Kamala Harris will take part in an interview with Anderson Cooper in Pennsylvania on Wednesday as Donald Trump campaigns in Georgia

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Donald Trump is facing a fresh storm of criticism following a report that he once said he needed “the kind of generals that Adolf Hitler had.”

“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” the Republican presidential nominee allegedly declared, according to The Atlantic. “People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.”

The claim has been vehemently denied by Trump’s campaign.

Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly also told The New York Times that the former president praised Hitler multiple times, warning that the GOP candidate meets the definition of a fascist.

Kamala Harris responded to the reports in remarks at Naval Observatory on Wednesday lunchtime, warning that the former president is “increasingly unhinged and unstable,” and in a second Trump term “people like John Kelly will no longer be there to rein him in.”

Harris meanwhile took part in an interview with NBC News on Tuesday night and will follow that with a CNN town hall with Anderson Cooper in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, today taking questions from undecided swing state voters.

Trump is campaigning in Georgia today and JD Vance is in Nevada.

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In shocking defense of Trump comments, CNN commentator claims ‘thousands of Hitlers’ on college campuses

CNN commentator and former Bush administration official Scott Jennings compared left-wing Palestine solidarity protesters on college campuses to Hitler in an attempt to defend Donald Trump, who’s facing a controversy after reporting emerged he allegedly told White House officials he wished he had “the kind of generals that Hitler had.”

Josh Marcus reports.

CNN commentator claims ‘thousands of Hitlers’ on campus in shocking defense of Trump

Trump’s team has denied reported comments that he wished he had German generals like Hitler’s

Oliver O'Connell23 October 2024 23:10

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EDITORIAL: Why Trump’s latest outburst should be seen for what it is – a phoney war against Labour

Everyone knows there is no substance to the accusations. Everyone also knows that Labour is more politically aligned to Kamala Harris’s campaign, but Mr Trump’s politics – like his supporter, Nigel Farage’s – are one of childish indignation; and should be treated as such.

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Why Trump’s latest outburst should be seen as a phoney war against Labour

Editorial: Donald Trump’s accusation of ‘blatant foreign interference’ in the race for the White House, by card-carrying members of Starmer’s party, is mere electoral turbulence in the UK-US transatlantic alliance

Oliver O'Connell23 October 2024 23:00

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Watch: Vance claims Trump is healthier than him

A slightly bizarre moment from Senator JD Vance, 40, today, when he claimed that Donald Trump, 78, is healthier than him and could serve a full four years.

Vance’s campaign appearances are full of praise for the former president and he’s even been called Trump’s “explainer in chief” for his attempts to explain or clarify some of the Republican nominee’s wilder comments.

Trump does not return the favor — to the point that he doesn’t mention his running mate at all...

Oliver O'Connell23 October 2024 22:50

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Nuns living in monastery hit back after GOP canvasser falsely accuses them of voter fraud

A Pennsylvania canvasser claimed an address in Erie, Pennsylvania – a key swing district in a key swing state for the upcoming presidential election – is linked to 53 voter registrations and could be the source of voter fraud.

However, that address is home to the Benedictine Sisters of Erie – and they’re firing back at what they’ve called a “defamatory” claim from the canvassing group’s founder.

Katie Hawkinson gets to the bottom of what happened.

Benedictine Sisters hit back after GOP canvasser falsely accuses them of voter fraud

Erie County, Pennsylvania is a swing district within a swing state, making it a key community to watch this Election Day

Oliver O'Connell23 October 2024 22:40

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Michael Avenatti, former lawyer for Stormy Daniels, may have sentence cut

Michael Avenatti, the disgraced celebrity lawyer who represented porn actress Stormy Daniels, will have his 14-year prison term for defrauding four other clients recalculated, following a federal appeals court decision on Wednesday that could shorten his sentence.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California said the trial judge who sentenced Avenatti erred by applying an obstruction of justice enhancement, and not accounting for the value of Avenatti’s legal services to his clients and the money he paid them.

Avenatti, 53, has been serving a combined 19-year prison term, including five years for his 2020 and 2022 convictions in New York for trying to extort $25 million from Nike NKE.N and defrauding Daniels out of proceeds from her memoir.

Before being charged, Avenatti became famous representing Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, in litigation against Donald Trump, and becoming a vocal adversary on cable TV and Twitter of the former U.S. president.

