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Trump appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast for nearly three hours: Here are the top moments

Former President Trump taped ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ podcast for nearly three hours on Friday. 

The podcast, recorded in Austin, Texas, afforded the Republican presidential nominee exposure to Rogan’s 14.5 million followers on Spotify and 17.6 million followers on YouTube. Rogan, the nation’s most-listened-to podcast host, is extremely influential with young male voters, who Trump is aiming to reach. 

Here are the top takeaways from the podcast that aired on Friday. 

Trump asks Rogan to explain why he’s gotten bad publicity: ‘You said a lot of wild s—’ 

While explaining the process of choosing political nominations once he got into office, Trump discussed his initial appointment of John Bolton, who served as White House National Security adviser. In 2019, Trump fired Bolton, who remains a staunch critic. Trump described how Phil Ruffin, a fellow American businessman, warned him that Bolton was a ‘bad guy,’ but by then, Trump had already hired him. 

‘And he was right. But he was good in a certain way. He’s a nut job. And every time I had to deal with a country when they saw this whack job standing behind me, they said, ‘Man, Trump’s going to go to war with us.’ He was with Bush when they went stupidly into the Middle East. They should have never done it. I used to say it as a civilian, so I always got more publicity than other people,’ Trump said. 

‘It wasn’t like I was trying,’ Trump said. ‘In fact, I don’t know exactly why. Maybe you can tell me.’ 

‘I could definitely tell you,’ Rogan offered. ‘You said a lot of wild s—. … And then CNN in all their brilliance by highlighting your wild s— made you much more popular. And they boost you in the polls because people were tired of someone talking in this bulls— pre-prepared politician lingo. And even if they didn’t agree with you, they at least knew whoever that guy is, that’s him. That’s really him.’ 

Rogan tells Trump ‘the rebels are Republicans now,’ Elon Musk agrees

‘The rebels are Republicans now, though, like you want to be invisible, you want to be punk rock, you want to like, buck the system? You’re a conservative now,’ Rogan said. ‘That’s how crazy. And then the liberals are now pro-silencing criticism. They’re pro-censorship online. … [T]hey come in regulating free speech and now regulating the First Amendment. It’s bananas to watch.’ 

Elon Musk, who took over Twitter — now X — in 2022, responded to the clip, writing, ‘Exactly.’ 

‘You know they come after their political opponent,’ Trump told Rogan in response. ‘I’ve been investigated more than Alfonse Capone.’ 

Trump says he told North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to ‘just relax,’ ‘go to the beach’ 

In his meeting with former President Obama during the presidential transition period, Trump recalled, ‘Obama thought we were going to go to war with North Korea.’ Rogan then referenced how Trump dubbed North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un ‘Little Rocket Man’ early on in his first term. 

‘I said, ‘Little Rocket Man, you’re going to burn in hell.’ And it was rough,’ Trump said. ‘I got to know him better than anybody, anybody. And I said, ‘Do you ever do anything else? Why don’t you go take it easy and relax? Go to the beach?’ You know, kiddingly, I said, ‘You’re always building nuclear. Just relax. You don’t have to do it. Let’s build some condos.”

Trump discusses ‘Make America Health Again,’ initiative, says he told RFK Jr. ‘just focus on health’ 

Rogan praised Trump for partnering with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ and asked the Republican nominee if he would completely commit to having Kennedy as part of his administration. 

‘Oh, I am, but the only thing I want to be a little careful about with him is the environmental. Because, you know, he doesn’t like oil. I love oil,’ Trump said. ‘I think just keep him out of the fire. So I’m going to keep him out of a little bit. I said focus on health. Focus. You could do whatever you want, but, I got to be a little bit careful with the liquid gold.’ 

Rogan, showing Trump charts, referenced how ‘there are chemicals and ingredients in our food that are illegal in other countries because they’ve been shown to be toxic.’ 

‘There’s pesticides and herbicides, and there’s a lot of sh– that’s been sprayed on our food that really is unnecessary,’ the podcaster said. ‘And there’s a lot of health consequences.’ Rogan added that Kennedy recently told him that ‘more than 70% of young men are ineligible for the military because of their health.’ 

‘But RFK is going to be – you know I think he’s a great guy,’ Trump said. 

Rogan also asked if Trump faced pressure not to work with Kennedy. 

