Former president Donald Trump claims he can declassify top secret documents just \u2018by thinking about it\u2019 <\/p>\n
Donald Trump took the stage on Friday for his latest campaign-style rally of 2022, this time in Wilmington, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
At the speech, he tore into New York attorney general Letitia James, who filed a $250m lawsuit against Mr Trump and his company for a host of allegedly fraudulent business practices. <\/p>\n
Ahead of the rally, Mr Trump appeared to fall further into the world of QAnon after he reposted a video on his own Truth Social network containing images and slogans associated with the fringe conspiracy.<\/p>\n
Scenes including a\u00a0US Capitol\u00a0building with lightening bolts and the words \u201cIt\u2019s going to be biblical\u201d, as well as the phrase \u201cprepare for the storm\u201d, were among the images featured along with \u201cQ\u201d symbols. Mr Trump has previously denied having knowledge of the conspiracy despite many of his supporters and Capitol rioters being connected to it. <\/p>\n
In other news, Mr Trump\u2019s attorneys have been ordered to say one way or the other whether they actually believe the FBI planted incriminating evidence in the documents seized from Mr Trump\u2019s home \u2013 or whether the former president is merely bluffing to save face.<\/p>\n
1663980409Trump opens rally with crude insults about New York attorney general after she sues himFormer president Donald Trump was not 10 minutes into his remarks at a rally meant to boost Republican candidates in North Carolina when he turned his attention to a candidate who will appear on a ballot 437 miles away in the state he once called home.<\/p>\n
Instead of extolling the virtuest of the GOP ticket in this year\u2019s midterm elections, the twice-impeached ex-president launched into an extended tirade about the New York State attorney general who on Wednesday filed a $250m lawsuit against him, his three eldest children and a host of companies, organisations and persons associated with his eponymous real estate and licensing business, following a three-year civil investigation into allegations of fraud.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no better example of the left\u2019s chilling obsession with targeting political opponents than the baseless, abusive and depraved lawsuit against me, my family, my company, by the racist Attorney General of New York State. Leticia \u2018Peekaboo\u2019 James,\u201d said Mr Trump, who employed a bizarre and heretofore unexplained nickname for the Empire State\u2019s chief law enforcement officer.<\/p>\n
Read Andrew Feinberg\u2019s full report.<\/p>\n
Trump opens rally with crude rant about New York attorney general after she sues himFormer president Donald Trump was not 10 minutes into his remarks at a rally meant to boost Republican candidates in North Carolina when he turned his attention to a candidate who will appear on a ballot 437 miles away in the state he once called home.<\/p>\n
Josh Marcus24 September 2022 01:46<\/p>\n
1663979809Donald Trump insists he\u2019s not a \u2018terrorist\u2019 in oblique reply to Biden speechDonald Trump took a belated jab at Joe Biden during his speech on Friday in North Carolina.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey want to call us domestic terrorists,\u201d Mr Trump told the crowd. \u201cCan you believe it? I\u2019m not a terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n
The remark was an apparent response to Mr Biden\u2019s high-profile speech earlier this month where he described the Make America Great Again movement as a form of extremism.<\/p>\n
\u201cToo much of what\u2019s happening in our country today is not normal,\u201d Mr Biden said at a speech in Philadelphia, adding that the man he defeated nearly two years ago \u2014 former president Donald Trump \u2014 and his \u201cMaga Republican\u201d allies \u201crepresent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Biden stressed that \u201cnot every Republican\u201d subscribes to the \u201cextreme ideology\u201d of Mr Trump and his acolytes, but he warned that the GOP today is largely \u201cdominated, driven and intimidated\u201d by Mr Trump and \u201cthe Maga Republicans,\u201d referring to Mr Trump\u2019s and his \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d campaign slogan.<\/p>\n
Biden warns of Trump and GOP extremism threatening \u2018foundations of our republic\u2019\u2018For a long time, we\u2019ve reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not\u2019 <\/p>\n
Josh Marcus24 September 2022 01:36<\/p>\n
1663979172Donald Trump encourages GOP turnout in November while continuing election falsehoodsDonald Trump is sounding a little different than he has at past rallies.<\/p>\n
Make no mistake, he\u2019s still falsely claiming to have won the 2020 election.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ran twice. I won twice, getting many millions more votes,\u201d told the crowd in North Carolina.<\/p>\n
