage spotted by CNN, Woodward quotes Biden complaining to an unnamed friend that Barack Obama failed to take the threat posed by Putin seriously, even when Russia annexed Crimea and the Kremlin’s “little green men” began appearing in the Donbas, and declares:

“They f***d up in 2014. That’s why we are here. We f***ed it up. Barack never took Putin seriously.

“We did nothing. We gave Putin a license to continue!

“Well, I’m revoking his f***ing license!”

Here’s more from Rhian Lubin on Scranton Joe.

Biden’s colorful nicknames for Trump and Netanyahu revealed in Bob Woodward’s book

Trump sent Vladimir Putin Covid testing machines in pandemic, new books alleges

10:40 , Joe Sommerlad

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s new book War alleges that Trump has had “at least seven” phone calls with Russia’s pariah president Vladimir Putin since leaving the White House and even sent him “a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines” for his personal use during the pandemic when they were in short supply.

Both the Trump campaign and the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov have now denied those claims, with the aforementioned Steven Cheung dismissing the Watergate hero’s work accordingly:

“None of these made-up stories by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump derangement syndrome.

“Woodward is an angry little man and is clearly upset because President Trump is successfully suing him because of the unauthorized publishing of recordings he made previously.

“President Trump gave him absolutely no access for this trash book that either belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore or is used as toilet tissue.

“Woodward is a total sleazebag who has lost it mentally, and he’s slow, lethargic, incompetent, and overall a boring person with no personality.”

Another interesting line on Trump from Woodward, sleazebag or not, comes from South Carolina GOP Senator Lindsey Graham, who is quoted as saying: “Trump is becoming more erratic. These court cases. I think they would rattle anybody.”

Kamala Harris attacked Trump for his admiration of “strongmen” dictators like Putin during her interview with Colbert last night, saying of Woodward’s Covid allegation:

“You remember how many people did not have tests and were trying to scramble to get them?

“You remember how rare it was to have one? You remember people by the hundreds were dying every day? We would watch the number every day being reported of people who were dying, people who were in hospitals without their family, where the only touch that they had was of a nurse that they hadn’t met because the family could not get there.

“And this man is giving Covid test kits to Vladimir Putin. Think about what this means. On top of him sending love letters to Kim Jong-un. No, think about it. He thinks Vladimir Putin is his friend. What about the American people? They should be your first friend.”

Here’s more from Alex Woodward (no relation!)

Trump reportedly spoke with Putin at least seven times since leaving White House

Trump facing deadline to accept CNN’s final debate offer

10:20 , Joe Sommerlad

The Republican nominee is meanwhile running out of time if he plans to accept CNN’s offer to host a final presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 23, which Harris has already accepted.

The network has stepped up the pressure on Trump, giving him until Thursday to make up his mind.

“CNN sent invitations on September 21 to both Vice President Harris and former President Trump’s campaigns to participate in a CNN debate this fall as we believe the American people would benefit from a second debate between the two candidates for President of the United States,” it said in a statement.

“With less than 30 days to Election Day, we are placing a deadline for a formal response from both campaigns for this Thursday, October 10 at 12pm ET to participate.”

It was a CNN debate in that same city on June 27 that led to the demise of Joe Biden’s candidacy but Trump has since been bested on stage by Harris in Philadelphia, inadvertently going viral on September 10 for elevating an insane internet conspiracy theory about Haitian immigrants eating pet cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump has so far insisted it is “too late” to have another debate before Election Day on November 5, although doing so would actually be entirely consistent with recent election cycles, suggesting he might be chicken.

Trump campaign melts down over Harris having beer with Colbert

10:03 , Joe Sommerlad

Kamala Harris cracked open a beer on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday and took the opportunity to lash out at election rival Donald Trump, calling him a “loser” and joking: “This is what happens when I drink!”

The Democratic presidential nominee sipped a Miller High Life with the late-night host as she discussed Trump’s politicization of federal hurricane relief efforts, her plans for the economy, the prospects for peace in the Middle East and her opponent’s admiration for “strongman” dictators like Vladimir Putin.

The drink in particular attracted an angry response from Trump’s campaign spokesman Steven Cheung, who posted on X: “Kamala drinks a beer to show Americans how relatable she is, but she ends up looking like an out-of-touch elitist trying to gaslight everyone into thinking she’s one of them.”

Harris has ramped up her media appearances in recent days, guesting on the Call Her Daddy podcast, CBS’s 60 Minutes, ABC’s The View and Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio show.

