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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 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 as Trump campaigns in Georgia and JD Vance visits Nevada.
The Republican’s White House predecessor Barack Obama was joined on stage by Eminem in Detroit, Michigan, last night as the duo campaigned for Harris.
The rapper introduced Obama, who repaid the favor by reciting the lyrics to his hit track “Lose Yourself.”
McDonald’s where Trump worked fryer is review bombed on Yelp: ‘Senile old man got bronzer on my fries’
The Pennsylvania McDonald’s restaurant where Trump worked the fryer for a campaign photo-op on Sunday has been inundated with fake reviews on Yelp in the wake of his stunt.
“Senile old man got bronzer on my fries, didn’t wear gloves,” one person joked, leaving a one-star rating.
“The fries were too salty as if someone who lost a major election had been crying over them for an hour,” another person jested.
Rhian Lubin has more.
Biden says Trump should be ‘locked up’ – then quickly corrects himself
The president made the controversial remark at the Democratic Party‘s headquarters in Concord, New Hampshire, on Tuesday as he warned that democracy hangs in the balance as Trump continues to close in on Kamala Harris in the polls.
“I know this sounds bizarre. If I said this five years ago, you’d lock me up,” Biden said, claiming that the Supreme Court’s July presidential immunity ruling would mean Trump, a convicted felon, could “eliminate” his enemies.
“We gotta lock him up,” he said to applause, before leaving a roughly five-second pause and then quickly backtracking.
“Politically, lock him up,” he clarified.
James Liddell has more.
Watch: AOC calls out Trump and Musk for ‘laughing at’ working people
The New York congresswoman was not messing around here.
AOC calls out Trump and Musk for ‘laughing at’ working people
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez accused Donald Trump and Elon Musk of “laughing at” working people with their behaviour during their US election campaigns. The New York Representative discussed the X owner’s and Tesla CEO’s campaign group America PAC which calls on voters in seven swing states to sign a petition. Every day until 5 November, one signatory is selected randomly to win $1m. She also criticised the Republican nominee and former president for being filmed working in a McDonald’s kitchen. AOC told a United Auto Workers (UAW) event in Pennsylvania on Monday, 21 October: “They’re not trying to empathise with us. They are making fun of us.”
Trump up early with new Harris attack ad
See now, if the Republican nominee didn’t stay up late and get up early posting nonsense like this online, he might be less exhausted and not have to cancel so many events.
Harris is a former California attorney general – how likely is it she thinks defunding the police is the answer to anything?
And why would anyone believe in “demoralizing” the police? What end would that serve?
And how would you even go about it – cruel name-calling? Taking their lunch money?
Trump says Obama is ‘exhausted’ and ‘looks old’ at 63
“I’m glad they’re bringing him out. The reason they’re bringing him out – because he doesn’t even want to do it. I think he’s exhausted,” Trump said yesterday of his predecessor, a full 15 years younger than him and having the time of his life on stage in Detroit with Eminem.
“I watched him talking. I think the guy’s exhausted.”
That unconvincing attack came just hours after the Republican had scrapped another campaign event, as we’ve just seen.
Rhian Lubin has more.
Trump cancels another event, this time with RFK Jr – hours after labelling Harris ‘lazy as hell’
One event the Republican did not take part in yesterday was a planned appearance with Robert F Kennedy Jr and Tulsi Gabbard for a health-focused virtual town hall, with his team citing only “changes in Trump’s schedule”.
The switch-up is the latest in a series of cancelled or rescheduled appearances in recent days, which has fueled reports that the former president, 78, is becoming too “exhausted” to fully campaign in the tight race against Kamala Harris.
The Republican has backed out of planned interviews with CNBC’s Squawk Box, The Shade Room podcast and NBC.
The campaign has pushed back on this narrative, however, calling the exhaustion claim “unequivocally false.”
Josh Marcus reports.
Latino supporters lay hands on Trump and pray for him
Before his return to North Carolina on Tuesday, the Republican took part in a Latino roundtable event at Doral in Florida, which took on a queasily religious tone as the attendees reached out for Trump in prayer and called on him to “make America godly again”.
Here’s more from Gustaf Kilander.
Tim Walz attacks ‘dips***’ Elon Musk as Trump’s ‘running mate’
Also on rollicking form in Madison, Wisconsin, last night was Harris’s vice presidential nominee, who ripped into Trump and Musk with venom.
His warm-up man, West Wing actor Bradley Whitford, wasn’t bad either.
Eric Garcia reports.
Fiery Kamala Harris says electing her is key to US ‘moving on’ from Trump and rejects ‘concessions’ on reproductive rights
The Democrat was in no mood to cut deals in her NBC News interview with Hallie Jackson last night, also refusing to blame sexism or racism for preventing her taking a big lead in the polls and insisting the country is “absolutely” ready for a woman of color in the White House.
Here’s James Liddell on Harris declining to be drawn on whether she would pardon Trump from the Oval Office.
Trump insults rivals and praises Xi Jinping at North Carolina rally
This was the Republican nominee on stage in Greensboro yesterday, calling both Kamala Harris and Tim Walz “stupid”, Obama “a jerk”, AOC “a young girl” and also suggesting Harris might be on drugs, in amongst all the usual preposterous scaremongering and false promises about migrants and the economy.
He also welcomed Tulsi Gabbard aboard as full-on MAGA and forgot how French fries are cooked, despite making a batch himself at a Pensylvania McDonald’s as recently as Sunday.
Trump spoke for almost two hours – exhausting for all concerned.
Source: independent.co.uk
