by | Jul 26, 2024 | The Hill
Former President Trump said Friday he removed “the last bandage off of my ear” in the wake of a recent assassination attempt against him in which one of his ears was injured.
“As I think you can see, I’ve recovered well and, in fact, just took off the last bandage off of my ear,” Trump said at an event by the conservative Christian organization Turning Point Action in Florida.
Trump faced an assassination attempt earlier this month
by a bullet in one of his ears. He could be seen sporting a bandage on one of his ears at the recent Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee and subsequent events.
“I took it off for this group,” Trump said at Friday’s event. “I don’t know why I did that for this group, but, that’s it. I think that’s it, I hope that’s it.”
The former president insisted Thursday that it was a bullet that struck one of his ears following FBI Director Christopher Wray
in front of Congress Wednesday that “there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that, you know, hit his ear.”
“No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “The hospital called it a ‘bullet wound to the ear,’ and that is what it was. No wonder the once storied FBI has lost the confidence of America!”
Rep. Ronny Jackson (D-Texas), a former White House physician who has said he treated the president’s ear,
of what hit Trump’s ear.
“During the Congressional Hearing two days ago, FBI Director Christopher Wray suggested that it could be a bullet, shrapnel, or glass,” Jackson said in a letter posted Friday to Truth Social.
“There is absolutely no evidence that it was anything other than a bullet. Congress should correct the record as confirmed by both the hospital and myself. Director Wray is wrong and inappropriate to suggest anything else,” he added.
by | Jul 26, 2024 | The Hill
A new advertisement for former President Trump’s campaign tries to paint Vice President Harris as the face of “Bidenomics.”
The nearly minute-long ad,
on his Truth Social account Friday, features clips of Harris mentioning “Bidenomics” and ends with text stating “HARRIS OWNS ‘BIDENOMICS’ SHE MADE IT HAPPEN.”
“‘KAMALA HARRIS OWNS BIDENOMICS,’” Trump captioned the Truth Social post with the ad.
President Biden has
“Bidenomics” slogan to shine a light on the efforts of his administration to turn the economy around.
“Here’s the simple truth about trickle-down economics, it didn’t represent the best of American capitalism, let alone America,” Biden
June. “It represented a moment where we walked away … from how this country was built, how this city was built. Bidenomics is about the future.”
Harris became the likely presidential nominee for the Democratic Party after Biden dropped out of the presidential race last weekend. She quickly snapped up key endorsements from those in her party and large amounts in fundraising in the days after her boss dropped out.
According to a
from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ, Harris is behind Trump by 2.1 points, at 45.7 percent support to the former president’s 45.8 percent.
Harris revealed
Thursday titled “We Choose Freedom,” with Beyoncé’s song “Freedom” as background music.
“The freedom not just to get by, but to get ahead. The freedom to be safe from gun violence. The freedom to make decisions about your own body. We choose a future when no child lives in poverty, where we can all afford health care,” Harris says.
The Hill has reached out to the Harris campaign.
by | Jul 26, 2024 | Mother Jones
In the days since Kamala Harris stepped into the role of the Democratic party’s presumptive presidential nominee, the names of several white men, some of
by | Jul 26, 2024 | The Hill
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) weighed in on the Republican claims that when Vice President Kamala Harris becomes the
for president it will be an “undemocratic” shift, saying “give me a break.”
Asked by
what she thinks of the criticism coming from the GOP about Harris’s rise to the top of the ticket, Whitmer brushed off the concerns.
“It’s hard to take the Republican criticism serious because one day, it’s ‘Joe Biden shouldn’t be running’ and the next day it’s ‘well, he should be running,’” she said Thursday. “Give me a break.”
The Michigan governor was responding to GOP criticism that the late campaign switch-up between President Biden — who announced Sunday that he
— and Harris
the proper democratic processes.
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who was
as former President Trump’s
, said the coronation of Harris is a “threat to democracy,” per
.
Dan Patrick, the Lt. Gov. of Texas,
in a statement that Democrats took Biden off the ticket because they knew he would lose, ignoring the results of the primary elections earlier this year.
Whitmer, who
to be on Harris’s vice-presidential shortlist, said Biden dedicated decades of his life to service and has been an “incredible” leader and ally.
As co-chair of the Biden campaign, the Michigan governor said the
that he was suspending his campaign came as “a surprise.”
The Michigan governor has
Harris, saying she was “fired up” to back the vice president in her historic campaign. She added that Harris has
than “the whole GOP ticket put together.”
“I think it’s the right decision and that’s why we have a vice president,” Whitmer said. “Kamala Harris has been his number two for four years. No one should be surprised that if he steps away that she’s the one to step into the breach.”
by | Jul 26, 2024 | Mother Jones
One certainty about the assassination attempt two weeks ago on former President Donald Trump is that rampant conspiracy theories about it will endure—probably forever. The