Here’s our report.

Harris calls out ‘loser’ Trump as she cracks a beer with Stephen Colbert

Study finds almost half of people convicted of same crimes as Trump go to prison

09:00 , Oliver O'Connell

Nearly half of the people convicted of the same crimes as Donald Trump in New York state receive prison time, a new analysis finds.

Forty-two percent of people convicted of falsifying business records in New York in the last decade were sentenced to time in jail or prison, a new study from The New York Times found. In Manhattan specifically, that number is closer to one-third, the outlet’s analysis showed.

Katie Hawkinson reports.

Nearly half of people convicted of the same crimes as Trump go to jail, study finds

Trump has no chance of winning these blue states... so why is he campaigning there?

08:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Colorado and California are both reliably Democrat-voting states but that’s not stopping Donald Trump from holding campaign rallies in both states this week.

The former president announced he will visit Aurora, Colorado on Friday despite polling 11 points behind Vice President Kamala Harris in the state. Then he will rally in Coachella, California on Saturday even though he has virtually no chance of winning California.

Ariana Baio takes a look at what’s happening.

Trump has no chance of winning these blue states but he’s campaigning there anyway

Melania was first lady during some of the most tumultuous moments in US politics— but summed it all up in under 200 pages

07:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Melania Trump has had a front-row seat for some of the most tumultuous years in modern US political history, having been First Lady during the time of a global pandemic, chaos behind the scenes in the Oval Office and the January 6 storming of the US Capitol.

She told all those stories, or didn’t, in under 200 pages.

Mike Bedigan reports.

Melania’s book is under 200 pages despite being first lady during tumultuous years

Melania on board with Trump’s election denialism in new book

06:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Melania Trump has finally revealed where she stands on Donald Trump’s denial of the 2020 election.

In her new memoir Melania, out on Tuesday, the former first lady echoes her husband’s refusal to accept the result and parrots his baseless claims that his “enemies aligned” to prevent his reelection “by any means necessary.”

She adds that she is “not the only person who questions the results.”

Rhian Lubin reports.

Melania parrots husband Donald Trump’s 2020 election denialism

‘The champagne of beers!’: Harris and Colbert share a Miller High Life

05:00 , Kelly Rissman

Stephen Colbert said elections are “all about vibes” because “One of the old saws is: ‘They just want someone they can have a beer with.’”

So Vice President Kamala Harris cracked open a beer — a Miller High Life — with the late night host. “The champagne of beers!” she joked.

But the Democratic nominee also delved into heavier subjects, including the war in Gaza.

“We cannot lose some belief in the possibility” of a ceasefire, Harris said according to the New York Times. “The United States must work and not lose hope and not throw up our hands.”

Harris also addressed the latest claim about her GOP rival: Donald Trump secretly gave Russian President Vladimir Putin Covid tests, according to a new Bob Woodward book.

“I ask everyone here and everyone who is watching: Do you remember what those days were like?” she asked. “You remember how many people did not have tests and were trying to scramble to get them?”

The Late Show appearance is just the latest in the vice president’s media blitz just 27 days out from the presidential election.

ICYMI: Harris reveals what kind of gun she has in ‘60 Minutes' interview

04:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Weeks after making it clear that she’s fully capable of defending her home against intruders, Vice President Kamala Harris has provided more information on exactly what sort of weapon a would-be burglar would face if they were foolish enough to break into her house.

In an interview that aired Monday evening, the vice president told 60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker she owns a pistol made by Glock, the Austrian gunmaker whose polymer-framed, striker-fired, semi-automatic handguns are popular with law enforcement agencies across the United States and beyond.“

Andrew Feinberg reports.

Kamala Harris reveals what kind of gun she has in 60 Minutes interview

What attracted Melania to celebrity ‘billionaire’ Trump?

03:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Melania Trump has revealed the four qualities that first attracted her to her husband, the billionaire property tycoon turned former president turned 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

In the latest social media video promoting her new memoir Melania, the former first lady and model recalls the moment the couple first met in New York City in 1998.

Joe Sommerlad has the story.

Melania reveals the four qualities that first attracted her to ‘magnetic’ Trump

‘Betrayed’: Melania reveals her feelings about plagiarism of Michelle Obama speech

02:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Melania Trump has ruthlessly blamed the Trump campaign and singled out one particular staff member for the embarrassing scandal where she was accused of plagiarising Michelle Obama’s speech.