‘But I would say that the Big Pharma wasn’t thrilled when they heard that,’ Trump said. ‘I’ve actually always gotten along very well with him. I’ve known him a long time. He’s a different kind of a guy. He’s very smart, great guy, and he’s very sincere about this. I mean, he really is. You know, he thinks we spend a fortune on pesticides and all this stuff, and then you end up at that chart is a terrible shot.’ 
 

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JONATHAN TURLEY: Why I’m congratulating the Washington Post

As someone who used to write regularly for the newspaper, it has been a long time since I have had an occasion to say this but . . . Bravo, Washington Post.

This week, the Post announced that not only would it not endorse a candidate this year, but it would not do so in the future. Over two decades ago, I wrote a column calling for newspapers to end the practice of all election endorsements. (Yes, before all things seemed to turn on how you feel about Donald Trump). I have continued to push the press to abandon this pernicious practice.

When I first came out against political endorsements, the media had not taken the plunge into advocacy journalism, which is now strangling the life out of this industry.

As former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones has declared, ‘all journalism is activism.’

After a series of interviews with over 75 media leaders,  Leonard Downie Jr., former Washington Post executive editor, and Andrew Heyward, former CBS News president, reaffirmed this shift. As Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle, stated: ‘Objectivity has got to go.’

The result has been trust in the media plummeting to an all-time low. Revenues and readership are falling as outlets struggle to survive. Yet, reporters are still refusing to reconsider the abandonment of neutrality and objectivity.

Recently, Post owner Jeff Bezos brought in Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis, who promptly delivered a truth bomb in the middle of the newsroom. He told the staff, ‘Let’s not sugarcoat it…We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right? I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.’

The response was calls for Lewis and other editors to be canned. These reporters would rather give up their very jobs than their bias.

Now Lewis is under fire again after announcing, ‘We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.’

The Washington Post Guild immediately went ballistic at the thought of not openly supporting Kamala Harris, though many would point out that the Post has hardly been subtle in its coverage on that point.

The Guild expressed alarm at the thought of leaving readers to reach their own conclusions ‘a mere 11 days ahead of an immensely consequential election.’ According to the staff, the Post needs ‘to help guide readers,’ and ‘according to our own reporters and Guild members, an endorsement for Harris was already drafted, and the decision not to publish was made by The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos.’

Perish the thought that the Post would start to raise free-range readers left to reach their own conclusions.

The Post and other papers are writing for each other and core Democratic readers. The rest of America is moving on to new sources of information on social media and elsewhere.

Former executive editor Martin ‘Marty’ Baron and others went into absolute vapors. Baron declared, ‘This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty.’

Others retreated into anonymity to denounce their management, with some making precisely the case for not making such an endorsement: ‘It very disingenuously draws false equivalencies. This is not, for example, Kamala Harris vs. Mitt Romney. This is Kamala Harris against someone who tried to disenfranchise the electorate last time.’

It is ironic since, at the time, Romney was portrayed as a fascist, as were prior Republican nominees.

One of the most curious responses came from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders: ‘This is what Oligarchy is about. Jeff Bezos, the 2nd wealthiest person in the world and the owner of the Washington Post, overrides his editorial board and refuses to endorse Kamala.’

An oligarchy is defined as ‘government by the few.’ That is precisely what the public sees in an effective state media and why ‘Let’s Go Brandon!’ became a type of ‘Yankee Doodling’ of the political and media establishment.

Sanders’ objection is that the owner decided not to exercise the power of the few but instead left the choice to voters. According to Sanders, that is the definition of oligarchy in declining to act as an oligarch.

As discussed years ago, the decision of newspapers to engage in political endorsements has had a corrosive influence for years. It destroys the separation between newspapers and those who are supposed to be the subjects of their investigatory and journalistic work.

My prior column called for the termination of not just presidential endorsements, though it is a good start. There should be a commitment to total neutrality in all elections, from judges to senators to presidents.

The Washington Post is not alone. The Los Angeles Times has declined to make an endorsement, which also led to a staff revolt.

The decision not to endorse in this election could prove a critical moment for mainstream media in turning the corner on the era of advocacy journalism. While skeptical, I genuinely hope that Bezos has decided to reconsider the course of the Post. We need the Post and the rest of the mainstream media. The media plays a critical role in our democracy as a neutral source of information on government abuse and corruption.

