Trump claims ‘only consequential presidents get shot at’ in Michigan town hall: Live

Back in Flint, the Arkansas Governor appeared to criticize the Vice President for not having biological children during last night’s event.

“My kids keep me humble,” Huckabee Sanders said in Flint. “Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.”

Here’s more on an appalling low blow echoing JD Vance from Gustaf Kilander.

The Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee was speaking to the National Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia last night, the same organisation Trump spoke to in late July when he made his notorious “happened to turn Black” comment about her race.

Here’s what she had to say about the Springfield, Ohio, conspiracy the Republican ticket has been pushing.

Drawing boos in Flint, Trump said he had a “very nice” call with Vice President Kamala Harris when she checked in on him after the second failed assassination attempt against him during this campaign.

“I have to say that President Biden called me yesterday, [it] was… a very nice conversation. I appreciated that he called about, you know what happened the other day,” Trump began.

“A little while ago, I got a very nice call from Kamala. It was very nice… and we appreciate that, but we have to take back our country. We have to win. We’re going to win, and we’re going to make America great again.”

As he spoke, sections of the crowd at the town hall booed at the mention of Harris’s name.

Despite that, Trump mentioned the call again later in the town hall, insisting that the Vice President “couldn’t have been nicer.”

Gustaf Kilander has more.

Let’s take a look back at Donald Trump’s madcap town hall with his former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Flint, Michigan, last night.

The Republican presidential nominee attempted to turn the threats against his life into a compliment by claiming that “only consequential presidents get shot at” and insisted again that he does not “ramble” during his public appearances.

“The fake news likes to say, ‘Oh he was rambling.’ No, no. That’s not rambling. That’s genius,” Trump said.

“When you can connect the dots. Now, Sarah, if you couldn’t connect the dots, you got a problem. But every dot was connected. And many stories were told in that little paragraph.”

Among the examples of his “genius” on show in Flint was his confusing an Alaska wildlife reserve with an Afghan airbase, saying climate change would be great for the seafront property sector, suggesting that China had deliberately unleashed Covid-19 on the world to sabotage his presidency and raving about windmills and the threat nuclear warefare poses to local manufacturing.

Mike Bedigan has the story.

The Independent’s White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg has been traveling with Tim Walz — something he calls a ‘surreal affair’ — and details how Harris’s running mate responded to the second attempted shooting of Trump at his golf course in Florida.

Loomer, 31, the conservative conspiracy theorist who once described herself as a “proud Islamophobe,” has been placed under the microscope in recent weeks for her presence and perceived close relationship with the 78-year-old former president.

Now, Trump’s former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews weighed in on the Republican presidential nominee’s connection to the MAGA stalwart, and what role she might play in a second administration.

Chase Herro, the self-styled “dirtbag of the internet,” is the dealmaker behind World Liberty Financial, the crypto project Trump is working on with his two eldest sons, Eric and Donald Jr.

The four men, along with fellow crypto entrepreneur Zachary Folkman, unveiled the new venture in a virtual address from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday — a highly unusual maneuver just weeks before election day on November 5.

James Liddell has the details.