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Donald Trump is suing CBS News for $10bn alleging that the 60 Minutes interview with his rival Kamala Harris was deceptively edited to unlawfully influence the 2024 presidential election.
Thursday’s long-shot claim, filed less than a week before Election Day, follows his obsessive attacks on CBS and threats to revoke its license.
With five days of campaigning to go in the 2024 race, Harris and Trump are making their final pitches to voters, spending Thursday at rallies across the crucial Sun Belt states of Arizona and Nevada.
The Democratic presidential nominee hit back at her Republican rival after he vowed to “protect” women “whether the women like it or not” at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Wednesday.
“Donald Trump thinks he should get to make decisions about what you do with your body. Whether you like it or not,” Harris posted on X.
In a bizarre stunt prior to that speech, Trump had posed in a garbage truck dressed as a sanitation worker in an attempt to troll Harris and Joe Biden after the latter allegedly called MAGA voters “garbage” in anger over comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s already-notorious Madison Square Garden joke about Puerto Rico.
Georgia targeted by foreign disinformation campaign, state says
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says that the state has been targeted by a disinformation campaign attempting to “sow discord and chaos” ahead of the election.
He says the disinformation is likely “foreign interference” linked to Russia.
The statement reads in part:
Earlier today, our office became aware of a video purporting to show a Haitian immigrant with multiple Georgia ID’s claiming to have voted multiple times.
This is false, and is an example of targeted disinformation we’ve seen this election. It is likely foreign interference attempting to sow discord and chaos on the eve of the election.
We are working to combat this and identify the origin of it with our state and federal partners.
CISA is currently investigating. In the meantime, we ask Elon Musk and the leadership of other social media platforms to take this down. This is obviously fake and part of a disinformation effort.
Likely it is a production of Russian troll farms.
As Americans we can’t let our enemies use lies to divide us and undermine our faith in our institutions – or each other.
Oliver O’Connell1 November 2024 01:30
Arizona enlists county employees to help tackle a surge of 2-page early ballots
Employees for Arizona’s most populous county have been reassigned to help election workers with an around-the-clock operation to process early ballots that are an unusually long two pages.
Election officials in Maricopa County must verify each voter’s signature on early ballot envelopes and then remove the ballot pages so they can be prepared for actual counting. The county was unsure how long it would need to keep up the 24-hour operation, which kicked off Thursday night.
Watch: Harris warns of ‘unstable’ Trump ‘out for unchecked power’
Oliver O’Connell1 November 2024 00:55
Watch: Harris says her mother would tell her ‘just go beat him’
Oliver O’Connell1 November 2024 00:50
‘Dude’s nearly 80’: Walz takes a shot at Trump’s age after garbage truck gaffe
Katie Hawkinson has the story.
Oliver O’Connell1 November 2024 00:40
Did the teleprompter loop around? Trump again claims he’s the father of IVF:
Perhaps more alarmingly, Trump says Robert F Kennedy Jr is going to work on women’s health in his administration:
Oliver O’Connell1 November 2024 00:32
Watch LIVE: Kamala Harris campaigns in Reno, Nevada
Oliver O’Connell1 November 2024 00:28
Watch: Trump tells crowd he sued CBS, says network and ABC should lose licenses
Oliver O’Connell1 November 2024 00:25
Trump looks better now than he did in 2016, gush JD Vance and Joe Rogan
JD Vance sat down with Joe Rogan for an interview on his podcast, broadcast on Thursday, and soon both were gushing that Donald Trump looks better now than he did in 2016.
Rogan references the enormous change the role brings to a person’s life and the intense responsibility the job entails.
“Everybody’s watched presidents age radically, dramatically,” he said, adding: “Everyone but Trump.”
Vance responded: “Yeah, it’s kind of amazing.”
Oliver O’Connell1 November 2024 00:20
Trump tells crowd Democrats treat them like garbage, call them names
Donald Trump tells the crowd in Henderson, Nevada that the Democrats “treat you like garbage”.
He adds: “For the last nine years, Kamala and her party have called you racists, bigots, fascists, deplorables, irredeemables, even Nazis. And they called me Hitler.”
Oliver O’Connell1 November 2024 00:13