However, that role also needs the trust of the public. Otherwise, as Lewis told the Post staff, ‘no one is reading your stuff.’

That is evident from the very closeness of this election. After years of unrelenting anti-Trump coverage and a billion-dollar war chest to sell Harris to the public, the country is still divided right down the middle.

The Post and other papers are writing for each other and core Democratic readers. The rest of America is moving on to new sources of information on social media and elsewhere.

For those of us who loved the old Post and want our ‘Fourth Estate’ to be strong, this is a meaningful start.

So Bravo, Washington Post.

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Trump isn’t the first president menaced by Derangement Syndrome

A Republican presidential candidate endangering democracy, threatening the Constitution and such a menace to America he could foment a civil war? 

Yes, this is what Fire-Eater Southern Democrats said about former Congressman Abraham Lincoln during the 1860 presidential campaign. And their irrational fear of him winning the White House made all their dire predictions come true.

Lincoln, the so-called abolitionist ‘Black Republican,’ endured nonstop personal attacks. The Charleston, South Carolina, Mercury wrote, ‘a horrid looking wretch he is – sooty and scoundrelly in aspect – a cross between the nutmeg dealer, the horse-swapper, and the nightman [who empties the privies].’ He was ‘a creature, fit evidently, for petty treason, small stratagems, and all sorts of spoils.’

The Southerners were also terrified by the 1860 Republican Party platform, which they denounced in frenzied language similar to contemporary progressive critics of Project 2025. 

The Tarboro, North Carolina, Southerner declared that ‘the Platform on which Abraham Lincoln was nominated… is tantamount to a declaration of War against Southern rights and institutions.’ If Lincoln took office the ‘Constitution would be a dead letter’ and attempts to resist would be a ‘signal for revolution.’

Democrats kept Lincoln off the ballots in the South, just as they’d later endeavor to deny former President Trump access earlier this year. But Lincoln won the four-way race regardless, and Republicans gained a majority in Congress. The worst fears of the Fire-Eaters were realized.

This in itself did not signal the apocalypse for the pro-slavery South. A president, even an abolitionist, could not end the grim institution of slavery with the stroke of a pen. Nor could Congress, even with a Republican majority, bring about slavery’s demise through normal legislation. The pro-slavery Taney Supreme Court had seen to that in the Dred Scott case.

Had the Southern Democrats been less obsessed with Lincoln they could have simply bided their time and let the politics play out. The moderate Richmond, Virginia, Whig argued that Lincoln’s victory was not an existential threat because the United States was still a nation of laws. 

‘Lincoln, within the Constitution and the laws, will and must be sustained,’ the editors wrote. ‘Lincoln, transgressing the laws or abusing the Constitution, will be rebuked, checked or punished.’

But the Fire-Eaters were so apoplectic at Lincoln’s victory that they drove seven Southern states to secede from the Union even before the new president took office. Their blind fear of the new order overwhelmed any rational reaction. 

Some even imagined a preemptive insurrection, and Lincoln had to be smuggled into the capital for his inauguration. 

The Fayetteville, Tennessee, Observer stated flatly, ‘the South will never permit Abraham Lincoln to be inaugurated President of the United States… whether the Potomac is crimsoned human gore, and Pennsylvania Avenue is paved ten fathoms in depth with mangled bodies.’ Southerners would never consent to the ‘humiliation and degradation’ of Lincoln’s ascent.

This is the context to Lincoln’s first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, in which he pleaded with the rebel states that there was no cause for apprehension and that he did not threaten even the institution of slavery they were intent on preserving. All would be forgiven if only they would return. 

‘We are not enemies, but friends,’ Lincoln said, invoking ‘the mystic chords of memory’ to ‘swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.’

But the better angels were outgunned by the lesser demons. The same day Lincoln delivered his plea for unity, the Confederates raised their first national flag over their then-capital in Montgomery, Alabama. Congressional attempts at cooperation and reconciliation, such as the famous Crittenden Compromise, failed. 

Ultimately, the Fire-Eaters forced the issue by attacking Fort Sumter, Lincoln mobilized troops, the upper South joined the rebellion, and the Civil War was on.

When reviewing the four-month period from the 1860 election to Lincoln’s inauguration, one can’t help but conclude that the Civil War was completely avoidable. There was no sound cause for secession. There was no reason for outrage.

