Trump news live: Ex-president rages at DOJ, FBI and cognitively impaired Biden ahead of Pennsylvania rally

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Former president Donald Trump heads to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, today for his first rally of the midterm election season and since the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago residence.

The ex-president is going to be campaigning for two of his endorsed candidates, Dr Mehmet Oz and Republican Doug Mastriano, who badly trails his Democratic opponent in fundraising and lags in polls.

Meanwhile, president Joe Biden is also set to be in the state for the Labor Day weekend as Pennsylvania turns into a political battleground.

Mr. Trump’s rally comes after a Florida court released a full list of what was found at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate during the FBI search last month.

Included in the trove of documents found at the former presidents home were more than 100 classified documents, over 10,000 documents by law the property of the US government, and mysteriously 90 empty folders that once held extremely sensitive documents.

On Saturday morning, Mr Trump took to Truth Social to charge up his base ahead of the Pennsylvania rally and raged at the FBI, DOJ and Mr Biden, whom he referred to as a cognitively impaired Democrat.

Key pointsShow latest update 1662233599Carlson advises GOP to make fun of Lindsay Graham, not emulate him

Tucker Carlson offered up some unsolicited advice for Republican candidates running in the November midterms: make fun of Lindsey Graham.

The Fox News hosts tips came during his Friday night prime-time program, where he eviscerated the US senator for getting too involved in foreign policy — a strategy that he viewed as being harmful for GOP hopefuls wanting to win their races in the fall.

Your job is to make fun of Lindsey Graham and to disavow Lindsey Graham, Mr. Carlson said. Your job is not to emulate Lindsey Graham and steal his talking points, and if you do emulate Lindsey Graham and steal those talking points, you will lose, and the losing candidates did just that.

Read the full report from The Independent below:

Tucker Carlson advises GOP to make fun of Lindsay Graham, not emulate him

Sen. Lindsey Graham has been a vocal supporter of Ukraine and open critic of Russia’s Vladimir Putin

Johanna Chisholm3 September 2022 20:33

1662231679ICYMI: Trump heads to Pennsylvania for first rally of general election season

Doors have opened for Donald Trumps rally in Pennsylvania, marking the start of his first stumping event off the general election season and his first since the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago residence.

Mr Trump will address the rally on Saturday evening and will speak along with Doug Mastriano and Senate candidate Dr Mehmet Oz, or what the Save America political action committee calls the entire Pennsylvania Trump Ticket.

Gubernatorial candidate Mr Mastriano, who backs the former presidents election lies and has pledged to upend voting practices in the state, could have an especially heavy impact on 2024 elections if he wins in 2022. But his struggling campaign may portend danger for Republicans nationwide.

Mr. Biden is also expected to be in Pennsylvania for the politically relevant Labor Day weekend.

Read the full report from my colleague Stuti Mishra:

Trump heads to Pennsylvania for first rally of general election season

Biden is also expected to be in Pennsylvania for the politically relevant Labor Day weekend

Johanna Chisholm3 September 2022 20:01

1662230119Fetterman calls out Dr Oz for standing side by side with Trump ahead of rally

Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman called out his Republican and Trump-backed opponent, Dr Mehmet Oz, for planning to appear alongside the former president and Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor, both of whom deny the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

Dr. Oz makes a big fuss about being the law-and-order guy But Oz is about to stand side by side today with one man who attended the January 6 attack on the Capitol, the Democratic candidate tweeted on Saturday, referring to how his opponent and state senator was seen outside the US Capitol during the violent riot. Mr. Mastriano has denied any wrongdoing.

Another who incited the riot and just yesterday said the rioters should be pardoned, quipped Mr Fetterman, noting how Mr Trump said Thursday that he would very, very seriously consider full pardons for the rioters on the Capitol if he wins reelection.

Johanna Chisholm3 September 2022 19:35

1662228131Joe Biden reshares clip of fiery speech hours ahead of Trump rally

US President Joe Biden may not be taking the pulpit on Saturday night, but his presidential Twitter feed continues to tweet off clips from his fiery speech this week denouncing MAGA Republicans.

With just hours to go before former US President Donald Trump takes the stage at a rally in Pennsylvania, the current president shared a brief clip from his address, where he explained how American democracy was under attack.

For a long time, we have told ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed, but its not, said Mr Biden in a video clip shared from his own Pennsylvania speech delivered earlier this week. We have to defend it, protect it, stand up for it, each and every one of us.

Mr. Biden is also in Pennsylvania this weekend.

Johanna Chisholm3 September 2022 19:02

1662225739Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Bidens speech dog whistle for violence against MAGA Republicans

Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said outside the rally where Donald Trump is expected to take the stage in a few hours that President Joe Bidens speech this week was a dog whistle for violence against MAGA Republicans such as herself.

This is who the Democrats are, said the Republican representative in an interview with right-wing network Right Side Broadcasting Network. Joe Biden basically said in his speech that they were the enemies of the state and he is calling us extremists. And so thats a dog whistle for violence against MAGA Republicans and it is a continued dog whistle of violence against me.