The former first lady, whose memoir Melania was released on Tuesday, revisits the controversy surrounding her 2016 speech at the Republican National Convention and says she felt “a profound sense of betrayal” by staff members over the saga.

Rhian Lubin has the story.

Melania says team ‘betrayed’ her with that Michelle Obama speech plagiarism scandal

Report: Jan 6 prisoners Trump has vowed to free are becoming more radicalized inside jail

02:00 , Oliver O'Connell

Prisoners charged with and convicted of crimes related to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, are reportedly growing more radical by being held together in a Washington, D.C., a harbinger of the dark mood around the 2024 election as top Republicans continue to deny or avoid the fact Trump lost the 2020 election and the former president himself has mused publicly in recent days that his supporters want him to “go after” his enemies.

Josh Marcus has the story.

Jan 6 prisoners Trump has vowed to free are getting radicalized inside jail

Trump reportedly used wrong gender for Maine governor during rambling call

01:55 , Josh Marcus

Donald Trump reportedly used the wrong gender pronoun for female Maine governor Janet Mills during a recent call with supporters, according to the Bangor Daily News.

“He wants to resettle 75,000 migrants into Maine. That’s only because [Biden and Harris] told him to do so,” Trump said on the call, according to a recording provided to the paper.

Here’s what Mills had to say in response.

Trump’s war on ‘60 Minutes’ continues

01:52 , Josh Marcus

Donald Trump is reportedly demanding 60 Minutes release an “unedited” transcript of its recent interview with Kamala Harris.

The former president has been fueding with the mainstay news program, after he reportedly dropped out of a planned election special interview because producers planned to fact-check his claims.

The Trump campaign, for its part, has claimed it never confirmed the interview, and Donald Trump has said he took issue with the questions from a 2020 interview he had on the show.

For more details, here’s Io Dodds’s recent piece on the matter.

Trump falsely takes full credit for ‘$35 insulin’

01:50 , Josh Marcus

In a Truth Social post on Tuesday, Donald Trump falsley claimed Kamala Harris is lying about helping secure low-cost insulin for seniors.

“I was the one who got the $35 Insulin, not Lyin’ Kamala,” Trump wrote. “I’ve never seen a group that lies so much.”

As the KFF health thinktank notes in a recent fact-check, both the Trump and Biden administration extended cost-protections on insulin for seniors using Medicare, with a more wide-reaching version of the initiative taking place under the current administration.

Feds foil alleged Election Day attack

01:48 , Josh Marcus

Federal prosecutors have accused a 27-year-old Afghan citizen of conspiring with ISIS and stockpiling weapons to launch an Election Day attack in the US.

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was allegedly planning to liquidate his family’s assets and sell his family’s home, resettle family members overseas, and buy up AK-47 rifles and ammunition “to stage a violent attack in the United States in the name of and on behalf of ISIS,” according to court documents unsealed on Tuesday.

According to a criminal complaint, Tawhedi and a co-conspirator, who is a minor, met with an FBI informant in Oklahoma to buy two AK-47s, 10 magazines and 500 rounds of ammunition.

Alex Woodward reports.

Afghan national was planning ISIS-inspired attack on Election Day, prosecutors say

Republican senator slammed for implying tampons are a luxury

01:42 , Josh Marcus

A Republican Senator from Louisiana ranted about Kamala Harris’s recent Call Her Daddy podcast appearance and in doing so insinuated that tampons are a luxury, and are not needed by Hurricane Helene victims.

Senator John Kennedy voiced his opinion on the necessity of women’s sanitary products during an appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Monday. He was responding to Harris’s appearance on Alex Cooper’s mega-popular podcast over the weekend.

“The Vice President goes on some show called Call Her Daddy or Call Your Daddy or Who’s Your Daddy or something — Call Me Daddy, I like Who’s Your Daddy better — and among other things, she’s talking about tampons,” the senator said.

Call Her Daddy is the second most popular podcast on Spotify, boasting millions of listeners and second only to the Joe Rogan Experience. It’s unclear why the senator appeared surprised that women’s health was a topic of conversation between two women on a podcast whose audience is largely women.

Graig Graziosi has the story.

Republican senator slammed online for implying that tampons are a luxury

Elon Musk has no regrets over Kamala Harris assassination post

01:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Elon Musk made it clear he has no regrets over his X post pondering why no one had tried to assassinate Kamala Harris or Joe Biden, when he sat down for an interview with Tucker Carlson on Monday night.

On Sunday, September 15, the CEO of X, Tesla and SpaceX sparked outrage when he responded to a social media post about the second alleged assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

Joe Sommerlad has the story.

