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Monday, September 16, 2024
BY MATT BERG & CROOKED MEDIA

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-  New York City Mayor Eric Adams, on his strategy following a series of scandals, arrests, resignations and FBI raids related to [corruption in his inner circle]([link removed]).

Donald Trump and MAGA loyalists are blaming Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for the second apparent assassination attempt on the former president, taking advantage of the incident to rally the far-right.
 

- On Sunday, former President Donald Trump was about to [putt for birdie]([link removed]) at his West Palm Beach golf club when Secret Service agents spotted a rifle barrel in a bush about 400 yards away from the Republican presidential nominee. Agents opened fire and eventually caught the suspect, identified as 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, who federal prosecutors say waited near the golf course [for almost 12 hours]([link removed]) before the incident. He [never had]([link removed]) a line of sight on Trump and didn’t fire his weapon, the agency said. Routh’s motives aren’t known yet, though he supported Trump in 2016, [turned against him]([link removed]) in the next election, and wanted to see a Republican ticket with Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley this time around. No matter, Trump is dialing up the temperature and putting President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on blast.
 

- “He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it,” Trump [told Fox News]([link removed]) on Monday, referring to the alleged shooter, hours after sending out a [campaign fundraising email]([link removed]). “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country — both from the inside and out.” In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that “because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!”
 

- Both [Biden]([link removed]) and [Harris]([link removed]) quickly released statements condemning the inciden, saying they’re glad Trump is unharmed. They’ve also regularly denounced political violence since the last attempted assassination against Trump in July, and Harris often [strikes a tone]([link removed]) of unity and peace on the campaign trail. Meanwhile, Trump… has warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses the election and said he’ll [become a dictator]([link removed]) “on day one.” His rhetoric has fanned the flames among his staunchest supporters: Billionaire conspiracist Elon Musk [tweeted that]([link removed]) “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” before deleting the post. “Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on X,” Musk [later explained]([link removed]).

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Many lawmakers on Capitol Hill are cutting through the divisiveness to make sure Trump is safe from political violence.

- A bipartisan House task force, which was already investigating the last attempted assassination against Trump, [requested]([link removed]) that the Secret Service brief the panel on the incident this week. “The Secret Service has responded to our request and we’re working with them to schedule the briefing,” a task force spokesperson told What A Day. House Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News that Trump needs more coverage because “he is the most attacked, he’s the most threatened — even probably more than when he was in the Oval Office.” Another safety solution: Stop golfing, [like the Secret Service warned]([link removed]).

- Lawmakers are signaling that they plan to give Trump a boost in security: “This gross lapse in security can never happen again,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a member of the House Oversight Committee (separate from the task force), told What A Day. He is calling for Secret Service to speak with lawmakers this week and outline what resources are needed, and for Congress to vote on the measure immediately.

- Because Trump isn’t the sitting president, he doesn’t receive as much security, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw [said on Sunday]([link removed]). “If he was, we would’ve had this entire golf course surrounded. But because he’s not, security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service deems possible,” “So I would imagine that the next time he comes to the golf course, there will probably be a little more people around the perimeter,” Bradshaw said.

After Trump’s July shooting, many Republicans [believed it would be]([link removed]) smooth sailing to election day. The campaign seems to be attempting to recreate a boost in momentum — but is only revving up his most loyal backers.

President Joe Biden sat down with the [Washington Blade]([link removed]), a historic moment marking the first time a sitting president has ever sat down for an exclusive interview with an LGBTQ newspaper. The wide-ranging interview mostly focused on the administration’s achievements when it comes to LGBTQ rights and policies. 
 
Biden sounded the alarm about MAGAworld and the far-right Project 2025 agenda that Donald Trump would likely implement if he’s elected.
 
“If you take a position, especially in the MAGA Republican Party now, you’re going to be — they’re going to go after you,” Biden said. “Trump is a different breed of cat. I mean, I don’t want to make this political, but everything he’s done has been anti, anti-LGBTQ, I mean, across the board.”
 
He struck a line between normal Republicans — you know, the ones who aren’t pledging to take away individual freedoms — and those in Trump’s orbit: “There are a lot of really good Republicans that I’ve served with, especially in the Senate, who don’t have a prejudiced bone in their body about this but are intimidated.”
 

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[A new ProPublica investigation]([link removed]) found that at least two women in Georgia have died from being unable to access legal abortions and timely medical care because of extreme state restrictions. 
 
A college campus in Springfield, Ohio, is [closed for the week]([link removed]) after receiving two bomb threats over the weekend, related to the baseless MAGA conspiracy theory that Haitian migrants in the area are eating pets. 
 
The FBI is also [investigating threats]([link removed]) sent to another college in the city. The racist claim has been pushed by Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), his running mate, who [admitted that he promoted an unverified story]([link removed]) to keep the topic of immigration in the news. Excellent strategy! Masterful gambit, sir! 
 
Israeli airstrikes [killed 16 people]([link removed]) in Gaza on Monday, including five women and four children, according to Palestinian officials. The strikes hit two homes, including one in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, where a mother, her child and her five siblings were killed. The Israeli military claims to target only Hamas militants in the territory, and rarely comments on individual attacks which often kill women and children.
 
Roadkill enthusiast Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is under federal investigation for allegedly cutting off the head of a whale carcass two decades ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [confirmed on Monday]([link removed]). Or, as RFK Jr. put it himself, he’s [being looked into]([link removed]) for “collecting a whale specimen.” 
 

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Who knew a Ronald Reagan staffer turned conservative talk show host could be a Friend of the Pod? In a [Washington Post]([link removed]) column, Hugh Hewitt shouted out the Pod Save America guys for showing “a path that now has been successfully traveled by many others from the right, where the content is not only conservative but also funny and persuasive.” It’s a good sign when even Republicans can’t help but love us.

Kamala Harris is cutting into Donald Trump’s lead in Iowa, trailing the former president by only four percentage points, [according to the latest]([link removed]) Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll. Trump led President Joe Biden by 18 percentage points in late spring.

 

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