Lincoln was not a dictator, nor could he be. But the country was driven into the abyss by a small group of radical Democrats who stubbornly refused to accept Lincoln as a legitimately elected president. 

Likewise, today, reporters hound Trump for not pledging to back the outcome of the election but can’t be bothered to ask Democrats if they would do the same should Trump emerge the victor. We saw after 2016 that the answer to this question is no. 

In the years that followed, Democrats used every means at their disposal to hobble, hinder and delegitimize the Trump first term. The current never-Trumpers are motivated by the same irrational, blind hatred that animated the anti-Lincoln Fire-Eaters who would rather drive the country into violent civil conflict than see the object of their disgust as president. 

But as Lincoln said, truth and justice ‘will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.’ And if President Trump wins, the better angels will have to work overtime to keep the peace.

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DAVID MARCUS: In Scranton, even Kamala’s paid union supporters see writing on the wall

SCRANTON, Pa. – Joel was down from Boston with a few of his heavily accented friends and fellow members of the National Association of Government Employees sent by the Kamala Harris campaign to shore up support in Pennsylvania.

Even they know, things are not going well for her.

‘I don’t know why she can’t answer questions,’ Joel told me, in what was about the most blunt assessment against one’s own interest I’d heard in months.

I think a lot of people on all sides are confused by this.

As a guy born and raised in Philly who lived for two decades in New York, I felt it my duty to explain, in a good-natured way, to the fellas why I hate Boston. After all, it’s a treasured ritual of the Northeast. With that out of the way, Stanley, who appeared to be the group’s leader, had another explanation for Kamala’s woes.

‘She’s only been in the race three months, she’s barely out of the gate. That’s a lot to ask.’

Billionaire mogul Mark Cuban echoed that in an X post, ‘Think of it this way,’ he mused, ‘a candidate that started only 13 weeks ago, is now, worst case scenario, in a dead heat with a former president.’

Aside from being bad at imagining the worst-case scenario, what we see from Mr. Cuban is the beginning of the excuses for a Harris loss. But as the playwright David Mamet once wrote, ‘your excuses are your own.’

I was thinking about all of this Friday as I wandered around Scranton under beautiful skies and amid old stone monuments to America’s greatness. At one point, and my hand to God, I’m not making this up, I found myself literally on Biden Street. 

Biden street. That Biden. 

I bring this up because there were sirens blaring and flashing lights as cops shut down traffic. ‘The drivers are annoyed,’ I heard one cop say, ‘maybe they’ll remember it was a Democrat who did this on Election day.’

A guy comes up to me and says, ‘why’d they shut down traffic?’ 

‘Tim Walz is in town,’ I explained.

‘Time Walsh?’ he asked.

‘No, Tim Walz.’

‘Who?’

With a gentle sigh, I said, ‘It doesn’t matter.’

And it struck me, the Democrats passed on a guy who literally has a street named after him in Scranton for Kamala Harris and a goofy sitcom dad nobody knows.

Joel and Stanley are good dudes, stand-up guys who love the country and just disagree with me about who is best to serve it. Even if they are Patriots fans. There is nothing wrong with them organizing as employees to fight for the future they want. That’s America.

But I didn’t leave convinced Harris is who they really want.

‘I didn’t like how it went down,’ Joel told me, regarding the ousting of Joe Biden from the race. And he meant it. I often say that polls don’t have faces, people do, and I could see it in his eyes.

When I asked Stanley why he supports Harris, not why he doesn’t support Trump, but why Harris, he said, ‘Why can’t I say why I don’t want Trump?’

And he can, and he did, but I think even he knew it was an evasion.

The biggest misconception about American politics is that it’s all an algebra equation, even when the polls are wrong over and over. It’s not math, it’s a story, and Kamala Harris isn’t telling one beyond her middle-class upbringing. 

‘I don’t know why she can’t answer questions,’ Joel said, and yeah, he had a point.

Harris still has a chance to become the president of the United States, but before that can happen she has to answer one simple question: ‘Why you?’

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Trump blasts Harris at Michigan rally for ‘partying’ while a ‘war’ is ‘going on’: ‘Nobody’s in charge’

Former President Donald Trump held a rally in Michigan on Friday night where he slammed Vice President Kamala Harris for ‘partying’ while tension in the Middle East boiled over.

Trump spoke in Traverse City, as Israeli fighter jets were bombarding Iranian military targets and Harris was at a rally in Houston with Beyonce.

