President Trump

Former President Donald Trump pledged on Wednesday to keep trans-identifying men out of women’s sports if elected this November.

The moment came during a Fox News town hall with Georgia women voters moderated by Harris Faulkner, host of “The Faulkner Focus.” Trump was asked by an audience member named Linda about how he would approach the issue of men identifying as women competing in women’s sports leagues. The Georgia resident said she has nine grandchildren, six of whom are girls and play sports.

Suppose you Googled Donald Trump’s discussion with Bloomberg’s John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago today. In that case, you’ll see that everyone in the opposition press thought he crumbled at the forum. Kamala Harris was invited, but she declined, likely because she lacks the intelligence to engage in an economic discussion. We’re at a point where you know to think the opposite of whatever the establishment press writes about Donald Trump.

Donald Trump suggested Monday that people in the country illegally who have committed crimes have “bad genes,” the latest example of rhetoric by the former president that dehumanizes immigrants and disparages them in racial terms.

Trump made the comment during an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt while criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris’s record on border security. Trump accused her of “allowing people to come through an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers” — repeating a claim that significantly distorts data recently released by the federal government.

“You know, now, a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes,” Trump said. “And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now. They had 425,000 people come into our country that shouldn’t be here, that are criminals.”

Another WAPO panic! I bet the writer believes Trump causes them to murder!

To the outside world, Thomas Sibick seemed to have it made. He was 35 years old with a master’s degree in public health and a good job as an administrator. He lived in a flat with his girlfriend in his home town of Buffalo, New York.

His father Eugene was a successful dentist, his mother a teacher, and when Sibick and his three brothers were growing up they would spend school holidays in Florida or at the family’s second home in Canada.

The C.D. Howe Institute has invited me to use this column to summarize the Regent Debate that the institute held in Toronto on Sept. 24. It was a well-attended and rollicking affair with a learned audience of several hundred or more people. The former governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, and I defended the motion that the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States would be an opportunity for Canada. Our very worthy opponents were the former minister of finance John Manley, and the former Liberal politician and chair of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, Martha Hall Findlay. It is well-known that after Christie described president Trump as “Donald Duck” during one of the Republican candidates’ debates (which Trump ignored and dismissed as “an audition for vice-president”), their relations are unlikely to resume anytime soon.

BUTLER, Penn. – Pumped-up spectators poured into the Butler, Pennsylvania, Fair Grounds on Saturday, saying that it was “gutsy” for former President Donald Trump to make an appearance at the location where he was nearly assassinated.

Trump is set to appear at the site where he was nearly killed in a deadly July 13 shooting, with the Republican presidential nominee slated to speak at 5 p.m.

In his first face-to-face meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in more than four years, Donald Trump said he’d work with Ukraine and Russia to find a solution that’s “good for both sides” to end the war and emphasized he has strong relationships with both the Ukrainian president and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“We have a very good relationship. I also have a very good relationship with President Putin and you know, I think if we win we’re going to get it resolved very quickly,” Trump said.

Former President Donald Trump claimed early Wednesday that Iran is making ongoing attempts to have him assassinated.

“Big threats on my life by Iran. The entire U.S. Military is watching and waiting,” Trump, 78, wrote on Truth Social — just hours after Ryan Wesley Routh was charged with attempting to assassinate on a golf course earlier this month.

Big threats on my life by Iran. The entire U.S. Military is watching and waiting. Moves were already made by Iran that didn’t work out, but they will try again. Not a good situation for anyone. I am surrounded by more men, guns, and weapons than I have ever seen before. Thank you…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2024

h/t patthedog

In both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, pollsters underestimated Donald Trump’s level of support. Using 538‘s election day polling averages, the Democratic candidate’s national lead over Trump was 3.9 points lower than the polls predicted in 2020 and 1.8 points lower in 2016. This pattern looks set to continue with Kamala Harris in 2024, and part of the issue stems from how pollsters estimate turnout.

Donald Trump, at the time of writing, has a 47pc chance of winning November’s US election. On July 16, three days after the Republican presidential candidate narrowly avoided death at a Pennsylvania rally, it peaked at 72pc. At the start of the year it was around 40pc.

These numbers are based on close to $1bn (£750m) wagered on Polymarket, a cryptocurrency-based predictions website, by wannabe super-forecasters who believe they can beat the polls.