In Wednesday’s decision, the three-judge appeals court panel gave an additional potential ground for a shorter sentence.

It said the trial judge should have viewed Daniels’ case and the other fraud cases as similar, when deciding if Avenatti’s five-year sentence and the new sentence should run concurrently.

Prosecutors said Avenatti defrauded the four additional clients out of millions of dollars.

Margaret Farrand, a federal public defender representing Avenatti, said in an email: “I am glad that the Ninth Circuit recognized the errors that wrongly increased Mr. Avenatti’s sentence.”

The office of U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada in Los Angeles did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Avenatti will be resentenced by U.S. District Judge James Selna in Santa Ana, California.

Selna imposed the 14-year term in December 2022 after Avenatti pleaded guilty to wire fraud and obstruction charges. A conviction at trial could have sent him to prison for life.

Avenatti’s legal career collapsed in March 2019, when he was charged in the Nike case. The federal appeals court in Manhattan rejected his appeals in that case and the Daniels case.

Reuters23 October 2024 22:30

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Bret Baier defends interrupting Kamala Harris 38 times in Fox News interview

Fox News anchor Bret Baier says he understands why people took issue with his recent contentious interview with Kamala Harris, which was parodied on Saturday Night Live over the weekend.

“I get the criticism,” Baier toldVanity Fair on Monday. “I get the wondering whether that was different.”

During the interview last week, Baier frequently interrupted Harris.

Baier argued he’s subjected other high-profile leaders to a similar style, including a 2023 interview with Donald Trump.

Josh Marcus has the story.

Bret Baier defends interrupting Kamala Harris 38 times during Fox News interview

‘I think those exchanges illuminate things for voters and viewers’

Oliver O'Connell23 October 2024 22:20

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Trump instructs audience to stand up for women but not men at Georgia town hall

Donald Trump bizarrely instructed an audience to stand up for women — but not men — as a female audience member began to ask a question during a town hall event in Georgia on Wednesday, 23 October. The woman began to tell the former president how she thanked God "for having you and everybody here." In response, Mr Trump declared that the room had to "stand up." "A woman we stand, right? For a man we don't have to, right?" Mr Trump said before walking towards the audience member on stage. The Republican nominee was hosting a religion-focused “Believers and Ballots” town hall in the battleground state of Georgia on Wednesday, 23 October.

Oliver O'Connell23 October 2024 22:19

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Everyone is talking about election betting markets — here’s the truth

Betting markets have become a big search term when people are trying to determine the outcome of the close race between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump - but former government officials are warning people not to bet on betting markets’ accuracy.

In recent weeks, betting odds on the candidates from markets like Polymarket, Betfair, Kalshi, PredictIt and more have become a widely cited statistic. Especially, since Trump’s odds have surged.

Ariana Baio explains about why they are not what they seem and why some are worried about the public’s potential reliance on them.

Here’s why you shouldn’t put your faith - or money - on election betting markets

Betting on the US election is a new opportunity with no historical accuracy but that hasn’t stopped people from making wagers

Oliver O'Connell23 October 2024 22:10

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Trump’s bizarre rivalry with Sylvester Stallone revealed in new book

Donald Trump is reportedly obsessed over his rivalry with the star of Rocky and Rambo, telling a journalist he is “better than Sylvester Stallone at being a reality star.”

Author Ramin Setoodeh interviewed Trump several times for his book, Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass, which originally hit shelves on June 18.

Reporting for The Independent from Los Angeles, Kevin E G Perry reports on what Setoodeh revealed about Trump and Stallone.

Donald Trump’s bizarre rivalry with Sylvester Stallone revealed in new book

Former US president Donald Trump once claimed he was ‘better than Sylvester Stallone at being a reality star’

Oliver O'Connell23 October 2024 22:00

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Full story: DOJ tells Elon Musk’s PAC that his $1m sweepstakes could be illegal

The Department of Justice has warned Elon Musk’s Donald Trump-supporting political action committee that a $1 million sweepstakes could be illegal.

A letter from the Justice Department’s election crimes chief in its public integrity bureau reminded America PAC that offering anything of value to influence how someone casts their ballot would violate federal law.

Alex Woodward reports.

Justice Department warns Elon Musk’s $1 million sweepstakes could be illegal

Legal experts have argued that a scheme from the billionaire’s Trump-supporting PAC is legally dubious at best

Oliver O'Connell23 October 2024 21:45

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