‘You know where she is tonight?’ Trump asked the crowd. ‘She’s out partying. So Israel is attacking. We’ve got a war going on, and she’s out partying. At least we’re working to make America great again. That’s what we’re doing. Kamala, Kamala, she’s the worst president in the history of our country.’

Israel launched its largest ever attack on Iran Friday in a wave of retaliatory airstrikes after the Islamic Republic fired a barrage of missiles toward Israelis earlier this month. 

Additionally, the Trump campaign put out a press release with a photo of Trump in Austin earlier in the day when he highlighted ‘the tragic human cost of Kamala’s border invasion’ and was joined by the mother of Jocelyn Nungary, whose daughter was murdered allegedly by illegal immigrants.

‘Kamala, meanwhile, will be partying with celebrities in Houston as she makes another desperate attempt to salvage her flailing campaign,’ the campaign said. ‘Don’t expect her to apologize to the families of Jocelyn Nungaray or any of the other American citizens victimized by illegals she imported into our communities — she couldn’t care less. In Kamala’s America, illegal immigrants are the priority as Americans are relegated to the second tier in their own country. The split screen tells you all you need to know.’

Harris was campaigning in Houston, Texas on Friday night at a rally where an estimated 30,000 people showed up to hear from the presidential candidate as well as music superstar Beyonce. 

Beyoncé, whose hit song ‘Freedom’ has been adopted by the vice president as her campaign trail anthem, spoke ahead of Harris and introduced her at the event, which leaned heavily into reproductive rights.

‘It’s time for America to sing a new song,’ Beyoncé said as she formally endorsed the vice president in her White House race against former President Trump. ‘Ladies and gentlemen, please give a big, loud, Texas welcome to the next President of the United States, Vice President Kamala Harris.’

And she emphasized that ‘I’m not here as a celebrity, I’m not here as a politician, I’m here as a mother. A mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in. A world where we have the freedom to control our bodies.’

Trump added during his rally that ‘Kamala is also in total freefall with the Arab and Muslim population in Michigan. She’s in a freefall. She sent their jobs overseas, brought crime to their cities and tonight in the Middle East, it’s like a tinderbox. It’s ready to explode. People are being killed at levels that we’ve never seen before and that’s taking place right now. In Michigan she is in literally a freefall. They’ve had it with her. Nobody’s in charge. Joe Biden is asleep. Kamala is at a dance party with Beyonce.’

Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

‘During his low-energy speech in Michigan tonight, @realDonaldTrump, Arrived 3 hours late and spoke to a dwindling crowd, Insulted Detroit, Attacked Beyoncé, said his handlers tell him women don’t like him,’ Harris spokesperson Sarafina Chitika posted on X on Friday night.

Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report

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Vance rips Harris in battleground Georgia: ‘Stop telling Americans they’re bad’ for wanting ‘secure border’

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance was in Georgia on Saturday morning. He rallied supporters and called out Vice President Kamala Harris for what he says is the suggestion that voters are bad people for supporting conservative policies.

‘Here’s my message to Kamala Harris,’ Vance told the crowd in Atlanta. ‘Stop censoring your fellow citizens, try to persuade them and you might actually get somewhere. Stop telling people they’re racist because they want their children to go to schools with kids who speak the English language.’

Vance continued, ‘Stop telling American citizens they’re bad people because they don’t want fentanyl flooding their communities. Stop telling the American people they don’t deserve to have smaller hospital wait times. Stop telling the American people they’re bad for wanting a secure southern border.’

Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Vance’s appearance in Georgia came as early voting numbers have hit record totals in the key battleground state where election officials say the vote count has already exceeded more than half of 2020’s total turnout.

‘So over 50% of the turnout for 2020 has already voted in Georgia,’ tweeted Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer for the secretary of state’s office. ‘So for people like Joe Biden & Stacey Abrams, you were wrong saying we had voter suppression here. It’s easy to register & vote in Georgia…and really hard to even try to cheat. Great job by our voters & counties.’

More than 2.6 million people in the Peach State have voted early, according to Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office. The total vote count in the 2020 election was barely under five million, with former President Trump narrowly losing to President Biden by a margin of just 11,779 votes. 

Vance told a reporter after his remarks on Saturday that he believes Republicans in Georgia have embraced early voting as opposed to past years, in part due to the election reforms the state has put in place.