During his speech on Wednesday, the president did call out MAGA Republicans, but did not incite a call for violence. Instead, the Democrat called out the supporters of his predecessor for continuing to support and promote the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and noted how these individuals represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.

Johanna Chisholm3 September 2022 18:22

1662223519Crowds begin lining up hours before doors open at Trump rally

A large crowd of MAGA supporters and Trump enthusiasts could be seen beginning to line up outside the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, more than an hour before doors were set to open at 2pm local time.

The former president is set to take the stage at 7pm, where he is expected to give a speech endorsing Republican candidates Doug Mastriano and Dr Mehmet Oz, both of whom are running on the GOP ticket in the gubernatorial and senate race, respectively.

Johanna Chisholm3 September 2022 17:45

1662221730Trump preps for rally by ranting against FBI and DOJ

Early morning rantings from the former president of the United States is not uncommon, but the abuses seem to be picking up steam ahead of his rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, where he is slated to stump for GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano and Senate candidate Dr Mehmet oz.

On Truth Social, the ex-president lambasted the Federal Bureau of Investigations, the current president of the US, and the Department of Justice in a series of posts that capped off with an accusation that the agents who raided his Florida resort last month had riffled through his wife Melania’s clothes.

The FBI is totally corrupt. They blatantly used their power to get a cognitively impaired Democrat elected President, he began. BROKE INTO MY HOME, using a Radical Left Trump Hating Magistrate to grant approval, and indiscriminately STOLE everything within reach, including my Passports. They even riffled through the First Lady’s closets, dresses and drawers. They are an out of control group of highly partisan mobsters, a real threat to democracy!

Donald Trump called out the FBI, the DOJ and President Joe Biden in a series of early morning posts on Truth Social

(Truth Social/Donald Trump)

The one-term president later turned his attention to the Department of Justice, who he argued werent any better than the FBI and who he alleged went after my supporters, seemingly in reference to the Capitol rioters who have been handed down prison sentences in recent months for their involvement in the violent 6 January insurrection.

Johanna Chisholm3 September 2022 17:15

1662219199Trump amps up base ahead of Pennsylvania rally

Former president Donald Trump rose in the early hours to share his excitement about Saturdays upcoming rally in Pennsylvania, taking to Truth Social to alert his base that they should get there early in order to secure a spot at the event where he is expected to stump for Republican candidates in the November midterms.

Big Rally in Pennsylvania today. Get there early! Thank you to Newsmax, and others, for doing such a great job of TV coverage. The Ratings are incredible! Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social early on Saturday morning.

The twice-impeached president also took a moment to commend his social media platform for its performance, which was recently reported by Fox Business Network to be staving off financial trouble after it reported that Truth Socials parent company allegedly owed more than $1m to an internet infrastructure firm.

TRUTH is doing really well. It has truly become our MAGA VOICE, but also a voice for the RINOs and Radical Left Lunatics, wrote Mr Trump without citing any specific figures. Engagements are far better, more interesting, and spirited than anywhere else, he said, before comparing it to his previously favored app, Twitter.

I like it much better than Twitter, which is a complete mess.

Mr. Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter in January 2021.

Johanna Chisholm3 September 2022 16:33

1662217613Clip resurfaces of Trump calling Democrats fascists

A clip showing former president Donald Trump labeling Democrats as fascists is making the rounds online after conservatives attacked President Joe Biden for slamming MAGA Republicans in a prime-time address.

In the video, dug up by Matthew Sheffield, a journalist with The Young Turks, the one-term president can be heard lambasting the Democratic party while flanked by military personnel.

In the clip, the ex-president begins listing all the wrongs of the Democratic party, which included the move away from fossil fuels, reproductive rights and the claim that the party wanted to replace American freedom with left-wing fascism.

Fascists. They are fascists. Some of them, not all of them. But some of them, but they’re getting closer and closer. We have to win this election, Mr. Trump adds in the since viral clip.

Read the full report from The Independent below:

Video of Trump calling Dems fascists resurfaces after conservatives slam Biden speech

The clip reappeared after Conservatives raged at President Joe Biden for delivering a sharp rebuke of MAGA Republicans

Johanna Chisholm3 September 2022 16:06

1662213300Republicans furiously react to Biden’s call to reject Trump extremism

Furious conservatives launched a collective tirade against president Joe Biden after he used his prime-time address to the nation to warn about the dangers posed by the extreme ideology of Donald Trump and his adherents.

In an unusually strong and sweeping indictment of his predecessor, Mr. Biden said Americans must be honest with each other and themselves about the agenda being pushed by an extreme element of the Republican Party.

Namita Singh has the story.

Republicans react with fury to Biden’s call to reject Trump extremism

Nation is in decline at the hand of Joe Biden and the radical Democrat, says Trumps director of communication

Johanna Chisholm3 September 2022 14:55

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