But he\u2019s also encouraging GOP voters to turn out in November.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou must vote Republican\u201d in \u201coverwhelming numbers,\u201d Mr Trump told the rally.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to swamp \u2018em,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe best way we can stop them from cheating\u2014becuas they\u2019re cheaters, dirty rotten cheaters\u2014is to swamp them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Previously, during the 2020 election, he rankled top Republicans by saying voters shouldn\u2019t bother with the tight Georgia Senate race, where a pair of Democrats won.<\/p>\n
Trump staff defensive over claims of poor turnout at Georgia rally\u2018This is the smallest crowd I\u2019ve seen at a rally of his in Georgia since he won the 2016 election,\u2019 says journalist Greg Bluestein <\/p>\n
Josh Marcus24 September 2022 01:26<\/p>\n
1663977746Trump rails against \u2018racist\u2019 New York attorney general lawsuitPredictably, Donald Trump is hammering New York attorney general Letitia James for the massive fraud lawsuit she filed this week against the former president and the Trump Organization.<\/p>\n
He told the crowd at a Friday rally in North Carolina the suit from \u201cthis crazy radical nutjob James\u201d was \u201cracist\u201d and an \u201cappalling and malicious abuse of power.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s never been a president that\u2019s gone through the crap I\u2019ve gone through,\u201d Mr Trump complained during his speech.<\/p>\n
Josh Marcus24 September 2022 01:02<\/p>\n
1663977132Donald Trump takes the stage in North CarolinaThe former president has taken the stage, after a lengthy wait at his Friday rally in Wilmington, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll be following all the latest from his campaign-style speech. <\/p>\n
Josh Marcus24 September 2022 00:52<\/p>\n
1663976449Trump\u2019s weird theory about Biden and \u2018Phantom of the Opera\u2019Ahead of Donald Trump\u2019s rally in North Carolina on Friday, he played a track from the musical Phantom of the Opera for the crowd.<\/p>\n
The former president has a deep, somewhat strange attachment to the Broadway show.<\/p>\n
He even thinks its recent closure is related to the Biden administration.<\/p>\n
Andrew Feinberg has more. <\/p>\n
Trump bizarrely tries to pin \u2018Phantom of the Opera\u2019 closure on Biden administrationMr Trump is a fan of Reagan-era broadway showtimes and frequently includes them in the soundtrack that is played before his political rallies <\/p>\n
Josh Marcus24 September 2022 00:40<\/p>\n
1663975249Follow our man on the ground for the latest from the Trump rallyThe Independent\u2019s Eric Michael Garcia is on the ground in North Carolina for today\u2019s Trump rally.<\/p>\n
Right now, per Eric, the crowd is watching a Fox News clip about the Mar-a-Lago raid.<\/p>\n
Follow @EricMGarcia for the latest.<\/p>\n
Josh Marcus24 September 2022 00:20<\/p>\n
1663974802South Korean president calls US lawmakers \u2018idiots\u2019 on hot micDonald Trump is a man who famously values his image.<\/p>\n
He probably wouldn\u2019t like the reviews of America coming out of the top levels of South Korea right now.<\/p>\n
The president of South Korea was been caught on camera calling US lawmakers \u201cidiots\u201d and saying that they could possibly embarrass US President Joe Biden if they don\u2019t approve funding for global public health initiatives.<\/p>\n
Gustaf Kilander has the full story.<\/p>\n
South Korean president calls US lawmakers \u2018idiots\u2019 on hot mic\u2018It would be so humiliating for Biden if these idiots don\u2019t pass it in Congress\u2019 <\/p>\n
Josh Marcus24 September 2022 00:13<\/p>\n
1663971903Trump says he threatened Taliban leader with satellite image of his houseDonald Tump\u00a0alleged that during his negotiations with the\u00a0Taliban\u00a0as US president he used a satellite image of a Taliban leader\u2019s house to threaten the\u00a0terrorist group.<\/p>\n
Speaking in a wide-ranging interview with\u00a0Sean Hannity\u00a0on Fox News this week, Mr Trump said he gave Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar a satellite image of his home as a veiled warning amid talks with the designated terrorist group.<\/p>\n
Gino Spocchia reports: <\/p>\n
Gino Spocchia23 September 2022 23:25<\/p>\n
1663970103Five key takeaways from New York\u2019s $250m lawsuit against Trump and what it means for 2024New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a massive civil suit on Wednesday accusing Donald Trump and his adult children of artificially inflating the value of multiple business entities. The suit seeks to bar them from doing business in New York state, where the family made their bones for decades.<\/p>\n
The extent and the detail of Mr Trump\u2019s actions, with the assistance of Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, were not known until now.<\/p>\n
Eric Garcia\u00a0breaks down the main takeaways from this new effort by state officials in New York to make Mr Trump answer for longstanding allegations of fraud:<\/p>\n
Five major allegations from New York\u2019s $250m lawsuit against Trump The lawsuit details how the Trump Organization falsified financial statements and the value of his property, the role of his children and his own bizarre attempt to buy the Buffalo Bills. <\/p>\n
Gino Spocchia23 September 2022 22:55<\/p>\n
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