Gov. Brian Kemp signed an overhaul of Georgia’s election rules into law in 2021, after Trump made unproven claims of widespread voter fraud that he said cost him the state’s 16 electoral votes in the last presidential election. Republicans said that new restrictions on absentee and mail-in voting, expanded voter ID requirements and prohibitions on non-poll workers from providing food and drink to voters waiting in line at poll centers were necessary to preserve election integrity.

Fox News Digital’s Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report

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Harris ripped by Trump campaign after Beyoncé doesn’t perform at packed rally: ‘They lied to build a crowd’

Former President Trump blasted Vice President Kamala Harris Saturday over an appearance with Beyoncé at which critics say Harris and the media intentionally misled attendees into thinking the superstar would perform. 

‘Beyoncé went up and spoke for a couple of minutes and then left, and the place went crazy,’ Trump told a crowd in Michigan. ‘They booed the hell out of everybody. They thought she was going to perform. What happened was my opponent got up and started speaking, and they booed the hell out of her. It’s crazy. They have to use people to get people to come, and then they send buses. We don’t send buses. Everybody comes. We’re just going to make America great again. It’s very simple.’

Several media outlets, including MSNBC, promoted Beyonce’s appearance with Harris in Houston on Friday by saying that the music superstar would perform, prompting criticism from conservatives who accused Harris of intentionally misleading the public. Beyoncé did speak, but she did not perform. 

‘They lied to build a crowd,’ Trump senior adviser Tim Murtaugh posted on X. 

‘Promising a concert from a huge pop star who then did not perform is the most perfect metaphor for the Harris campaign that anyone could dream up, only it really happened,’ Murtaugh added.

‘Beyoncé really showed up at the rally only to speak for a few seconds and not perform, leaving Kamala Harris to be *booed* by her fans,’ Red State writer Bonchie posted on X. ‘Watching this campaign operate is like watching a naked man smear himself in honey and run through a bear cage.’

‘So will MSNBC and all the other outlets who ran with this burn their sources who falsely told them that Beyoncé would be performing at the Kamala rally?’ author and journalist Jerry Dunleavy posted on X. ‘Or did they just make it up?’

Videos circulated on social media on Friday night appearing to show some of the 30,000 fans in attendance booing and becoming disgruntled though it was unclear what the specific reason was. 

‘The Beyoncé concert featuring Kamala has devolved into a total and complete disaster in which Kamala is barely audible on the feed,’ an account run by the Trump campaign posted on X. ‘Humiliating!

The Harris-Walz campaign issued a press release on Saturday following Trump’s Michigan rally calling the former president ‘uhinged.’

‘As Vice President Harris draws record crowds and bridges divides, Trump showed again today that he is too busy trying to divide our country to lead it,’ Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika.

‘America can’t afford to let an unhinged and unchecked Complainer-in-Chief back into the White House to enact his revenge. While Trump adds to his enemies list, Vice President Harris is bringing voters together across party lines because she is focused on actually helping the American people as President.’

Beyoncé, whose hit song ‘Freedom’ has been adopted by the vice president as her campaign trail anthem, spoke ahead of Harris and introduced her at the event, which leaned heavily into reproductive rights.

‘It’s time for America to sing a new song,’ Beyoncé said as she formally endorsed the vice president in her White House race against Trump. ‘Ladies and gentlemen, please give a big, loud, Texas welcome to the next President of the United States, Vice President Kamala Harris.’

And she emphasized that ‘I’m not here as a celebrity, I’m not here as a politician, I’m here as a mother. A mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in. A world where we have the freedom to control our bodies.’

Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
 

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Experts predict Supreme Court likely to stay out of 2024 presidential election

Election lawyers and experts say it is unlikely the U.S. Supreme Court will take up an election-related case after Nov. 5, let alone cast the deciding vote.

‘It’s got to be super, super close,’ Jason Torchinsky, partner at Holtzman Vogel, told Fox News Digital. ‘If you look at the history of post-election litigation, the only places where it has been successfully outcome-determinative really are in places where the vote is just super close.’

‘If there’s a real issue, the Court will take it. If it’s something that the Court doesn’t think merits a higher-level view, then they’ll summarily affirm,’ Torchinsky said. 

Congress amended the Electoral Count Reform Act in 2022 (ECRA) which expedites potential litigation and specifying that the vice president’s role during the joint session is ‘ministerial in nature.’ 