Elon Musk makes it clear he’s got no regrets over Kamala Harris assassination post

DeSantis lashes out at Harris as they spar over Hurricane Milton: ‘It’s not about you Kamala!’

01:00 , Oliver O'Connell

As Hurricane Milton bears down on the U.S, Florida governor Ron DeSantis has accused Kamala Harris of politicizing storm preparations, after the vice president called the Republican “selfish” for reportedly ignoring her calls.

“We’ve been on emergency footing around the clock, two weeks straight,” DeSantis told Fox News on Tuesday. “That’s been my sole focus. My focus has not been on dealing with Kamala Harris. I saw the news report. I didn’t know she tried to contact me. It’s not about you, Kamala. It’s about the people of Florida.”

Josh Marcus reports.

‘It’s not about you Kamala!’ DeSantis lashes out at Harris over Hurricane Milton

What really happened during Melania Trump’s infamous hand swatting incident

Wednesday 9 October 2024 00:30 , Oliver O'Connell

Melania Trump has addressed the infamous moment she appeared to swat Donald Trump away when he tried to hold her hand in public.

During a visit to Tel Aviv in May 2017, the then-first lady was caught on camera batting her husband’s hand away while they walked along the red carpet.

The incident hit headlines and led to widespread speculation about the state of their marriage.

Rhian Lubin reports on what the former first lady claims happened.

Melania Trump’s infamous hand swatting moment revealed in new book

Trump has no chance of winning these blue states... so why is he campaigning there?

Wednesday 9 October 2024 00:00 , Oliver O'Connell

Colorado and California are both reliably Democrat-voting states but that’s not stopping Donald Trump from holding campaign rallies in both states this week.

The former president announced he will visit Aurora, Colorado on Friday despite polling 11 points behind Vice President Kamala Harris in the state. Then he will rally in Coachella, California on Saturday even though he has virtually no chance of winning California.

Ariana Baio takes a look at what’s happening.

Trump has no chance of winning these blue states but he’s campaigning there anyway

All the best revelations from Melania Trump’s new book

Tuesday 8 October 2024 23:45 , Oliver O'Connell

Sheila Flynn writes:

The teasers for the memoir were sleek, enigmatic and reflective of the image held world-over of Melania Trump herself – a woman oft photographed but always inscrutable at the side of America’s most controversial man.

She acknowledges as much in the author’s note preceding the eponymous Melania, dangling the promise of a glimpse into her mind and everyday reality, writing that she hopes “to show you the woman behind the public persona, to illuminate the values and experiences that have shaped me, and to offer insights into the complexities of life in the public eye.

“As a private person who has often been the subject of public scrutiny and misrepresentation, I feel a responsibility to set the record straight and to provide the actual account of my experiences,” she continues.

Read on to see what she had to say...

Donald, abortion and Barron: All the best revelations from Melania Trump’s new book

This Montana Senate candidate said his opponent ate 'lobbyist steak.' But he lobbied—with steak

Tuesday 8 October 2024 23:30 , AP

During an October debate, Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy took a shot at his Democratic opponent, Sen. Jon Tester, for ” eating lobbyist steak ″ while the Republican fought in Afghanistan.

But Sheehy himself had a taste for red meat and lobbying, according to emails obtained by The Associated Press. He combined the two in pursuit of government contracts that allowed his aerial firefighting company to rapidly expand over the past decade.

“I hope you enjoyed the steakhouse,” Sheehy wrote to Ryan Osmundson, the state Budget Director after a November 2021 meeting in Martinsdale, Montana.

Continue reading...

This Montana Senate candidate said his opponent ate 'lobbyist steak.' But he lobbied—with steak

Why an unenthusiastic Melania Trump is being dragged back into the spotlight

Tuesday 8 October 2024 23:15 , Oliver O'Connell

John Bowden writes:

Call it Donald Trump’s attempt at manufacturing an October Surprise.

The release of a memoir from Melania Trump with less than a month left in the presidential election cycle feels like the epitome of a Hail Mary. An obvious, direct appeal to the one demographic — women — among whom her husband is bleeding support the most. A call to return to the fold aimed at conservative women turned off by the ugliness of Trump’s campaign and the battle over abortion rights, which has become a weight around the former president’s neck.

The only question is why anyone thinks this will matter, given the infrequency of her public statements and appearances.

Continue reading...