The statute says ‘any action brought by an aggrieved candidate for President or Vice President’ will be heard by a district court with a three-judge panel. It is then ‘the duty of the court to advance on the docket and to expedite to the greatest possible extent the disposition of the action.’ 

Parties are then allowed to directly request review of the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on an expedited basis. 

‘It does kind of create a new route into the federal court for a specific limited set of issues being raised under the Electoral Count Act,’ said Greg Teufle, founder of OGC Law. ‘There are very limited issues that can be raised under that Act, though. So it’s not a broad expansion or increase in the likelihood of litigation, either in federal courts or litigation that reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, under the Electoral Reform Act.’

Teufle noted that for an election case to be taken up by the Court, ‘there would have to be significant and provable fraud allegations or other serious violations of the law in the manner that elections are conducted or votes are processed.’

Republicans and Democrats alike have initiated a flurry of election-related lawsuits ahead of Nov. 5, including a recent Georgia case finding that county election officials must certify results by the legal deadline despite suspecting fraud or mistakes. 

Joseph Burns, partner at Holtzman Vogel, did note that Republicans may prove successful in election litigation based on the makeup of the Court. 

‘In terms of the makeup of the court, there’s no question you’ve got six appointees of Republican judges at this point,’ Burns said. ‘And these are generally people who, I think, are going to interpret what needs to be interpreted, whether it’s a state statute or a federal statute. Their general philosophy is to adhere as closely as possible to the words of the statute.’

‘You have a more conservative-minded Supreme Court in that respect,’ Burns continued. ‘And you certainly have Republicans generally making those types of arguments about courts interpreting statutes or state constitutions, for instance, in a stricter manner. So I think in that respect, given the arguments that each side generally makes, Republicans would be in better shape.’

John Hardin Young, counsel at Sandler Reiff, however, told Fox News Digital he believes it is highly unlikely that the Supreme Court could decide the 2024 election, especially noting the conservative majority. 

‘I think that there’s now a sensitivity among the nine justices not to get involved unless it were absolutely necessary,’ Young said. ‘There is, I think, somewhat of a bias in the majority on the Supreme Court to get involved if they believe that process is being corrupted or people who aren’t following the rules because the majority is, I think, very sensitive to democracy depending on people following the rules.’

‘There are just so many unknowns that we have to see how things play out,’ said Jeff Weiss, professor at New York Law School. 

Although the ECRA attempted to clarify and revise the casting and counting of electoral votes, Teufle said the law as a whole could become the target of litigation after Nov. 5. 

‘The entirety of the act may come under challenge if it’s utilized in a way that impacts the outcome of the election in a way that people view as improper, unfair or unlawful,’ Teufle said. ‘Either side disappointed with how the electoral count goes could raise constitutional questions about the laws used and the process used to count the votes.’

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Millions joined a livestream selling tickets to space on a Chinese rocket

Two tickets for passage on what could be the first Chinese rocket ship to take tourists to space were sold Thursday, according to a livestream held by the company, as the country’s commercial space firms aim to join a small but expanding global space tourism industry.

The tickets – priced at 1,000,000 yuan (around $140,000) for a roughly 12-minute trip to the edge of space on a spacecraft set to be launched by Deep Blue Aerospace in 2027 – sold out “immediately,” according to state-linked Global Times.

Some 3 million people tuned in to the broadcast on Chinese shopping platform Taobao, which was the first time a Chinese firm has put tickets for space tourism up for public sale.

The identities of the ticket buyers were not made available.

Deep Blue Aerospace is among a vanguard of Chinese commercial space firms developing rockets to power Beijing’s ambitious plans for outer space, which include building out satellite constellations to rival American firm SpaceX’s Starlink – as China vies to become a dominant space power alongside the United States.

Work remains to be done for the company to meet its announced timeline.

Deep Blue Aerospace’s reusable Nebula-1 rocket – slated to carry the company’s CEO and five others to space for the mission in three years – is still under development.

Last month, the rocket failed to complete a high-altitude vertical recovery test flight, the company said, with footage it released showing the vehicle crashing in its final phase. A new test is slated for next month, while the company has said it will ramp up testing in 2025 and 2026 to ensure the “safety and reliability of suborbital manned travel.”

Companies working in rocket development across the world have frequently faced setbacks and delayed timelines. But on Thursday, Deep Blue Aerospace’s CEO and founder Huo Liang appeared confident that the rocket would be ready to power the 2027 flight, as he discussed the plans during the ticket sale livestream.

Huo explained how passengers can unbuckle their seat belts in space and “move around like fish” in the weightless environment, where they feel “exactly the same lying down as standing up.”

“In this experience, you can not only see how the earth is round, but also the vast universe and the blue planet where humans live,” said Huo, who founded the private company in 2016.

Deep Blue Aerospace aims to join a small group of companies globally offering what’s considered the next frontier of adventure tourism – typically expensive trips where passengers willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars can cross the Kármán line some 100 kilometers (62 miles) above Earth’s surface to enter space.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completed its first commercial human space flight with four private citizens in 2021, while Virgin Galactic, the space tourism venture founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, began offering regular trips to the edge of space last year.

Companies are also looking to expand their offerings to “space tourists.”

Last month, a four-person crew of civilians on board SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission made history as the first group of non-government astronauts to conduct a spacewalk.

Deep Blue Aerospace is not the only Chinese firm with a plan to send humans to space. This May, CAS Space said its “space tourism vehicle” will take its first crewed flight in 2028, with tickets priced expected to cost between 2 to 3 million yuan (around $281,000 to $421,000), according to state media.

The company is among a number of Chinese state-backed and private firms that are vying to develop reusable rocket technology, which could help make frequent missions to space more affordable and sustainable.

Access to reusable rockets could be a key development for China as it seeks to expand its launch capacity to build out satellite constellations and power its ambitious civil space program – as well as build out a space tourism industry.

Commentators on the livestream appeared to express some tongue-in-cheek skepticism about sending people to space, with some asking, “(If we go), can we get back?”

And those interested in the remaining seats will get another chance, the company’s page on Taobao said, noting that ticket sales will reopen on November 23.

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‘What the fk to do with them?’ Russian soldiers heard condemning North Korean recruits in intercepted audio

Russian soldiers have been heard raising concerns about how North Korean soldiers will be commanded and provided with ammunition and military kit, leaked intercepts obtained by the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine and released on Friday show.

The Russian soldiers talk disdainfully about the incoming North Korean soldiers, codenamed the “K Battalion,” at one point referring to them as “the f**king Chinese.”

In the same extract, a serviceman describes another who has been tasked to “meet people.”

“And he’s like standing there with his eyes out, like… f**k,” the soldier says. “He came here and says what the f**k to do with them.”

The audio was intercepted from encrypted Russian transmission channels on the night of October 23, according to Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence.

Ukraine’s analysis of the intercepts revealed that North Korean troop movements were planned for the morning of October 24, in the area of Postoyalye Dvory field camp in Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukraine launched a surprise incursion earlier this year.

The intercepts also reveal plans to have one interpreter and three senior officers for every 30 North Korean men, which the Russian soldiers are heard in the audio condemning.

“The only thing I don’t understand is that there [should be] three senior officers for 30 people. Where do we get them? We’ll have to pull them out,” one Russian serviceman says.

“I’m f***ing telling you, there are 77 battalion commanders coming in tomorrow, there are commanders, deputy commanders and so on,” a serviceman says in another extract.

The interepted audio follows a Thursday announcement from Ukraine’s military intelligence service that a group of North Korean soldiers have been spotted in Russia’s Kursk region, an area that borders Ukraine and has seen ongoing military operations.

In a post on its official Telegram account, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine said some North Korean troops, who had received training in Russia’s far east, have made their way to the western Russian region, where Ukraine has maintained a foothold since launching an incursion in August.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that he received a report on the deployment of North Korean military personnel from Ukraine’s commander-in-chief.

“According to intelligence, on October 27-28, Russia will deploy its first North Korean troops in combat zones. This is a clear step in Russia’s escalation that matters, unlike all the disinformation circulating in Kazan these days,” Zelensky said, criticizing the BRICS summit staged by Russian President Vladimir Putin this week in the southwestern Russian city of Kazan.

The Kremlin had initially dismissed allegations of North Korean troop deployments, but on Thursday at the BRICS summit, Putin did not deny that Pyongyang had sent soldiers to the country.

“The actual involvement of North Korea in combat should be met not with a blind eye and confused comments, but with tangible pressure on both Moscow and Pyongyang to comply with the UN Charter and to punish escalation,” Zelensky added.

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