Why an unenthusiastic Melania Trump is being dragged back into the spotlight

Larry Hogan launches a broadside on crime in crucial Maryland Senate race

Tuesday 8 October 2024 23:00 , Oliver O'Connell

Maryland’s close Senate race is growing increasingly tense as the race enters its final month and polls show the two candidates within single digits of each other.

The battle for retiring Senator Ben Cardin’s seat in the deep-blue state has been close for months, but both parties are showing more and more signs of valuing the race’s importance in the ending stretch.

John Bowden reports.

Anti-Trump Republican Hogan releases new attack ad in pivotal Maryland Senate race

Study finds almost half of people convicted of same crimes as Trump go to prison

Tuesday 8 October 2024 22:45 , Oliver O'Connell

Nearly half of the people convicted of the same crimes as Donald Trump in New York state receive prison time, a new analysis finds.

Forty-two percent of people convicted of falsifying business records in New York in the last decade were sentenced to time in jail or prison, a new study from The New York Times found. In Manhattan specifically, that number is closer to one-third, the outlet’s analysis showed.

Katie Hawkinson reports.

Nearly half of people convicted of the same crimes as Trump go to jail, study finds

Watch: Melania asked whether she would have married Trump had she known he would be president

Tuesday 8 October 2024 22:36 , Oliver O'Connell

Watch: What is Melania’s message to women in the 2024 election?

Tuesday 8 October 2024 22:31 , Oliver O'Connell

Asked what she would say to women on the fence about voting for Donald Trump, former first lady Melania Trump manages not to mention reproductive rights in her reply.

There was no follow up question.

Melania Trump joins Fox News ‘The Five’ live in studio

Tuesday 8 October 2024 22:21 , Oliver O'Connell

Melania Trump has joined The Five, live on Fox News for an in-studio interview.

When asked about the 2024 election she said of the Harris campaign: “When they call him that he’s a threat to democracy, let’s ask ourselves who is a threat to democracy — they are ongoing with lawfare with the former president as well as trying to get him off the ballots as well as silence him .... it’s a toxic atmosphere.”

Trump White House ‘helped steer’ Brett Kavanaugh sexual assault allegations investigation

Tuesday 8 October 2024 22:00 , Oliver O'Connell

The Trump White House put restraints on the FBI’s investigation into claims of sexual assault against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his 2018 confirmation process, according to a report from the office of a Democratic senator.

Then-President Donald Trump said the FBI would have “free rein” to investigate the allegations and that the agency was “talking to everybody.”

Gustaf Kilander reports on what happened next.

Trump White House ‘helped steer investigation’ into Brett Kavanaugh allegations

How FEMA found itself as a political football at a crucial moment

Tuesday 8 October 2024 21:40 , Oliver O'Connell

While the second major hurricane in less than two weeks bears down on Florida, concerns continue to swirl regarding the budget health of the nation’s federal relief agency - one that faces rampant misinformation claims about how it spends money.

Julia Musto explains what’s going on.

How FEMA went from disaster relief to political football

Trump slammed for grinning while holding picture of kidnapped American

Tuesday 8 October 2024 21:20 , Oliver O'Connell

Former President Donald Trump was slammed after smiling while holding a picture of an American kidnapped by Hamas during the deadly October 7 attacks.

Trump was seen holding the image of Edan Alexander, who grew up in New Jersey after being born in Tel Aviv, alongside his family members Yael, Adi, and Roy Alexander.

Gustaf Kilander reports.

Trump slammed for grinning while holding picture of kidnapped American on October 7

Watch: Alina Habba attacks article suggesting Nikki Haley could help Trump campaign

Tuesday 8 October 2024 21:11 , Oliver O'Connell

In an appearance on Fox News this afternoon, Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba began to trash an article suggesting that the former president should deploy Nikki Haley on the campaign trail to convince “the reluctant but persuadable” to vote for him.

Her reason? Because the article is from The Washington Post. Anchor Martha MacCallum then notes the article is written by Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen...

Senator calls Jack Smith evidence against Trump a ‘temper tantrum from a deranged fanatic’

Tuesday 8 October 2024 21:00 , Oliver O'Connell

Republican Senator Tom Cotton blasted Jack Smith’s latest filing in the federal election interference case against Donald Trump as a “temper tantrum from a deranged fanatic.”

The senator from Arkansas, speaking to NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, dismissed the special counsel’s detailed findings in a 165-page filing stuffed with new and expanded evidence against the former president.

Alex Woodward, who has been closely following that case, reports for The Independent.

Tom Cotton calls Jack Smith evidence against Trump a ‘temper tantrum’